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aracter baby doll is introduced and hurried through the death of her mother her ensuing conflict with her step father her accidental shooting of her younger sister and her subsequent admission in to the lennox house asylum these two montages are not badly made in fact if you interspersed them with clips of emily browning singing she contributes a number of songs to the soundtrack you d have an award winning music video on your hands but from a narrative standpoint it misses an important piece of information when we arrive at the asylum we are led to believe that baby doll is being wrongly committed i e she s actually not crazy but we are flung into her delusions almost immediately upon arrival so is she crazy or not in snyder explains that sucker punch s main schtick is an attempt to explore how our minds deal with hardship and how we create these worlds for ourselves to help us cope it s roughly the same theme as guillermo del toro s pan s labyrinth but that movie conveys its message much more successfully i might add by firmly grounding the rest of the tale in reality sucker punch has no such machinations instead snyder decides to go all inception on our collective asses by then introducing a daydream within the daydream four of them in fact with each one set in a slightly different sci fi fantasy universe why this happens is completely unexplained it s also largely unnecessary save for the fact that it awarded the visual effects house animal logic a substantial chunk of the film s us 82 million budget the visual effects work is impressive to be sure it overuses slow motion again as always if you played all of the slow motion sequences in this movie at normal speed the whole thing would be 30 minutes shorter but overall the production and creature design is meticulous and really top notch if i didn t have to watch the movie itself i would have really enjoyed the various set pieces as standalone youtube clips but the ambiguity of the storyline does these fx sequences a disservice i actually felt bored watching them there was never any context so there was no sense of urgency or danger at any point in the story when the movie introduces its supporting characters it does so within the daydream so it isn t clear if they re real people or just figments of baby doll s imagination so even when they start dying you re not really sure if you should care by the time baby doll awakens from the base daydream we realize that some of that stuff did indeed happen those characters actually died but at that point it s too late to feel emotional about it as it draws to a close the movie explains everything that happened in its previous 100 minutes with a two sentence exchange between some supporting characters i m not sure if it was supposed to be one of those big reveals ala usual suspects or sixth sense but it s carried out so offhandedly that you ll miss it if you re not paying attention and then it ends the whole sorry affair with a hilariously written voiceover about finding ourselves or some other bullshit zack snyder s directorial career has been an interesting one to follow in many ways he s like guillermo del toro in that he alternates between adapting comic book properties and developing personal projects unlike del toro though i don t see him steadily improving with each new picture he probably enjoyed himself tremendously while making this film but it isn t clear whether audiences are enjoying themselves along with him what s clear though is this sucker punch is one hell of a demo reel posted in media movies 5 comments 1 panasonic lumix gh2 review 28 feb 2011 about a month ago i decided to try out the micro four thirds format as a possible replacement for my bulky dslr the model i settled on was the panasonic lumix gh2 a second generation camera with distinctly serious stylings i wrote a full length review over at technogra ph along with some samples of my favorite images from the past month s worth of shooting check it out posted in hardware photography technology 1 comment 3 on switching from dslrs to micro four thirds 6 jan 2011 i ve been a little obsessed with weight recently not so much in terms of my body weight although to be fair i ve been adjusting my diet as well over the past weeks but in terms of the weight of the things i carry around with me over the past year or so i ve been slowly downgrading my primary laptop from a 15 2 8ghz 6 lb macbook pro to a 13 2 66ghz 4 5 lb macbook pro to finally a 13 2 1ghz 3 lb macbook air and although the air is significantly slower in cpu speed than any of the current generation mbps in the same price range the technology has progressed to the point where it s fast enough in my opinion i m doing the same thing with my camera i ve found that i ve been lugging around my nikon d90 less and less recently due to the fact that my neck just isn t friends with the 70 200mm f 2 8 lens the whole package weighs 2 2 kilos for crying out loud and that doesn t even include the frickin speedlight and so it was that i ve started reading up on micro four thirds format cameras and seriously considering another downgrade my strategy is similar to how i finally embraced the air as my main portable was it good enough for the mba it definitely was the combination of the reasonable cpu and the super speedy ssd makes for some very responsive computing and likewise micro 4 3s cameras have had 3 years to work out their early flaws and initial missteps so my fingers are firmly crossed that this experiment won t be a total wash the particular model i ve been looking at is panasonic s gh2 which is at the very top of the four thirds line unlike its younger siblings the gf and the gx series the gh line yearns to be a dslr it s got a pronounced grip on its left side and a proper viewfinder in the back i m not a purist by any means but any camera that you hold at arm s length to take pictures with i simply cannot take seriously the viewfinder electronic as it may be was a must for me the gh2 also sports a healthy amount of buttons and dials on the body where the rest of the pana line has opted for all touchscreen controls now i love touch interfaces as much as the next guy i was one of the first in line for the ipad after all but not for devices that you need to be able to operate without looking also since i spend most of the time peering through the viewfinder i hardly think i d be able to use a touchscreen menu much if at all early reviews of the gh2 have been largely positive with quality rivaling that of mid range dslrs like canon s 60d and nikon s d7000 it s not cheap and certainly wouldn t be something i d recommend to beginners but for enthusiasts and people like me who are obsessed with frivolous issues such as weight and volume it seems like a very promising choice i ordered mine earlier today coupled with the very standard 14 45mm f 3 5 5 6 lens don t let that focal range and aperture fool you by the way that s a 300 piece of glass i was debating whether i should go with the 800 14 140mm f 4 0 5 8 but in the end i decided to stick with a walkaround and just work my way up oh and did i mention that the gh2 and its kit lens weigh a grand total of 650 grams posted in media photography technology 3 comments 0 infographics love 19 aug 2010 i ve recently gotten into designing infographics as a way to bookend my days weaving javascript and evenings getting my ass handed to me by starcraft 2 s ai i ve so far churned out two one of them featured on chartporn and the other mentioned on the fast co design blog they re both on my flickr stream and lord knows i really need to start updating that with actual photos soon but i m reproducing them here to try to get this damn blog active again posted in artwork games media movies technology no comments 7 six years of lost 27 may 2010 it s a little hard to let go 6 years of lost to say that lost was the best show on television for its six season run is fairly debatable with the jj abrams produced series sharing nights with such heavy hitters as the wire and the shield that s a tough sell even for the most devoted of fans but what isn t arguable is that lost was easily the most ambitious show of its time nowhere else would you find this particular brew of cliffhangers reboots and indulgent character development mixing it up with time travel weird science and the logistics of island living as far as ensemble dramas go lost was on a level all its own its unique approach to storytelling was ironically the same thing that turned off a lot of potential fans early on instead of telling you what you wanted to know lost drew out a complex mind maze leaving tantalizing clues that often led to simply more questions for the devoted fans this was the show s biggest draw lost was about never getting what you expected and constantly being surprised by the direction the show was taking this was no small feat when you consider that the entire run was over a hundred episodes long like a good radiohead album the show was a constant rejection of the status quo sometimes even the status quo that the show itself had propagated as someone who has watched lost since it first debuted in 2004 i ve gone through the stomach butterflies pain of waiting for each new episode to break on a weekly basis these are some of my favorites obviously there will be spoilers walkabout season 1 episode 4 in which we are introduced to john locke and the lost writers show m night shyamalan how to write a twist ending this was the episode that made me a fan and is on my list of single best tv episodes of all time others on this list clyde bruckman s final repose making a stand and the culling orientation season 2 episode 3 in which the hitherto unknown eko lays the beatdown on jin sawyer and michael and the infamous numbers become central to the show s mythology as desmond passes on his button pressing duties to locke and jack the long con season 2 episode 13 there s a new sheriff in town boys this was the episode that triggered the popular quip amongst fans once you go sawyer you never go jack the man behind the curtain season 3 episode 20 in which we meet the young benjamin linus as he is fostered into the island s leadership position ben is my favorite lost character and the way this episode tracks his growth into a masterful manipulator insecure whelp is mesmerizing it s widely agreed that lost well lost its way during its third season hey nikki and paulo but they certainly got it together in time for the finale through the looking glass season 3 episode 23 meta twist episode lost pulls a long con on its viewers by showing us what we believed to be a confusing flashback but what turned out to be a flash forward instead years later abc would attempt to do a whole show based solely on this concept meanwhile they kill off a main character while simultaneously laying the groundwork for the final half of the show possibly the best season finale of any show ever produced the constant season 4 episode 5 the fan favorite time travel episode in which the lost writers pull a slaughterhouse five quasi tribute that would ve made vonnegut proud mindbendingly paced and emotionally powerful this episode along with season 1 s walkabout represented lost at its absolute best the shape of things to come season 4 episode 9 in terms of plot advancement it s hard to beat this episode ben linus teleports to tunisia flash forward style mercenaries kill alex the rivalry between ben and charles widmore is fleshed out wonderfully as a decades long struggle for control of the island happily ever after season 6 episode 11 season 6 was in many ways a very long epilogue to a show that was constantly screwing with its fans perceptions and expectations episode 11 was the turning point that hinted at desmond hume s final contribution to the show and its characters as being the only person apparently impervious to the effects of well even death itself and that final episode lost s series finale was quite possibly the most divisive episode ever aired on network television in that fans were either severely disappointed or tearfully emotional the explanations for season six have been widely written up at this point so i won t go into the details here but i will say that i enjoyed it quite a bit it wasn t a perfect episode it didn t hit the creative highs of walkabout or the constant but i felt that it was very much like the show producers were writing a protracted love letter to the characters that they were leaving behind i particularly loved how the dialogue was so sharp at this point that they managed to explain the entire season in just four lines exchanged between jack and his estranged father lost has never been an easy show to watch it alternately tests your patience and confuses the crap out of you occasionally it leaves your jaw on the floor right before smash cutting to the end titles it s hard to imagine another show ever being quite like it although people are certainly trying and maybe there shouldn t be it took jack shephard a whole season before he was ready to let go i might take even longer posted in media tv 7 comments 5 that ipad 14 apr 2010 this is my second attempt at writing a review of the ipad today i had gotten through a full thousand word opus earlier this morning and was just about to publish it when my text editor the creatively named text editor decided to replace the entire article with the word null it didn t help that the essay had been written purely on the ipad either which in and of itself was already a bit of a feat but here we are again anyway i ve resorted to using the built in notes app for the rest of this piece which i had originally rejected because i didn t especially like the comic sans esque font at this point i ll be happy with anything that can save my work properly though my writing position and seriously when was the last time you read anyone describing their posture as they wrote and it was actually relevant information is in a word folded i began this morning sitting on the edge of my bed the ipad balanced on my lap and hunched over my workflow has all the cadence of a funeral march i poke out three or four sentences sit up and stretch emphatically sigh expansively then fold myself over again looking for all the world like someone who rings gothic church bells for a living given these rather torturous working conditions it may be a surprise that i am experiencing a perverse sense of fun as i do this there are only a handful of people in the philippines with ipads right now and i m probably the only one who would be willing to go through this seemingly pointless exercise there is a reason though i wanted to see if the ipad could work as a decent mobile productivity tool and the only way to do that is if you actually use it to produce something most of the ipad s virtues have been espoused at length by other writers with far better words than mine so suffice to say that 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