HALLOWEEN (1978) - Written by John Carpenter and Debra Hill, the original was the first installment in the franchise. It has spawned 10 films to date. Most recently directed by Rob Zombie, a purported Halloween III, will be released this year. If you’re a regular visitor to my blog, you’re well aware the orig is one of my favorites.
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Sunday, October 14, 2018
RAY HARRYHAUSEN’S JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS
Ray
Harryhausen’s Jason and the Argonauts - Directed
by Don Chaffey, produced by Charles H. Schneer, based on a myth by Apollonios
Rhodios, a 3rd century Greek author. With music by Oscar winning Bernard
Herrmann, Jason and the Argonauts is a cultural compass. This independent film
was made with material by stop
motion animation master Ray Harryhausen. The skeleton fight scene and battle are
pure fantasy. He made many other mythical creatures famous, along with himself.
Such as, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, The Three Worlds of Gulliver, and Mysterious
Island. The film score was composed by Hermann, who also worked with Harryhausen on the fantasy films.
Saturday, October 13, 2018
Sunday, October 7, 2018
FRAGMENTATION OF THE DEAD
FraGMENTATION of the
Dead - With confirmation Andrew Lincoln will depart in season 9, will
The Walking Dead be forced into cancellation without Rick or Carl? Although,
let’s be honest, Chandler could have never lived up to the part. Shh. Anyway, I’ve
been watching this news, and other rumors. Here are the highlights of what’s
going on right now. Producers confirm season nine will jump ahead 18 months
following last season's battle between Rick and Negan. Rick, Maggie and Daryl
upend an alliance and havoc breaks loose. Seems to me showrunners recklessly
killed off Shane and Carl, and now Daryl is the only one left, besides Carol.
Norman Reedus got $20 million to lead the show here on out. There are rumors Daryl will lead the show
into a spinoff unrelated to the TWD. Nobody could’ve predicted the extent of
this hit to bring strong interest for zombies of the apocalypse.
https://www.chadschimke.com/2021/08/the-walking-deads-final-season.html
https://www.chadschimke.com/2021/02/maggies-back.html
https://www.chadschimke.com/2020/03/michonnes-sword.html
https://www.chadschimke.com/2020/03/heavycom-michonnes-sword.html
https://www.chadschimke.com/2019/05/walking-dead-franchise.html
https://www.chadschimke.com/2019/02/michonnes-last-stand.html
https://www.chadschimke.com/2018/10/fragmentation-of-dead.html
https://www.chadschimke.com/2018/02/goodbye-carl.html
https://www.chadschimke.com/2017/05/the-walking-dead.html
https://www.chadschimke.com/2017/05/the-walking-dead_4.html
https://www.chadschimke.com/2017/05/the-walking-dead-vid-clip.html
https://www.chadschimke.com/2015/10/the-walking-dead-1-5-circa-2003.html
Saturday, September 29, 2018
IN THE REIGN OF HARAD IV SHORT STORY REVIEW
IN THE REIGN OF HARAD IV
SHORT STORY REVIEW - A miniature maker--honored with a fur coat to
attend court—creates doll house furniture with incredible detail. He loses
himself in his own ambitions, ever creating things that are smaller and
smaller, that his apprentices check on him one day. He has made a doll house so
small, that it is invisible, even under powerful magnification. In The Reign of
Harad IV by Steven Millhauser the author explores themes common to his other
works, small moments, replicating reality, small models and exploration of the
literary fantastic. This Pulitzer prizewinning writer has authored Dangerous
Laughter, A Precursor of the Cinema and The Other Town.
In the Reign of Harad IV
In the reign of Harad IV there lived at court a maker of miniatures, who was celebrated for the uncanny perfection of his work. Not only were the objects of his strenuous art pleasing to look at but the pleasure and astonishment increased as the observer, bending closer, saw that a passionate care had been lavished on the smallest and least visible details.
Cynthia Ozick reads Steven Millhauser
Cynthia Ozick reads Steven Millhauser's "In the Reign of Harad IV."
Saturday, September 22, 2018
EVOLUTION OF TEXT
EVOLUTION OF TEXT – Prior to printing, scribes copied books by hand, in laborious fashion. Drawings became pictographs,
Egyptians used reed brushes to write on papyrus pages quickly and cleanly. Phoenicians developed a
phonetically-based alphabet before the Romans. The Celts wrote runes on tiles
with thick tight set angled ascenders and descenders, a precursor of upper/
lowercase. Christianity pushed Bibles, often by force, but led to the development of
the illustrated manuscript. A jumble of bones that became Old English ended up on the shores of the
island. Oddly enough, it became a world language. Very few early written
fragments survived, mostly as short inscriptions. A Chinese inventor makes
movable type of earthenware around 1100 but there are no surviving examples. Gutenberg created his movable
type press, around 1400, imitating a writing style used by scribes of his day. The penmanship craze, tied to
social status, pushes the use of easily carved copperplates featuring
script-like letters influenced by elegant handwriting. Single sheets known as
incurables, a pamphlet recognized as the origin of the publication business,
were created in 1501 using wood block stamps. Editor Edward Cave coined the
term ‘magazine’ as a word for periodicals in 1731, with Gentleman's Magazine. Penguin paperbacks are a new
idea, cheaper than hardbacks, ushering in the dawn of the modern paperback in
the 30s. American children still learn both cursive and printed handwriting styles
in the 70s. As early as the 80s, online newspapers like The Columbus Dispatch
were being read on CompuServe computers. Grocery store aisles across the country stock cheap plentiful tabloids and
women’s print magazines, peaking in the 80s and 90s. Print books/ newspapers/
magazines first became available on stationary desk top computers, and later
downloaded to increasingly portable devices. Every version of e-books are
formatted exactly like paperback novels. Desktop to laptop to e-reader to kindle to smartphone to audiobook. Listening to audiobooks on
long commutes becomes a new user experience for an old concept. In the future, people will
wear smart glasses and smart watches to take audio/ books everywhere. Might it become too much of a
good thing? We will see what happens next, in the evolution of text.
https://www.chadschimke.com/2022/02/evolution-of-exploration.html
https://www.chadschimke.com/2017/02/evolution-of-sound.html
https://www.chadschimke.com/2018/09/the-evolution-of-text.html
https://www.chadschimke.com/2017/09/evolution-of-images.html
https://www.chadschimke.com/2017/08/the-evolution-of-flight.html
https://www.chadschimke.com/2017/04/evolution-of-computing.html
https://www.chadschimke.com/2017/02/evolution-of-sound.html
https://www.chadschimke.com/2018/09/the-evolution-of-text.html
https://www.chadschimke.com/2017/09/evolution-of-images.html
https://www.chadschimke.com/2017/08/the-evolution-of-flight.html
https://www.chadschimke.com/2017/04/evolution-of-computing.html
Sunday, September 16, 2018
ROUTE 66
ROUTE 66 - Travel
through the desert, from the gulf of Texas to the mighty Pacific. Route 66
isn’t a place, it’s a mindset. Few seem to grasp the real America began before
the settlement of Acoma pueblo or Chaco Canyon. Far before any Pilgrims. The
road used for commerce currently was once a footpath, and later a horsepath. In
my own journey, travel east and south came first, seeming contradictory, but
that’s how it unfolded. Close my eyes and drive by Grants down 66 and meander
down Central Avenue. The murky version of the past stored in my mind, frozen in
time from the day I left, doesn’t reconcile with the 2018 version. It’s how I
remembered what happened. That version, the one I’m used to, not how things are
right now. Past Central Avenue. No more Wagon Wheel hotel or Weinerschnitzel
next to The Pussycat. From the heights with Foxes on one end, almost to Nine Mile Hill, the women’s social club. I got in with my
work friend, she drove me there in her 280z. The day in high school when I drove the open road
and listened to the space shuttle explode live on the radio. I found signposts along the way. The
club in Nob Hill where I could never quite make it. Stop trying to run away,
everyone said. Many many times. Go west, young man, the road said. Every young
man looks down a long road and wonders, could I make it there? I did that and
the road is a place that lives inside my mind. Ocean Beach, no it’s not Lands’
End. But I see the ocean every day in San Francisco. Sometimes I imagine taking the 580 to the 5 to I40 back. But the old 66 of my mind isn't there. I long for a full gas tank and the open road since Route 66 never
leaves my mind.
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