Friday, February 28, 2014

The Periodic Table of Storytelling

I'm just going to repeat the title, people.

from the brilliant people at tvtropes.org


It looks like this, but it's interactive.

INTERACTIVE!

If you write
you really need to see this.
It's fun. It's clever.

It's uplifting.

It's also as humbling as a 

Did I mention that it's interactive?


Oh, and you can buy it as a poster.


That is all.

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Fairy tales. The French do it better.

Yes, they do.


And you know it.


This is a French production of
Beauty and the Beast
from Christophe Gans


Apparently, it's not due to be released
in the USA,  but I'm sure a bit of 
Internet pressure will fix that.



Doesn't it look gorgeous?


Christophe Gans
 also brought us
Brotherhood of the Wolf.

Historic fiction! Fabulous costumes!

Wire-fighting Native Americans!



Harlots and assassins! Secret sects and an evil monster!



Tarot cards and incest and pretty horses!


You should see that!



What else is this cold spring for
but snuggling up, and watching glorious eye-candy?



Saturday, February 15, 2014

You're digging in the wrong place.






If you're here for Holly Horrorland's 
Vampire Day Soiree,
you're in the wrong place.





The gif of Morticia and Lurch dancing?
No reason...

Thursday, February 6, 2014

Classical Movement


If you came here to view
B E A U T Y
the film has been taken down
while it is
being shown on the art film circuit.

There is a link to a brief clip,
to get the flavour of the whole piece,
at the end of this post.


 Thank you to Summer, of 
for sending this my way.

If I find a link to the entire piece
I will update this post.



Rino Stefano Taglialfierro
animated classical paintings
and linked them together,
with a loose narrative
and evocative music.

What starts out as sweet and dreamy,
 becomes intriguing and compelling;
the images shifting from 
innocence 


to 
eroticism,


 then to brutality


 and darkness.


If you have eight minutes
use the link
 and watch.