A Brief History of Title Design from Ian Albinson on Vimeo.

[hattip: Laughing Squid]

A great video featuring my adopted hometown of Austin, TX.  Places I recognize here:

1. South Congress- Great shops, restaurants, and ridiculously great food trailers.

2. Zilker Park-Home of Austin City Limits Festival and beautiful Spring days.

3. Barton Springs Pool- Where summer and high bacteria come together.

4. University of Texas- Hey, they have a tower and a Gutenberg Bible.  Beat that College Station.

5. 6th Street- (mostly)Cheap beer, cops with horses, and parents with strollers at 1AM.

6. Capital of Texas Highway- Beautiful part of town where the video culminates with sunset at the Pennybacker bridge over the Colorado River.

[hattip: BoingBoing]

[via: CollegeHumor]

This film could easily have been further fictionalized to provide more excitement, but in reality, the reliance on the minutia created a higher level of suspense than any higher level of physical danger ever could.  Only a few times do we catch wind of the danger all of the characters are subjected and even then it’s a passing subplot to the importance of “story”.

Sadly, we seldom see films of this vein any longer.  Partially due to our unwillingness to sit through a two-hour movie on process but mostly because Michael Bay would never fit a half naked woman blowing up aliens into the plot successfully.

[note: I am not a movie critic or a writer of any sort.  This entry is only my quick opinion on the movie in question.  Click here to see the entire 100 Films in 2010.]

1) AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movies(10th Anniversary) will be list used.

2) All 100 hundred movies must be watched regardless of previous viewing or difficult acquisition.

3) All effort must be made to watch these movies in order from 100 to 1.

4) Rule 3 can be disregarded if Netflix does not offer the next movie in line on demand.  In these cases, the next available movie offered by Netflix on demand must be watched.  Movies skipped must be added to the top of the snail mail queue.

5) After viewing each movie, I must write at least a 200 word brief on the film.  This should not be construed as a review or a synopsis, but rather my reaction to the film.

6) All 100 films must be finished by December 31, 2010.

Below are the first 10 movies on my journey:

100) Ben-Hur

99) Toy Story

98) Yankee Doodle Dandy

97) Blade Runner

96) Do The Right Thing

95) The Last Picture Show

94) Pulp Fiction

93) The French Connection

92) GoodFellas

91) Sophie’s Choice

As I go through the list, I will keep a ranking of my own based completely and solely on my enjoyment of each individual film.  Think of it as King of the Mountain.  The first movie I watch will, by default, be my favorite movie until another film knocks it off its vaunted pedestal.

Good luck to me.