poster courtesy of : Dr. Z Movie Posters
Sure looks a lot like the beast to me...
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Cloverfield Monster
I was looking over the Cloverfield trailer again and saw a few frames of the monster. Rumor has it this movie is a remake of "The Beast from 20,000 fathoms". I took one frame from the movie trailer (about 1:29) that shows the monster and outlined it. The other photo is of the original movie poster from 1953. In the third, I use my very limited artistic ability to extrapolate what might be behind the buildings.
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Cloverfield Analysis #1
I was examining the new Cloverfield trailer and saw one image that caught my eye. Some speculate that this is the "little monsters" attacking the woman behind the screen. I don't think so. It's a military hospital, and the "monsters" are people in bio hazard suits and the woman is being placed in quarantine. This looks like a great movie. I can't wait to see it. I'm going to see "I am Legend" today, i report back on that tomorrow. The photo was taken from the trailer and is the property of Paramount and Bad Robot, and I hope they don't mind me using it.
Update: 12/20/2007 - I later discovered that as you watch this scene, the womans body expand rapidly, like something is growing inside of her. This frame is from just after the expansion starts.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
The new blog
I've just started my blog here at bloggers.com. If you're interested in my old posts, see my website a http://www.patrickotoole.com/
Being a New Creation
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
2 Corinthians 5:17
For many, this verse is a biblical truth but not a personal reality. We know we’re a new creation, but we’re still stuck with the old leftovers.
Like many verses in the bible, 2 Corinthians 5:17 is both a present reality and a future goal. We ARE a new creation in Christ, and we are BECOMING new creations. Frequently, however, we see ourselves as the “old creation” trying to become the new creation. We see our current way of life as the norm and the new creation as the goal to strive for. But this verse says we ARE new. I believe we can live a more grace filled life and move quicker toward the experience of the new creation by seeing ourselves as new, despite the obvious oldness of our day to day experience. Let me give you an example.
Let’s say, for the sake of discussion, that you are a well trained marathon athlete. Your body is trim and tone. You have a low body fat index and your resting heart rate is below normal. (A lower than normal resting heart rate is characteristic of a person in great physical shape. Their bodies are so efficient, their heart can work less.) You train six days a week and eat a low-fat diet with lots of fruits, vegetables, grains and protein. You can easily run three miles without breaking a sweat.
One day, you wake up and find that you’re sixty pounds overweight, have high cholesterol and can barely make it up a flight of stairs without taking a break.
If this happened, what would be your response? Would you simply say, “Well, I guess I’m fat now, so I might as well eat a box of donuts for breakfast?” No. You would look in the mirror and think, “This is not me!” and you would start right away eating healthy and exercising. Why? Because you see yourself as thin and healthy and have a lifetime of habits that got you that way.
I believe we need to see ourselves as new creations that wake up one day in an old creation body. The truth of the matter is we are a new creation “marathon athlete” in an old creation “sixty pounds overweight “ body. We need to look at ourselves and say “This is not who I am.” and begin cultivation the lifestyle befitting a new creation.
The difference between real life and the above example is that we haven’t developed the habits and experience of the new creation. And that take time.
Change happens in small steps. Stories about people whose lives change overnight make great headlines, but for most of us, change is a slow process. It takes time for our awareness to become choices and our choices to become habits. When you learn a new skill, it takes time for your mind to form the physical connections that make that skill part of your memory. This is why people practice and rehearse and why experience is so important in the job market. The more you do something, the more it is wired into your brain and the better you are at it.
If you are in Christ, you are a new creation, despite what you see in the mirror.
Seeing this as the reality, I believe, is a powerful way to make the new creation a part of you daily experience.
2 Corinthians 5:17
For many, this verse is a biblical truth but not a personal reality. We know we’re a new creation, but we’re still stuck with the old leftovers.
Like many verses in the bible, 2 Corinthians 5:17 is both a present reality and a future goal. We ARE a new creation in Christ, and we are BECOMING new creations. Frequently, however, we see ourselves as the “old creation” trying to become the new creation. We see our current way of life as the norm and the new creation as the goal to strive for. But this verse says we ARE new. I believe we can live a more grace filled life and move quicker toward the experience of the new creation by seeing ourselves as new, despite the obvious oldness of our day to day experience. Let me give you an example.
Let’s say, for the sake of discussion, that you are a well trained marathon athlete. Your body is trim and tone. You have a low body fat index and your resting heart rate is below normal. (A lower than normal resting heart rate is characteristic of a person in great physical shape. Their bodies are so efficient, their heart can work less.) You train six days a week and eat a low-fat diet with lots of fruits, vegetables, grains and protein. You can easily run three miles without breaking a sweat.
One day, you wake up and find that you’re sixty pounds overweight, have high cholesterol and can barely make it up a flight of stairs without taking a break.
If this happened, what would be your response? Would you simply say, “Well, I guess I’m fat now, so I might as well eat a box of donuts for breakfast?” No. You would look in the mirror and think, “This is not me!” and you would start right away eating healthy and exercising. Why? Because you see yourself as thin and healthy and have a lifetime of habits that got you that way.
I believe we need to see ourselves as new creations that wake up one day in an old creation body. The truth of the matter is we are a new creation “marathon athlete” in an old creation “sixty pounds overweight “ body. We need to look at ourselves and say “This is not who I am.” and begin cultivation the lifestyle befitting a new creation.
The difference between real life and the above example is that we haven’t developed the habits and experience of the new creation. And that take time.
Change happens in small steps. Stories about people whose lives change overnight make great headlines, but for most of us, change is a slow process. It takes time for our awareness to become choices and our choices to become habits. When you learn a new skill, it takes time for your mind to form the physical connections that make that skill part of your memory. This is why people practice and rehearse and why experience is so important in the job market. The more you do something, the more it is wired into your brain and the better you are at it.
If you are in Christ, you are a new creation, despite what you see in the mirror.
Seeing this as the reality, I believe, is a powerful way to make the new creation a part of you daily experience.
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