Here's a link to and blurb for my review of "Eel Girl."
Eel Girl Wins Awards Worldwide "Eel Girl" is a short film about a romantic moment between a scientist and a human-eel hybrid woman. This picture has won numerous awards for its outstanding special effects. Weta Workshop, best known for makeup and creatures in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, created the special makeup effects for the human-eel hybrid in the film. Send the kids to bed before you watch this one.
To accompany my Triond review with the entire short film, I would need to have access to a legal and embeddable video from YouTube. YouTube, however, doesn't have the entire short film (unless you want to see it with Russian subtitles), so I embedded the code from Daily Motion in this blog.
There's an new interview with Xeni Jardin in the Mexican magazine Gatopardo. In the interview she makes a comparison of blogging with being a DJ--attributing the comparison to a friend. It's a joke, right? ¿Es un chiste, no? Blogging, especially the kind she does, is pointing out another's ideas.
Comparas la música punk con escribir un blog.Un amigo alguna vez dijo que bloguear es un poco como ser dj. El dj no compone música, pero tiene buen oído y sabe qué cosas van a ir bien juntas en cierto contexto. Eso es bloguear.
Photo of Xeni Jardin from Wikipedia. Photo is by Jen Collins and has a Creative Commons Copyright. Thanks Jen Collins.
I responded to an article of fellow Triond writer vijayanths' "Google Once Again Updated Page Rank in August 2011" with a lengthy note. I want to thank him for showing me PR Checker, which allows one to check the Google page rank of a web page.
I've installed this feature on my blog below. As you can see, I get a 0 of 10.
For the time being, I have returned to the Windows world. I am putting my old machine aside to wait until I can make a rational decision about whether to install yet another parallel ATA drive or simply move on to a more contemporary machine. I'm now forced to use an old Windows XP computer, an ancient Dell Inspiron. I'm not happy.
I backed up my old computer a while ago, so I shouldn't lose much. I am also considering partitioning the hard drive of this Inspiron so I can use Linux again. I'd rather go buy a used PC, ditch the operating system, and install the latest (stable and well-reviewed) version of Ubuntu, but I'll have to do plenty of shopping before I find what I want in a PC. I think I'll get a desktop model, so I can enjoy some extra horsepower for my money.
I think it's a strange coincidence. It reminds of all the ghost stories where the clock stops when someone dies, which in turn brings to mind Auden's "Funeral Blues," the first six lines of which follow:
"Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
"Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead...."
I found a video on YouTube of a singer performing this poem to music written by Benjamin Britten. The YouTube blurb says:
"'Funeral Blues' a poem by W.H. Auden, music by Benjamin Britten. Performed by Alexia Mankovskaya, soprano, Andrea Kmecova-piano, Jose Gandia viola, at a London recital given by the Vertigo Ensemble."
I'm this video here because it's a great performance, and I want to remind everyone that this poem was famous before "Four Weddings and a Funeral."
I've written quite a few article for Triond in the past two weeks, but I've neglected to put any information about them on this blog. The tag cloud of this post, made by wordle.net, is above. Here the articles are:
"46 Miles" is a Great Short Film You Can See Free Online
The cast and crew of "46 Miles" made this short over a weekend--yet it was good enough to be shown at the 64th Annual Cannes Film Festival, and it's the most quotable 48-hour film ever made. It's a good movie for adults or teens at Halloween. Don't miss it.
Nuclear Plant Near Atlanta, Georgia, Leaking Radioactive Material
A report of the morning news on the website of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports radioactive water was found in in two test wells under Plant Hatch near Baxley, Georgia, about 200 miles from Atlanta.
This short film is professional quality with excellent editing and cinematography. Moreover, it's a funny video that features good Halloween music. There's not a moment wasted as the story moves toward its twisted conclusion. If you like "Scream" and its sequels, you'll like this one.
Ten days ago Richard Freeman wrote a pair of articles about his search for an short, powerful ape that walks upright in the forests of Sumatra. He's on an expedition to find this animal as I write. Skeptics say the ape is a myth, but they could be wrong. Nonetheless, can a legendary animal truly be "discovered"?
