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Ommwriter

By Victor Pineiro

December 10, 2009 Linkature 1 Comment
Ommwriter

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…

Law & Order SVU Book Signing

By Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza

October 28, 2009 Reviews No Comments
Law & Order SVU Book Signing

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…

Movie Reviews of Movies I Haven’t Seen: Where the Wild Things Are

By Hawkes Klein

September 29, 2009 Reviews 4 Comments

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…

RIP Reading Rainbow

By Morgan Holzer

August 28, 2009 Top Ten 6 Comments

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…

10 Young Adult Novels More Deserving of Feature Film Treatment Than the “Twilight” Series

By Randee Dawn

August 25, 2009 Uncategorized 11 Comments

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…

Q&A: Joel Watson, Creator of Hijinks Ensue

By Randee Dawn

August 11, 2009 Uncategorized 1 Comment

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…

Brick Testament: Cain & Abel

By Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza

July 16, 2009 Linkature 2 Comments

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…

Creativity and the Problem with Genius

By Victor Pineiro

June 25, 2009 Uncategorized 1 Comment

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…

Reynolds & Griffin: Deceivingly Simple Starving Artists

By Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza

May 13, 2009 Books No Comments
Reynolds & Griffin: Deceivingly Simple Starving Artists

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…

My Name Is Jason. Mine Too.

By Chris Baily

April 22, 2009 Uncategorized No Comments

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…

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The Future of Information

February 23, 2010

The Future of Information

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…

Top Ten Geek Anthems: the Geekiest Songs in the Universe

February 1, 2010

Top Ten Geek Anthems: the Geekiest Songs in the Universe

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…

Condescending Creature Smackdown: Ewoks vs. Na’vi

January 12, 2010

Condescending Creature Smackdown: Ewoks vs. Na’vi

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.…

Top Ten Television Shows of the Decade

December 30, 2009

Top Ten Television Shows of the Decade

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…

Top Films of the Decade

December 29, 2009

Top Films of the Decade

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…

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