The YomiCon Blog has officially been taken over this week by members of the YomiCon Host Club! (We hope you are following us on Facebook!!)
The Host Club is a group of dedicated teens who are helping plan all aspects of YomiCon 2012 -- we've got our fingers in all the pies!
This year, the Host Club has been hard at work coming up with ideas for YomiCon and designing the panels. This week, we'll be telling you all about each of the sessions we're hosting and what to expect at the con this year!
I just finished another book about movie history: The Last Silent Picture Show: Silent Films on American Screens in the 1930s. It’s a surprising book if you take Singin’ in the Rain literally and assume that talkies supplanted silent movies overnight. Al Jolson notwithstanding, the studios weren’t willing to give up on their vast libraries of silents; they wanted to make money from them as long as they could, so they scored and added sound effects (but not dialogue) to some of their big hits and re-released them. Sometimes it worked. The Birth of a Nation, Ben Hur, and The Sheik, re-released with sound, pulled in audiences in the 30s.
Most of our lives revolve around food. Early in the morning the question is: what’s for breakfast? Later: how about lunch? And when the sun goes down we are munching our dinner. We eat three times a day just like a clockwork, or sometimes more, if you like to graze all day.
Everybody talks about food: what is the best restaurant in town? Can you share that recipe? And because of its importance, we see more and more documentaries dedicated to exploring and talking about the quality of food we put in our bodies. The first one of this kind that I remember was Supersize Me, which immediately stopped my fast food cravings. A few years later we had Food Inc. which caused a lot of buzz as well.
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