Année : 2004

While most people ride Segway scooters for fun or to run short errands, Josh Caldwell is on a bigger mission. He’s taking his scooter on a cross-country trip, rolling him on the longest-known trek of its kind, from Seattle to Boston.

This story from Wired News and the Web site describing these guys’ road trip on a Segway remind me of the old guy in the movie The Straight Story. (What a great film. Probably one of David Lynch’s best.)

I can’t help but imagine the old man going to visit his brother on a Segway instead of a lawnmower. It would have been a completely different movie but I like the idea, visually.

Maciej strikes again with a brilliant post. He’s using an audio post to demonstrate how useless audio posts are. The problem is, the demonstration is so good and so funny that it seems to prove the opposite: audio posts can be efficient and entertaining.

Still, I’ll follow his advice and stick to writing. Until I can do video posts, of course. ;-)

My judgements were pricking the skin of many readers, as though my commentary on the life suggested by modern film was also a secret and hurtful commentary on their own choices and their own values. […]

My readers wanted films that confirmed their sense of what they knew, films that didn’t set out, however entertainingly, to interrogate their sense of moral reality, but rather – like popular paperbacks about the inner life of blokes – to offer a light-hearted, tear-jerking reassurance, and to rub balm on our modern quandaries.

From Two years in the dark, by novelist and ex-movie critic Andrew O’Hagan. It’s an essay published in the most recent issue of Granta (#86), dedicated to film.