I Heart Huckabee

Sometimes, you have to take advantage of someone's last name when it plays so well!

I as looking to make a nice portrait of presidential candidate Mike Huckabee. I was with him at a town hall stop, and wanted to make a nice portrait of him.

That's the best portrait I've seen in your work, lighting-wise. The colors are subtle and not overdone, the key is pleasant, and the yellow to green background gradient adds to the picture without being distracting.

I especially like the spill of magenta light on his arm and face. Nice ambient touch.

Billed as "an existential comedy," I Heart Huckabees is a flawed yet endearingly audacious screwball romp that dares to ponder life's biggest questions. Much of director David O. Russell's philosophical humor is dense, talky, and impenetrable, leading critic Roger Ebert to observe that "it leaves the viewer out of the loop," and suggesting that Russell's screenplay is admirably bold yet frustratingly undisciplined. Russell's ideas are big but his expression of them is frenetic, centering on the unlikely pairing of an environmentalist and a firefighter as they depend on existential detectives and a French nihilist to make sense of their existential crises, brought on by a two-faced chain-store executive and his spokesmodel girlfriend, and the aftermath of 9/11's terrorism. No brief description can do justice to Russell's comedic conceit; you'll either be annoyed and mystified or elated and delighted by this wacky primer for coping with 21st century lunacy. Deserving of its mixed reviews, I Heart Huckabees is an audacious mess, like life itself, and accepting that is the key to enjoying both. <a href="http://www.computervalley.ca/">buy notebook</a>

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