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Life after Pi - a documentary short film about creators of amazing special effects and the exploitative industry practice of Hollywood in using these talents with terrible contracts and subcontracts.

past and present me juxtaposed in the same photography.

The Wind Rises English version trailer - quite different in contents and tone than Japanese 風立ちぬ trailer in a nice way. 

Among the lessons to be learned from the events of 1914 is to be wary of analysts wielding historical analogies, particularly if they have a whiff of inevitability. War is never inevitable, though the belief that it is can become one of its causes.

song "I See Fire" from The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.  a cover rendition of a modern folk song rendition of Tolkienian fictional song..  still quite nice..

it was delightful going to the movies on opening night - packed IMAX theater, festive cheers at the start and end.  even though there is no real start or end for this second film in a trilogy..or, all the more festive because of that.

"All models are wrong, but some models are useful."

So proclaimed statistician George Box 30 years ago...

A classic by now..