Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Lenny Kravitz and movies?

Lenny Kravtiz in "The Hunger Games"
         http://www.bravenewhollywood.com/lenny-kravitz-ponders-the-chance-of-a-real-life-%E2%80%98hunger-games%E2%80%99/
In the article, "Lenny Kravitz Is Starring in a Marvin Gaye Biopic, But Can He Act?" by Amos Barshad, it talks about how Lenny Kravitz landed his first big role in a movie.  Lenny Kravitz has played minor roles in other movies such as "Hunger Games" and "Precious," but has never landed a large role.  I think that he will do very well in the movie because it is about when soul singer Marvin Gaye was in Europe and Lenny Kravitz is a singer.  The author of the article talks about all kinds of good acting techniques that Lenny Kravitz uses in "The Hunger Games" and "Precious," but I don't think good acting techniques are what defines an actor or actress.  In my opinion, how good at acting an actor or actress is depends on how the actor/actress perceives the character that is presented before them.  So do I think Lenny Kravitz is a good fit to be in movies?  The answer is yes because he has shown in previous films, even though they were not large parts, that he is a wonderful actor.



Wednesday, November 7, 2012

An Upcoming Revolution In College Football?

Woman not approving of BCS computers.
 http://www.krossover.com/blog/2012/09/the-bcs-how-computers-watch-football/
I read the article "College Football's War on Math" by Brian Curtis.  I thought that this article was very interesting and educational.  It was educational because I had no idea the teams of the NCAA did not like the BCS (Bowl Championship Series) rankings done by a computer.  I thought this was interesting because the BCS is expected to be terminated in 2014.  Some of the things about the BCS rankings are very good. For one the process is a lot faster than if committees were doing all the ranking.  Secondly, computers do not come with certain biases.  Thirdly, some people may not be as educated in what the rankings are based upon.  I think that the computer system do the rankings is a lot better than having people do them just by the reasons of it is faster and there is no bias involved.  Sure there could be a number typed in wrong, but that can be fixed.  If a committee member makes the wrong decision based on his/her feelings then a lot of people are going to be mad and it cannot be fixed as easily because you cannot say "well I typed a wrong number into my computer of feelings."  So in my opinion, I think that the computer system is better just because it is faster and it has no bias involved.