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Posted by the editors on Sunday, 30 October 2011
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005)(DVD) Directed by and starring Tommy Lee Jones (as actor: The Fugitive (1993), Natural Born Killers (1994), Men in Black (1997), Space Cowboys (2000), No Country for Old Men (2007), In the Valley of Elah (2007)), with Barry Pepper (Saving Private Ryan (1998), Seven Pounds (2008), True Grit (2010)), and others; screenplay by Guillermo Arriaga (21 Grams (2004), Babel (2006), The Burning Plain (2009)), ; music by Marco Beltrami (3:10 to Yuma (2007), The Hurt Locker (2008)); cinematography by Chris Menges (The Killing Fields (1984), The Mission (1986), The Reader (2008), Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011)). A vision of the American West, with a very keen eye for detail, and not too distant from that found in No Country for Old Men, also starring Tommy Lee Jones, looking at honor and morality, friendship and the relations between men and women, and man, his history, and the stark beauty of the vastness of Texas/Mexico border, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada can be darkly funny, and say as much without words as with them. Tommy Lee Jones shows an extraordinarily deft hand in his directing, and his acting is, of course, superb. Perhaps not for the excessively squeamish, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, is, nevertheless, a must-see film. (PR)
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Posted in DVDs, film, Film Reviews, General, Movies, Nothing Is Invisible, nothingisinvisible | Tagged: 2005, 21 Grams, Babel, Barry Pepper, Chris Menges, Contemporary Westerns, DVDs, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Film Reviews, Films, Guillermo Arriaga, In the Valley of Elah, Marco Beltrami, Men in Black, movies, Natural Born Killers, No Country for Old Men, Nothing Is Invisible, nothingisinvisible, Saving Private Ryan, Seven Pounds, Space Cowboys, Technology, The Burning Plain, The Fugitive, The Hurt Locker, The Killing Fields, The Reader, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, theatre, Tommy Lee Jones, True Grit, Westerns, Wikipedia | 5 Comments »
Posted by the editors on Monday, 21 March 2011
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David Barboza and Claire Cain Miller have written a short but interesting article entitled “Google Accuses Chinese of Blocking Gmail Service” in the Technology section of The New York Times, looking into “disruptions” in the Gmail service in China which Google states are part of ”a government blockage, carefully designed to look like the problem is with Gmail.” A never-ending battle?
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Posted in Business, culture, Economy, General, Internet, Links, marketing, money, Nothing Is Invisible, nothingisinvisible, Technology | Tagged: China, Claire Cain Miller, David Barboza, disruptions, email, Gmail, Google, Internet, Nothing Is Invisible, nothingisinvisible, Technology, The New York Times | Leave a Comment »
Posted by the editors on Monday, 21 March 2011
The Google search home page logo
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David Carr has written an interesting article entitled “The Evolving Mission of Google” in the Media & Advertising section of The New York Times, looking at how Google, according to its executives, at least, is not a media company: Google organizes and manages content, but it stays away from producing it. Hmmmm. It seems that that is not what those outside of Google think. A look at how Google is evolving into a media company, perhaps…
In any case, we are very happy that Google exists, aren’t you?
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Posted in Business, culture, General, Internet, Links, marketing, Nothing Is Invisible, nothingisinvisible | Tagged: Content management, Content Providers, David Carr, Google, Google Search, Internet, Media, Media & Advertising, Media companies, Nothing Is Invisible, nothingisinvisible, Search, Search Engines, Technology, The New York Times | Leave a Comment »
Posted by the editors on Wednesday, 16 March 2011
Downloading an e-book from the New York Public Library website to a Nook Color
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Julie Bosman has written an interesting and informative article entitled “As Library E-Books Live Long, Publisher Sets Expiration Date” in the Media & Advertising section of The New York Times looking at the strained relations between public libraries and e-book publishers in general, and the new “26 borrowers” limit imposed HarperCollins Publishers.
Did all of you know that you can’t download public library e-books to your Kindle? (Is this “just” a question of file format or ….?) What do you think about the “26 borrowers” limit?
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Posted in Book Reviews, culture, Economy, Education, General, Internet, Links, Literature, marketing, money, Nothing Is Invisible, nothingisinvisible, publishing, Technology, Websites | Tagged: books, downloading, downloads, e-book readers, e-books, HarperCollins Publishers, Julie Bosman, Kindle, libraries, Literature, Media & Advertising, Nook, Nook Color, Nothing Is Invisible, nothingisinvisible, public libraries, publishing, Raymond McCrea Jones, Technology, The New York Public Library, The New York Times | Leave a Comment »
Posted by the editors on Saturday, 12 February 2011
Fragment of Botticelli’s ‘The Birth of Venus’ at the Uffizi Museum as seen on the Google Art Project
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The wonderfully perceptive and accomplished art critic Roberta Smith has written an article entitled “The Work of Art in the Age of Google” in the Art & Design section of The New York Times looking at the Google Art Project, Google’s most recent step in Webifying the world. Art Project offers, via an adaptation of Google’s Street View technology, virtual tours of, at the moment, 17 major international art museums, including, ultra-high definition close-ups of some of the works. It’s not perfect, but it is really quite amazing, and it does offer the opportunity to art-lovers near or far to spend some quality time quietly contemplating some beautiful work, ranging from Van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) to Chris Ofili’s “No Woman, No Cry” at the Tate Modern, and many others.
An absolute must. It’s that simple.
Link to the Google Art Project, here.
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Posted in Apps, Art, culture, Education, Environment, Exhibitions, General, Internet, Links, Museum & Gallery Shows, Museums, Nothing Is Invisible, nothingisinvisible, painting, Technology, Websites | Tagged: Art Criticism, Botticelli, Chris Ofili, Google, Google Art Project, Google Street View, London, MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, museums, New York, No Cry, No Woman, Nothing Is Invisible, Roberta Smith, Street View, Tate Modern, Technology, The Birth of Venus, The New York Times, The Starry Night, Uffizi Museum, Vincent Van Gogh, Web | Leave a Comment »
