What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today:
• Amazon emailed to recommend my own book [http://ow.ly/hUCiU] to me. Feels like the time OK Cupid told me my brother was a good match.
• Maybe, but most of them are stuck slaving away at Starbucks because art doesn’t pay. 1 in 14 Of History’s Greatest Artists Are Alive Today: The Upside to Overpopulation
• Brilliant! Battleship meets Battleship Potemkin. Battleship Potemkin
• Being nominated while Arab now apparently suspicious… How My Friend and Current Oscar Nominee Emad Burnat Was Held and Threatened with Deportation Last Night at LAX
• It’s true. There Are Only Three Ways To Design A Movie Poster For A Kids Movie [Movie Poster Trends]
• File this under “And Chicken Soup Is Good for a Cold”… Certain Television Fare Can Help Ease Aggression in Young Children, Study Finds
• Sherlock Holmes isn’t in the public domain? Who knew… Lawsuit Seeks to Put Sherlock Holmes in the Public Domain
(hat-tip for today’s links: @KelliMarshall, bronxbee, @momentsoffilm)
That Battleship video is hilarious!
Yup. I’d like to think Eisenstein would’ve gotten a giggle out of it. :)
Re the OKCupid recommendation: you weren’t in the great state of… no, too easy.
Another mash-up of a classic by the same guy:
“I Know What You Did Last Year At Marienbad”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSI92aMpCSk&feature=player_embedded