March 5, 2008

Now this is my kind of Star Wars

If Saul Bass had created Star Wars.

[via an email from Andrej. I just visited over at his blog and note that he has a cool new banner.]

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February 11, 2008

Movies about artists

Recent movies from my netflix queue:

The Lives of Others
Evil communists start wishing they could be artists too. Great movie!

Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
Painful movie to watch (especially if you never liked heavy metal!) but very intriguing. I realized that band members have some of the same issues as designers-- but minus the drugs and a billion times worse. Some times you end up playing Other People's Music if you aren't feeling creative enough to riff on your own. Also it is interesting about how people deal with their success.

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January 28, 2007

21 Up

My sick husband and I watched a documentary called 21 Up on Saturday night. The documentary interviewed kids when they were 7 years old, 14 and then 21. The documentary is British and almost all the kids ended up in the same social stratosphere as they started out when they were 7. I would love to see if American kids would end differently. In America we have the belief that you work hard you can achieve success. Do American kids switch social stratas more frequently than other countries or is this just a misconception?

I guess until someone does an American version of this documentary we won't know.

Note:
I forgot to mention that the upper class British 21 year-olds were very set on "giving back" to England and making a contribution to their country. I haven't really seen that value instilled among upper class Americans,.but perhaps I'm not hanging around with enough crusties or blue bloods to say this for sure.

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