Kevin Smith vs. Joel Siegel

In a recent blog entry hilariously entitled “A Dick In A Mustache Is Still A Dick,” Kevin Smith went off on Joel Siegel after the movie critic walked out of a screening of the upcoming movie Clerks II. You should really read the whole thing, but here’s an excerpt:

Now, I don’t need Joel Siegel to suck my dick the way he apparently sucks M. Night’s, gushing over his flick before he’s even seen it; but shit, man – how about a little common fucking courtesy?

Never mind the fact that when you’re paid to watch movies for a living and the only tasks required of you are to a) sit through said movies and b) write your thoughts about them before your deadline, walking out before a movie’s over is pretty unprofessional.

Smith later includes an audio clip from the Opie And Anthony radio show, whose hosts actually got Joel Siegel on the phone. During their brief conversation, Siegel failed to do anything but make himself out to look like more of an asshole…

Biomedical Image Awards 2006

stem cell
The images in this year’s Biomedical Image Awards are amazing:

The Biomedical Image Awards 2006 is a striking display of shapes and patterns, and illustrates the microscopic structures of living organisms in a spectacular variety of ways.

Selected by a team of expert judges from recent acquisitions by the Medical Photographic Library of the Wellcome Library, the winning images show a wide variety of subjects, most invisible to the naked eye, revealing new layers of complexity.

By the way, the image above is that of a stem cell, chosen to highlight W’s latest mind-numbingly ignorant decision to cast the first veto of his administration on a bill funding stem cell research because he felt it necessary to impose his skewed, hypocritical sense of “morality” on others rather than act in a truly Christian way. God forbid he actually did something that solved some of society’s problems rather than caused them. What an asshole. </rant>

World’s Largest Photo?

The AP reports that “What is believed to be the world’s largest photo was successfully created in a hangar that had been converted into a massive camera at the former El Toro Marine Corps base:”

About 30 people showed up Wednesday to see the fuzzy, 28-by-108 foot black-and-white image taken by six photographers from the nonprofit Legacy Project. The photo, taken Saturday, shows the control towers, palm trees and a portable toilet.

The photo was created using the centuries-old principle of camera obscura after a gumball-size hole was opened in the hangar’s wall, allowing a tiny beam of light to enter.

The image then appeared upside down and flipped left to right on a sheath of light-sensitive fabric the length of one-third of a football field and about three stories tall.

The cloth was exposed for 35 minutes. The photographers and 60 volunteers developed the image by moving the fabric into an enormous, 1-foot-deep tray.

Pretty cool stuff, especially considering how they made use of the hangar before it was razed…