National Popcorn Day
On January 19th, many people will celebrate the popular, very old and easy to make snack. The bite sized kernelsContinue Reading
Author: Under The Moonlight
I like writing movie lists of great films and obscure information about how colours influence modern society. I am a designer who designs for various mediums for clients daily. This is my design/movie blog that I do every once in a while.
Bright Snow and Visibility
Since this is wintertime and you are shovelling snow on the bright snowy day clearing the driveway and the sidewalk.Continue Reading
Brittany Runs A Marathon: Goals Are Good
Starting a new life-changing task is hard for most people to start. This film is inspired by a true story.Continue Reading
The Colors of Pomegranates: A Visually Poetic Movie
This is a strange film but it doesn’t feel like a weird idea for a movie. The Colors of PomegranatesContinue Reading
Afterimage Effects
What do the snow and a camera flash have in common? Afterimage, a phenomenon of visual perception can make an image last a little longer after the image is gone.
16 Movies about Home Ownership
Home ownership is hard nowadays and it can be spooky. These are some films about haunted houses, mortgage crisis, rentingContinue Reading
Happy New Year
Happy 2020 from Under The Moonlight!May the new year bring happiness, goals, achievements and luck.🎉🎉🥂🥂🎉🎉
Housekeepers In Films
This shortlist does not include Alfred Pennyworth, Lurch, Riff Raff or Wadsworth from Clue. This list contains films that areContinue Reading
Modern Day Retro 80’s Television Shows
The big hair sprayed hair, neon lights and Memphis interior design came back has we retrospectively look back at theContinue Reading
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas from Under The Moonlight. Hope you are having a joyful, enriching and beautiful day. 🎄🎄🎄🎁🎁🎅🤶☃️❄️❄️
Ultramarine: A Truly Expensive Blue Gold
The richest colour you’ll ever find. The notoriously expensive pigment has called more expensive than gold. Blue Gold.
What makes blue wine so blue?
There are many variations of wine that people have drank or at least heard of. From a yellowish colour toneContinue Reading
Black Friday: The “busiest” shopping day of the year’s origins
Black Friday has a more recent history of its popularity. The day comes right after American Thanksgiving on Friday andContinue Reading
An Illustrated Poster for “In Flanders Fields”
This is a illustrated poster that I did for Remembrance Day this year. The war poem “In Flanders Fields” wasContinue Reading
Happy Halloween Illustration
These are illustrations for Halloween. It’s of a Jack-o-Lantern surrounded by candy and an infograph of Halloween candy.
Eigengrau: the colour of darkness and night
How we see darkness and interrupt the night.
Vantablack: The Deepest and Darkest Man-Made Black Material
With developments to ensure good travels into space, this material is the darkest black ever created. It has been comparedContinue Reading
13 of the Most Colourful Horror Movies
Most horror movies are dark and shadowy with jump scares to terrorize you. These movies are slightly different. They tryContinue Reading
Monet’s Shadow Study: How Manganese Violet inspired Claude Monet’s study of light
It was only a few years previous that had the first synthetic colour invented and marketed to the public. SomeContinue Reading
Is Everything Nice With Pumpkin Spice?
It’s been at least ten years that this rustic orange has been in this popular cultural eye. Pumpkin spice namedContinue Reading
Why are barns Falu red?
Driving by a countryside road, a big red barn would be in the distance with some barnyard animals. Have you ever wondered why barns are red? It could have been painted any other colour but it’s usually red.
The Wrong Guys: A camping film about a reunion and a big misunderstanding
After watching some episodes of FX’s Baskets, I started to remember this movie from the ’80s. It was one ofContinue Reading
The Modern Green Screen: A Walkthrough About Chroma Keying Throughout the Years
I previously discussed how film was colourized frame-by-frame by painted each cell and the advancements of modern CGI, there isContinue Reading
A look inside CGI being just as realistic as real life
The hunt for more realistic CGI animations. A brief run through of modern day CGI.
Mini Movie Marathon: Ryan O’Neal
Ryan O’Neal is an American actor that made him start his career in film making in 1960 with various appearancesContinue Reading
Crosswords: Colours
Try out this crossword I made about colours that I once discussed on this website.
History of the Stonewall Riot
June 28, 1969 at 3:00 am the Stonewall Riots happened at the Stonewall Inn in New York City 50 years ago. This is a short history about the riot.
Millennial Pink: The pink that made a comeback
Pink has become a colour that has a lot of stigma towards gender identity. Recently the colour is mostly seenContinue Reading
State Park: How to Run in a Race and Solve Your Problems in the 80’s
Happy summer with this classic 80’s movie. Half an environmental movie and half campy comedy about having fun at a state park.
I Was A Teenage Zombie: 1980’s Zombie Knight Fighting For Honour
This film is a mild parody film of all the horror movies starring “teenagers” from the 1950s but there isContinue Reading
