RECord: Photo Journal Collaboration

Thank you a lot, Lisa, for updating me about our collective Photo Journal project in Hitrecord, I love you, darling! Congrats to you specially for being our "maestro" (that's how Joe called you) masterminder!!

"A collaborative project beginning on July 4, 2007 in V2.

On August 31, 2007, after the first 2 frames were taken in San Francisco, the little blue box began it's death defying journey.
540 days later, it safely returned to San Francisco on December 24, 2008 (via Santa and his sleigh).

The film has been processed. The journal is in the process of being photographed. Copious records to follow soon.

All the project idea started on this Hitrecord thread

Recorders and where they made their records:

[Weirdos, I'm the #9 Parquebruil is my username in the Hitrecord forum]

1. lisa - San Francisco, California USA
2. dan - Hollywood, California USA
3. teafaerie - Topanga, California USA
4. michellepak - Culver City, California USA
5. Shygirl311 - Burbank, California USA
6. venstus - Ventura, California USA
7. schooladdict - Beecroft NSW Australia
8. Kate - Brunswick East VIC Australia
9. parquebruil - Tarragona Spain
10. english_thorn - Liverpool England
11. justforeverme - Bedfordshire England
12. Suz - Wooster, Ohio USA
13. Jolynne - Virginia Beach, Virginia USA
14. yoursundaydrive - Palm Beach Gardens, Florida USA
15. aenadal - Austin, Texas USA
16. AllegraD - Denton, Texas USA
17. Favorite - Tucson, Arizona USA
18. Ceam - Burnaby, BC Canada
19. kay - Nelson, BC Canada
20. Natalie - Milwaukie, Oregon USA
21. Clay - San Jose, California USA
22. anilla - San Francisco, California USA
23. jeffpeff - Los Angeles, California USA
24. Joe - Los Angeles, California USA

All players please feel free to upload any records of your PJC record making experience (with the exception of any duplicates of the actual record you made for the project)

There is currently a Photo Journal Collaboration 2 in the works.

Much love and thanks to all that played in this stage of the game.

Read more about it in the Hitrecord Forum

Happy 28th belated birthday, Joseph Gordon-Levitt!!

Sorry, I almost missed your birthday, Joe!
Blame it on my throat infection that has given me a bit of fever and the Oscar fever of last days! But I didn't forget to upload my video contribution to your collaboration Birthday project:


107 CONTRIBUTIONS in the HITRECORD FORUM

Looking for a gift for Reese?

"Late last week, Jake Gyllenhaal spent four hours at Fred Leighton, his favorite NYC jewelry shop, and, well, you get a feeling he wasn’t there to get his watch fixed!

Was it a Valentine’s Day buy for Reese Witherspoon, his girlfriend of a year and a half? An early birthday present? (Reese turns 33 on March 22.) Or is he about to get legal with the Legally Blonde star?

“Jake spent most of his time in the room where they keep the rings,” a source tells OK!. “He looked really serious and was taking his time.”

Source: www.okmagazine.com

Kristen Stewart on Pattinson and Hirsch

"Not surprisingly, reports hinted at an on-set romance between Pattinson, 22, and Stewart, then 17, during the shoot in the Oregon wilds. Their off-screen chemistry was enough to concern Hardwicke, who revealed she was worried the duo's obvious closeness would mean the end of Stewart's relationship with her boyfriend of five years, actor Mike Angarano.Angarano is a close friend of Hardwicke's since she directed him in 2005's Lords of Dogtown.

Stewart takes a breath and looks at the floor when told of Hardwicke's comment.

"We were fine. I have not left my boyfriend for Robert Pattinson," she says quietly.

"But we went through a lot together. It is crazy to go through something that heavy in real life. At the end of it you are inevitably going to have something.

"I know a version of him better than anybody else in the world because I did this movie with him."

And they will do more. Both have signed contracts to appear in at least two Twilight sequels.

While stardom does not excite Stewart, the idea of being in a film franchise does".
Source: www.news.com.au

Kristen Stewart mentions how was to work with Sean Penn and Emile Hirsch in this interview:

-What impact did working with Sean Penn on Into the Wild have on you?

-It definitely opened my eyes to a different creative process. His direction is very specific, but still, he lets things happen. He just wants you to go for it. Once he picks his characters, he gives you that confidence. Plus, I really enjoyed working with Emile [Hirsch]. He’s such a good friend of mine. That was like a little section of my life. It was very fruitful.
Source: twilightersanonymous.com

Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman: Oscar hosts

"Anne Hathaway is rumored to be helping out Oscars’ host Hugh Jackman with an opening song/dance number at the 2009 Academy Awards - check out the Oscars video clip above for a look at the nominated films.

According to Life & Style, an insider has reported that “Anne [Hathaway] is rehearsing at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood today!”

Look for performances by Beyoncé, Zac Efron & Vanessa Hudgens (High School Musical) and Amanda Seyfried and Dominic Cooper (Mamma Mia!).

Check out Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman’s opening number at the 81st Academy Awards this Sunday, February 22 at 8 p.m. on ABC".
Source: tv.popcrunch.com


"The 81st Annual Academy Awards has been reported to be made merrier with the appearance of Hollywood latest hunk Robert Pattinson. On Monday, February 16, HitFix came out with the confirming news that the "Twilight" star has been appointed to be one of the presenters at the coveted awards show.

The confirmation was outed days after Laurence Mark, a first-time producer of the 2009 Oscars, hinted to E! Online on an appearance by "Twilight" star(s). "I promise you, there will be a presence," the producer stated. "You'll see. I promise there is and on more than one occasion." The Academy have yet to release any statement regarding this report. Meanwhile, it is still unclear whether Pattinson's co-star Kristen Stewart will also be seen on the show.
Starting his career as a model, 22-year-old Robert Pattinson hit the jackpot after he stars as Edward Cullen in "Twilight". Before landing the role, he has been seen portraying Cedric Diggory in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire". He will next be seen playing Salvador Dali in the indie drama "Little Ashes" and is expected to join the production of "Twilight" sequel, "New Moon" sometime in March.

The 81st Annual Academy Awards itself will be held at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California on Sunday, February 22. The gala ceremony honoring the best in film for 2008 will be aired live by ABC with Hugh Jackman serving as the show's host. The show will be produced by Laurence Mark and Bill Condon, the men behind the Oscar-winning musical "Dreamgirls".
Source: www.aceshowbiz.com

Emile Hirsch's partenaires video

A video featuring some of Emile Hirsch's female partenaires in the films "The dangerous lives of Altar boys", "The girl next door", "Lords of Dogtown", "Alpha Dog" "Into the wild" and "Speed Racer": Jena Malone, Elisha Cuthbert, Nikki Reed , Amanda Seyfried, Olivia Wilde, Kristen Stewart and Christina Ricci.
Songs "She's my baby" by Mazzy Star and "Walk and crawl" by Jesus & Mary Chain.

Some "New Moon" secrets revealed

"The author describes the evil vampire Jane – who inflicts pain on blood-suckers by thought alone – as having a face that would make a Botticelli angel look like a gargoyle." And Dakota Fanning is a shoo-in for the part! The Push star tells OK!, "It would be a fantastic experience."

How did Taylor Lautner pack on 25 pounds of muscle to play Quileute tribe member and werewolf Jacob Black? "A diet high in carbs and protein," Mark Beier, personal training manager for Crunch in Chicago, tells OK!.
Bella's Boy On Set: Kristen Stewart, who plays Bella Swan, will crush the rumors of romance with Robert Pattinson by keeping four-year-love Michael Angarano close. "Her boyfriend will come to visit her on set," an insider tells OK!. Source: www.okmagazine.com

Michelle Williams won't attend the Oscars

"She sees Wendy and Lucy principally as a "whole film made of silent moments", adding: "When I made Brokeback Mountain, I really prepared for the scenes that were meaty and had lots of dialogue while little scenes like 'so-and-so drives a car or looks out a window' I just wouldn't prepare for. And on the day, those silent moments were the ones that were the real challenges because it's just room and you've got to fill it."

Williams has long been famous for shunning celebrity culture. She moved to Brooklyn years before it became very cool and says she feels "very detached" from Hollywood.

She has no plans to attend Sunday's Oscars ceremony in LA and says she would never consider living there.

"I wouldn't raise [Matilda] there. For all the obvious reasons – being the daughter of…," she pauses. "Being an actor's daughter. It's a town that's about one thing and I want her to have options." She says she'd like her daughter to be a doctor when she grows up although, right now, if Matilda gets her way, she'll be a cowgirl.
Yet Williams has not totally removed herself from showbusiness circles. She is currently romantically linked to the film director Spike Jonze.

"I don't really want to talk about that," she says, when the subject of Jonze comes up.

"In terms of trying to convey how you feel, you can never really say it right." Williams goes to great efforts to phrase things perfectly, pausing before each sentence. "I do worry too much about getting it just right."

Frankly, Williams seems too grounded, too bright, too nice and a little too ruminative to be a happy Hollywood bunny, even before taking into account the extra burden of her recent personal tragedy.

She hopes the solution is to throw herself into films like Wendy and Lucy, films which pay little, and in return, demand little in terms of having to promote them.

"I'll be happy making movies for $300,000 for the rest of my life, if the roles are interesting. On that level, there'll always be something to go back to." Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Demi Lovato crushes on Jake

"Demi Lovato gets up close and personal with TVGuide.com and dishes on her celeb crushes, Sonny With a Chance and cookie dough ice cream. Check out what the 16-year-old had to say:

On her celebrity crush: “I’m gonna pick an easy one and go with Jake Gyllenhaal. Or John Mayer. But he’s more an inspiration than a celebrity crush. I’d rather work with him than date him, because it would be weird — he’s a lot older than me.”

On her guilty pleasures: “Cookie Dough. Cookie Dough ice cream — what I do is I only eat the cookie dough out of the ice cream.”

On a typical day off with friends: “We do like really stupidly normal things. Selena [Gomez] and I are not even that cool [to play the Wii]. We’re such nerds!”

On her music likes and dislikes: “I used to listen to metal when I was in junior high but now I listen to more mellow stuff now. Like John McLaughlin, John Forman and John Mayer.”

Source: Justjaredjr.buzznet.com

Jake with Global Green USA

Jake Gyllenhall and Global Green USA President Matt Petersen visit Green Service Day at the Global Green USA launch of National Green Schools Initiative at Manual Arts High School on February 19, 2009 in Los Angeles, California. Pictures by Iheartjakemedia.com

Milk empowers gay cinema

"To appreciate the achievements of Penn and "Milk" it helps to review a few key Hollywood movies that encapsulated their eras' prevailing attitudes and prejudices about gay men's identities and lives, focusing on how they depicted their characters' bodies and body language.

The Maltese Falcon (1941)
In the Depression era, "gunsel" meant either a hired gun and/or a young, submissive homosexual. Humphrey Bogart's Sam Spade sneeringly flings the pejorative at Wilmer (Elisha Cook Jr.), the anxiously buttoned-up young thug working for Kasper Gutman (Sydney Greenstreet).
Enraged and humiliated by Spade's incessant needling, Wilmer raises his gun and, teary-eyed, tells Spade in a choked voice, "Get up on your feet! I've taken all the riding from you I'm gonna take! Get up and shoot it out!"

Soon after, Spade cold-cocks the poor sap, reducing Wilmer to an all-too-recognizable Hollywood archetype: the gay man as weak-willed and sneaky, the implied consequence of leading a double life.

Cruising (1980)
Al Pacino plays an undercover cop stalking a gruesomely savage gay serial killer who dismembers his victims. Employing a familiar pop-Freudian trope, the murderer turns out to be a dissolute Columbia University student (doing his thesis on the American musical theater, no less!) who never made peace with – surprise! – his disapproving father.

The movie tries to emphasize that this leather-clad milieu isn't representative of all gay culture, only one dark sub-strata of it. Yet "Cruising" inevitably reinforced an image of gay life as sordid, sex-obsessed and marginal.

My Own Private Idaho (1991)
This warmly funny, nonjudgmental reimagining of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," written and directed by Van Sant, takes place in the Pacific Northwest, where Scott (Keanu Reeves) and Mike (River Phoenix) earn their living as hookers.
Key image: In the opening frames, the camera lingers over Mike's face as he receives oral sex from a client, who then tosses two $10 bills on his bare chest. The sequence is as jarring, oddly funny and fearless as a Robert Mapplethorpe nude.

Brokeback Mountain (2005)
This movie significantly placed gay/bisexual characters in the American heartland rather than the usual big-city mean streets. The main characters first meet in 1963 as star-crossed bunkmates while herding sheep on horseback. Their decades-long romance is a classic love-that-dare-not-speak-its-name scenario, in keeping with the societal constraints imposed by the story's pre-Sexual Revolution milieu.
But although they hailed from wide-open spaces, the terse, vulnerable Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and the glibber, slicker Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) were trapped metaphorically in the celluloid closet. To a degree, the movie's period setting imprisons the characters in the retrograde Hollywood role of tragic, passive victims. Yet the searing integrity of the acting, capped by Ledger's towering performance, along with the visual lyricism and acute sensitivity of Ang Lee's film (Oscars for direction, adapted screenplay and soundtrack) make this a landmark in the history of cinema, gay or straight.Most memorable body language: Ennis slumped to the floor and pounding a wall in frustration after he and Jack go their separate ways.

Milk (2008)

Since the silent film era, we've usually associated great physical acting with the great screen clowns (Chaplin, Keaton). Penn has few, if any, peers among his contemporaries in using every fiber of his being to summon a character.
His Harvey Milk occasionally evokes some of Penn's past cinematic portrayals: the tortured muscularity of the grieving father in "Mystic River"; the blustery showmanship of rabble-rousing Willie Stark in "All the King's Men."

In "Milk," Penn conveys Milk's sinewy force of personality, whether crouching solicitously at a lover's feet, exhorting a crowd at a rally or dropping to his knees like a doomed opera diva as Dan White's bullets drain away his life.

"Milk" opens with archival black-and-white footage of gay men in Miami bars cringing and shielding their faces with their hands as they're being rounded up and herded into police paddy wagons. Penn's Milk has no need to hide who he is, and neither, by implication, does the audience. With tough words, a gently amused smile and an athletic gait, Penn's Milk empowers those around him and those watching him on screen".

Source: www.thestar.com

Method actors

"More than 100 Oscars have been won by Method actors, including the last two leading actor Oscars, which went to Daniel Day-Lewis and Forest Whitaker.

'Since 2000, around 75 per cent of Oscar winners have been Method actors', says Timoney.'So given that, Kate Winslet (who's been nominated five times before) is unlikely to win this year'.

'She puts in a good, solid performance but someone such as Meryl Streep is really in a different class – the training and system they go through in America tends to set them apart.'He also predicts a win for Mickey Rourke, 'although he's got tough competition against Sean Penn: both are Method actors'.

Despite such a good record, surprisingly few actors have adopted the technique.

According to Timoney: 'Only about one or two per cent of the acting industry actually use Method acting but if you look at who's in that group, it's usually all the top creative actors in Hollywood.'

He believes the approach is key to their success – and could be hindering the careers of British actors.

'It creates really in-depth, believable performances, which is exceptional acting. But in Britain they don't embrace it as much, which leaves them on the back foot because the Americans are leading the way with Oscar wins and performances.'

The Method, in which actors draw on their own experiences in portraying their characters, is derived from a system created by Konstantin Stanislavski and was popularised by Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio in New York during the 1950s. [...]

He points to names such as Toby Kebbell, who went from small indie film Dead Man's Shoes:


to be cast opposite Jake Gyllenhaal in Prince Of Persia, or Gerard Butler, a struggling actor until he moved to LA, who now commands up to £10million a picture. Hubbard denies there's a fundamental difference between the British and US approaches.

De Niro is so shy, it's hard to believe he plays these characters.

People who have big egos aren't able to suppress their own ego enough to play the character.

Great actors are not worried about how they're being perceived; it's more about playing the character truthfully".
Source: www.metro.co.uk

New pictures of "Scott Pilgrim"

"But director Edgar Wright (SHAUN OF THE DEAD, HOT FUZZ) will always get the benefit of the doubt, so if anyone can transform Cera from gawky SUPERBAD kid to a slacker/rocker who defeats his new gal's seven evil exes, it's him.

As he's been doing for a while, Wright has updated his Myspace blog with a new photo, this time of Cera (or some of him, at least) as Scott Pilgrim. Well, the hair and eyes seem fairly suitable".

Source: www.joblo.com

"There has been a lot of speculation on whether Jason Schwartzman is in fact starring in SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD. It started when a press release for the upcoming Universal comedy THE ADVENTURER'S HANDBOOK was released and claimed that Schwartzman's next film was SCOTT PILGRIM. That was quickly redacted though leading many to wonder whether it was a simple typo or accidentally leaked by Schwartzman's reps. Additional rumors were spreading that Schwartzman was playing the secret 7th boyfriend that Scott Pilgrim must defeat before winning the heart of Ramona. Now it looks like we have confirmation.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Ramona Flowers.

Anna Kendrick as Stacey Pilgrim.

Edgar Wright, as I'm sure you're now aware, has been posting pics of the cast on his MySpace blog. Today's picture is very Schwartzman-esque and shows the actor holding a sign with a question mark on it. Yet that question mark looks curiously like a "7" as in, the secret 7th boyfriend that Scott Pilgrim must defeat before.... you get the idea". Source: www.joblo.com

Nick & Norah (Misguided Angel)

A musical video featuring stills from scenes of "Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist", starring Michael Cera and Kat Dennings.
Song "Misguided Angel" by Cowboy Junkies.

Did you know that "Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist"'s screenwriter Lorene Scafaria? She is the woman that climbs into Nick's Yugo car with her "retarded" lover and is interrupted by an inconvenient cramp when they're making out. Nick charges the couple $8.50, a little extra for the cleanup.

Emile Hirsch (Boogalooed it)

A musical video featuring stills and images of Emile Hirsch (at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week), etc.
Songs "Rave on" by The Vibrators and "How she boogalooed it" by The Beach Boys.

"Milk" scene, DVD extras

A scene from Gus Van Sant's "Milk," starring Sean Penn, James Franco, Emile Hirsch, and James Brolin. indieWIRE's coverage includes a report from the film's premiere last month in San Francisco and a new interview with the film's writer, Dustin Lance Black. The film opens on November 26th.
"Universal Studios Home Entertainment have announced the US DVD and Blu-ray Disc release of Milk on 10th March 2009. Sean Penn stars in this biopic based on the true story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California".

DVD
Anamorphic Widescreen
English and French DD5.1 Surround
English SDH, French and Spanish subtitles
Deleted Scenes
Remembering Harvey - Film clips and photos from the set of Milk illustrate stories and reflections from people close to Harvey: Cleve Jones, Daniel Nicoletta, Frank Robinson, Carol Ruth Silver, Anne Kronenberg and Allan Baird
Hollywood Comes to San Francisco - Cast and crew discuss the development of the script, making of the film and share stories from the set
Marching for Equality - People on hand for the shooting of the march sequences (including Gilbert Baker, Cleeve Jones, and Daniel Nicoletta) discuss the shoot and remember the marches of the 1970s

Blu-ray Disc
BD-50 Dual Layer
1080P Widescreen
English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
English SDH, French and Spanish subtitles
Remembering Harvey
Hollywood Comes to San Francisco
Marching for Equality
BD Live - My Scenes Sharing
BD Live - Download Center: Deleted Scenes
Source: www.dvdtimes.co.uk

Jessica Biel: nailed and fashionista

Jessica Biel on set of "Nailed", on 8th June, 2008.

"Cinema Blend thinks that Hollywood is running out of ideas. If they’re stealing ideas from porn, then I’m inclined to believe that they have! It looks like they’ve done just that with the newest Jessica Biel offering. This project is being created by David O. Russell, and its called Nailed.

Geez, I guess that they’re right! The premise of the film is that Biel plays Sammy Joyce, a socially awkward receptionist who accidentally gets shot in the head with a nail gun. Wild sexual urges are created as a result. She takes these sexual urges to Washington (where else?) in her campaign to help those who have been bizarrely injured. Jake Gyllenhaal plays an amoral Senator who Biel… ahem… you knows. She uses this to start her political career to help the cause previously mentioned.

Interesting plot, huh? Well, Russell co-wrote this one with Al Gore’s daughter, and is going to direct it himself.
Source: www.filmschoolrejects.com

Jessica Biel
"There's a vulnerability to being photographed without having your eyes defined or your eyebrows filled in, but I don't wear a lot of makeup in my personal life," says the actress. "I find that men, in my past, have preferred me without it. They always said, "No, take that off". Source: www.people.com

Jessica Biel with Emile Hirsch attending "William Rast Fall 2009" during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at The Tent in Bryant Park on February 16, 2009, New York.

Emile Hirsch rocks video

A musical video featuring some images and stills of Emile Hirsch in the films "Imaginary Heroes", "The girl next door", "Into the wild", "Speed Racer", "Milk", etc.
Song "Old Time Rock and Roll" by Bob Seger.

Possible engagement?

"The rumor-mill is working overtime in Britain - the gossip is that Jake Gyllenhaal has decided to propose (or has already proposed) to Reese Witherspoon during an exotic Egyptian getaway. I buy that Jake took (or will take) Reese on a romantic trip, but I’m not buying the engagement until I read it in People. There has been a Reese-Jake engagement watch before, and Reese has even publicly claimed that she’s not sure if she’ll ever re-marry. Still, Jake’s holiday plans do seem really sweet.

According to the British travel agency with whom Jake made the arrangements, Jake organized a private jet to take Reese to the pyramids, the Luxor and a private viewing of a newly-discovered mummy. Yikes, maybe it’s not so romantic? A mummy doesn’t really say “marry me”. Source: www.celebitchy.com