Last week I watched Michael Mann's Manhunter. It's a real gem of a movie starring William Peterson ( CSI Las Vegas ). Manhunter is essentially the prequel to Silence of the Lambs and was remade and titled Red Dragon in 2002. Although I really like Anthony Hopkins as the venerable Dr. Lecter, I have to say, Mann's highly stylized version from 1986 is still my favorite. All this Michael Mann business of course lead me to watching a few episodes of Miami Vice ( which I posted about here ) and so naturally I have been taking a few screen captures. Not really sure where I'm going with this, but I really liked this one which was only on screen for a second and is fitting with yesterday's post about surveillance.

It's interesting how these things all tie themselves together. Last semester at MICA, we had a few visiting artists who sort of hit the nail on the head. Flickr searches, surveillance in cinema, photo archives--it's all beginning to meld together. The above image was captured on my laptop screen at 1440 x 900 pixels. As you can see the actual image area is cropped to TV format, and additionally cropped by the original editor for the in-camera surveillance effect. Not too may pixels to work with!

I just saw this on Hulu.com and had to post. I love the intro song by The Who. Some people don't realize that's a Who song anymore and just think it's the beginning to CSI. I also love the 80's beach attire and Little Richard's cameo! Michael Mann was a genius.!! And some more trivia I just thought of... Michael Mann produced Miami Vice and also a great movie called Manhunter, which featured William Peterson, who was the lead on CSI Las Vegas! Weird....

I am becoming more and more obsessed with searching the depths of flickr.com for something special. This morning I was thinking about that old adage: "f/8 and be there." So I did a quick search and low and behold, 91,000 results!

It's search results like these that I feel warrant a special place on the Internet. So, I made a page. Check out the new search on my "Flickr Searches" section. 

Also, on a more technical note, I have turned on commenting for these searches. So comment away! 

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