Doin' the Town: Illuminated Manuscripts and Ipad Madness
In my previous posting, a comment from the distributor of The Secret of Kells indicated that it wasn't coming to screens in the suburbs any time soon. Another comment from acmespaceship urged me to park in Oak Park and take the El downtown. So K and I impulsively joined acmespaceship and e_m_b for a Not-At-Minicon Club meeting.
The Secret of Kells is just as good as the excellent reviews it's been getting, maybe better in a few spots. It's about a boy in ancient Ireland who becomes involved in the 200-year-long completion of the illuminated Book of Kells. As I had hoped, K was very impressed with it. I hope it gets shown more widely in this country. Would love to see it again.
We walked to Heaven on Seven for dinner-- where we met more people we knew! and had fine conversation!-- after which we realized we were a couple of blocks from the Apple Store. So we went there to investigate the Ipad queue.
Only one person was camped there-- they had been assigning numbers, so there wasn't a line-- but she was a great celebrity with passersby. One group told her they had just seen her on the evening news. She was gracious about posing for photos with random strangers. Tomorrow, she'll have an Ipad, and I won't.
(I recently acquired a very nice Mac Pro laptop, so don't feel sorry for me!)
I loved going into the Hog Butcher for the World, hanging out with cool characters, riding El trains, and seeing a fine movie. All arranged through comments on Livejournal. We should do this kind of thing more often.
The Secret of Kells is just as good as the excellent reviews it's been getting, maybe better in a few spots. It's about a boy in ancient Ireland who becomes involved in the 200-year-long completion of the illuminated Book of Kells. As I had hoped, K was very impressed with it. I hope it gets shown more widely in this country. Would love to see it again.
Click to viewWe walked to Heaven on Seven for dinner-- where we met more people we knew! and had fine conversation!-- after which we realized we were a couple of blocks from the Apple Store. So we went there to investigate the Ipad queue.
Only one person was camped there-- they had been assigning numbers, so there wasn't a line-- but she was a great celebrity with passersby. One group told her they had just seen her on the evening news. She was gracious about posing for photos with random strangers. Tomorrow, she'll have an Ipad, and I won't.
(I recently acquired a very nice Mac Pro laptop, so don't feel sorry for me!)
I loved going into the Hog Butcher for the World, hanging out with cool characters, riding El trains, and seeing a fine movie. All arranged through comments on Livejournal. We should do this kind of thing more often.