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Many years ago .. when station wagons roamed the land, my parents took my brother and I on vacation to Lake Tahoe.  This was before DVD players or for that matter before VHS. Nope it was just my brother and me beating the shit out of each other for ten hours and my Jewish mother screaming at us from the front; my father white-knuckling the steering wheel. The space between Vegas and Tahoe is an empty wasteland, except for the occasional burning car, dead coyote or the creepy purple glow from the nuke test range. We stopped at Tonopah to get gas and my brother and I jumped out of the car, searching for a snake or lizard to scare my mother wi

Anyone know who Pieter Bruegel was? You get a cookie if you can name one painting by this master artist. Bruegel was a Flemish or Danish (can never get that straight) and he had a particular disdain for Italian Renaissance art. Italian artist were all about the drama. If you had a picture of Mary and Christ, then they were dramatically portrayed in the middle with angels and light beams pointing directly at them. Bruegel wanted to paint something that was particularly Danish, just like Mozart wanted to compose something particularly German. In "The Census" Bruegel paints a winter landscape with Mary on a donkey in the midst of a town full of

Okay I promised myself and I promise you this will not be a movie, plot, story, character critique; I'm going to (try) to focus strictly on the art. Warning – there are spoilers in this. First, I thought the quality of this movie was very poor, although as a popcorn movie I enjoyed certain aspects. I think if you're going to see this – see it in the digital 3D format. Technically, I noticed quite a few frame skips, chrominance mismatches, polygon meshing, collision detection problems, floaters, marionette type movements, physics problems  - like bad gravity or resistance problems. This is just sloppy computing and transfer procedu