The Colony

In the not too distance future-2045-the world has become a giant snowball thanks to mankind’s nasty global warming habits and his attempts to put an end to global warming.  We find our heroes in Colony 7, where once four hundred people lived, but now a good deal less are muddling through. Filmed in an old NORAD base, the sets looked pretty good and while the CGI was not great for the exterior shots, it wasn’t all that bad either. The acting was good, for the most part. I like seeing Bill Paxton and Lawrence Fishburne in movies and as for…

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Google’s Art Project

Dear old Mom wanted to be an Artist when she grew up.  She took one of those mail order courses where you draw a turtle and bought a lot of books containing the Works of The Masters.  She sketched three things a day, and yet, she never got past that kind of middle school phase where her work looked ok, but never looked exactly like Art.  I went through a small Artist phase myself, sketching and drawing and never becoming any better. The Wife went to college and studied Art.  She painted mostly abstracts on 3×4 foot canvases, with an…

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