{"id":2594,"date":"2011-09-16T07:54:32","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T19:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=2594"},"modified":"2012-11-05T14:56:36","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T01:56:36","slug":"climate-reality-linky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=2594","title":{"rendered":"Climate Reality Linky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Willa had a cold this week, not super fun, but she&#8217;s good again now. HOW EXCITING IS MY LIFE!<\/p>\n<p>Webseries action happenin&#8217; all over the place:<\/p>\n<p>Jane Espenson is the biggest name behind <a href=http:\/\/husbandstheseries.com\/>HUSBANDS<\/a>, which launched yesterday. It&#8217;s a sprightly sitcom about a casual couple who go to Vegas, get drunk, and end up married! Yep, that old concept &#8211; only in this case, the couple are two gay men. Love it.<\/p>\n<p>Emma Caulfield&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BZu5JupeNgY\">Bandwagon<\/a> is rocking its way through a new season. I never got into the first season (actually a film chopped into bits) of this behind-the-scenes-in-LA comedy, but the new one caught my attention with an audacious plotline around making &#8220;GLEE for black people&#8221; &#8211; urban Glee! I have no time to catch up but worth checking it out, fer shure.<\/p>\n<p>And of course Felicia Day&#8217;s groundbreaking series <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watchtheguild.com\/\">The Guild<\/a> is well into season 5, and this one is going heavy heavy on the guest stars. A great turn by Neil Gaiman last week, and there&#8217;ve been a whole lot of other familiar faces in recent eps. Good stuff!<\/p>\n<p>All those folk are Buffy alumni. Via another Buffy name, Amber Benson, I came across another brand-new web series, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SexDrugsandAca?sk=info\">Sex, Drugs &#038; A Capella<\/a>. It&#8217;s like Glee with none of the really obnoxious bits. I&#8217;m going to embed this one &#8211; it&#8217;s really great, and obviously put together by someone who knows how to edit. And there is great singing.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zAuDabfxYM8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of editing, Salon.com has been featuring some great video essays that (like the one for The Thing I linkied last time) dissect a film sequence and show you how it works, or doesn&#8217;t. They&#8217;re both really worth watching to understand visual grammar. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/entertainment\/movies\/press_play\/index.html?story=\/ent\/movies\/feature\/2011\/09\/12\/dark_knight_jim_emerson_press_play\">first one<\/a> tears a sequence from Nolan&#8217;s excellent <em>The Dark Knight<\/em> to pieces, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/entertainment\/movies\/feature\/2011\/09\/13\/salt_jim_emerson_press_play\/index.html\">second one<\/a> celebrates a sequence from an entirely forgettable Angelina Jolie flick called <em>Salt<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uncoveringbias.wordpress.com\/\">Interesting case study<\/a> of media coverage of the &#8220;Ground Zero Mosque&#8221; story.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.makemymovie.co.nz\/home\/\">NZ$100,000 funding for the best low-budget film idea<\/a> &#8211; you need to mock up your poster and tagline. I should find someone to make a poster of my MARCH&#8230; OR DIE! concept, wherein a young woman discovers that small-town New Zealand marching girl troops are actually engaged in carefully-choreographed battles to the death. (Some amongst you will have heard me saying repeatedly over the last decade that NZ should develop a cheapo straight-to-DVD exploitation film industry piggybacking on all the infrastructure and expertise we have here. <a href=\"http:\/\/gotaknife.blogspot.com\/\">The Knifeman<\/a> is my pick to career-change into NZ&#8217;s Roger Corman.)<\/p>\n<p>Now, what else&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/infocus\/2011\/09\/vladimir-putin-action-man\/100147\/\">Vladimir Putin: Action Man<\/a> (I actually prefer to think of him as a Big Jim, but that&#8217;s just me)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.edu.au\/diamond-planets-climate-change-and-the-scientific-method-3329\">The guy who found that Diamond Planet talks about science. And climate change.<\/a> This is a good read.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of climate change, Al Gore&#8217;s 24-hour global <a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealityproject.org\/\">climate reality event<\/a> is on right now. Or has it just finished? Regardless, it&#8217;s important stuff. I love the language: &#8220;climate reality&#8221;. Considering the way the anti-science forces like to use words as weapons, this is one highly-sharpened piece of rhetorical technology.<\/p>\n<p>Another climate change effect, underway now, ahead of schedule: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn20876\">giant red crabs invade Antarctica in their millions<\/a>. Contains unsettling video.<\/p>\n<p>You might have heard about the plane in Detroit that was the location of a terror scare on 9\/11. Did you hear that the woman who was suspected of being a terrorist is a blogger? <a href=\"http:\/\/shebshi.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/12\/some-real-shock-and-awe-racially-profiled-and-cuffed-in-detroit\/\">Her account makes for sobering reading.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>George Lucas added a line of dialogue to the new version of his Star Wars films &#8211; Darth Vader saying &#8220;Nooooo!&#8221; Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BgMJQM1Cb04\">the best response you&#8217;ll find<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Via the Alligator:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/28826269?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/28826269\">Tape Generations<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/johanrijpma\">johan rijpma<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, from the triumphantly returned Critical Miss: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.criticalmiss.com\/issue11\/DogChess.html\">Chess for Dogs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Willa had a cold this week, not super fun, but she&#8217;s good again now. HOW EXCITING IS MY LIFE! Webseries action happenin&#8217; all over the place: Jane Espenson is the biggest name behind HUSBANDS, which launched yesterday. It&#8217;s a sprightly sitcom about a casual couple who go to Vegas, get drunk, and end up married! &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=2594\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Climate Reality Linky<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-2594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friday-linky","tag-fridaylinky"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-FQ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2594"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3954,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594\/revisions\/3954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}