New Political Forum

The original vision of this blog has been wandered from on occasion. The intent was never for this to become an angry rant blog of a political or societal nature. Thus, in an effort to restore this blog to it's purpose, which was never entirely clear in the first place, a new blog is born: Righter Writer. My political and societal observations will now find themselves on the new blog. My attractive British butler side will find itself here. His name is Victor.

The Progression of Regression

All has become far too complicated. Nothing in the recent months of my existence has transpired simply, or even reasonably straightforward. Things as simple as swinging by the store for a quick purchase, printing a document, or finding a date seem drastically over-complicated lately. The design firm I work for just adopted a new client correlation system speckled with superfluous buttons, boxes and procedures. You have to be a master of decryption to post a wretched comment to a blog anymore. Capital? Lower Case? I? L? J? sYn2XKgG . . . Close all the freeway off ramps to the same city at once?! Pin Numbers - Security Questions - 8 characters, at least one number and a capital, change it once a month - 55, 40, 65 within one mile - Credit Cards, Discount Cards, Membership Cards, Debit Cards - We live in an era of redundant wording, legal clauses and "more is better." It seems the more we advance the more complex it becomes. Can we not apply our intellectual and technological headway to create a world LESS perplexing than that of the present day? Surely a harmony between technology and simplicity is within reach! Why do we allow the lawyers, programmers and businessmen to shape the way we administer our activity? Let us synchronize the visions of the think tanks and mathematicians to those of the artists and simplicity pundits. Simplicity is the portal to the future. We'll never arrive otherwise. There'll be too many buttons to push.

Speechless over WALL•E

There seems to be a cooperative dissatisfaction among the uncultured with the lack of dialogue for a large part of WALL•E's screenplay. Would you rather have him follow the class-less trend of mainstream media and talk to himself? Perhaps Pixar was providing us with a premature lecture when Mr. Incredible and Frozone complained to each other about the silliness of monologue. Words are the lazy way out to the progress of a story presented in a primarily visual medium. Yet, nobody seems to mind, and everyone seems to revere, Pixar's traditionally wordless animated shorts that prime the audience before each feature. Have your speech-cluttered Dreamworks whose imagery is incapable of bearing a plot minus vocal embellishment, and I'll speechlessly take my Pixar whose binocular-face robot tugs out deep emotion with little more than a few sighs and whistles.

My New Favorite Movie - Review of WALL•E

    My desktop is adorned with WALL•E wallpaper and icons. My mailbox announces a charming "Waaahhhlleeee" at the arrival of a new message. I had my ticket to the midnight showing the very day they became available. I counted down the hours. I was warned by my peers that my investment may have been a little extreme toward a movie that I had yet to view. I knew my Pixar wouldn't let me down. Best $9 I ever spent.
    "Presto" the short film warm-up act was worth the price of the ticket alone. A hilarious and clever play on a magician's "hat trick" and a hungry bunny. I won't be a poor sport and spoil the fun. You're definitely in for a treat . . . or a carrot.

    No one has as much class as Pixar does. The previews trying to pitch the upcoming non-Pixar Disney films only served to re-emphasize the fact. Lame animation with same-old same-old jokes had me rolling my eyes. But with the elegance of pure simplicity and clever observation, from the get go, WALL•E is a riot. You'll chuckle at this little robot's naive perspective and clever adaptation to a world with which he is not fully familiar. You'll notice a few jabs at pop-culture products and branding - they take a few light stabs at Apple. Tattered meets sleek when Eve brings her futuristic sight into WALL•E's world, and the world's most beautiful, and innocent love story unfolds. When WALL•E joins Eve and travels to her world, a whole new satire is unlocked. It borders on a political statement against monopolies, über-convenience, and conservation but still brings a laugh (and perhaps a slight awakening). The irresistible robotic personality wins the hearts of viewers and characters alike, as he brings them to recognize what they've been missing behind their social seclusion and lack of affection. No doubt you'll leave with a cheek-straining grin and a certain resolve to simplify and enjoy.
    WALL•E is a Pixar gem, perhaps THE Pixar gem. One of the best films I've ever seen period. It reaches for your heart, then fills it with awe-inspiring possibilities, and love for a thing. I'm already scheduling in my 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th viewings and many more to come.

The Great Designer

    Even in the day of pocket-sized 8.0 Megapixel cameras, our photographically-inclined family found ourselves with little but a cell phone camera to record what is truly one of the great marvels of the heavens. Sorry for the photographic injustice.
    The vivid colors barely represented in this photo spanned the sky in an unbroken arch from one pot of gold to the other.
A rainbow of the sort I've never before seen. A work of art by the hands of someone far more gifted and magical than I can ever dream of becoming. In this singular piece, is displayed a color spectrum more saturated than anything we can imitate; I don't care how many millions of colors your HD Cinema Display can replicate. How significant that we have been empowered with the capability only to create with that which has already been created. We borrow from His pallet.
    This design, however, really exemplifies the essence of art: simple and magnificent but most importantly, a shameless emblem of the loving emotions of the Creator's heart: a covenant from a Father to His children.

Image courtesy of Wikipedia