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Seen Around Town

A few images that have been sitting on a 16 GB SD card in my Canon G10 for the last month--I've been so busy working on Embury Cocktails I haven't had a chance to download anything for a while.

Taken during that halcyon period between election day and The Inauguration. I still find myself giggling a little when I hear or see the word 'change' after watching South Park's irresistible satire of Obama mania (clip here, full episode here).

I've been watching this giant ramp as it's been built in the East River Park in preparation for a giant snowboarding/sledding/X games demo/Red Bull marketing opportunity this Saturday, February 7th. Shot this from the J train while crossing the Williamsburg Bridge.

First Look: Sin City 2 Wildposting, 8th Avenue, New York City

Dude-Ity: Get Into It!

Neill Cumpston over at Ain’t It Cool has gotten into a screening of 300, and his review is a triumph of rabid geek verbiage. Unwittingly perhaps, Cumpston joins the company of cultural critic  Mark Simpson who coined neo-masculinity terms ‘sporno’ and the overworked ‘metrosexual’. In the plus column of his review: visceral violence, gallon upon gallon of blood and angry rock music over the battle sequences. In his only lament about the graphic novel-based Spartan gore fest Cumpston  refers to the film’s ample “DUDE NUDITY, or ‘DUDE-ITY’.”

“These are Greek times, when there were a lot of naked women around. And there are some naked women in this film, but almost every naked woman scene has a muscular dude giving the screen an ass picnic [another hot new phrase-edit.]. Dude-ity is something directors put in their movies so people will think they’re serious, I guess, and not just throwing in naked hotties.

Any directors reading this – IT’S OKAY TO JUST THROW IN NAKED HOTTIES.

Can’t someone make a movie about naked Amazons and call it PAUSE BUTTON?”

I think it's fair to call 300 the super-fit bear-lover’s PAUSE BUTTON. After a century of gratuitous female nudity in cinema the score's been evening up in recent years; 300 is tipping the scales big time. And as Cumpton also notes, “gay dudes and divorced women are going to use screen captures for computer wallpaper.’ Thanks for the tip!

Key Key Art: Crank

Jason Stratham: yes, please. Amy Smart: fine, but doesn’t seem like she belongs in the same movie with Stratham.

Title carved into the gun-bearing arm: very nice.

Key Key Art: Andy Warhol's Batman

I don’t know what’s cooler, this poster or the fact that there really is a movie called ‘Andy Warhol’s Batman’, although it is super-obscure and there may be no existing prints.