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PopStuff Show Notes: Episode 23, Why do we watch what’s hard to watch?
by Tracy V. Wilson | December 12, 2011
Whether they’re just too horrifying to look away from, or they’re somehow good for us, we just can’t seem to keep our eyes off of some things that are truly, truly hard to watch. Why do we watch these things?
Sometimes you watch a movie and you think: This place is pretty. I would like to go there.
In this case I’m speaking of “Melancholia,” a not-at-all hilarious movie, filmed at a gorgeous waterfront property in Sweden called Tjoloholm Castle.
Holly and I got into the studio Tuesday to record a podcast episode about the Muppets. The episode will publish in a couple of weeks, closer to when the movie debuts. The latest trailer just hit today, and when Holly saw it, I heard her cackling from my office.
It’s been a rough week for the tobacco companies on EurekAlert! I can tell you. All in a single day, no less than three (3) papers scrutinizing Big Tobacco were published in the Public Library of Science’s journal PLoS Medicine. Must have been a special issue or something.
If you grew up in a tough neighborhood, chances are you’ve gone to see a scary movie and came out talking all kinds of trash. You probably went home yelling, “I wish those so-and-sos would try something like that around here!” at anyone within earshot, right? Well, what if an alien invasion popped off in the middle of your ‘hood? Think very carefully before you answer, because that’s the basic plot of the movie “Attack the Block.”
On Friday, Chicago’s newest tourist attraction was unveiled on the Magnificent Mile — a 26-foot-tall, aluminum and steel sculpture of Marilyn Monroe. The sculpture, created by artist Seward Johnson, captures a familiar Marilyn moment: She stands over a subway grate, and a gust of wind from the speeding train below whips up her pearly-white skirt, revealing her legs.
Only this sculpture reveals a whole lot more.
I’m a little late to the party on this, but did you know there’s a newly blue village in Spain?
When Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation chose to premier its movie “The Smurfs” in Juzcar, Spain, they also decided to paint the adorable white village blue — Smurf blue. It took 12 painters and 4,000 liters of paint.
This weekend I watched an amazing video on YouTube. It is called Talking Funny, and it had been broken up into 4 parts and posted. It features Jerry Seinfeld, Louis C.K., Chris Rock and Ricky Gervais sitting together in a room talking about their craft. It is utterly amazing because it lets you get inside [...]
Today’s Inspirational Moment – Turning talent into a job
by Marshall Brain | April 27, 2011
On Reddit, a person named Joaquin Baldwin posted an animated short. In his words, “This one got over 100 awards in festivals and got me the Disney job.” In the thread he mentions: “This one took me 10 months from boards to final, I did it with Maya for all the 3D stuff, Photoshop for [...]
If you went to see a movie this weekend at your local cineplex (as opposed to the art house cinema), there’s a good chance that the leading actor on screen was a man. Don’t buy that assumption? Take a moment and consider the Bechdel Test, a three-question quiz on gender representation in film:
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