1026 articles on Entertainment

  • Book Review: Hollywood Movie Stills Captures the Glamour of the Golden Age
    In the era of big studios and even bigger stars, still photography was a burgeoning art. The people behind the lens, and in front of it, were still learning how to capture the feel of a film and the essence of a character in a single shot. Hollywood Movie Stills tells the story of how those early film stars were shaped by the studios that promoted them and the photographers who captured their images.
    06.07.12
  • Why Do Kids Prefer Sci-Fi Over Science?
    "At least in Star Wars' spaceships, they can walk." I heard an 8-year-old utter that while I attempted to explain the effects of reduced gravity on the International Space Station. Well, the kid had a point, but still, Star Wars is not real. It's science fiction. Yet it was clear which one he and his classmates preferred.
    06.07.12
  • Wreck-It Ralph Trailer Released
    The first official trailer for Wreck-It Ralph was just released today, and it looks awesome. Wreck-It Ralph is an upcoming Disney movie about video games ¿ more specifically, about a bad guy from an old arcade game who's tired of being the bad guy.
    06.06.12
  • Yellow Submarine Sparks Deep Dive Into Psychedelic Animation
    Reality is beautifully out of joint in The Beatles' 1968 animated film, which augmented the typical cartoonist's palette with photography, rotoscoping and 3-D sequences. Check out this gallery of other great finds from the annals of animated psychedelia.
    06.05.12
  • Photos: On the Ground at the Start of Fire Season
    As a photojournalist, for me wildland fire is a weirdly addictive thing to cover. The act of fighting fires creates a unique and particularly visual moment where natural elements face off with human technology and strategy. Each summer I usually find myself inhaling lungs full of what has now become the familiar smell of tree smoke.
    06.05.12
  • Meet Echograph, the Instagram of Animated GIFs
    You've been warned: You'll soon see images like the ones in this post -- part moving, part still -- everywhere. Animated GIFs are making a comeback, and Echograph, a new iPad app, is taking them to the next level. Remember how the newspaper photos in the Harry Potter movies came alive? That's what this app brings to the Muggle world, for $2.99.
    06.05.12
  • A Jazzy Day - Preschool Music Education on iOS
    A Jazzy Day is an iOS app aimed at preschoolers with the intention of teaching them about the different instruments that make up a jazz orchestra; the way they look, how they sound and how they all work together.
    06.04.12
  • Review: With Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson Crafts a Living Instagram Photo
    In Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson's latest movie, two 12-year-olds fall madly in love with each other on an island off the New England coast in the summer of 1965. Sam sports a raccoon cap, geeky glasses and a scout uniform; Suzy wears lurid blue eye makeup that never seems to come off, and earrings made of fishhooks. Their young love is doomed, of course, and so they run off into the wilderness together, drawing the ire of the adults around them.
    06.01.12
  • Review: Test Driving the 2012 McLaren MP4-12C
    Supercars should look like sex. This is what the voice inside my head has been insisting since I was 14 years old, when the very same (if slightly less mature) spirit guide led me to hang a Lamborghini Countach poster above my bed and doodle Ferrari Testarossas all over my Pee Chee folders. But somehow, to ...
    06.01.12
  • Product Review: ION Audio's Piano Apprentice System
    The ION Audio Piano Apprentice is a fun, unique way to introduce a young musician to the piano. The Piano Apprentice combines a 25-key keyboard with an iOS-compatible device and the free Piano Apprentice teaching app available from the Apple App Store. The app works with or without the keyboard.
    06.01.12
  • Review: In Dark Huntsman, Snow White Is an Enchanting Badass
    Snow White and the Huntsman was concocted using curious alchemy: It's a feminist retelling of one of the oldest fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm, orchestrated by a first-time director whose previous credits were in commercials. The film casts an Oscar winner as an evil queen, America's next action hero as a drunk knight-in-shining-armor type (minus the armor) and cinema's coldest vampire plaything as the titular princess.
    06.01.12
  • Why Expatriation Is Good for Your Kids, But Also for You
    When I turned 21, I left the comfort of my home country to study abroad. In June 2004, I landed in Texas to attend a biomedical research program at Texas Tech University. First thing I realized when I arrived is that what I thought I knew I in fact did not, and this included English too. It truly felt like I was becoming much more objective, or let's say less subjective, for the first time.
    06.01.12
  • Comics as Literature, Part 1: The Usual Suspects
    Okay, I've had my rants (here and here) about comics being serious literature but those were really more about being pedantic than the actual appreciation of comics. So I started compiling my lists and thinking about which titles I'd want to include in a list of "serious comics." And here's the best part: there's a lot of them.
    06.01.12
  • Star Wars: A Belated Appreciation on Its 35th Birthday
    o I'm a little late to the 35th anniversary of Star Wars party. Yes, George Lucas's groundbreaking film was originally released on May 25, 1977, so I missed the big celebration by a few days. But heck, it's Star Wars week as far as I'm concerned. So if you'll indulge me, I'd like to impart a few thoughts about the awesomeness of George Lucas's astounding achievement.
    05.31.12
  • Inventor Mitch Altman, Electronics Jedi
    Long, flowing hair and an air of supreme confidence emanates from Mitch Altman, inventor of TV-B-Gone, as he enters the 'Dark Side' stage at the 2012 Orlando Mini Maker Faire on Saturday, May 27 2012. You can hear the Star Wars theme trumpeting in the background as R2D2 blinks and beeps--Mitch takes the stage.
    05.31.12
  • Law and the Multiverse
    Comic geeks love to argue and pick away at the details surrounding their favorite characters. James Daily and and Ryan Davidson are two practicing attorneys that publish the Law and the Multiverse blog, which takes the superhero world and holds it up against the real world law.
    05.31.12
  • King of RPGs Is Fun and Manic Foray Into Gaming Culture
    I'm a big fan of escapist memoirs. I love reading about what drives us into these realms of illusion and especially with how they help us deal with the real world, as Ethan Gilsdorf's excellent Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks did so eloquently. I was surprised, then, when I discovered the King of RPGs manga series, written by Jason Thompson and illustrated by Victor Hao. It's by no means a memoir -- more of a dark comedic fantasy -- but it is clear that the authors are intimately familiar with the roleplaying game culture depicted in the book.
    05.31.12


 

 

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