from tha bloc

by jebni on March 9, 2003

Okay, so my last post was an utter wankfest. To make up for this, I’ll make an admission: straight after Solaris, we snuck into another movie. It was Maid in Manhattan. (Alas, there was only one good moment: getting to (…)

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crystal time

by jebni on March 9, 2003

Lovely day with Lena and her cousins. On Kirsten’s recommendation we saw Solaris, which was wonderfully meditative and crystalline, if lacking in viscerality. I perversely enjoyed the over-the-top ranting by one of the scientists about how the Visitors, those alien (…)

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Gangs of New York Beyond Thunderdome

by jebni on March 2, 2003

The Past = Another Planet. The plenty-reviled (but actually truly excellent) Plunkett & Maclean may have attempted such a formulation with a good dose of irony, but Gangs of New York, which I caught this afternoon, is an earnest stab (…)

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Branding: Just Do It

by jebni on March 1, 2003

I feel barely human after the killer deadline (hence my short posts of late). All the madness, just for this: the silly Lee Jeans website. Hours and hours of late night digital photography, DV camerawork, endless Photoshopping, video editing, Flash (…)

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