The past few years have been exciting and different for the music industry. Bands and singers are finally discovering that they need to do something, well, good for a change. Canada, specifically, is producing some amazing new artists.
There are a few exceptional bands that are just beginning to get noticed now. Although this may not be your type of music, it is still highly recommended that you check out at least one of these bands.
The Postal Service is an indietronic band featuring singer Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie and producer Jimmy Tamborello of Dntel, Headset and Figurine.
Some people are unable to appreciate Michelle Rodriguez‘ acting range. She is a gifted performer who can play a variety of roles. To greater appreciate Michelle, I’ve included some pictures for discussion.
First, a picture from her breakthrough role in Girlfight, playing a girl who is “seething with anger” and trains to become a boxer.
Notice here that she started off by just playing her pouting straight. She doesn’t want to needlessly complicate things.
Obviously her acting range has only grown since then. For instance, in Blue Crush, she mastered the art of pursing her lips, thereby mixing anger with frustration. Maybe she was angry at the directory for not getting enough face time, or frustrated at the script for not giver her any lines. But wait, “Rodriguez even smiled once or twice“!
Finally, a sample of her most recent work, as she appeared in a recent episode of Lost, where she plays an angry cop. Note that she has now managed to curl her lips upwards, melding anger with disgust, hitting a pouting triple.
She even shot Shannon, so she’ll have a whole range of anger to demonstrate on this show.
My apologies to those of you wanting to see pictures from Resident Evil (where she plays an angry elite solider), S.W.A.T. (where she plays an angry elite cop), The Fast and The Furious and BloodRayne. I’m betting she added a whole second dimension to her characters in these movies. Sadly, I do not have photos to back up this theory, and it will have to remain untested, for now.
Google has posted a neat map of Mars using their Google Maps technology. You can see various physical features, and where we’ve landed spacecraft before, and use the visible and infrared spectrum.
