Blog

I occasionally write about movies, music, design, and other stuff on Thinking Out Loud, but honestly mostly just movies. High on my to-do list for chadossman.com is to fully incorporate my currently-separate blog, but until then, here are some highlights:

Highlights Shuffle

A screenshot of CSS code, from a technique to embed SWF files in a responsive web page.
A non-developer's guide to flexible Flash SWF embeds
Detail from the album art for the No-Man compilation boxed set Housekeeping.
The band No-Man tidies up their early years, in the long-awaited boxed set Housekeeping
A still from the movie Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair.
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair is a glorified double feature
A portrait of the musician Peter Gabriel.
Peter Gabriel pioneers a new album release strategy, whether his fans like or not (I do)
Apple Music Classical
The new Apple Music Classical app solves the wrong problem. Is Apple Music Disco next?
Meet Me in the Bathroom
NYC's indie bands survive Napster, 9/11, gentrification, and their own demons, in Meet Me in the Bathroom
All the Pretty Horses
Billy Bob Thornton's All the Pretty Horses had everything going for it
Psycho
Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho still slaps, 60 years later
Songs for Drella
Lou Reed and John Cale work through their complex feelings for Andy Warhol in Songs for Drella
Star Trek The Motion Picture
Star Trek: The Motion Picture was always out of step with the times
Pride & Prejudice
What are men, compared to rocks and mountains: Pride & Prejudice
The Irishman
De Diro and Pacino dunk their scrapple in Guinness in Martin Scorsese's The Irishman
Deadwood
Modern America is born out of lawlessness and chaos in David Milch's Deadwood: The Movie
Night of the Hunter
It's a hard world for little things, in Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter
Genesis Together and Apart
The documentary Together and Apart tells the genesis of Genesis
Star Trek The Undiscovered Country
Why can't Star Trek always be as good as The Undiscovered Country?
2001 A Space Odyssey
Foolproof and Incapable of Error: Christopher Nolan's 70mm Unrestoration of 2001: A Space Odyssey
Marty
Marty rejects toxic masculinity, long before we had a name for it
Cloud Atlas
Cloud Atlas is a Three-Hour Avalanche
The Tree of Life
Sad Dinosaurs: Calling Bullshit on Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life
The Crazies
People Are Vectors: George A. Romero's The Crazies
The Road
Adapting Cormac McCarthy's The Road: After the End of the World
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Gritty, Grimy, and Graffitied: The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Moon
Solitary Confinement: Moon
Inception
Christopher Nolan's Fugue State: Inception
Westworld
The Vacation of the Future, Today: Westworld
Objectified
Design is how it works: Gary Hustwit's Objectified
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Klaatu barada nikto: Robert Wise's The Day the Earth Stood Still
Wendy and Lucy
Just Passing Through: Kelly Reichardt's Wendy and Lucy
Solaris
Andrei Tarkovsky's Solyaris (Solaris) is Vertigo in Space
Speed Racer
It's All Too Much in the Wachowski's Live-Action Cartoon Speed Racer
Kingdom of heaven
Repent Later: Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven
Children of Men
At the Worst of Times, the Worst of Us: Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men