Damages promo - new season starts January 7th.
Xander: Look who's got a bad case of Dark Prince envy. Dracula: Leave us. Xander: No, we're not going to "Leabbb you." And where'd you get that accent, Sesame Street? "One, Two, Three - three victims! Maw ha ha!"
'Lessons'
Cable Drama: Still Waiting for the Cable Guy to Show Up with the Thread Name...
To be determined... (but it's definitely [NAFDA])
sumi - Nov 06, 2008 6:26:41 am PST #1872 of 11998
Art Crawl!!!
DavidS - Nov 08, 2008 10:23:47 am PST #1873 of 11998
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
For the truly hardcore, a review of the fonts used in Mad Men, and their historic accuracy (or not).
sumi - Nov 08, 2008 10:33:49 am PST #1874 of 11998
Art Crawl!!!
Wow. . . that shows a great deal of ummm, focus.
DavidS - Nov 08, 2008 10:35:09 am PST #1875 of 11998
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Wow. . . that shows a great deal of ummm, focus.
I think he's a font designer and is just turning his expertise toward the show.
Barb - Nov 08, 2008 12:09:56 pm PST #1876 of 11998
“Not dead yet!”
I think he's a font designer and is just turning his expertise toward the show.
I appreciate that the show goes to such lengths to procure the era-appropriate props and pieces. For some things, however, it's close to impossible, so they're doing what they can, no doubt within certain budget constraints, to emulate the look of the period. As Lewis pointed out to me, having taken graphics courses, all of the fonts in that time period would have been hand-drawn/set, so yeah, a lot of our modern fonts that are meant to mimic the old ones are going to have differences a professional will be able to catch, but can you imagine what it would cost to hand set something that's going to be on screen for a handful of seconds?
And yet, he criticizes the vintage pieces that are used.
I mean, it was interesting to read the perspective of a professional, but the whole post had this air of "Well, if I was in charge..."
sumi - Nov 13, 2008 4:09:32 am PST #1877 of 11998
Art Crawl!!!
Looks like Mad Men dvds aren't coming out 'til July of '09.
Frankenbuddha - Nov 13, 2008 5:17:47 am PST #1878 of 11998
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Looks like Mad Men dvds aren't coming out 'til July of '09.
Well, it takes time to design something equally as cool as the lighter dvd case.
amych - Nov 13, 2008 5:25:53 am PST #1879 of 11998
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
S1 DVDs came out in July '08 -- and proved to be very well timed to hook people who were catching up before S2. I wouldn't have expected anything very different.
SailAweigh - Nov 13, 2008 7:02:49 am PST #1880 of 11998
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
very well timed to hook people who were catching up before S2
Seriously. I had those on my Netflix queue and as soon as they were released I slammed them to the top. It was an amazing experience to suck down the entire season at once. I had everything fresh in my mind when the second season started.
juliana - Nov 13, 2008 1:02:37 pm PST #1881 of 11998
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
juliana, I am. That scene between her and Gemma in the supermarket was excellent.
I keep forgetting about this thread - argh.
And yes. I'm loving everything Katy Segal does with Gemma. This week? Her manipulation of Wendy (who is, indeed, very easily led), especially the kiss-benediction, was masterful.
She used to star in a show called Profiler, which was awesome
THAT'S where I've seen her before. Aha! (I swear, SOA is entirely cast with "Hey! It's that guy/gal!"-type actors.)
Free pass from prison because she threatens/whines that she'll rat if Jacks doesn't let her out? No fallback on Unser for that?
Well, we did see a bit of fallout this week. And I can believe Jax springing her. I don't think Bobby would have, necessarily.