[ENSEMBLE] You Blew It. Super Hard. Complete Buffoonery.
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Having finally succumbed to peer pressure and listened to the Hamilton cast recording, the only part flaw I can find is that James Callender’s role in publishing the Reynolds pamphlets seems to have been glossed over in the interest of narrative economy.
We Callenders can’t resist political gossipmongering. It’s like catnip.
There’s a reason it’s called the urban jungle — NYC is home to 600,000 trees. Jill Hubley, a Brooklyn-based web developer, has mapped their location across the city’s five boroughs in an interactive online map.
Like its denizens, New York City’s tree population also boasts diversity — 168 species line its streets. Through different colored dots, the map indicates what tree species are prevalent in the different neighborhoods and boroughs. The size of each dot even reflects the size of each tree’s trunk.
Their largest project to date is coming Spring 2016. Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party is an eleven episode series that will feature many great authors from throughout history.
Edgar Allan Poe invites you to celebrate this special day with this dramatic poster and a very special announcement:
Shipwrecked Comedy is launching a KICKSTARTER for Edgar Allan’s Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party very soon. Invitations have gone out…Lenore has sent her dress to the tailor…Poe has requested the ravens…
“For Fury Road’s fluid editing, Miller called upon his wife, Margaret Sixel, who had spent most of her career editing documentaries and had never cut an action movie before. ‘We’ve got teenage sons, but I’m the one who goes to the action movies with them!’ laughed Miller. ‘So when I asked her to do Mad Max, she said, ‘Well, why me?’ And I said, ‘Because then it’s not going to look like other action movies.“
And it doesn’t. Compare the smart, iterative set pieces of Fury Road to one of the incoherent car chases in Spectre, for example, and you’ll see that Sixel prizes a sense of spatial relationships that has become all too rare in action movies. ‘She’s a real stickler for that,’ said Miller. ‘And it takes a lot of effort! It’s not just lining up all the best shots and stringing them together, and she’s very aware of that. She’s also looking for a thematic connection from one shot to the next. If it regressed the characters and their relationships, she’d be against that. And she has a very low boredom threshold, so there’s no repetition.’
That Sixel was able to whittle 480 hours of footage down into a movie that sings still astounds Miller. ‘It’s like working in the head of a great composer,’ he said. ‘Movies like this one — in particular this one, because it’s almost a silent movie — are like visual music. In the same way that a composer has to have a strong casual relationship from one note to the next, paying attention tempo and melodic line and overall structure, it’s exactly the same process that a film editor must have.’ Sixel, surely, is one of the greats.”
so good on George Miller for giving credit to his wife and colleague. that said, FUCK YES women have ALWAYS edited for male directors without getting any recognition within the industry let alone any kind of mainstream acclaim. I mean, film editing isn’t really on the radar for most moviegoers/watchers so yeah, I don’t expect people to know this? But goddamn, even so many self-proclaimed film and cinema buffs fail to realize that so many of the “best” movies (mostly directed by men, natch) were edited by women. Does anyone remember that quote/anecdote about male directors discouraging their female film editors – or even actively sabotaging potential opportunities – because they didn’t want to lose the person who made sense of all their footage?
“My wife and I were eating at a rib joint in Key Largo, and we actually took out a piece of paper and made a pros and cons list. The ‘con’ list was pretty normal: time, money, things like that. I remember at the top of the ‘pro’ list was: ‘Full Human Experience.’ After our daughter was born, that became an inside joke with us. Every time she was screaming at bath time, my wife and I would look at each other and say: ‘Full Human Experience.’ The first three months were the hardest. Honestly, we wondered if we’d made a mistake. It was like a bomb dropped and eviscerated everything in our lives. But then our daughter started growing up, and learning to do things on her own, and we kept taking small steps back and getting more of our own time back. There’s an unexpected sadness to getting your life back. It’s like your getting laid off slowly from an equally grueling but joyful job. She’s ten now. And I’ll notice that she’ll be reading alone for an hour without getting bored and jumping on me. We used to make tents on the bed, now it’s more homework and YouTube. Sometimes she’ll go in her room for a long time and close the door. Her life is becoming hers and I’m fascinated by where it’s going to go. But it’s bittersweet that she needs me less and less.”
Why yes, I’m at the Cheesemongers’ Invitational in the Mission with a fellow connoisseuse. http://ift.tt/1ZwghbU :P #cheese #cheesemonger #food #foodies
