So my friend introduced me to Web Therapy, which is a new web series starring Lisa Kudrow and it’s effing HILARIOUS improv! Check the whole series out here.
So I was browsing the new movie trailers on Hulu today and noticed that this coming summer and fall are seasons for the kid in you at the movies! I remember some of my most beloved children’s books… ones I had nearly forgotten about until I saw these trailers. Now they’re coming to life and I couldn’t be more excited! I love it when your favorite stories from childhood – the ones that fed your imagination and created amazing new worlds for you – are realized with today’s computer graphics technology. And, being a huge computer graphics geek myself, these movies bring back to life some of my favorite moments of childhood and inspire my adult imagination more than ever before. These movies look absolutely beautiful and – at a time when it is most sorely needed – look like they’re going to be great places to escape to. See you at the movies!
“Where the Wild Things Are” (Maurice Sendak)
“Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs” (Judi Barrett)
I have a strange obsession with horror movies. I don’t know why. They scare the shit out of me and the really good ones can trigger one of my panic attacks – so why do I love them so much? Especially the gory ones. Unnecessary gore for some reason really just makes me happy. Well, not happy happy, but I get a kick out of watching it. I think it’s because they excite me, though! I’m not one of those people who can figure out the ending of the movie in the first 10 minutes… I like to just lose myself in the moment of what’s happening and try to experience what the characters are experiencing. I think it really lets me get the most out of movies. Even if they’re bad. Even if they’re really bad.
What I honestly can’t stand are comedies most of the time. I think romantic comedies are completely stupid. Except for Pretty Woman. That movie is the only romantic comedy that worked in my book. Honestly, I think that’s one of the best movies I’ve ever seen. Seriously! I know you think I’m nuts, but there’s just something about it… I think it’s Julia Roberts’s hair. God, she has gorgeous hair. And for some reason this movie just always makes me feel good. They don’t make enough Feel Good Movies anymore, especially now when we need them most.
So, this is my gift to you today. Sit back and watch a Feel Good Movie – you deserve it. And most of all: Enjoy Julia Roberts’s hair.
Pretty Woman (Full Movie)
So here’s some unambiguous warning sings that you’re well on the way to becoming a design nerd or that you already work as a graphic designer:
- You can spot bad typography from 100 meters away.
- You can name more than 200 fonts in under five minutes.
- You are completely immune to subliminal advertising.
- You look upon a well-designed project with either: sympathy OR extreme jealousy.
- Your hand is permanently stuck in the shape of a mouse.
- You practically take caffeine intravenously.
- You have an appreciation for everything unique.
- You’ve been spending three days non-stop on a project and it still looks like shit. You find yourself overcome by Deathlust.
- You buy a CD or DVD only for the artwork.
- You look at the clock and see it’s about midnight and think “I’ll go to bed now”… and you actually go to bed at about 2-3 am.
- Seing someone use Lens Flare or Comic Sans adversely affects your blood-pressure.
- You have a thing for chairs. You don’t know why.
- You maintain a grid system for your refrigerator magnets.
- You sit at work for eight hours straight just looking at your monitor, waiting for a spark of inspiration that doesn’t come.
- You’re up ’til 5am because you came up with the best idea ever while brushing your teeth.
- The hottest dream you ever had was “Trace contour… Find Edges… Pinch… Extrude… Smudge Stick… Motion Blur…. Sprayed Strokes…”
- You know Lorem Ipsum by heart.
- Activating your entire font collection makes your computer crash.
- You spend $200 on a font for your personal website because “it’s the only one where the lower-case g is just right…”
- Looking at a menu makes you go “hmmm, ITC Baskerville italic” rather than “mmmm, lunch!”
- You use words about fonts you dislike that other normal people reserve for fascist dictators and serial killers.
- When your significant other/ friends have threatened to never speak to you again if you point out one more font to them.
- Apple+Z is the first thing that goes through your mind if you drop and break something.
- You actually understand this post and pass it on to your friends.
Thanks to Frau Haselmayer for this post!