We watched Requiem for a Dream last night. I haven’t experienced such a movie-induced emotional onslaught for a long time, not since the landing in Saving Private Ryan (and I was only watching *that* over my shoulder). I had trouble getting to sleep last night, and I’ve had to play happy music all day today to avoid getting gloomy.

I just read an anecdote where one woman, upon leaving the movie theater in a daze after watching this movie, could not leave the public bathroom because “there were too many doors,” and she “felt trapped”, and I can definitely relate. You really do feel emotionally drained, especially by the performance of Ellen Burstyn (who should have won the Oscar for this.. damn you Julia Roberts).

As a movie, it does have its flaws - as usual, the players are all beautiful, and there’s not really much in the way of story development, but there’s surprises too; who knew Marlon Wayans could really act?

See this. Just make sure you’re emotionally up to it.

Whoever that asswipe is who’s squealing his tires at ear-shattering levels in the middle of the night in the parking lot right outside our house.. I WILL get you. I got a lot of pent-up rage, you know. And gas. Pent-up gas, too.

And yes, I do realize that nobody really cares about all the details I just posted.

So anyway, we can post again. The reason we were unable to do so was a complication with our hosts, over excessive CPU usage. As the only PERL we use is the Greymatter stuff for the blog, which is only ever called when we make a post, I find it hard to believe that we were tying up the CPU, and I told them so. They agreed to switch it back on, which took a while (actually, they told me they switched it on right away, and I didn’t check for a few days), and then there seemed to be a permissions problem after they reconfigured the whole cgi-bin structure. I still had trouble with Greymatter, but in the end I solved all the problems by changing all references to GM files to absolute paths..

So.. uh.. *cough*

Is this thing on?

Amazing, something interesting on slashdot. This is a beautiful non-photorealistic renderer (NPR) for Quake, of all things.

I work in the graphics industry, and NPR is something of a hobby of mine. This is a great page filled with links to technical info (and pretty pictures if that’s more your pace). And it’s by Mr. Boids himself, no less.

Star Wars Designer Edition. It’s pretty cool to see some old favorites given a makeover. (found via Zannah)

Well, what a week it’s been.

Work has been hectic, but more importantly we’ve had to contend with Sam’s surgery and all the extra stress there. Of course, he came through with flying colors, and has been bouncing around today (within 24 hours of hernia repair surgery - HE HAS INTESTINAL FORTITUDE).

So we’ve been a little distracted and haven’t posted anything. Although when was the last time Amy posted anything anyway, hmmmm?

Whoah.

Continuing with our Artists on Drugs series, we have this Japanese guy. You really have to check the movie gallery, under “4D”. I’d provide a direct link, but as his menu is Flash.. no can do.