For fuckās sake, I get these kids in my workshops and theyāre like, I donāt know how, I donāt have the equipment, I donātā¦
And when they get that they donāt need the equipment, that no oneās ever gonna give them the foolproof solution to what they want to express, thatās when the best stuff comes out.
It seems silly that Vine was six seconds only. Until kids (cāmon you know it was almost all young people) started using that silly thing to make wild, wild and incredibly told stories. With no judgement over their heads and no snobbish expectations directed at them, they created an entirely new language of editing, which, by the way, big-name films are drawing inspiration from, thank you very much. Go watch The Big Short and tell me Iām wrong.
The language of movies changes with innovations, with, yes, GIMMICKS. Do you know why Citizen Kane is such a monumentally important work? Itās not because itās such a profound and well-told story. Itās because of the camera angles. Somehow no one had really thought to put the camera down on the floor before Orson Welles did.Ā
Six seconds of footage only? Thatās a mistake, a scrap, an unusable bit of nothing.
Camera on the floor? At a weird angle? Did someone drop it? Unusuable, spoiled footage. Or a weird gimmick.
What aboutĀ ātalkiesā? Undignified and profane, ew.
What about youtube? Old youtube. Whatās the point of putting videos online if the quality is so shitty you can barely watch them?
Gifs? Man, who thought looping a bit of video into an embeddable image made any sense when you can just watch the film itself. Oh, btw, Gifs used to be way smaller and have a limited palette. Why anyone bothered trying to do anything with that format is beyond me. Waste of time.
Computer graphics? Eeeeh, gimmick.
*throws hands up and stomps away, growling and spitting*
this is āthe villain helps the heroes take down a more evil villainā trope come to life
*looks outside to see if pigs are flying*
if you told me a few years ago that Iād be reblogging a gifset of Mitt Romney, agreeing with every word he said, I would NOT have believed you.
4 years ago this is the last thing I ever thought I would put on my blog, me agreeing with Mittens over & over & now I donāt know whatās real life anymore.
Shipwrecked Comedy and American Black Market proudly present: Chapter Four of Edgar Allan Poeās Murder Mystery Dinner Party – āA Descent Into the Maelstrƶmā
Sensing a dearth of stupid ideas, Ernest Hemingway moves to split up and explore the house, but is his motive to catch a killer, to woo Annabel, or the third thing in this list of things?
This episodeās transmedia prompt is: Secret Passageway. Ā Let your imagination run wild! If you would like to participate, you have until Saturday September 18th at 11:59 pm PDT to get in your entries, and Sunday September 19th each member of Shipwrecked will pick an entry to be featured and reblogged here on Shipwreckedās official tumblr. Entries of all types are encouragedāfan fic, fan art, crafts, playlists, whatever our prompt inspires you to create! Be sure and tag your entries poe party ftw to be considered.
I thought the first episode did a great job of introducing so many characters with fun nudges and winks at literary tradition and pop culture surrounding great writers and their works. This is not a period drama. This is meta and it plays with popular conceptions and misconceptions of great writers in a really delightful way, playing fast and loose with time periods, conventions, and meta.
The second episode foundered a little bit and I wondered if the slightly longer than normal (for youtube) episodes were going to work. The third episode picked up steam. This (the 4th) episode is great and MKW finally got something she could sink her teeth into. Her set down of Hemingway and Poe. Beautiful.
A Tell Tale Vlog was wonderful because Sean and Sinead are great on camera. It was fresh and engaging. They both have great presence and fantastic comedic timing. ATTV was a very low budget productionāthe lighting works, but is not what Iād call good. But they made it seem part and parcel instead of it being a detraction. The more things I see Sean do, the more impressed I am by his deadpan wit, unexpected comebacks, and line deliveries. The weird little mumbles. Sinead I could watch all day just dropping vodka shots into wine and doing the worldās most disgusting boiler-makers.
Iāve been gone! This is where! From now until March Iām trying to complete one story sequence a week. Some are mine, others (like this) are stories I love and want a shot at re-imagining.
Thoughts!
1. The frosty setting is more symbolic than historically accurateāHamilton and Burr dueled in July.
2. My goal was to finish the boards in a week. It took five days! My speed is improving.
3. When there is a Hamilton movie, it shouldnāt look anything like this. Just wanted to stretch my imagination a little.The best presentation for this monologue is one actor under a spotlight in a dark theater. @linmanuel @leslieodomjr hope you donāt mind the creative liberties. Your performances on the soundtrack are outstanding!
āMy 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 āconā list was pretty normal: time, money, things like that. I remember at the top of the āproā list was: āFull Human Experience.ā 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: āFull Human Experience.ā The first three months were the hardest. Honestly, we wondered if weād 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. Thereās an unexpected sadness to getting your life back. Itās like your getting laid off slowly from an equally grueling but joyful job. Sheās ten now. And Iāll notice that sheāll be reading alone for an hour without getting bored and jumping on me. We used to make tents on the bed, now itās more homework and YouTube. Sometimes sheāll go in her room for a long time and close the door. Her life is becoming hers and Iām fascinated by where itās going to go. But itās bittersweet that she needs me less and less.ā
The only white painted full lifeās are war pups, otherwise apparently even imperator level war boys (full black and shiny greased heads) wear the white paint. The only ones wearing white on the Gigahorse is Immortan Joe and Nux, the rest were paintless and without tumors.
Good call whoever that was that pointed out when Furiosa says āredemptionā theyāre using shadows to paint her forehead black.
The only cars really able to catch up to the war rig going at full is the nux car and the interceptor, otherwise there were things like harpoons slowing the rig down. The rough riders were able to catch up as well.
Increasingly suspecting that Nux was highly ranked/regarded at least within war boy circles until the tumors started wrecking him. There are not that many cars with as many lances as his car has, not even in Furiosaās convoy. I wonder if heād had other lancers but theyād abandoned him, because thereās usually more than one per car.
Lances are rare (thus valuable) but guns are even more so. Thatās why Ace had to get Furiosa out of the drivers seat to shoot up one of the spikey cars, nobody else had one. The most they had were lances and blow torches.
Now think about how many guns Furiosa had access to.
Fairly sure at this point that the direct gaze is a near direct consequence of center framing but it has amazing implications for gaze, voyeurism, and humanization. Will be posting more on this during the weekend, unless I get sidetracked by horror movie v fugitive movie visual tropes.
Not only were the wives not generally framed for objectification but there were many times when they were posed so that their bodies were shapeless lumps or was hidden by props like car doors and seat backs.
Max is such a tank, Nux may be way taller but his arms are so puny in comparison. But then Rictus is on a whole other level of ridiculous size, he was able to toss Max around like a doll. I really wanna see Furiosa fight Rictus though, because apparently sheās the only one Rictus canāt get past to get at the wives. The beat down must be epic.
Random headcanon that the bone on the knife is from Furiosaās mother.
This movie is such a feast I swear. I managed to get video of several moments I wanted to talk about tho, welp, now my phone has no more space.
Apparently cinema employees donāt know how long a movie will be playing until the last minute when they tell them to take down the posters.
How, then, am I supposed to plan out the rest of my life???
Inorite? I want to see it again next week, but maybe by then itās too late. But Friday afternoon is not really convenient for me. On the other hand, it might be my last chance. Aaaaaahhhhhh.
Thereās always piracy. Which I feel no qualms about here because I already went twice and will buy the dvd as soon as it comes out. But I want to see it again on the big screen!!!
I canāt go tomorrow, too much work to do, and Iāll be in the forest from friday til tuesday. I love the forest, I really do, but those walks through swamps and glades wonāt be as serene as I had hoped if I have engines roaring in my head.
The closest cinema will be an hourās drive away and theyāre not even playing the damn movie!
Oh, I will probably stream it quite a lot, until the DVD is out. And leaf through the art book obsessively. Butā¦but, but big screen! And I donāt even want to think about the sound. Mr Ook and me will be getting a home cinema or whatever you call them in English at one point, thatās a consolation. Not exactly the same, but better than watching it on my laptop.
I need the art book, I justā¦canāt spend that right now.Ā
This is insane, Iāve gone completely bonkers for this film, itās like Iām in love or on crack. Itās just a movie! With all the limits of a movie! Itās not frickinā religion or love or a life calling, itās a stupid movie.
And Iāve been playing it over and over in my head for eleven straight days now. My blog? it was kinda random before, now you see what it has become.Ā
I donāt want to talk or think about anything else.
Iām kinda scared actually??
Iāve pre-purchased the Amazon Instant Video version and Iām checking it every day going IS IT UP YEEEETTTT? Ā Iāll see it this week in the theater again (5th timeā¦not that Iām counting), but itās going to leave soooooon. Ā I already missed the chance to see it a second time in 3D, which I really wanted to do, cause Iāll never have 3D again – aaaaugh! Ā It was so effinā spectacular in 3D *sob*.
I havenāt torrented anything in nearly a decade and donāt plan to start :P But if I did, the justification ofĀ āpaid for 11 theater tickets, paid for Amazon streaming AND bought BluRayā would be inspiring a kind of righteous entitlement manic cheer LOL!
THIS FUCKINā MOVIE
[and here we have a demo of what this movie is doing to our psyches]
tumblr should not be allowed to sponsor posts that have scary gory shit on them. I donāt even get scared that easily, but I know for some people that stuff could send them into a panic attack.Ā
All the other sponsored stuff is stupid and annoying, but thatās just not right.Ā
āThereās not one Internet for deep-pocketed corporations and a separate Internet for everyone else ā thereās the Internet, and it belongs to all of us. Thatās the way itās always been. And thatās the way it should continue to be.
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But the FCC could change all of that by giving big Internet providers ā corporations like Comcast, Time Warner Cable, AT&T, and Verizon ā the power to pick and choose which traffic reaches consumers quicklyāand which doesnāt.
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Net neutrality has made the Internet a platform for innovation and economic growth. For example, YouTube started as a relatively small outfit above a pizzeria in a strip mall. YouTube wanted to compete with Google, which had an online video product called Google Video (later Google Videos). Net neutrality guaranteed that YouTubeās and Googleās videos would travel to consumers at the same speeds. Google wasnāt able to pay for a fast lane or any other unfair advantage. Even though Google was a bigger, wealthier, more established company, it had to compete with YouTube on a level playing field. And YouTube ultimately won because it offered a better product.
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Thatās what net neutrality is all about. Thereās not one Internet for deep-pocketed corporations and a separate Internet for everyone else ā thereās the Internet, and it belongs to all of us. Thatās the way itās always been. And thatās the way it should continue to be.
There arenāt many places left where every American can participate on an equal footing with deep-pocketed corporate interests. Our campaign finance laws are in shambles, giving uber-wealthy, often-anonymous groups free rein to amplify their voices over those of the general population. Our tax code is littered with special benefits for special interests. The rules of our civil justice system have been rewritten to insulate corporations from wrongdoing against workers and consumers. But the Internet remains an arena where the quality of oneās products, the value of oneās services, and the persuasiveness of oneās ideas matter more than the depth of oneās pockets. The FCC needs to keep it that way.ā
Michael: I work for my family’s newspaper, I play a lot of video games, and I smoke a lot of —
Wendy: Hams! Yes you do. You smoke those hams, and they’re delicious.
lily and james | 500 days of summer-esque (kinda-)au
I just really wanna know about how they made it rain I want to see pictures of the rigs
I have a whole video for that once the series is concluded. I scoured the internet looking up different rain rigs, we landed on two of which were quite simple and one which was a little more involved with PVC pipe and sprinkler head nozzles. We used different rigs in different shots. Our DP
figured out where the rain could fall in relation to the lights and camera – lights are just important as the rigs themselves to get the rain to read on camera. We ran camera tests of the rain before production to compare how the rigs worked individually. My lovely mechanical engineering roommate who designs theme parks and roller coasters as her real life job helped me a lot through the building of the main rig.
Jeremy Brett was dying, and knew he was dying, in the last handful of episodes he filmed. According to his coworkers, near the end, he sank deeper and deeper into the character; being Sherlock Holmes seemed to be the only thing that gave him comfort.Ā
I read the books before I ever saw a film version, and youād be hard-pressed to find an actor as Holmes I donāt like, but Jeremy Brett was my first, and he will always be my Holmes.Ā
