Film: January 2008 Archives
recently we watched a documentary called helvetica. i know what you are thinking, a documentary about a font does not sound appealing, but let me say, it was really good.
not only did it give you the history of the font, but it showed you where it is in our world, who uses it, what it tends to represent, and even now, as i am typing this, movable type has me typing in helvetica.
one of the things about the documentary that is so fascinating is the question of what does font/typeface represent to the people who use it. and nothing is more powerful than when thomas put some work thing in helvetica the other day and got tons of compliments. the power of font.
and this evening, i stumbled upon this, discussing the power of font for a student. little side note, i force my students to submit in times new roman 12 and this article gives a fabulous hypothesis as to why i do this... and it even goes so far as to explain to me why i like georgia more than i like times new roman. who knew that font meant so much?
not only did it give you the history of the font, but it showed you where it is in our world, who uses it, what it tends to represent, and even now, as i am typing this, movable type has me typing in helvetica.
one of the things about the documentary that is so fascinating is the question of what does font/typeface represent to the people who use it. and nothing is more powerful than when thomas put some work thing in helvetica the other day and got tons of compliments. the power of font.
and this evening, i stumbled upon this, discussing the power of font for a student. little side note, i force my students to submit in times new roman 12 and this article gives a fabulous hypothesis as to why i do this... and it even goes so far as to explain to me why i like georgia more than i like times new roman. who knew that font meant so much?
yesterday, we got three new movies from netflix. i had switched the list around to have a range of movies that would be "appealing" to everyone involved, including roxie the dog.
one of the movies i had put in the queue was lady in the water. now, i will mention before hand that i had already listened to a podcast called watching the directors. i love this podcast and listen to it and their thoughts on different movies and directors. i really enjoy it and they happened to feature shyamalan. this movie was one of the movies in their discussion and i was already familiar with some of the major criticisms of this film.
about 30 minutes in... it was turned off. i will finish it because i am a glutton for punishment or a masochist or isn't that the same thing? ; ) anyway. even if you let go and agree to the idea of the movie and agree to the story world that exists in it, it is quite boring. there is one character that is more fascinating than any other, and she is just comical.
my suggestion is not to get this one unless you have decided to see every shyamalan movie out there. or you are a masochist or a glutton for punishment or the same thing...
one of the movies i had put in the queue was lady in the water. now, i will mention before hand that i had already listened to a podcast called watching the directors. i love this podcast and listen to it and their thoughts on different movies and directors. i really enjoy it and they happened to feature shyamalan. this movie was one of the movies in their discussion and i was already familiar with some of the major criticisms of this film.
about 30 minutes in... it was turned off. i will finish it because i am a glutton for punishment or a masochist or isn't that the same thing? ; ) anyway. even if you let go and agree to the idea of the movie and agree to the story world that exists in it, it is quite boring. there is one character that is more fascinating than any other, and she is just comical.
my suggestion is not to get this one unless you have decided to see every shyamalan movie out there. or you are a masochist or a glutton for punishment or the same thing...
