ernesto priego artwork

I really like these Ernesto Priego caricatures and there are lots more at his blog. More stuff for me to collect! Damn!!

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fragments (aka winged creatures) - 2008 - rowan woods

Fragments (also known as Winged Creatures), tells the story of how survivors deal with the aftermath of a random shooting incident in a diner. Some go off the rails, some discover the Lord (and so on), but l can't say it kept me engrossed, and l didn't really care what happened to any of the characters. The best scene (IMHO) was between the young girl and boy when they went back to the diner, but even then, the boys acting put me off, and l just felt like slapping him round the chops (something l would obviously never do in real life). Then again, if l had walked into the diner at that precise moment and seen his hangdog expression, l may just have crumbled - gun or no gun.

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more life magazines

After the last post - here are some more Life mags that l wouldn't mind. I think l had better stop looking at them before l crumble and start hitting the telephone and paypal.

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life magazine muhammed ali covers

Now l certainly enjoy collecting things (some would say junk), and l certainly have a lot of crap already, but there is soooooooo much more out there that l would also like to get my stinking mitts on. Take these Life Magazines with the Ali covers. Mmmmm, methinks l may have to crumble and add them to the collection. Then again, where will it all end? There are plenty more Life mags where these little beauties came from, and there are plenty more little beauties that l would also like to have. There's the Beatles ones, the wacky ones, the historical ones, the comedy ones................................AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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everybodys fine (2009) - kirk jones

Robert De Niro plays his put upon (widowed) father role and goes around the country to visit (and surprise) his children after they say they cannot make a reunion meal. He is advised by his doctor not to travel due to his ill health, thinks 'Everybody's Fine', but soon discovers his children may have been giving him false information about how well they are doing (because they have issues - yawn). It was OK, but l certainly wouldn't watch it again, and l wish De Niro would pack in these roles and get back to being a scary fellow you wouldn't want to meet in a dark alleyway.

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milton glaser - design genius and the unfit dogs of america

I was watching an excellent documentary on Sky Arts about Milton Glaser the other day, and it obviously showed some of his design classics, some of which are above (the New York one is the most famous). One thing that caught my attention however, was the packaging for dog food. It's not the design on the packaging itself, which does the job nicely, it's what the Americans were feeding their dogs in the first place. Burger with cheese flavoured dog food!! Only in America etc......

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scenes of a sexual nature (2006) - ed blum

Scenes of a Sexual Nature has some vaguely interlocking stories of people out for the day on Hampstead Heath and it features lots of stars from the UK (Ewen McGregor, Catherine Tate, Andrew Lincoln etc). It's pretty easy going, and whimsical in places, but it also has you trying to anticipate what is going on in a scene, or what the outcome of some encounters will be. Pretty well done, and so much better than other British (so called) comedy-dramas with local stars in (I'm talking about you - Richard Curtis!!), although it was still outrageously middle class. Tom Hardy was my favourite character, pestering girls and generally acting wacky. Don't know why l should relate to that though. It's also another role where McGregor plays a gay man (I've just watched him in I Love You Phillip Morris). This is getting to be waaaaay to regular an occurrence, for both him and me. I think l need a lie down.

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