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Feb. 19th, 2011 07:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
switchbladesisSo, I was planning to make a 'it's gotten above freezing-it's a heat wave!' post, but then we had an actual heat wave. For a week. The igloo's roof collapsed. The ice sculpture has gone from this five feet tall unwitting homage to beekman tower to a couple of six-inch high spikes. The mannequin heads have been brought back inside (apparently my downstairs neighbors made a decision not to move them around, so they got covered by layers of snow and then slowly rediscovered-random bits of flesh exposed as the snow slowly melted.)Yesterday I thought 30 degrees felt cold.
It's still mid-February. That's just not right. I'm almost glad for the temperature plunge and the next round of snow coming up.
I'm apparently four months late in reccing this, since apparently it was everyone's twitter-darling around Halloween, but if you like horror and aren't allergic to comics, check out His Face All Red by Emily Carroll. If you're more interested in romance, there's also Anu-Anulan and Yir's Daughter, which is super cute.
So apparently google has a lot of neat gadgets to help you create fancy-looking interactive charts with not that much work. I don't have enough time to play around with this now-but I'm leaving it here just in case any of you do. I'm expecting you to use your powers for good. Or at least for lulz.
The American Festival Project- Photo essays of America's lesser known local festivals. I really hope they add more to this-it's a great idea.
Alan Taylor, the guy who used to do the Big Picture (my favorite news photoblog that I keep on linking to because it's pretty damn awesome) has moved to here. Now with a 1280 px option for extra pretty! The Big Picture is still going on, with a revolving set of editors.
Felicia Day as an elf in a webseries spinoff for Dragon Age. Hi, my name is Switchbladesis and I am a giant fangirl. Interview with Felicia Day about this can be found here.
Speaking of which-apparently there's going to be a walking dead game? Considering this is telltale games making it, I'm guessing it's more of a point-and-click adventure than a first person shooter. The same release mentioned a fables game (like the comic-not fable 4), which means I'm reimagining Snow White and Bigby as Sam and Max.
Thoughts about SPN 6x13 and 6x14:
It feels like they're spending the beginning of the second half of the season explaining why the first half was important-first the Sam finds out about his dark past, pts. 1 and 2, and Dean revisits his time with Lisa. I mean-I liked last week's episode and all: I thought it was really well shot (except for the B&W overuse), and I liked the noir feel to the storyline. It also worked well with the main hunting plot. But I don't know, this week it felt like two b-plots strung together without an A-plot. I think I would have enjoyed the mannequin plot if it had been paced better, but since a) we knew mannequins were behind this from the first scene, and b) nothing else interesting happened until the surprise kidney realization five minutes from the end of the episode, I just couldn't get myself to care.
As for Dean/Lisa-I thought that was already pretty well wrapped up with the last phone call. That subplot felt clunky and it didn't really add anything else that we didn't already know-yep, they're still broken up, and Lisa is still trying her best to move on because Dean's still too dangerous to be around.
I do enjoy that Dean tells the same stupid jokes over and over, though. Oh, Dean.
Mostly, I'm left feeling like: OMG NEXT WEEK WHY ISN'T IT NEXT WEEK YET OH RIDICULOUS CRACK EPISODE I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU FOR SO LOOOOOOOONNNG I'M WAITING FOR THE ~EXPLOSION~ IN FANDOM. And oh hey, maybe they'll finally start the second arc for this season, since the first arc ended three episodes ago. I can have hope! Right? . . . right? and maybe Arthur will finally find out about Merlin's magic!
It's still mid-February. That's just not right. I'm almost glad for the temperature plunge and the next round of snow coming up.
I'm apparently four months late in reccing this, since apparently it was everyone's twitter-darling around Halloween, but if you like horror and aren't allergic to comics, check out His Face All Red by Emily Carroll. If you're more interested in romance, there's also Anu-Anulan and Yir's Daughter, which is super cute.
So apparently google has a lot of neat gadgets to help you create fancy-looking interactive charts with not that much work. I don't have enough time to play around with this now-but I'm leaving it here just in case any of you do. I'm expecting you to use your powers for good. Or at least for lulz.
The American Festival Project- Photo essays of America's lesser known local festivals. I really hope they add more to this-it's a great idea.
Alan Taylor, the guy who used to do the Big Picture (my favorite news photoblog that I keep on linking to because it's pretty damn awesome) has moved to here. Now with a 1280 px option for extra pretty! The Big Picture is still going on, with a revolving set of editors.
Felicia Day as an elf in a webseries spinoff for Dragon Age. Hi, my name is Switchbladesis and I am a giant fangirl. Interview with Felicia Day about this can be found here.
Speaking of which-apparently there's going to be a walking dead game? Considering this is telltale games making it, I'm guessing it's more of a point-and-click adventure than a first person shooter. The same release mentioned a fables game (like the comic-not fable 4), which means I'm reimagining Snow White and Bigby as Sam and Max.
Thoughts about SPN 6x13 and 6x14:
It feels like they're spending the beginning of the second half of the season explaining why the first half was important-first the Sam finds out about his dark past, pts. 1 and 2, and Dean revisits his time with Lisa. I mean-I liked last week's episode and all: I thought it was really well shot (except for the B&W overuse), and I liked the noir feel to the storyline. It also worked well with the main hunting plot. But I don't know, this week it felt like two b-plots strung together without an A-plot. I think I would have enjoyed the mannequin plot if it had been paced better, but since a) we knew mannequins were behind this from the first scene, and b) nothing else interesting happened until the surprise kidney realization five minutes from the end of the episode, I just couldn't get myself to care.
As for Dean/Lisa-I thought that was already pretty well wrapped up with the last phone call. That subplot felt clunky and it didn't really add anything else that we didn't already know-yep, they're still broken up, and Lisa is still trying her best to move on because Dean's still too dangerous to be around.
I do enjoy that Dean tells the same stupid jokes over and over, though. Oh, Dean.
Mostly, I'm left feeling like: OMG NEXT WEEK WHY ISN'T IT NEXT WEEK YET OH RIDICULOUS CRACK EPISODE I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU FOR SO LOOOOOOOONNNG I'M WAITING FOR THE ~EXPLOSION~ IN FANDOM. And oh hey, maybe they'll finally start the second arc for this season, since the first arc ended three episodes ago. I can have hope! Right? . . . right? and maybe Arthur will finally find out about Merlin's magic!