Absolutely not

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Peter Pan Begins


This better get thrown out (the article says they're "pitching" it, so I hope someone has brains enough to say no, no.)

There is NOTHING I like about this:
I don't like Channing Tatum. Like at all.
Just from the title, I can tell it'd be a big project. People will expect a lot and because of that, it will be even MORE of a let down if it does get the go-ahead.

And yes, I saw Red Riding Hood, and it was awful. However, it looked pretty, but I just KNEW it was going to be bad, but sometimes one is surprised. This was absolutely not one of those times. It was god-awful. Alice, however, was superb. O, I have a bias because I do rather love Timothy Burton, but whatever.

Please, no. The only Peter Pan-esque movie/show/whatever I have refused to watch was Peter Pan 2 or whatever that was. And the Tinkerbell crap. But she's a harlot, so that doesn't count.

Shorts

"Alma"
This is a Spanish short by Rodrigo Blaas.
Apparently "Guillermo del Toro is set to godfather the development of a big screen feature adaptation of Alma with Rodrigo Blass directing for DreamWorks Animation."

I Stumbledupon Alma and 14 other "Amazing Animated Short Films" the other day.

I ended up watching most of them, and really liked this one, too:

"Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty"
It's hilarious.

15 Amazing Shorts

Camera Van

"More than 2500, inside and out. I made it into a darkroom in the back, and there’s a light-meter collection on the dashboard so when I’m driving and the light filters through the windshield, the needles are all moving. I have shutter buttons that control the cameras that work."

My dad showed me this article today in Car and Driver magazine about a man named Harrod Blank who put all these cameras on to a 1972 Dodge van.

"I put Polaroids on the bumper area. If they get broken, who cares? The driver side is a giant Kodak Instamatic that’s made up of Kodak Instamatics. The entire top is covered with 140 Super 8 cameras. I can put a working video camera there. The back has the oldest, dating to the early 1900s. The passenger side is a giant filmstrip made up of TV monitors, from which I can broadcast images I shoot, and I can also play my movie if I don’t get accepted in film festivals."

Also, he's made a film called "Automorphosis."

He said he hit a deer once and that the van was okay, but, "...the deer shape was carved out in the cameras. It took me two weeks to fix the damages." He's been doing this since 1993, so I understand that when he started, a lot of these cameras weren't as coveted, but now-a-days, I cringe a little bit and just want him to put protective covering over some of the older/more rare ones :X Ack hahaha.

Samuel L. Jackson reads...

Freddie Highmore

is this boy:

(in Finding Neverland)
I MISSED THE PART WHERE HE GREW UP.
Seriously, completely missed it. And he was one of my favorite child actors; I evidently forgot that kids grow up (a-ha ha: bad, unintentional pun...because he was in Finding Neverland, har har).
Anyway, I'm looking forward to seeing this movie. Sure, it looks like the typical modern bildungsroman, but I love sassy Emma Roberts and obviously adore Freddie Highmore.

PS

I, too, am reading Just Kids by Patti Smith (compliments of The Denver Publishing Institute last year, thank ya!), and I'm absolutely loving it. And this video is just splendid.

The Denver airport is...

Davey Eggers

When I was in LA, I had a meeting with a DPI graduate, and her boss (this super great, soft-spoken, hip, English-professory guy with Allen Ginsberg-y glasses) had these drawings in his office, along with a plethora of African items: he's an anthropologist and was apparently the first American to interact with this one tribe. Super awesome. Anyway, the last one was my favorite. He had about 6 or so, but this just gives a gist of what they're like.
Dave Eggers, if you're in the unawares, wrote the screenplays for Away We Go and Where the Wild Things are, as well as being an editor, publisher, and writer of fiction and non-fiction and more.
What I was left with from the hip boss was, "don't...see it. Don't. It's awful. So bad. If you didn't like the first one, oh, just don't do it. It's even worse: vulgar and horrible." -(he said all this in a gentle, intelligent tone: it was so genuine that I couldn't help but believe every word of this assessment) about The Hangover 2. And I have never believed I would do as I said more than when I responded, "OK, I won't."