For a little while now I have been considering the possibility of starting up a blog. Originally this was going to be on a completely separate domain to keep things as separate as possible, but this just seemed a bit unwieldy. Especially considering I am the only one who is currently putting pieces up on the website. Instead I have decided to put it on the main site, but not include blog posts on the main page or in the main RSS feed for the website. This way the blog posts won’t get in the way of the main content of the site.

The blog is going to be a bit of a catch-all for the random comments, thoughts and links that don’t really have a place on the main pages of the site. It could be ideas that aren’t properly fleshed out into a full article, random links to other interesting things on the web, or simply updates on various things that are occurring in my life, they should hopefully find a place here. If you want to get the RSS for this, you can subscribe using this feed:

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As always, comments are more than welcome on the blog as they are on the rest of the site. If you have anything interesting for me to put up here, email or leave a comment and I will take a look at it.

The guys over at The Hollywood Saloon posted their rather long (Over two and a half hours!) podcast review on Fincher’s The Social Network the other day, and I spent most of the morning at work listening to it. I am going to reserve my full opinion on this interesting film for a longer review that will get written up after a second viewing, but this episode of one of the best movie podcasts raised some rather interesting points.

One of the strengths of Jansen and Siems is that they bring an interesting perspective of the filmmaker to their movie discussions. Too often, we concentrate on the artistic merits of the film rather than examine some of the more technical aspects of cinema. What was especially interesting was the intercut interviews that they inserted in with Fincher and Sorkin, which go a long way to backing up some of the points that they are making. I, for instance, had absolutely no idea that the Winklevoss twins were played by the one actor and the duplication was done by CGI. The graphics were that seamless, and did not detract from the movie experience one bit. The CGI generated breath when they were standing out in the cold was horrible and distracting.

Anyway, these guys have a great podcast and this would be a great introduction for anyone who has seen the movie and wants to get a interesting perspective on it.

The Hollywood Saloon – Face Off