Move forward one hour. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. A thank you must go out to our federal government for this time change which in all practicality does nothing except shift our collective behaviors.
One less hour in the weekend
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Left off the 95 Theses
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
– Martin Luther
Sin City
Robert Rodriguez has set up shop in Austin for his productions and is creating both children’s studio blockbusters as well as adult fare. And with Sin City, the interpretation of Frank Miller’s gritty stories from a decade ago, it looks like he might have another hit on his hands. Along with that success follows a great friend of mine who has been working his ass off for Robert, helping with post production duties on the film. Congrats Brad. Everyone go see the movie and help keep Brad employeed!
In case you need any encouragement, I offer a great comparison of the illustrations from Frank Miller compared with stills from the movie. Amazing art direction and attention to relaying the essence of the original stories.
How do you create your world?
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
– Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Conclusion, 1854
What have you been doing?
You might think, due to inactivity at the site here, that nothing exciting has happened in the last week. You might think that, but you’d be wrong.
Dense
Amazing photos of human construction designed to contain and organize the masses. Some are colorful, some look like the internal construction of a computer, but they are all functioning to allow for the expanding population in very dense societies.
Better than yesterday's rain
Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.
– Walt Whitman
The Week Ends at Bernie's Trial
Well, now I don’t have to write a scathing post about CEOs and their involvement, or lack thereof, in the running of their business.
Let me stand on my head facing north…how bout now?
So my “telecom mom” brought home and married her a “sbc daddy”, creating a dysfunctional cellular family with fancy new commercials and a combined color/logo scheme. Cingular Wireless now has 50 million subscribers, nearly one in three cell phone owners. Which leads me to the question, why can I barely get reception in my own home (where statistically there must be at least a half dozen other subscribers within earshot to hear me complain). And why do my conversations regularly get dropped at the same places on my commute home? I’m not quite yet to the point of screaming, “You’ll never be my real dad!”, but I’m not counting out teenage rebellion either.
First weekend in six weeks
…that it hasn’t rained in Austin. Which is fine, b/c I work on Saturdays and don’t really care what the weather is like for everyone else. Occasionally I even get the clear, sunny Mondays when everyone else is having to load themselves in the car and spend all day on the way to, at, or back home from work. But everyone came out winners yesterday in the weather lotto, as thousands made their way down to Zilker Park for the annual kite festival. Tons of kites, even more people.