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Here are some of the swell things folks have been printing about the 'Pad...
A crash pad for cinema lovers by Dave McCoy "CinePad is a pretty damn big, uh, pad. Emerson's organized the site like a visit to his home. When you first arrive, you see his living room, his Chinatown poster, and videos, LDs and CDs filling up numerous racks. In the bathroom, you'll find "Plumbing the Depths," the most comprehensive (and funniest) article on plumbing in cinema I've ever seen. The mantelpiece has photos and souvenirs from places Emerson visited like India or the Floating Film Festival. In the kitchen, you can get the recipe for surrealistic director Luis Buñuel's famous martini, while the library/office has essential references such as film books and seminal movie lists. There are also collections of Emerson's reviews, rants, interviews, and wonderful looks at past greats like Buster Keaton, Barbara Stanwyck, and others. |
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Visit the 'films noirs' in Jeeem's Dark Room by Bill Pannifer THIS MOST cinematic of movie sites, complete with fades, dissolves and iris shots, is the work of Jim Emerson, film critic and former editor of Microsoft's now discontinued Cinemania CD. "Jeem's" homepage is just that: a view of his book-laden Seattle pad with clips from the classics flickering on his TV. The best part of the house is undoubtedly The Dark Room, a clever composite still image from various films noirs, that expands into a clickable visual index for the entire genre. As well as his own reviews and interviews, there is a library of recommended film criticism and the first phase of a planned on-line film school. The site is meant for "serious movie lovers", but cannot stay serious for very long: so there is a history of plumbing in films, and a teasing so-called adult section which turns out to consist of plot giveaways for classic titles. So the planet of the apes is really earth, and Rosebud is a sled -- but you knew that already. |
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And the Award Goes to... By Mark Glaser "Best [Oscar] Handicapping Site: Jeeem's CinePad (cinepad.com), with an in-depth array of charts." (This is from when I first started the CinePad, with my FREE web space at Tripod.) |
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Web has alternative to critics' star ratings By Peter Howell "...Emerson wants you wander around his pad, sharing his enthusiasms. Such as his encyclopedic tribute to the use of plumbing 'as a pipeline to the subconscious' in movies. It's found in the bathroom, natch..." |
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Braindump on the Blue Badge: By Steven Greenhouse"The company that has shaped the way hundreds of millions of people use computers is helping to shape the way people talk as well, with words like 'facemail' and 'self-toast' and new meanings for terms like 'dog food' and 'ask.' "Microspeak is a slangy company jargon made up of dozens of words and phrases commonly used at Microsoft. This Microjargon, which includes word usages unique to Microsoft as well as usages from elsewhere in the high-tech and low-tech worlds, has been documented in an informal lexicon written by current and former workers at the company, based in Redmond, Wash.... "More than a dozen current and former Microsoft blue badges (permanent Microsoft employees) and orange badges (temporary workers and independent contractors) are among the contributors to the lexicon of Microspeak, which can be seen on the Web at The Microsoft Lexicon...." (Click
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Best Locally produced film Web site Jeeem's CinePad |
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Straight Outta Redmond By Steve Silberman "The high-tech industry -- driven, cliquish, dominated by the young -- breeds buzz-phrases like standing water breeds mosquitoes. During his tenure at Microsoft as senior editor of Music Central, Ken Barnes collected some of the more colorful specimens of in-house argot into a lexicon of "Microspeak" that delivers a vivid picture of the notoriously insular corporate culture on the Redmond campus. "Music Central [and its sister product, Cinemania] fizzled out last June, a victim of mismarketing and lack of technical support, Barnes says. But Barnes' lexicon lives on online at Jim Emerson's site for film lovers, CinePad. |
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