Planet Terror

I've just watched the Robert Rodriguez movie, Planet Terror. This movie was made to look like the pulp pictures of the 50's and 60's. It has all the scratches and distressed marks of a film damaged by having been shown hundreds of times. Rodriguez carries the trend further with the plot and story line. A green gas escaped form the army rendering locals as zombies. But have no fear there is a one legged go-go dancer with a machine gun prosthesis as heroine. There is a lot of blood and guts and gore for everyone. Bruce Willis makes an appearance as a bad guy. It is a fun flick,( if you like your fun bloody) on the level with Sin City, but is not for the squeamish.

Eagle Eye

We went to see Eagle Eye this afternoon. it was like a private showing we were the only people watching screen 13 at the local multiplex. The movie was good but not without some room for improvement. This sci-fi flick was about humans controlled by a massive computer. interestingly enough we had watched the conclusion of The Last Enemy on PBS last evening.

Eagle Eye has plenty of action although I felt that some of the crashes of vehicles became somewhat gratuitous. The paceing of the film could have been better along with character development. The female lead was practically characterless. I felt that he super computer had been pirated from a "60's James Bond movie. Eagle Eye keeps your interest but except for crashes it would have been a good flick to sleep by. Oh, yes, I thought the drone flying through the tunnel was a bit much.

Tinker Time

Hey, hey, hey! It's time to tinker again. Today I got my webcam to operate and my scanner also. So...I'm a happy camper. But I have always been a happy camper because I like camping. Even happy in a tent beside the Rogue River in a tent. The Rogue was one of the first US rivers to where boats with jet drives became popular. How's that for an aside? It's been kind of a bummer of a day. I think it was due to the time change. Sometimes the human body does not adapt to mandated changes of government. Government represents the biggest waste of human energy on the planet. I have been reading a book on Google Hacks that is interesting.

New look

I am rebuilding my "TYoung Artist" website. I'm using photoshop a lot to work on the images. The above is the beta version.

fine'

I have finally finished the book of our Alaskan vacation. I did it using Blurb software and of course they will print it. The process is really simple. Pick a template and add your text and photos. I don't really like using templates although they present a fool proof layout. Blurb does not allow you to use your own layout. However, you can overcome this by doing your layout on Photoshop and uploading your page as a single photo. I processed all my photos with Photoshop. I'm just learning to use the software so it took me quite a bit of time. Previously I had used Photo Delux but found I needed the additional features of Photoshop. Claudette did the writing. Actually it was her daily journal of our travels. In about a week and half we'll see the results.