February 25, 2007

Photo of the Week #18

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This week’s photo is the end of a game of Hive. I picked up the game this week after playing it online for a while. It’s a nice quick game, where you place your pieces and move them according to the rules for each type. The goal is to completely surround the opponent’s queen bee, as the black player as done in the photo.

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February 19, 2007

Oscar Predictions

Performance by an actor in a leading role:

• Leonardo DiCaprio in “Blood Diamond”
• Ryan Gosling in “Half Nelson”
• Peter O’Toole in “Venus”
• Will Smith in “The Pursuit of Happyness”
• Forest Whitaker in “The Last King of Scotland”

Performance by an actor in a supporting role:

• Alan Arkin in “Little Miss Sunshine”
• Jackie Earle Haley in “Little Children”
• Djimon Hounsou in “Blood Diamond”
• Eddie Murphy in “Dreamgirls”
• Mark Wahlberg in “The Departed”

Performance by an actress in a leading role:

• Penélope Cruz in “Volver”
• Judi Dench in “Notes on a Scandal”
• Helen Mirren in “The Queen”
• Meryl Streep in “The Devil Wears Prada”
• Kate Winslet in “Little Children”

Performance by an actress in a supporting role:

• Adriana Barraza in “Babel”
• Cate Blanchett in “Notes on a Scandal”
• Abigail Breslin in “Little Miss Sunshine”
• Jennifer Hudson in “Dreamgirls”
• Rinko Kikuchi in “Babel”

Best animated feature film of the year:

• “Cars” John Lasseter
• “Happy Feet” George Miller
• “Monster House” Gil Kenan

Achievement in art direction:

• “Dreamgirls” Art: John Myhre, Set: Nancy Haigh
• “The Good Shepherd” Art: Jeannine Oppewall, Set: Gretchen Rau and Leslie E. Rollins
• “Pan’s Labyrinth” Art: Eugenio Caballero, Set: Pilar Revuelta
• “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” Art: Rick Heinrichs, Set: Cheryl A. Carasik
• “The Prestige” Art: Nathan Crowley, Set: Julie Ochipinti

Achievement in cinematography:

• “The Black Dahlia” Vilmos Zsigmond
• “Children of Men” Emmanuel Lubezki
• “The Illusionist” Dick Pope
• “Pan’s Labyrinth” Guillermo Navarro
• “The Prestige” Wally Pfister

Achievement in costume design:

• “Curse of the Golden Flower” Yee Chung Man
• “The Devil Wears Prada” Patricia Field
• “Dreamgirls” Sharen Davis
• “Marie Antoinette” Milena Canonero
• “The Queen” Consolata Boyle

Achievement in directing:

• “Babel” Alejandro González Iñárritu
• “The Departed” Martin Scorsese
• “Letters from Iwo Jima” Clint Eastwood
• “The Queen” Stephen Frears
• “United 93″ Paul Greengrass

Best documentary feature:

• “Deliver Us from Evil” Amy Berg and Frank Donner
• “An Inconvenient Truth” Davis Guggenheim
• “Iraq in Fragments” James Longley and John Sinno
• “Jesus Camp” Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady
• “My Country, My Country” Laura Poitras and Jocelyn Glatzer

Best documentary short subject:

• “The Blood of Yingzhou District” Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon
• “Recycled Life” Leslie Iwerks and Mike Glad
• “Rehearsing a Dream” Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon
• “Two Hands” Nathaniel Kahn and Susan Rose Behr

Achievement in film editing:

• “Babel” Stephen Mirrione and Douglas Crise
• “Blood Diamond” Steven Rosenblum
• “Children of Men” Alex Rodríguez and Alfonso Cuarón
• “The Departed” Thelma Schoonmaker
• “United 93″ Clare Douglas, Christopher Rouse and Richard Pearson

Best foreign language film of the year:

• “After the Wedding” Denmark
• “Days of Glory” Algeria
• “The Lives of Others” Germany
• “Pan’s Labyrinth” Mexico
• “Water” Canada

Achievement in makeup:

• “Apocalypto” Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano
• “Click” Kazuhiro Tsuji and Bill Corso
• “Pan’s Labyrinth” David Marti and Montse Ribe

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original Score):

• “Babel” Gustavo Santaolalla
• “The Good German” Thomas Newman
• “Notes on a Scandal” Philip Glass
• “Pan’s Labyrinth” Javier Navarrete
• “The Queen” Alexandre Desplat

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original Song):

• “I Need to Wake Up” from “An Inconvenient Truth” Music and Lyric by Melissa Etheridge
• “Listen” from “Dreamgirls” Music by Henry Krieger and Scott Cutler, Lyric by Anne Preven
• “Love You I Do” from “Dreamgirls” Music by Henry Krieger, Lyric by Siedah Garrett
• “Our Town” from “Cars” Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
• “Patience” from “Dreamgirls” Music by Henry Krieger, Lyric by Willie Reale

Best motion picture of the year:

• “Babel”
• “The Departed”
• “Letters from Iwo Jima”
• “Little Miss Sunshine”
• “The Queen”

Best animated short film:

• “The Danish Poet” Torill Kove
• “Lifted” Gary Rydstrom
• “The Little Matchgirl” Roger Allers and Don Hahn
• “Maestro” Geza M” Toth
• “No Time for Nuts” Chris Renaud and Michael Thurmeier

Best live action short film:

• “Binta and the Great Idea” Javier Fesser and Luis Manso
• “Éramos Pocos” Borja Cobeaga
• “Helmer & Son” Soren Pilmark and Kim Magnusson
• “The Saviour” Peter Templeman and Stuart Parkyn
• “West Bank Story” Ari Sandel

Achievement in sound editing:

• “Apocalypto” Sean McCormack and Kami Asgar
• “Blood Diamond” Lon Bender
• “Flags of Our Fathers” Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman
• “Letters from Iwo Jima” Alan Robert Murray
• “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” Christopher Boyes and George Watters II

Achievement in sound mixing:

• “Apocalypto” Kevin O”Connell, Greg P. Russell and Fernando Camara
• “Blood Diamond” Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer and Ivan Sharrock
• “Dreamgirls” Michael Minkler, Bob Beemer and Willie Burton
• “Flags of Our Fathers” John Reitz, Dave Campbell, Gregg Rudloff and Walt Martin
• “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” Paul Massey, Christopher Boyes and Lee Orloff

Achievement in visual effects:

• “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and Allen Hall
• “Poseidon” Boyd Shermis, Kim Libreri, Chaz Jarrett and John Frazier
• “Superman Returns” Mark Stetson, Neil Corbould, Richard R” Hoover and Jon Thum

Adapted screenplay:

• “Borat Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” Screenplay by Sacha Baron Cohen & Anthony Hines & Peter Baynham & Dan Mazer, Story by Sacha Baron Cohen & Peter Baynham & Anthony Hines & Todd Phillips
• “Children of Men” Screenplay by Alfonso Cuarón & Timothy J” Sexton and David Arata and Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby
• “The Departed” Screenplay by William Monahan
• “Little Children” Screenplay by Todd Field & Tom Perrotta
• “Notes on a Scandal” Screenplay by Patrick Marber

Original screenplay:

• “Babel” Written by Guillermo Arriaga
• “Letters from Iwo Jima” Screenplay by Iris Yamashita, Story by Iris Yamashita & Paul Haggis
• “Little Miss Sunshine” Written by Michael Arndt
• “Pan’s Labyrinth” Written by Guillermo del Toro
• “The Queen” Written by Peter Morgan

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February 18, 2007

Photo of the Week #17

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This week’s photo was taken last Saturday (it was after I decided on my photo for last week, so it’s not cheating) at Magnet Lounge in San Francisco. We were there as part of a fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity San Francisco. I have an album of 15 shots from the night (mostly party shots, nothing really photographic) but I really liked this one where I zoomed in on the hands & shot glasses and left everybody’s faces out of the picture. (Well, almost everybody–there’s a face in the background but it’s beyond the depth of field, not illuminated by my flash and doesn’t count)

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February 11, 2007

Photo of the Week #16

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This week’s photo is a time-lapse shot of a light-up top that I picked up as a desk toy at Dave & Busters.

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February 4, 2007

Photo of the Week #15

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This week’s photo is of the end of a game of Carassonne I played tonight. I played the Hunters & Gatherers spin-off game a few times at Brian & Lori’s before, and when I wanted to pick up a board game to play it came to mind. I bought the game a little while ago, and have also gotten most of the expansions for it–everything except for Princess & Dragon and Die Katharer (which is only available in German).

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You can see the river running through the map, some towers, and a lot of meeple ready to leap into fields for the final scoring. If it means anything, I was nowhere near winning.

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