I, Robot and other metal people
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akawil, ladymondegreen, and I saw I, Robot at the Regal Battery Park, a nice, convenient walk from the WTC PATH station. It’s a much better movie than I’d been expecting from the previews, actually taking inspiration from Asimov’s ideas and including a few scenes that clearly indicated that someone who’d worked on the screen play had actually read the stories. Still, it rewards emotion over logic in a very un-Asimovian fashion, and favors drama over sense in the typical Hollywood action-movie way.
Afterwards we wandered around Nelson Rockefeller Park for a bit, and I snapped crappy photos of Tom Otterness sculptures with the lousy-but-handy camera in my Clié:
That fourth one in the top row? That’s a close-up on a little sculpture in the neck of the big head in the third photo.
I need a better digital camera. I’ve got one — a Canon PowerShot A10 — but it’s bulky and heavy enough that I never carry it around with me. I think I want one of those teeny Elph models.
Then we walked up to Pier 45 and caught the last ten minutes of a concert by The Guitar Guy, followed by dinner at the downtown branch of Monster Sushi, where I sketched this woman sitting across the room:
akawil, ladymondegreen, and I saw I, Robot at the Regal Battery Park, a nice, convenient walk from the WTC PATH station. It’s a much better movie than I’d been expecting from the previews, actually taking inspiration from Asimov’s ideas and including a few scenes that clearly indicated that someone who’d worked on the screen play had actually read the stories. Still, it rewards emotion over logic in a very un-Asimovian fashion, and favors drama over sense in the typical Hollywood action-movie way. Afterwards we wandered around Nelson Rockefeller Park for a bit, and I snapped crappy photos of Tom Otterness sculptures with the lousy-but-handy camera in my Clié:
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That fourth one in the top row? That’s a close-up on a little sculpture in the neck of the big head in the third photo.
I need a better digital camera. I’ve got one — a Canon PowerShot A10 — but it’s bulky and heavy enough that I never carry it around with me. I think I want one of those teeny Elph models.
Then we walked up to Pier 45 and caught the last ten minutes of a concert by The Guitar Guy, followed by dinner at the downtown branch of Monster Sushi, where I sketched this woman sitting across the room: