- simplegeek – Jeff
April 10th, 2003 by rbanks
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- Jeff Brouws Photographer
- BBC NEWS | In Depth | 2003 | Week in pictures
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Archive for April, 2003
Rivers and Tides
April 10th, 2003 by rbanks
Just returned from the Seven Gables Cinema in the University District. This is such a strange little place, like an old residence. Single screen, which is covered most of the time by a painted curtain depicting a “romantic” scene entitled the Last Castle. The walls are covered in curtains, and the seats are old, faded, with bursting seams.
I went to see Rivers and Tides, a film about Andy Goldsworthy. To generalize terribly, he basically walks out of the door to his home every day, with no idea what he’s going to build, and goes through this high-patience, highly torturous process of interpreting the land around him with natural, found objects, in the process creating breathtakingly beautiful scultures. The film captures his process well, and shows the scales at which he is capable of working, and the depth of thought around even the simplest ideas. In fact, all the ideas look simple, but you come away knowing there’s no way in a thousand years that you could create them.
90/100
Virtual Garage Sale!! Yup. Finally
April 8th, 2003 by rbanks
Virtual Garage Sale!!
Yup. Finally getting rid of some stuff. And what quality! Actually, we’re sad to see a lot of it go, but voltage being what it is in England makes it a little difficult to hang on to a lot of it. I’m going to have to rebuild my whole electronic lifestyle in 240 volts.
- Dynamism.com – PCG-GT3/K
April 7th, 2003 by rbanks
- Dynamism.com – PCG-GT3/K Photo Gallery
- Sluggers – the bar that contains the TV that will show us KU ruling supreme tonight
- Juggling simulator
- U.S. and British war deaths
- Frank Rosenstein Photography
- Micronews Ads
- itv.com/f1
Spirited Away
April 6th, 2003 by rbanks
We saw Spirited Away today at Bella Botega. This is Miyazaki’s latest, and better I think then Princess Mononoke. It’s an incredibly imaginative film, beautiful, softly paced, and incredibly drawn. I came away feeling a little like I was missing a huge amount because of my obvious lack of knowledge for all the cultural and spiritual references that I assume most Japanese have, and that (I think) the movie is full of. But it’s still highly accessible, and doesn’t seem its 2 hrs and 20 minutes.
Brazilian Grand Prix
April 6th, 2003 by rbanks
Stunningly strange Brazilian Grand Prix (see this blow by blow account by the BBC). Peter Windsor tried to explain the new tyre regulations in the coverage I saw here in the US of A through Speedvision, but I’m still left highly confused by why no one really had the tires they should have for this very wet race. Ross Brawn has some comments on the subject, which make it all seem highly political, the fault of Michelin if they are to be believed. Politics doesn’t seem to be a good reason to put all of the driver’s lives at risk, though.
I just couldn’t believe the action in the 3rd corner. 6 drivers out at that point, including Michael and Juan Pablo. You’d think that in itself would be enough to stop the race. But both Webber and Alonso’s spectacular crashes came later, and it’s a miracle they walked. If the space-age technology that makes up the cockpit around a driver, and allows them to survive these huge impacts, ever makes it to the public I wonder how that will change the standard of driving? Can anyone say “nothing to lose”?
Anyway, the boredom of last years season seems to have been replaced by a highly exciting, and highly unpredictable, set of races, due in large part to the new rule changes. I can’t believe that Ferrari are in the position that they are (3rd in the constructor’s championship behind Mercedes and Renault), and I’m not sure what they can do about it. At the same time, Michael went out today due to driving error, and Rubens because of technical difficulties (whilst in the lead), both things that were the teams fault, not the new rules.
- Hotel Lucia in
April 5th, 2003 by rbanks
- Hotel Lucia in downtown Portland Oregon
- GuitarTabs.com
- Greatest Films
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April 4th, 2003 by rbanks
- MAGMA BOOKS
- James Jarvis
- Carrara Product Tour
- House for sale…
- RUSTBOY
- CDC | FAQ: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
- Los Angeles Times – Editor’s Note
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- OK47
- Radiohead songs
- Giant Robot
- kozyndan – give us good things
- Dok Home
The box office
April 4th, 2003 by rbanks
I love what this page says about the state of the box office. Scroll down near the bottom and compare the Current High Scores table with the Weekend Box Office table. As I’m looking at it, there are 15 films currently in release with a score of 85/100 or more. And the top weekend grosses have scores respectively of 45/100 (Head of State), 38/100 (Bringing Down the House), 44/100 (The Core) and 30/100 (Basic). That’s democracy in action. People voting with their feet.
April 3rd, 2003 by rbanks
Just added a google search to the bottom of the page. Now, finally, I can switch my IE default homepage from Google to this one.
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