In The Beatles’ early days of success, John Lennon set himself apart from his bandmates by publishing two books. He published his first book, In His Own Write, in 1964. His second, A Spaniard in the Works, came out the following year. After these two, Lennon said he felt he needed to take a break from writing books. He did not like the headspace into which writing brought him.
John Lennon shared why he lost interest in writing books
When Lennon compiled In His Own Write, he was able to pull from years worth of writing and artwork. For A Spaniard in the Works, he had to sit down and work on new material.
“The second book was more disciplined because it was started from scratch,” Lennon said in The Beatles Anthology. “They said, ‘You’ve got so many months to write a book in.’ I wrote In His Own Write...
John Lennon shared why he lost interest in writing books
When Lennon compiled In His Own Write, he was able to pull from years worth of writing and artwork. For A Spaniard in the Works, he had to sit down and work on new material.
“The second book was more disciplined because it was started from scratch,” Lennon said in The Beatles Anthology. “They said, ‘You’ve got so many months to write a book in.’ I wrote In His Own Write...
- 3/17/2024
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
For more than 40 years, Aardman Animations has been producing classics like “Wallace & Gromit,” “Chicken Run” and “Shaun the Sheep.” Now, following in the footsteps of pioneers such as Peter Lord, David Sproxton and Nick Park, new recruits have come on board at the company’s headquarters on Spike Island in the port city of Bristol, in the West of England, replenishing its creative treasure chest.
Variety steps along the gangplank to meet some of the more recent additions to the crew: Dan Ojari and Mikey Please, the creators of Oscar-nominated “Robin Robin” (see here); kids’ comedy series “Lloyd of the Flies” creator and director Matthew Walker, and co-director and voice director Jane Davies (see here); and Lucy Izzard, the creator, writer and director of “The Very Small Creatures,” a BAFTA nominated preschool series (see below).
“The Very Small Creatures,” commissioned by U.K. pay-tv operator Sky, is a stop-motion series for one to three-year-olds.
Variety steps along the gangplank to meet some of the more recent additions to the crew: Dan Ojari and Mikey Please, the creators of Oscar-nominated “Robin Robin” (see here); kids’ comedy series “Lloyd of the Flies” creator and director Matthew Walker, and co-director and voice director Jane Davies (see here); and Lucy Izzard, the creator, writer and director of “The Very Small Creatures,” a BAFTA nominated preschool series (see below).
“The Very Small Creatures,” commissioned by U.K. pay-tv operator Sky, is a stop-motion series for one to three-year-olds.
- 1/24/2024
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
The Beatles‘ “Hey Jude” is arguably the Fab Four’s signature song and Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” is undeniably Queen’s signature song. While the two hits sound so different from each other, they have a major similarity. The tunes also have something in common with David Bowie’s “Life on Mars?”
The Beatles’ ‘Hey Jude’ and Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ feature the same piano
According to Rolling Stone, Paul McCartney played the Bechstein piano at London’s Trident Studios on “Hey Jude.” That piano has had quite a history! It was also used on Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody,” Bowie’s “Life on Mars?,” and Elton John’s “Levon.”
The two bands used that piano in wildly different ways. In “Hey Jude,” it sounds warm and inviting, like the tune as a whole. In contrast, the piano riffs in “Bohemian Rhapsody” sound nervous, desperate, and sad. They fit with the song’s theme of murder.
The Beatles’ ‘Hey Jude’ and Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ feature the same piano
According to Rolling Stone, Paul McCartney played the Bechstein piano at London’s Trident Studios on “Hey Jude.” That piano has had quite a history! It was also used on Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody,” Bowie’s “Life on Mars?,” and Elton John’s “Levon.”
The two bands used that piano in wildly different ways. In “Hey Jude,” it sounds warm and inviting, like the tune as a whole. In contrast, the piano riffs in “Bohemian Rhapsody” sound nervous, desperate, and sad. They fit with the song’s theme of murder.
- 12/7/2023
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
by Murtada Elfadl
The new trend in celebrity videos is about hand washing and social distancing. But trust a revered Oscar winner to add a dash of poetry. Dame Judi Dench appears in a short clip with her friend and fellow actor Gyles Brandreth as they lather up their hands for the required 20 seconds. Instead of singing a song or reciting a famous monologue they recite the opening verses of Edward Lear’s beloved poem The Owl and the Pussy-Cat.
Ever the showwoman, Dench even begins purring and nuzzling up to Brandreth when they reach the line “What a beautiful pussy you are.” Nice homage to your current movie, Dame Judi, but perhaps not keeping with the current guidelines for social distancing.
A Public Service Poem - from Judi Dench & Gyles Brandreth pic.twitter.com/jocgJtjvVd
— Gyles Brandreth (@GylesB1) March 15, 2020
Now that Cats is available at home, have you watched...
The new trend in celebrity videos is about hand washing and social distancing. But trust a revered Oscar winner to add a dash of poetry. Dame Judi Dench appears in a short clip with her friend and fellow actor Gyles Brandreth as they lather up their hands for the required 20 seconds. Instead of singing a song or reciting a famous monologue they recite the opening verses of Edward Lear’s beloved poem The Owl and the Pussy-Cat.
Ever the showwoman, Dench even begins purring and nuzzling up to Brandreth when they reach the line “What a beautiful pussy you are.” Nice homage to your current movie, Dame Judi, but perhaps not keeping with the current guidelines for social distancing.
A Public Service Poem - from Judi Dench & Gyles Brandreth pic.twitter.com/jocgJtjvVd
— Gyles Brandreth (@GylesB1) March 15, 2020
Now that Cats is available at home, have you watched...
- 3/19/2020
- by Murtada Elfadl
- FilmExperience
David Robilliard was a poet and painter who lived from 1952 to 1988.
Eating Out You're like a potato. You'd go with anything.
"David Robilliard was the sweetest, kindest, most infuriating, artistic foul-mouthed, witty, charming, handsome, thoughtful, unhappy, loving and friendly person we ever met.
Over the nine years of our friendship David came closer to us than any other person. He will live forever in our hearts and minds." Gilbert and George wrote the above on July 7, 1990. "Starting with pockets filled with disorganised writings and sketches, he went on to produce highly original poetry, drawings and paintings. His truthfulness, sadness desperation and love of people gave his work a brilliance and beauty that stands out a mile."
Waiting For Nothing We're all waiting for Someone who never arrives to brighten up our lives.
As poets come and go, David Robilliard arrived all too quickly, and went all too soon. He was discovered,...
Eating Out You're like a potato. You'd go with anything.
"David Robilliard was the sweetest, kindest, most infuriating, artistic foul-mouthed, witty, charming, handsome, thoughtful, unhappy, loving and friendly person we ever met.
Over the nine years of our friendship David came closer to us than any other person. He will live forever in our hearts and minds." Gilbert and George wrote the above on July 7, 1990. "Starting with pockets filled with disorganised writings and sketches, he went on to produce highly original poetry, drawings and paintings. His truthfulness, sadness desperation and love of people gave his work a brilliance and beauty that stands out a mile."
Waiting For Nothing We're all waiting for Someone who never arrives to brighten up our lives.
As poets come and go, David Robilliard arrived all too quickly, and went all too soon. He was discovered,...
- 10/28/2017
- by robert cochrane
- www.culturecatch.com
Louisa Mellor Jun 9, 2017
Poldark returns for series three this Sunday. If you’ve never had the pleasure, here’s what you’ve been missing…
Warning: contains spoilers for Poldark series one and two.
See related Why you should play Ori And The Blind Forest
Welcome to eighteenth century Cornwall, land of sumptuous landscapes, confusing personal pronouns and Captain Ross Poldark. The bearer of an ancient name and a tousled mane, Poldark’s the hero around this way. (Well, he is until series two episode seven, but we’re getting ahead of ourselves).
Known variously as Ross, Mr Ross, Mr Ross Sir, Cap’n Poldark, ‘that classless ruffian bringing shame upon his family name’ or ‘ee with t’alluring scar who can blast us tin-mine any time ee choose’, depending on who’s addressing him, Poldark is cut from typical Byronic cloth. He’s a gentleman rebel given to fits of...
Poldark returns for series three this Sunday. If you’ve never had the pleasure, here’s what you’ve been missing…
Warning: contains spoilers for Poldark series one and two.
See related Why you should play Ori And The Blind Forest
Welcome to eighteenth century Cornwall, land of sumptuous landscapes, confusing personal pronouns and Captain Ross Poldark. The bearer of an ancient name and a tousled mane, Poldark’s the hero around this way. (Well, he is until series two episode seven, but we’re getting ahead of ourselves).
Known variously as Ross, Mr Ross, Mr Ross Sir, Cap’n Poldark, ‘that classless ruffian bringing shame upon his family name’ or ‘ee with t’alluring scar who can blast us tin-mine any time ee choose’, depending on who’s addressing him, Poldark is cut from typical Byronic cloth. He’s a gentleman rebel given to fits of...
- 6/8/2017
- Den of Geek
This week's Crowdfunding Friday is devoted to Christopher Seufert's documentary about the American writer and illustrator, Edward Gorey...
Feature
No one in the 20th century illustrated the macabre like Edward Gorey. Although populated by strange monsters and the looming spectre of death, his work was laced with humour, mischief and warmth.
Primarily self-taught, Gorey's career as a professional artist began in 1953, when he was employed as an illustrator by the New York publisher Doubleday. There, he created the book jackets and internal illustrations for a range of works, including Ts Eliot and the children's books of John Bellairs. One cover for a collection of Poe tales featured a great black raven, its body silhouetted against a striking blue background.
His art for a 1960 Doubleday edition of The War Of The Worlds is a true thing of wonder: Gorey imagines Hg Wells' Martian war machines against a livid purple sky,...
Feature
No one in the 20th century illustrated the macabre like Edward Gorey. Although populated by strange monsters and the looming spectre of death, his work was laced with humour, mischief and warmth.
Primarily self-taught, Gorey's career as a professional artist began in 1953, when he was employed as an illustrator by the New York publisher Doubleday. There, he created the book jackets and internal illustrations for a range of works, including Ts Eliot and the children's books of John Bellairs. One cover for a collection of Poe tales featured a great black raven, its body silhouetted against a striking blue background.
His art for a 1960 Doubleday edition of The War Of The Worlds is a true thing of wonder: Gorey imagines Hg Wells' Martian war machines against a livid purple sky,...
- 5/15/2014
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Although David Robilliard is now viewed with the gift of hindsight as being essentially a London artist, a closer examination of his life betrays that he stemmed from a more parochial soil, that of the Channel Islands. He no more represents '80's London by birth, than Andy Warhol embodies '60's Manhattan. It's their work and it's ethos that bequeaths them this status and blends them both so firmly into the fabric of their adoptive cities. Circumstance and happenstance gilded their evolution as gay men. Warhol escaped the confines of Pittsburgh for the heady promises of the Big Apple. Robilliard fled the stifling nature of island life, arriving in London in the early '70s become an artist and poet.
Warhol was a pioneer of the cult of celebrity to such a degree that what he was obsessed with, he became. If Andy was the iconic priest of superstardom.
Warhol was a pioneer of the cult of celebrity to such a degree that what he was obsessed with, he became. If Andy was the iconic priest of superstardom.
- 5/1/2014
- by robert cochrane
- www.culturecatch.com
Review Andrew Blair 30 Sep 2013 - 08:15
Andrew checks out the DVD release of Tom Baker story Terror Of The Zygons...
This review contains spoilers.
It's aptly named, is Terror of the Zygons. Its opening episode is a slow-build towards one gloriously unexpected shock moment. Even now, when you know it's coming, it's a brilliant moment of jarring editing. A sudden reveal, a scream, a zoom into a shadowy monstrous face, cue credits. You don't quite have time to process it before its over.
That's after some enjoyably ripe Hammer horror scene-setting in the north-east of Scotland. Tales of ancient horror are spun to incredulous newcomers, and we occasionally cut away to ineffable alien eyes. Most formidable of all, of course, is Tom Baker. Here he's in prime unnerving form amidst a lot of competition. Perhaps there was a competition between him, Lillias Walker and Robert Russell. That would certainly explain a lot.
Andrew checks out the DVD release of Tom Baker story Terror Of The Zygons...
This review contains spoilers.
It's aptly named, is Terror of the Zygons. Its opening episode is a slow-build towards one gloriously unexpected shock moment. Even now, when you know it's coming, it's a brilliant moment of jarring editing. A sudden reveal, a scream, a zoom into a shadowy monstrous face, cue credits. You don't quite have time to process it before its over.
That's after some enjoyably ripe Hammer horror scene-setting in the north-east of Scotland. Tales of ancient horror are spun to incredulous newcomers, and we occasionally cut away to ineffable alien eyes. Most formidable of all, of course, is Tom Baker. Here he's in prime unnerving form amidst a lot of competition. Perhaps there was a competition between him, Lillias Walker and Robert Russell. That would certainly explain a lot.
- 9/30/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Note: This entry contains several high-quality embedded videos. It's necessary to give them time to load before attempting to view *any* of them.
Searching for mention of "Amour" on our 2012 PBS program "Ebert Presents at the Movies," I was pointed by Google to one of Chaz's video reports. I remembered liking her video at the time, started noodling through all of her reports, and found myself thinking of my wife's emerging role as a movie critic. For more than 20 years, she's attended virtually every film festival and press screening with me, debated the films, made friends with the people.
I even proposed marriage to her, in 1990 during Cannes. There's a story there. On the last Sunday of the festival, when just about everything was behind us, we rented a car because I wanted to show Chaz the grave of my great hero, Edward Lear. We drove above Nice, turned right at Italy,...
Searching for mention of "Amour" on our 2012 PBS program "Ebert Presents at the Movies," I was pointed by Google to one of Chaz's video reports. I remembered liking her video at the time, started noodling through all of her reports, and found myself thinking of my wife's emerging role as a movie critic. For more than 20 years, she's attended virtually every film festival and press screening with me, debated the films, made friends with the people.
I even proposed marriage to her, in 1990 during Cannes. There's a story there. On the last Sunday of the festival, when just about everything was behind us, we rented a car because I wanted to show Chaz the grave of my great hero, Edward Lear. We drove above Nice, turned right at Italy,...
- 8/14/2013
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
Note: This entry contains several high-quality embedded videos. It's necessary to give them time to load before attempting to view *any* of them.
Searching for mention of "Amour" on our 2012 PBS program "Ebert Presents at the Movies," I was pointed by Google to one of Chaz's video reports. I remembered liking her video at the time, started noodling through all of her reports, and found myself thinking of my wife's emerging role as a movie critic. For more than 20 years, she's attended virtually every film festival and press screening with me, debated the films, made friends with the people.
I even proposed marriage to her, in 1990 during Cannes. There's a story there. On the last Sunday of the festival, when just about everything was behind us, we rented a car because I wanted to show Chaz the grave of my great hero, Edward Lear. We drove above Nice, turned right at Italy,...
Searching for mention of "Amour" on our 2012 PBS program "Ebert Presents at the Movies," I was pointed by Google to one of Chaz's video reports. I remembered liking her video at the time, started noodling through all of her reports, and found myself thinking of my wife's emerging role as a movie critic. For more than 20 years, she's attended virtually every film festival and press screening with me, debated the films, made friends with the people.
I even proposed marriage to her, in 1990 during Cannes. There's a story there. On the last Sunday of the festival, when just about everything was behind us, we rented a car because I wanted to show Chaz the grave of my great hero, Edward Lear. We drove above Nice, turned right at Italy,...
- 3/3/2013
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
He's happy. He's friendly. He's a monster. And he's only wearing Half-a-Pantaloon, though very proudly so. The hero of this new short film by Together - a creative duo comprised of Hector Herrerra and Pazit Cahlon - will, however, learn the perils of such behavior.Half-a-Pantaloon is a tongue-in-cheek public service announcement that presents the perils of wearing shorts when trousers are de rigueur. Born out of the unremitting pant-snobbery of its creators, Half-a-Pantaloon warns that even the most talented and charming monsters may suffer the consequences of certain sartorial blunders.Half-a-Pantaloon is the second installment of the Beastly Bards project, Togetherâ•˙s collection of animated silly rhymes. The writing is inspired by the style of poets like Edward Lear and Ogden Nash, and the animation applies a...
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- 1/11/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Shrek, Futurama, and Marge and Homer would not have come into being without the Beatles' subversive masterpiece, says Simpsons writer Josh Weinstein
Going to see Yellow Submarine is my first memory ever. And it's a doozy. A world-shaking, world-shaping event. It was the early 1970s and I was taken to see the movie on a big screen. It blew my young, impressionable six-year-old mind and I'm pretty sure it's what sent me on a career path in animation. I'm just glad my parents took me to see that and not A Clockwork Orange.
There have been some excellent books about the making of the film (I highly recommend Inside the Yellow Submarine by Dr Robert Hieronimus), so rather than blab on about the back story, I would rather talk about what happened after the yellow sub surfaced in 1968 and shot its torpedoes through traditional animation. Because in my opinion, Yellow Submarine...
Going to see Yellow Submarine is my first memory ever. And it's a doozy. A world-shaking, world-shaping event. It was the early 1970s and I was taken to see the movie on a big screen. It blew my young, impressionable six-year-old mind and I'm pretty sure it's what sent me on a career path in animation. I'm just glad my parents took me to see that and not A Clockwork Orange.
There have been some excellent books about the making of the film (I highly recommend Inside the Yellow Submarine by Dr Robert Hieronimus), so rather than blab on about the back story, I would rather talk about what happened after the yellow sub surfaced in 1968 and shot its torpedoes through traditional animation. Because in my opinion, Yellow Submarine...
- 11/20/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Adaptations of the Doctor's work are consistently doing well in the Us market – a sign that as the world falls out of love with the nation, it is embracing its own iconic figures
A few months ago in this column, I put forward the idea that, after nearly a century of global appeal, mainstream films with strong American settings were becoming regional cinema again, principally for the home market. Hollywood, currently busy evolving other means of borderless travel, can live with that – but the shift isn't such a good sign for American culture as a whole. But if the outside world doesn't see the glamour any more, then maybe it's a chance for the Us to dig back into the grit again – revitalise shared values and iconic figures that are at its core.
One man arguably benefiting from this effect is Theodor Seuss Geisel. It's striking how strongly adaptations of...
A few months ago in this column, I put forward the idea that, after nearly a century of global appeal, mainstream films with strong American settings were becoming regional cinema again, principally for the home market. Hollywood, currently busy evolving other means of borderless travel, can live with that – but the shift isn't such a good sign for American culture as a whole. But if the outside world doesn't see the glamour any more, then maybe it's a chance for the Us to dig back into the grit again – revitalise shared values and iconic figures that are at its core.
One man arguably benefiting from this effect is Theodor Seuss Geisel. It's striking how strongly adaptations of...
- 7/24/2012
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
This documentary by quirky British film-maker Andrew Kötting and the eccentrically brilliant urban historian and social geographer Iain Sinclair traces a journey they made recently by sea, river and canal from Hastings on the Sussex coast to the site of the 2012 Olympics. Their vessel was a pedalo in the shape of a swan, Kötting wore a dark three-piece suit and Sinclair jeans and a battered baseball cap, and the aim was to draw attention to the antisocial, hubristic stupidity of the Games and their chosen location. Along the way the pair comment on the surrounding countryside and its history, using old newsreel film and quoting from Edward Lear, Conrad, James, Eliot, Edmund Spenser, Edith Sitwell, Pound, Brecht and Werner Herzog, and occasionally they let others do some pedalling.
Like a cross between Jerome K Jerome's Three Men in a Boat and Wg Sebald's The Rings of Saturn, this is a...
Like a cross between Jerome K Jerome's Three Men in a Boat and Wg Sebald's The Rings of Saturn, this is a...
- 7/21/2012
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Wednesday, July 18, is the 20th anniversary of our marriage. How can I begin to tell you about Chaz? She fills my horizon, she is the great fact of my life, she has my love, she saved me from the fate of living out my life alone, which is where I seemed to be heading. If my cancer had come, and it would have, and Chaz had not been there with me, I can imagine a descent into lonely decrepitude. I was very sick. I might have vegetated in hopelessness. This woman never lost her love, and when it was necessary she forced me to want to live. She was always there believing I could do it, and her love was like a wind forcing me back from the grave. Does that sound too dramatic? You were not there. She was there every day, visiting me in the hospital whether I knew it or not,...
- 7/18/2012
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
Kate Middleton sat down to watch an art lesson at the Rose Hill Primary School in Oxford, England today. Her visit was organized by the charity Art Room, which aims to increase the confidence of young people through painting, writing, and performance. Kate Middleton's Orla Kiely dress was covered up by a smock, which read "Miss Catherine." Kate also was read a poem called "The Owl and The Pussycat," written by Edward Lear. Today's outing was one of many Kate has undertaken solo while her husband Prince William serves with the Royal Air Force in the Falkland Islands. She also ventured out to see the Lucian Freud exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery, Liverpool's alcohol-free bar The Brink, and the Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. View Slideshow ›...
- 2/21/2012
- by Allie Merriam
- Popsugar.com
More Dickens and even more Shakespeare, but also new novels from Toni Morrison, Hilary Mantel, Zadie Smith, plus exciting new voices – 2012's literary highlights
January
10 Charles Dickens's The Mystery of Edwin Drood, starring Matthew Rhys and Tamzin Merchant, begins – and, unlike the book, ends – on BBC2.
13 Michael Morpurgo's much-loved children's novel War Horse, a long-running favourite at the National and on Broadway, gets the Hollywood treatment. A tearjerking saga about a young soldier and his horse – it was only a matter of time before it was Spielberged.
16 Ts Eliot prize. Despite withdrawals from the shortlist over objections to a hedge fund's sponsorship of the prize, the Eliot remains the UK's premier poetry award, and its eve-of-event reading is always a treat. This year's shortlist includes Daljit Nagra, Carol Ann Duffy and John Burnside.
20 Release of film of Coriolanus, an Orson Wellesian effort directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes,...
January
10 Charles Dickens's The Mystery of Edwin Drood, starring Matthew Rhys and Tamzin Merchant, begins – and, unlike the book, ends – on BBC2.
13 Michael Morpurgo's much-loved children's novel War Horse, a long-running favourite at the National and on Broadway, gets the Hollywood treatment. A tearjerking saga about a young soldier and his horse – it was only a matter of time before it was Spielberged.
16 Ts Eliot prize. Despite withdrawals from the shortlist over objections to a hedge fund's sponsorship of the prize, the Eliot remains the UK's premier poetry award, and its eve-of-event reading is always a treat. This year's shortlist includes Daljit Nagra, Carol Ann Duffy and John Burnside.
20 Release of film of Coriolanus, an Orson Wellesian effort directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes,...
- 1/6/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
'A Darth Vader death pinch would be handy in rush hour on the tube'
Sally Hawkins, 35, was born in London. She studied at Rada, then acted in the theatre and had small parts in the Mike Leigh films All Or Nothing and Vera Drake. In 2008, Leigh cast her as the lead in Happy-Go-Lucky; she won a Golden Globe for the part. Hawkins's subsequent films include Made In Dagenham, Never Let Me Go and Submarine, which is out on DVD from Monday. She next appears in Jane Eyre, in cinemas from 9 September.
What is your greatest fear?
Losing people I love or seeing them in pain. And I don't like snakes.
What is your earliest memory?
Crawl-chasing after our cat, Cassidy. I was wearing a pink jumpsuit babygrow.
What was your most embarrassing moment?
I have them daily: I am always waving at someone I think I know – then having to...
Sally Hawkins, 35, was born in London. She studied at Rada, then acted in the theatre and had small parts in the Mike Leigh films All Or Nothing and Vera Drake. In 2008, Leigh cast her as the lead in Happy-Go-Lucky; she won a Golden Globe for the part. Hawkins's subsequent films include Made In Dagenham, Never Let Me Go and Submarine, which is out on DVD from Monday. She next appears in Jane Eyre, in cinemas from 9 September.
What is your greatest fear?
Losing people I love or seeing them in pain. And I don't like snakes.
What is your earliest memory?
Crawl-chasing after our cat, Cassidy. I was wearing a pink jumpsuit babygrow.
What was your most embarrassing moment?
I have them daily: I am always waving at someone I think I know – then having to...
- 7/29/2011
- by Rosanna Greenstreet
- The Guardian - Film News
In the early 1980s I met a laughter therapist named Annette Goodheart who told me I could draw. She was at the conference in Boulder to speak on laughter therapy, a subject she took very seriously indeed, and lectured about how we could be healthier in mind and spirit if we laughed more. This was of no help, because I already laughed a great deal, for example at my own jokes.
Annette was also on a panel with a title something like, "Yes, you can draw." She said everyone can draw until we are told or convince ourselves that we cannot. We start out drawing everything we see until that day comes when it is pointed out that our drawing of a dog, for example, looks nothing like a dog. Then we begin to believe we cannot draw.
Some few people actually can draw very well, if by that you mean "realistically and accurately.
Annette was also on a panel with a title something like, "Yes, you can draw." She said everyone can draw until we are told or convince ourselves that we cannot. We start out drawing everything we see until that day comes when it is pointed out that our drawing of a dog, for example, looks nothing like a dog. Then we begin to believe we cannot draw.
Some few people actually can draw very well, if by that you mean "realistically and accurately.
- 2/26/2011
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
This, people, is Andrew Auernheimer, the hacker who last week exposed 114,000 iPad owners' details courtesy of At&T's lax security system. He also goes by the name of Escher, but we'll call him by yet another alias: Weev. (Whether that name came about because of his fulsome facial furniture is by the bye, but it's apt, don't you think? Perhaps Donald Trump might like to post his bail.) He is, as the New York Times has it, "legendary among trolls"--not the type that populate Norse legends, but those who reside on the Internet, throwing nastiness people's way.
Anyhoo, pity the poor Weev. He's been busted by Arkansas police for possession of drugs, including cocaine, LSD, Ecstasy, and schedule 2 and 3 pharmaceuticals, and is currently being held in the Washington County Detention Center in Fayetteville. "He sounds intense," said one of my colleagues--which explains why Weev's stash didn't include weed.
People like Weev,...
Anyhoo, pity the poor Weev. He's been busted by Arkansas police for possession of drugs, including cocaine, LSD, Ecstasy, and schedule 2 and 3 pharmaceuticals, and is currently being held in the Washington County Detention Center in Fayetteville. "He sounds intense," said one of my colleagues--which explains why Weev's stash didn't include weed.
People like Weev,...
- 6/16/2010
- by Addy Dugdale
- Fast Company
Chicks On Speed, Dundee
Chicks On Speed are less a rock group than a fulfilment of every person's presumption that all art students are cuckoo. Emerging from Munich Academy Of Arts in the mid-90s, Melissa Logan, Kiki Moorse and Alex Murray-Leslie have gone on to eradicate the boundaries between fine art and trashy entertainment, punk performance and electroclash pop, historically informed painting and flashy graffiti, spirited commitment and an irreverent disregard for considerations of good taste. Their take on street fashion includes dresses made from plastic bags and gaffa tape. This, their first solo UK show, resembles more the aftermath of an art college end-of-term party than an exhibition, and will include the construction of the world's first wireless guitar stilettos.
Dundee Contemporary Arts, to 8 Aug
Robert Clark
Picasso, London
While Tate Liverpool is currently showing the iconic cubist's anti-war paintings and exploring his commitment to communism, the Gagosian...
Chicks On Speed are less a rock group than a fulfilment of every person's presumption that all art students are cuckoo. Emerging from Munich Academy Of Arts in the mid-90s, Melissa Logan, Kiki Moorse and Alex Murray-Leslie have gone on to eradicate the boundaries between fine art and trashy entertainment, punk performance and electroclash pop, historically informed painting and flashy graffiti, spirited commitment and an irreverent disregard for considerations of good taste. Their take on street fashion includes dresses made from plastic bags and gaffa tape. This, their first solo UK show, resembles more the aftermath of an art college end-of-term party than an exhibition, and will include the construction of the world's first wireless guitar stilettos.
Dundee Contemporary Arts, to 8 Aug
Robert Clark
Picasso, London
While Tate Liverpool is currently showing the iconic cubist's anti-war paintings and exploring his commitment to communism, the Gagosian...
- 6/4/2010
- by Robert Clark, Skye Sherwin
- The Guardian - Film News
What influences and future directions for Tim Burton might be found within the six minutes of the stop-motion short film, Vincent? More than you’d expect, we’d guess…
Alice of Wonderland fame is only the most recent young person to receive the Tim Burton creative treatment in what is the latest of his high profile films. But unless you own the special two-disc edition of The Nightmare Before Christmas, you may not be familiar with an early animated Burton short from 1982 called Vincent.
Narrated by Vincent Price, though not the Vincent of the story, he has a very direct link to it in a six minute long poem in which seven-year-old Vincent Malloy wants nothing more than to be just like his idol, Vincent Price.
Vincent's comically dark and overactive imagination has him reliving the stories of Price's films and, like often happens in real life, an adult is constantly interfering.
Alice of Wonderland fame is only the most recent young person to receive the Tim Burton creative treatment in what is the latest of his high profile films. But unless you own the special two-disc edition of The Nightmare Before Christmas, you may not be familiar with an early animated Burton short from 1982 called Vincent.
Narrated by Vincent Price, though not the Vincent of the story, he has a very direct link to it in a six minute long poem in which seven-year-old Vincent Malloy wants nothing more than to be just like his idol, Vincent Price.
Vincent's comically dark and overactive imagination has him reliving the stories of Price's films and, like often happens in real life, an adult is constantly interfering.
- 6/1/2010
- Den of Geek
The wonderful work-life world of designer/inventor Steven M. Johnson. From his days at Honda, to his musings on office life, we look at a career of daydream creation. [Republished from Design Mind magazine.]
click on the image for more of Steven M. Johnson's designs
A major furniture manufacturer once invited me to preview a new office system it claimed would "revolutionize" the workplace. This sneak peek entailed taking a two-leg flight to the corporate headquarters, being assigned two escorts once I arrived, and signing a stack of non-disclosure agreements. With all the Is dotted and Ts crossed, I was led into a secured room where the revolution was to be unveiled. It was ... a cubicle. It was a very nice cubicle, constructed of elegant yet durable materials, and designed to improve its user's privacy and organizational skills. But I was struck by how little it rethought‚ let alone revolutionized‚ the office paradigm.
A few years later,...
click on the image for more of Steven M. Johnson's designs
A major furniture manufacturer once invited me to preview a new office system it claimed would "revolutionize" the workplace. This sneak peek entailed taking a two-leg flight to the corporate headquarters, being assigned two escorts once I arrived, and signing a stack of non-disclosure agreements. With all the Is dotted and Ts crossed, I was led into a secured room where the revolution was to be unveiled. It was ... a cubicle. It was a very nice cubicle, constructed of elegant yet durable materials, and designed to improve its user's privacy and organizational skills. But I was struck by how little it rethought‚ let alone revolutionized‚ the office paradigm.
A few years later,...
- 4/30/2010
- by Allison Arieff
- Fast Company
Winners of the Great Limerick Contest: http://j.mp/7Rcq8n
¶
The limerick's a form metronomical,
For the telling of jokes anatomical.
Yet the best ones I've seen
So seldom are clean,
And the clean ones so seldom are comical.
Auden, that very good man
Said a limerick need not merely scan.
But put up a struggle
And bend itself double
To be decent, and fail at the plan.
And now it comes time, online bums
When your internet blogger succumbs
To numerous entreaties
And posted graffiti
And awards to your limericks his thumbs.
Yes, the Journal's grand contest will be
Devoted to épater le bourgeois!
We'll hold a contest
In vile, dirty jests
And then we will vote by degrees.
Of course please avoid all risks
By employing some quick asterisks--
For there are some words too crude
And unutterably rude,
As when one of your young f**kers sh*ts.
¶
The limerick's a form metronomical,
For the telling of jokes anatomical.
Yet the best ones I've seen
So seldom are clean,
And the clean ones so seldom are comical.
Auden, that very good man
Said a limerick need not merely scan.
But put up a struggle
And bend itself double
To be decent, and fail at the plan.
And now it comes time, online bums
When your internet blogger succumbs
To numerous entreaties
And posted graffiti
And awards to your limericks his thumbs.
Yes, the Journal's grand contest will be
Devoted to épater le bourgeois!
We'll hold a contest
In vile, dirty jests
And then we will vote by degrees.
Of course please avoid all risks
By employing some quick asterisks--
For there are some words too crude
And unutterably rude,
As when one of your young f**kers sh*ts.
- 12/26/2009
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
The new couple, Katy Perry and Russell Brand, is rumored to record a duet track together. They are said to have entered the Sunset Sound studios in Los Angeles, working on a rendition of Edward Lear's 1871 poem "The Owl And The Pussycat".
"Russell was just messing around in the studio with Katy," a source told The Sun. "He was pretending to sing into the mic and started reciting the poem, The Owl And The Pussycat, with the lines, 'Oh lovely Pussy! Oh Pussy my love, what a beautiful Pussy you are'."
"That's when it dawned on everyone. It was actually really good. With work, it could be a really interesting track, evocative of The Goons or Monty Python. They were very harmonious. Everyone was transfixed."
The poem itself reportedly has also been used as their nicknames to each other. The 'Owl' is Russell, and the 'Pussycat' is Katy. "It...
"Russell was just messing around in the studio with Katy," a source told The Sun. "He was pretending to sing into the mic and started reciting the poem, The Owl And The Pussycat, with the lines, 'Oh lovely Pussy! Oh Pussy my love, what a beautiful Pussy you are'."
"That's when it dawned on everyone. It was actually really good. With work, it could be a really interesting track, evocative of The Goons or Monty Python. They were very harmonious. Everyone was transfixed."
The poem itself reportedly has also been used as their nicknames to each other. The 'Owl' is Russell, and the 'Pussycat' is Katy. "It...
- 11/13/2009
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
The British comedian and his Us pop star girlfriend were reportedly “messing around” in a Los Angeles studio where they recorded a version of Edward Lear’s 1871 poem ‘The Owl and the Pussycat’. A source told Britain’s The Sun newspaper: “Russell was just messing around in the studio with Katy. “He was pretending to sing into the microphone and started reciting the poem, ‘The Owl And The Pussycat’, with the lines, 'Oh lovely Pussy! Oh Pussy my love, what a beautiful Pussy you are'.” The poem is said to be a private joke between the pair, after Russell, 34, recited it to ‘I Kissed A Girl’ singer Katy, 25, when they holidayed together in Thailand. The source added: “They often use the nicknames Owl and Pussycat. Russell is 'Owl' because he's wise and, well, it's fairly obvious that Katy's a sex kitten, isn't it? "He has an amazing delivery. Katy blushed at the line,...
- 11/12/2009
- by admin
- Gossipvita
Katy Perry and Russell Brand have recorded a song together, it has been claimed. The couple, who were first spotted together at the MTV VMAs in September, reportedly recorded a version of Edward Lear's 1871 poem 'The Owl and the Pussycat' in a Los Angeles studio. "Russell was just messing around in the studio with Katy," a source told The Sun. "He was pretending to sing into the microphone and started reciting the poem, 'The Owl And The Pussycat', with the lines, 'Oh lovely Pussy! Oh p**** my love, what a beautiful p**** you are'. Brand reportedly first recited the poem to Perry during a holiday in Thailand and it has since remained a private joke. (more)...
- 11/12/2009
- by By David Balls
- Digital Spy
Russell Brand and Katy Perry have recorded a duet. The British comedian and his Us pop star girlfriend were reportedly "messing around" in a Los Angeles studio where they recorded a version of Edward Lear's 1871 poem 'The Owl and the Pussycat'. A source told Britain's The Sun newspaper: "Russell was just messing around in the studio with Katy. "He was pretending to sing into the microphone and started reciting the poem, 'The Owl And The Pussycat', with the lines, 'Oh lovely Pussy! Oh Pussy my love, what a beautiful Pussy you are'." The poem is said to be a private joke between the pair, after Russell, 34, recited it to 'I Kissed A Girl'...
- 11/12/2009
- Monsters and Critics
Russell Brand and Katy Perry have recorded a duet. The British comedian and his Us pop star girlfriend were reportedly "messing around" in a Los Angeles studio where they recorded a version of Edward Lear's 1871 poem 'The Owl and the Pussycat'. A source told Britain's The Sun newspaper: "Russell was just messing around in the studio with Katy. "He was pretending to sing into the microphone and started reciting the poem, 'The Owl And The Pussycat', with the lines, 'Oh lovely Pussy! Oh Pussy my love, what a beautiful Pussy you are'." The poem is said to be a private joke between the pair, after Russell, 34, recited it to 'I Kissed A Girl'...
- 11/12/2009
- Monsters and Critics
Russell Brand and Katy Perry have recorded a duet. The British comedian and his Us pop star girlfriend were reportedly "messing around" in a Los Angeles studio where they recorded a version of Edward Lear's 1871 poem 'The Owl and the Pussycat'. A source told Britain's The Sun newspaper: "Russell was just messing around in the studio with Katy. "He was pretending to sing into the microphone and started reciting the poem, 'The Owl And The Pussycat', with the lines, 'Oh lovely Pussy! Oh Pussy my love, what a beautiful Pussy you are'." The poem is said to be a private joke between the pair, after Russell, 34, recited it to 'I Kissed A Girl' singer Katy, 25, when they...
- 11/12/2009
- Monsters and Critics
Russell Brand and Katy Perry have recorded a duet. The British comedian and his U.S. pop star girlfriend were reportedly "messing around" in a Los Angeles studio where they recorded a version of Edward Lear's 1871 poem "The Owl and the Pussycat."
A source told Britain's The Sun newspaper: "Russell was just messing around in the studio with Katy."
"He was pretending to sing into the microphone and started reciting the poem, 'The Owl And The Pussycat,' with the lines, 'Oh lovely Pussy! Oh Pussy my love, what a beautiful Pussy you are.'"
The poem is said to be a private joke between the pair, after Russell, 34, recited it to "I Kissed A Girl" singer Katy, 25, when they holidayed together in Thailand.
The source added: "They often use the nicknames Owl and Pussycat. Russell is 'Owl' because he's wise and, well, it's fairly obvious that Katy's a sex kitten,...
A source told Britain's The Sun newspaper: "Russell was just messing around in the studio with Katy."
"He was pretending to sing into the microphone and started reciting the poem, 'The Owl And The Pussycat,' with the lines, 'Oh lovely Pussy! Oh Pussy my love, what a beautiful Pussy you are.'"
The poem is said to be a private joke between the pair, after Russell, 34, recited it to "I Kissed A Girl" singer Katy, 25, when they holidayed together in Thailand.
The source added: "They often use the nicknames Owl and Pussycat. Russell is 'Owl' because he's wise and, well, it's fairly obvious that Katy's a sex kitten,...
- 11/12/2009
- icelebz.com
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