Gen Y Musings // Design // Popular Culture
In the second half of this decade, I’ve noticed something. Quite a few light hearted comedies use this. It’s called Futura. Well, the Futura font family. I’ve collected a bunch of movie posters online that portray this idea:
The Hot Chick (2004)
50 First Dates (2004) – although the ‘50′ looks like a Helvetica Neue Wide variant
You [...]
In: Film & TV
2 May 2009Many things in this world interest me – some seen on this blog, but two subjects that do, are:
Generations and
Shaun Micallef
Odd mix there? What can the observation of culture and demographics have anything to do with a comedian? To my delight, the Ten network is launching a TV show called Talkin’ ’bout your Generation’ on [...]
Found this randomly on the net today
I’m not sure what to make of this, but if it’s anything to go by, it should generate a lot of media attention…in India. As it is a Bollywood feature, I’m not sure if most Australians will warm to it. With contrived lines like “…this is not a tennis [...]
In: Film & TV
27 Dec 2008Watched QoS today, and one thing that I did take notice, and appreciated, was the typography in Quantum of Solace. Every time there was a location change, the typesetting reflected the feel and flavour of that particular location. See this link for more details, and actual screenshots.
I also appreciated the homage to the gun barrel [...]
It all began when I was watching Full House at 5/5.30pm after school every day in the 90’s. The Olsen twins, who played the one character, getting by on her looks and cute quips. And people loved that.
When I matured a bit, and watched more TV (I’m not sure if that’s an oxymoron), I noticed [...]
In: Film & TV
30 Nov 2008In keeping in the mood of the news James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, here are my top 007 things I love about older James Bond films:
The 4:3 CCTV monitors – and their display of black and green ‘information’.
Computers that make noise every time something loads on screen
The way people die when they get shot. [...]
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20 Nov 2008“Can I do that!?” I think this is the only thing I remember about Steve Urkel and Family Matters. What a great theme song. Could listen to it all day.
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2 Nov 2008OK, this is going to be the last of my posts on Daniel Wu. I do look like him a bit (as seen in this Youtube clip). The first interviewee is him, and so the correlation between his face and mine is a too similar!
In: CTBlog Entries| Film & TV
13 Sep 2008Well, had a Friday off this week, and decided to watch Cloverfield.
The whole movie is shot on amateur video camera to enhance the ‘realism’ of the plot.
It’s not a bad movie, but it left me frustrated at the end. I think it would’ve been more effective if they never saw the monster.
To me it didn’t [...]