(Originally sent April 2008)
It’s the return of Things!
This week’s film – one line review:
Last night I saw Son of Rambow, which was kind of Beano-like, over the top, strange, and put together with more heart than writing competence much like the film-within-a-film it portrays, and fortunately heart is the most important aspect of a film, so that was rather good.
Next week’s films:
Next week I plan to catch the preview of Happy-Go-Lucky. It’s a film about the power of optimism by Mike Leigh, and Mark Kermode was enthusing about it, so it sounds well worth seeing.
Imdb rating: 8.6 /10 (from 87 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: N/A (insufficient data)
[Now gets 92% on RT – metatim, 16/5/10]
Clip : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqTlFY84yYU
[Link is dead, I think this is the same one though – metatim, 16/5/10]
The clip doesn’t seem terribly demonstrative given what Kermode was going on about, but it’s the best I could find.
A Puzzle:
In the last Things I left you with the rainbow paradox. I don’t have an answer but I saw a diagram once of the colours the human eye perceives separated by how distinct we perceive them to be, that looked like a clue. If I find it then I’ll use it as the image attachment of a Things one day. [That diagram can be found here, from this Wikipedia article on colour vision – metatim, 16/5/10]
This week: If there are 3 people in a room, what is the probability that at least 2 of them are of the same sex?
A Quote:
Federico García Lorca: The iguana will bite he who does not dream.
A Link:
Chris Jordan has a series called ‘running the numbers’, in which he takes amazing statistics and makes art out of them:
http://www.chrisjordan.com/
A video:
This 5-second video was big in June 2007 but I somehow missed it. It’s an internet classic and it is vital that you see it with sound:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHjFxJVeCQs
A picture:
Below is an image which, like Chris Jordan’s art, also presents statistics in an interesting way.
