The title says it all really since his appearance on letterman people have been wondering what’s going on with him.
(check out the interview below.)

Joaquin Phoenix back in 2000.

Retirement

It was October, 27th, 2008 that Joaquin announced his retirement from acting to pursue a career in rap music. Joaquin had previously recorded the soundtrack album for the film Walk the Line for which he won a Grammy Award at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards.

It had been revealed that Joaquin has been the subject of a documentary made by his brother-in-law Casey Affleck entitled ‘I’m Still Here’. Rumours circulated that it was an elaborate hoax, to which Phoenix stated “This is not a joke. Might I be ridiculous? Might my career in music be laughable? Yeah, that’s possible, but that’s certainly not my intention.” However, he has also been reported to have said, “It’s a put-on. I’m going to pretend to have a meltdown and change careers, and Casey is going to film it.”

Hoax?

If this is indeed a huge hoax it will have been one of the best and biggest hoaxes ever! It it may have a serious tone; how people treat other with mental illnesses. The Letterman interview is a perfect example, the audience and letterman seem to do nothing but take the piss out of him the entire interview, something like this wouldn’t happen if we knew they interviewee had a mental disability.

What’s your opinion on whether it’s a hoax or is it a sign of a serious mental breakdown. Check out the trailer for the film ‘I’m Still Here’. and the whole of the Letterman interview below.

Image: Attribution: Mimi C. at en.wikipedia

So it was announced last week that British/American actor Andrew Garfield would become the new Peter Parker in the Rebooted Spider-Man series.

Spider-Man 4 was due to be released May 6, 2011, with Sam Raimi set to direct as well as Maguire, Dunst and other cast members set to reprise their roles. Sony announced they were shelving the film after Raimi left due to trouble meeting the release date and keeping is creative integrity.

Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus premiere – September 18, 2009 – Roy Thompson Hall – Image by: Courtney

Andrew Garfield, who directed (500) Days of Summer, is set to be the new director and the story will tell the story of Peter Parker developing his abilities in high school. While there has been speculation that the reboot will be based on the Ultimate Spider-Man comic books, but nothing has been confirmed.

It’s hard to imagine a rebooted series so close to the previous films, taking into account the Batman films there was an 8 year gap between Batman & Robin (1997) & Batman Begins (2005) but with those it was a big change from the 20th century to the 21st from the Nineties to the Naughties. And with the scheduled release for the new Spider-Man being July 3, 2012 it will only be a 5 Year gap, Pretty short in the scheme of things.

And on a side note of why I haven’t posted a blog in almost a month, I’ve simply been really busy at work and there’s days when I’ve had 15hr days going to London for work and back. Hopefully I’ll be back on writing more regularly again anyway.

Image by: Courtney

So I’ll post up a few questions from that here.

What is your specialty? Production, direction, something else?
My speciality is in Direction and editing, I produce video for online distribution.

I have also worked at the BBC and Maverick Television and also freelance.

How did you begin in this field? Who introduced you to it?
I began by creating short 10 second animations out of plasticine using an old 2mp camera but I always just saw this as mess around.

So at the age of 16 was the time I really got interested in becoming a filmmaker.

To read the rest of the interview go to http://www.whohub.com/daleokeeffe#

Read more about Whohub: http://www.whohub.com/en/article.php?file=aboutus#ixzz0qU3dz7Vy

So it was announced today that Spotify have released Spotify Open and Spotify Unlimited but what’s new?

Spotify Open.

Spotify Open

Spotify Open is the new ‘free’ version of Spotify, but where it differs from Spotify Free is that you now don’t need an invite to use the service and also you are limited to only 25hr listening time per month you also can’t use the radio feature.

Spotify Unlimited

Spotify Unlimited is the new paid version of Spotify and for £4.99 a month you do away with the adverts,

Check out the Spotify website for more info on all the different plans

Sony have announced that they will finally stop selling the storage format in Japan from March 2011.

3.5 inch floppy disk..

Earlier in the year Sony had stopped selling the Floppy Disk in most international markets because of reduced sales and the competition from other storage formats.

I’ll be honest, I thought the floppy had died out years ago, because lets face it there isn’t much you can keep on 1.4mb, not even one photo or one song. There was something nice, however, about putting a floppy into the slot, it was nice and clunky, like putting a cartridge into a snes or N64.

Story from BBC News

Avatar sold 1.5 million copies in Blu-ray on it’s first day of going on sale. Along with an additional 2.5 million DVD copies being sold.

Blu-ray.

Does the Avatar’s popularity on Blu-ray show that 3D is a format that we’re only interested in seeing at the cinema? This story seems bad news for 3D TV manufacturers, as the 3D version will not be available until early next year.

3D TV technology is new and 3D television are expensive, it’s also not surprising that far more DVD were sold than Blu-ray, showing that audiences either aren’t too interested in HD to spend more money,or haven’t made the leap into buying a HD/Blu-ray player.

It certainly might be sometime before 3D films will be the biggest buys, as Blu-ray is still playing catch up. Personally I’m not interested in buy a 3D TV at the moment simply because 2D works and looks fine and it has done for years and years.

Question

Are you excited for 3D TVs or are you happy with the one you have at the moment?

I saw this article in the news recently link about a small village which raised £37,000 to offer 200 homes the super-fast broadband that BT would not deliver.

Ethernet Snake by shadphotos.

Recently there has also been talks about a broadband tax so that the government could afford to offer everyone 2mps broadband. I’d be perfectly happy to pay a broadband tax if it were going to vastly improve the service, I pay for 16mps at the moment ad get between 10 and 16, so why would I pay for something that isn’t going to improve mine.

Why not aim to give everyone 40mps because then we’ll have an internet speed that will last a long time rather than 2mps which will need to be upgraded only years down the line.

I’d like to know whether or not you would band together with your local community to pay for faster broadband?

Image by shadphotos

Werner Herzog has been discussing how he is currently making a 3D documentary about painting in the Cave of Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc.

Werner Herzog.

I must admit what he says he’s doing sounds really interesting, to someone whose not familiar with Herzog he may sound like a mad man. But as he explains no-one has ever been in this cave and the painting were created 32,000 years ago.

I wont write out what he’s been saying but rather embed two videos by Roger Ebert

If you’re sick of all the X-Factor rubbish in the charts, clogging up the air ways, then ‘The Razorbax – Something To Believe In’ is the album you need to buy. Each song is delivered with the intensity of people who love what they are doing, you can feel the raw passion from the music.

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The quality of this album in both the actual recordings and art work would put some well known acts to shame. The album is 12 tracks of pure honest rock ‘n’ roll that ‘deals with the struggles of the unemployed, drug/alcohol addiction, love, lust, heartbreak, life, death. ‘

The Razorbax are definitely a band to watch out for, with great live performances, a great sounds and great album it’s not going to be long until they get the recognition they really deserve.

Track List:

• Wake Up! Wake Up!
• Something To Believe In
• Little Needle
• Stupid Boy
• Waste of Time
• Better Place
• Rip Me Apart
• I Liked You Better
• Couldn’t Wait
• Don’t
• Picture on My Wall
• Shot Down

Available to Download and listen at Spotify/Amazon/iTunes et al

For more info on the band razorbax.co.uk
To buy the physical CD nova-caine.com

The Pacific is a new ten-part television World War II mini-series from the makers of Band of Brothers.

The Pacific.

The Pacific focuses on the United States Marine Corps’ actions in the Pacific Theatre of Operations.

The first two episodes were broadcast back to back on the 5th April 2010 at 9pm on Sky Movies (UK). The first two episodes are an immediate opener to what we can expect from the rest of the series. I really like the way each episode is opened but surviving war veterans speaking about their roles in the Pacific Theatre of Operations as well as Tom Hanks narration at the beginning. The visual are amazing and looks all the bit of it’s $150Million budget and is exactly what we can expect from a film produced by Steven Spielberg.

The Pacific could easily be seen as ‘another WW2 film” but it really isn’t, I think it’s a very clever move having this as a miniseries rather than a film as it gives you more time to connect with the characters, and unlike something like Lost which just seems to keep going and going, you know The Pacific has a definitive ending after the 12 episodes.

I can certainly say that The Pacific is a series not to be missed.

It’s on Monday at 9pm on Sky Movies so don’t miss it.