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Month: September 2006

  • Success! Accomplished something this week!

    Success! Well, something of note accomplished this week. Got H.o.p.’s new-old (my old one) computer up and running and pretty much all spic and span ready for him. Powerful enough (for now) for what he’s doing. Kind of. Maybe. We’ll see. Poor kid needs a new monitor. His is making click click click sounds now…

  • Grand Canyon, Duck-on-a-Rock

    Grand Canyon, Duck-on-a-Rock

    Grand Canyon, Duck-on-a-Rock View On White

  • A website all about Kurosawa

    For all things Kurosawa, visit the Akira Kurosawa News and Information website maintained by Vili Maunula. I have been wandering through looking at some of the paintings Kurosawa did for “Ran”, “Kagemusha” and “Dreams”.

  • I am not the sun

    Today we attempt to get H.o.p. to let us work on his computer. We are likely to fail though he is aware his is out of memory and needs to be upgraded and get a new video card. Oh, Marty walks in and says he’s paying H.o.p. to come with him to the studio to…

  • Blogging a disastrously translated "Record of a Living Being"

    That I was able to sit through “Record of a Living Being”, which was terribly translated, abysmally translated, is a testament to Kurosawa’s remarkable powers as a story teller just via his cinematography. Below is a blog of the film, but first some background. The film was made in 1955, coming between the “Seven Samurai”…

  • Grand Canyon Series, Tree

    Grand Canyon Series, Tree

    Tree, Grand Canyon, Arizona copyright J Kearns 2006 Light box enlargement