Monday, June 21, 2010

Geeks of Doom Invade Your Inbox

Geeks of Doom Invade Your Inbox

Link to Geeks of Doom: RSS Feed of Doom

Blu-ray Review: Shutter Island

Posted: 20 Jun 2010 11:49 AM PDT

Shutter Island
DVD | Blu-ray
Directed by Martin Scorsese
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams
Warner Bros Home Video
Release date: June 8, 2010


Martin Scorsese's foray into violent territories has been characterized by blood, weapons, extreme wealth and more blood. Working with these characteristics he managed to use them to help mold his image of Man, using them as instruments to inflict pain upon Man in the process. Scorsese has become synonymous, as we have all come to know, with violence and gangster qualities, leading him to produce unequivocal masterpieces. But, surprisingly, he works at equal competence when he displays Man as a helpless entity, one who suppresses his true feelings and, as in Shutter Island, one succumbing to psychological occurrences that are far beyond his collective knowledge.

These themes undoubtedly occur throughout most of Scorsese's pictures but the way he delves into the psychological depths of an individual's mind, which has nothing but contempt and regret regarding his past, in his new film, brings out a baroque like menace which we haven't seen in Scorsese before. Shutter Island is an immersive movie nightmare that rises above the thriller genre, emancipating itself from the mundane conventions of such films so it can blossom into a piece of art that is dreadful, ghastly and surreal [...]

Pin-Up Calendar Girls Show Sexy Skeletal Systems

Posted: 20 Jun 2010 09:55 AM PDT

A medical supply company kicked off a promotional campaign that offers a pin-up calendar of sexy ladies in seductive poses under an x-ray scanner.

The calendar, which is completely safe for work by most standards, features pictures for every month of the year.

The company behind the promotion, EIZO, hired German-based ad agency Butter to create the calendar for distribution to potential clients.

So basically unless you work inside of a hospital or medical specialist's practice, you'll have a hard time getting your hands on one [...]

No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.