Film Location Scouting

I've been "helping" my hubby scout out potential filming locations around our lovely countryside. Yesterday, we met up with a friend of ours and checked out an old house that he owns and we may use for an upcoming film. Prior to Hurricane Rita, this house had been rented but the storm really did a number on it. No one has lived there since, and it's in pretty bad shape - perfect for the film! The ceilings are starting to cave-in and there is water damage everywhere. I think the place has really good potential for this film but, I'm no expert! We'll have to see what the director says.

On a different note, my hubby found me the coolest lounge pants! Guinness loungewear! I LOVE them! Comfy and cool at the same time! Yes, I can tell how excited that news flash is to you but, I just wanted to share in my happiness! LOL!

Enjoy your day!

"There Will Be Blood" Movie Review

Genre: Drama
Tagline: When Ambition Meets Faith
Plot Outline: A story about family, greed, religion, and oil, centered around a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business.


For the entire synopsis, follow the link:


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0469494/synopsis

This movie was ABSOLUTELY AMAZING! Daniel Day-Lewis is magnificant in his role as Daniel Plainview, a greedy, cruel, violent oilman (who I tried to like but found it next to impossible)! The movie, inspired by Upton Sinclair's novel, "Oil!" (1927) was directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and Robert Elswit as the cinematographer. Both did outstanding jobs with this film but for me, it was how mesmerizing Daniel Day-Lewis was in this role. I'm not going to go into any details, since I don't want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't already seen this movie. If you haven't, I highly recommend it! There's an Oscar in here for sure!

Awesome Photoshop Photos!

http://www.vertustech.com/blog/2008/02/11/32/

OMG! Check out the link above - the photos are amazing. For Christmas, my hubby gave me an awesome SLR digital camera - (Nikon D40), and I'd love to be able to tweak photo's like theses folks have... really extraordinary! I particularly like the woman with the horses emerging from her hair. WOW!

I have to start really playing with my camera - I have hopes of entering into a few photo contests once I'm obtained some top quality pictures. One of the blogs I read regularly is doing photos of colors - for example, this month, it's the color yellow. Basically, you find things that are yellow and photograph them. I think there is a contest, or maybe you just submit them and the best are posted on the web. Still pretty cool idea and I'm thinking of doing my own version - for practice!

My hubby and I talked about photography this weekend, and I told him that I'd like to take photos of cemetary's and old, old churchs, especially Gothic type. So, I plan to do exactly that - I'm going to make a list of local cemetary's and we're going to scope them out and let me take pictures till my hearts content! Then, once I have 10-20 that I really like, I'm going to create a portfolio and post them on the web!

I'll keep you posted on any new photography developments (excuse the pun!) LOL!

Styles of Love

I'm rewriting my post about Styles of Love (hopefully without infringing on anyone's turf). I found the following from Wikipedia which is a simplier version of my original post but still fairly clear. I've included the link if you would like to read a more indepth description.

I think I'm mostly Storge with a little bit of Pragma, Mania and Agape thrown in at different times in my life/relationships. With my hubby, it's pretty much all Storge though. It's kind of interesting to look back on how my past relationships and figure out which "style" ruled my life at that point. Very interesting indeed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_styles

Love styles - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Love styles are models of lovers developed by John Lee (1973, 1988). He identified six basic theories -- also known as "colors" of love -- that people use in their interpersonal relationships:

Eros — a passionate physical and emotional love based on aesthetic enjoyment; stereotype of romantic love
Ludus — a love that is played as a game or sport; conquest
Storge — an affectionate love that slowly develops from friendship, based on similarity
Pragma — love that is driven by the head, not the heart; undemonstrative
Mania — highly volatile love; obsession; fueled by low self-esteem
Agape — selfless altruistic love; spiritual; motherly love

Clyde Hendrick and Susan Hendrick of Texas Tech University have conducted extensive research on the love styles since the mid-1980s. They have found that men tend to be more ludic, whereas women tend to be storgic and pragmatic. Mania is often the first love style teenagers display. Relationships based on similar love styles were found to last longer. People often look for people with the same love style as themselves for a relationship.