If Robert Frost was alive right now, this is what he’d need to compose half of his poems. I can’t get over how brilliant this little app is. And for once, it’s an app made only for Macs!
A wise man once said “We are all at the mercy of our wild monkey minds. Incessantly swinging from branch to branch.” With…
By Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza
Randee Dawn is one of our fellow guest bloggers here on Popten, and she just came out with a new book – The Unofficial Companion to Law & Order SVU. I was lucky enough to be invited to her exclusive signing (and meet some of the people who populate one of TV’s biggest universes). I ended up taking a few…
By Hawkes Klein
I have a dilemma. Can anyone remember what the heck happens in “Where the Wild Things Are?” I keep talking to people and they’re like “OMG I can’t wait best book ever reminds me of my youth yay!” and I’m like “Great, could you maybe go over some of the major plot points with me?” and they can’t.
Trying to find…
The first article I read when I woke up this morning saddened me to no end. It was NPR’s report on the end of an era, also known as the last airing of Reading Rainbow. Amazingly, Levar Burton has been taking a look in books for the past 26 years. That means when I was just starting to read, this show…
By Randee Dawn
On November 20, Earth will be invaded by yet another round of twee vampires and unwashed werewolves, bad dialogue, inscrutable motivation and lots of moist forest scenery. With the release of “Twilight” sequel “New Moon,” many will be made happy, including the studio (which will rake in tens, if not hundreds, of millions) and the mooning (heh) teenaged or teenaged-in-their-hearts…
By Randee Dawn
First panel: Picture Joel Watson, stuck in a dead-end sales job in Dallas, Texas. He’s abandoned his dream of being an illustrator/artist after realizing there was virtually no chance for his cartooning skills to get picked up by a major syndicate. But – cross into the next panel and see the birth of his daughter, and the rebirth of his…
By Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza
I’m a huge fan of Lego art. I even make some of my own. Below, The Reverend Brendan Powell Smith recreates most of the bible’s stories in Lego form. It’s an unbelievably well executed illustrated companion to the book. At once hilarious, easy to read, and completely earnest. The amount of work that went into Brick Testament is astounding. The whole…
Elizabeth Gilbert, author of the Crikey-I-See-This-Book-Everywhere Bestseller Eat, Pray, Love, gives a miraculous speech on TED.com.
Why does creativity screw us up so much? What does it mean to be a genius? And should we dub any specific person a genius? Where does it get us, especially those of us dubbed a genius?
Sublimely written, beautifully spoken, and profoundly inspirational, this speech…
By Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza
The Artist’s struggle is something beholden to our society. We love to hear people’s sob story of how they made something brilliant. Everyone who goes through it carries this memory as a trophy for the rest of their lives. Whether those hard knocks come ‘on the road’ in music, getting a movie off the ground, writing until you bleed, or…
By Chris Baily
Once in a while we like to give a shout out to some of the great work Poptenners come out with.. And today we’ve definitely got reason to celebrate because the Jasons (otherwise known as Reynolds and Griffin) officially have a book out. It’s called My Name Is Jason. Mine Too: Our Story, Our Way, and it’s published by none…
Matt Ellsworth and I met while making Second Skin, a documentary I directed on virtual worlds. He’s one of the boys from Indiana who loves to game. Our conversations over the years have led to a few things, one of them was finding a common love for Johnnie Walker Black Label, and the second was a penchant for postulating about…
The geek have officially inherited the Earth, as was prophesied in Psalms 37:7 (more or less) so many bearded men ago. It’s a fairly recent thing, having happened somewhere between Google’s ascent to ubiquity, the second installment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and the eyebrow-raising popularity of Weird Al’s White & Nerdy. And since history is told by the…
How much does James Cameron ride George Lucas’ dick? Only enough to base an entire movie, Avatar, on the final battle sequence from the last good film in the Star Wars franchise, Return of the Jedi. Each film has its ragtag band of native creatures, each film pits basic bush weaponry against mechanized slaughter machines, each film has exploding trees.…
Come with me, friends, to another time. Let’s say 1998ish. Ross and Rachel rule the airwaves, ER is hailed as the Best Drama Evar. As the sun sets on Seinfeld, critics mourn its passing, proclaiming that we’re not likely to see a show of its brilliance ever again.
I watched an episode of Seinfeld yesterday. It’s still funny, despite the canned…
I sincerely hope I made every attempt to be fair and honest and if I left off a film you love, please know that it was not with malice and there are only ten spots. I even split them into two genres because taking any of these off the list kind of made my heart hurt. Also, feel free to…