Notes from WonderCon 2011 The San Francisco version of Comic-Con, known as WonderCon, is a combination convention, festival, and weekend-long party for fans of comic books, superheroes, science fiction, and other genres of popular entertainment. It's an opportunity for fans to see clips from forthcoming sci-fi and fantasy movies and television shows, meet celebrities, and … Continue reading Advertising as Entertainment
Author: Kendall Whitehouse
The Spirit of Laurel Canyon
Following Adobe Systems' MAX developer's conference in Los Angeles in late October of last year [2010], I attended a performance by singer/songwriter Kat Parsons at a private home in Los Angeles' storied Laurel Canyon. It was an apt location for an intimate evening of music. Canyon Country Store: "Welcome All." While the history of Laurel Canyon reaches … Continue reading The Spirit of Laurel Canyon
Knowing Alex Proyas’s ‘Knowing’
Alex Proyas's 2009 film Knowing is a science fiction thriller wrapped inside a philosophical discourse. But a discourse about what?
Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles
'Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles' by Philadelphia filmmaker Jon Foy, is about the kind of people who see signs, who look beyond the everyday surface of things to uncover what lies beneath. People drawn into the mysteries of the world. In this case, the mystery in question is a series of linoleum tiles inscribed with cryptic messages embedded into the asphalt of roadways in Philadelphia and other cities.



