Jennifer Crusie | Argh Ink | Blog

I love movie posters. I must have a dozen of my faves framed, and there are a lot more than those that attain the level of art. But a lot of the time, they’re just misleading. A bad one can kill a good movie–some idiot put a giant thumb on the Innerspace poster and millions of people missed one of the funniest movies ever, plus Dennis Quaid, nude from behind–and a good one can become iconic overnight. The worst ones, though, are the ones that lie to you. College Humor revised some posters for some of the Oscar-nominated films this year so moviegoers would know what they were plunking down their cash for. Most of them are good (“Don’t bring a date. Seriously.”) but this one made me laugh because I’m such a Pixar groupie:
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Lani and I have not had a good couple of days–hey, they can’t all be keepers–so tonight we sat down with Chinese food and a movie. We have a basket of movies-we-meant-to-watch DVDs, and I had this vague idea of going through these not-new-releases and doing reviews here on Argh for the ones I like (because what’s the point of beating on something you don’t like; you don’t like it, don’t talk about it), and tonight, Lani pulled one out and said, “Him,” “him” being Robert Downey, Jr. So we watched Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang and now we’re chipper again because the movie was terrific.

I’m not a big fan of post-modernism, but when meta is done right, I love it, and this movie gets it right. It begins with a narrator, which I hate in movies, with a blustering faux-noir voice, which I loved immediately. He’s Harry Lockhart, he’s a petty thief, he’s Robert Downey, Jr, and he’s in way over his head. Also, remarkably disorganized as a narrator: read more >>

Courtesy of Rox, who, as always, rocks, is this video from the treadmill-dancing OK Go guys. It’s just . . . well, you have to see it:

Thank you, Rox, who got it from her husband, Michael, who also rocks.

And if you haven’t seen the amazing treadmill video, it’s here. I think they smash the television because they’d like to move past that one, but really, it’s one of the best music videos of all time, although I will say the new one is even better.

Have a good day, and if not, this too shall pass. Because this video says so, that’s why.

I love Funny or Die when they get political:

Not as funny as Prop 8: The Musical, but worth it just to see Chevy Chase falling over stuff again as Gerald Ford.

So I’m starting Liz Danger, and I’m so excited. First person, short narratives, linked together, I love it. So of course I started the collages.

Since there are four Liz books in the series, I wanted to make the four collages work as a series, too. I started with shadow boxes but they were way too small, so I went to square pieces of foam core, no shelf for 3D this time. I was planning on hanging them two up and two down to make a big square, but I may leave them as they are now, leading into one another horizontally, the way the books lead into one another. Except the books access each other, too, so the four square might be better, especially since the last one leads back to the first. So I’ll have to cogitate.

Making the base collage was fun because I was working with the four title colors from Lavender’s Blue, Rest in Pink, Peaches and Screams, and Yellow Brick Roadkill. read more >>