Penis Envy

You know where penises and the question of erectile function is involved, there will be “a raft of new studies.”

“Women cyclists have not been studied as much … but they probably suffer the same injuries,” Dr. Irwin Goldstein is quoted as saying in a New York Times article on bicycle seat design. The article — the most e-mailed one in the past 24 hours on the New York Times site — also comes with a handy-dandy graphic, just in case you’re, like, worried or something.

For Fans Pt. 2

Found some more information about the mock trailer for The Shining. Apparently it was created for a competition sponsored by the Association of Independent Creative Editors. More details here.

In addition to The Shining trailer, see spoof trailers for West Side Story and Titanic, all made by assistant editors at P.S. 260.

For Fans of "The Shining"

Have you ever thought movie trailers too indistinguishable from one another?

This mock trailer for The Shining (which I read about on Stay Free! Daily) proves that with careful editing, one can completely shape people’s expectations of a movie. In most cases, studios want moviegoers to actually expect a good movie. I also love the use of music in this mock trailer. Could “Shining,” a romantic drama, be next? The background music would have to be E.S. Posthumus’s “Nara.”

I Will Not Love You Long Time

Usually I’m loathe to supply titles for my entries, but an obvious title presented itself for this entry. Saw an ad for Blacklava.net, which carries the most awesome shirts. Besides “I Will Not Love You Long Time,” the Web site sells the shirt below:

Pretty succinct.

I worked on my photojournalism assignment tonight, riding my bike around Park Slope and Prospect Park, keeping an eye out for potential subjects while bearing down on my brakes cruising down hills. The assignment — environmental portraits — was a perfect opportunity for me to stick my nose into other people’s business and capture them unguarded. No one I approached refused to be photographed, though more than one was weirded out by my request. “It’s just for class!” I’d assure them, at which point they’d “joke” about my bringing them a copy of their photo, which I’ll do because hey, it’s always good to cultivate potential sources, right?

I’m proud of the photos I took for my previous assignment, which was to cover a prearranged event. I traveled down to D.C. for the anti-war protest/march on the White House. Before the march, I purchased a three-pack roll of film and ended up buying a fourth roll because I just saw so much that I wanted to capture. After I get my photos back from my professor, I’ll post them on my Web site.

One thing that struck me was how peaceful the march was. Not unexpectedly, the crowd consisted mostly of younger people, but I saw a number of older people, married couples, and families with young children. And a swarm of credentialed photographers.