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Category: Movie discussion
Andy Serkis's Caesar and the rest of the ape-men where wonderful, as was slow build of the story, but Franco's character, and the portrayal of science in the movie, seemed to have been written by a non-infinite group of monkeys with a non-infinite number of typewriters.
Posted by Vince LiCata at 12:47 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building
Where does one draw the line between fun Sci-Fi and stuff that makes you cringe?
Posted by Vince LiCata at 6:21 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: The Film Building
A few months back I had a chance to be involved with Dawkins' visit to Vancouver, and here we had a chance to record his speech. Not a bad way to spend an hour on this particular day. Actually, Richard's...
Posted by David Ng at 11:37 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: The Film Building
So I'm pleased to show off a goofy little video I prepared using the great suggestions made at a previous post (Hopefully, the start of a definitive list of things to avoid at all cost when speaking publicly.). It's being...
Posted by David Ng at 7:19 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: The Film Building
A few days ago, I had a chance (with other ScienceBloggers) to check out Randy Olson's new flick, Sizzle. Now let me first start by saying that I'm hardly a movie aficionado - my favourite movie is still Star Wars,...
Posted by David Ng at 5:00 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: The Film Building
I doodle a bit, and sometimes, it has this Breakfast of Champions look to it - which to be frank is deliberate, since I think it's a great visual style, especially for the purpose of teaching. Anyway, since, I'm playing...
Posted by David Ng at 11:00 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: The Film Building
I have to say that I really enjoyed this presentation by Sir Ken Robinson. Well worth the twenty minutes. Curious about comments too from you educators out there. Ben, do you think this guy is a contender for our advisory...
Posted by David Ng at 10:39 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: The Film Building
Some stuff on the esteemed Robert Altman, who died on Monday at 81. And let's call it culture, not chatter. (Even though it isn't a war, per the Sb super category title).
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 10:59 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: The Film Building
The question humming around ScienceBlogs at this particular moment is about Science TV, so I thought I would pipe up for one of me and my kid's current favourite shows: Peep and the Big Wide World....
Posted by David Ng at 7:09 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Video links (archive.org samples, for example; Youtube.com; others...)
Here is an example where an artist, perhaps unknowingly even, is consuming less. A short animated movie, using only the reused, recycled, or (at the very least) the very old, that shows how aesthetics can be achieved through any means....
Posted by David Ng at 8:27 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
