This One Falls Slowly

lucaskrech: Hooked

Mon, 20 May 2013 16:30:31 -0700

lucaskrech:

Hooked

Creepy bust of Robert Kennedy is is going to be staring at me...

Thu, 09 May 2013 10:17:29 -0700

Creepy bust of Robert Kennedy is is going to be staring at me all day. (at Youth Radio)

lucaskrech: global

Wed, 01 May 2013 20:39:22 -0700

lucaskrech:

global

cinephilearchive: Due to unprecedented demand, Steven...

Wed, 01 May 2013 08:49:26 -0700

cinephilearchive:

Due to unprecedented demand, Steven Soderbergh has given The San Francisco Film Society permission to release this video that was recorded initially only for archival purposes. The full transcript is also provided. —Steven Soderbergh: The State of Cinema Video & Transcript

With endless thanks to Ted Hope, The Executive Director of the San Francisco Film Society.

“Cinema is under assault,” Steven Soderbergh told an audience in San Francisco over the weekend. He said that the Hollywood studios are to blame and that moviegoers are their accomplices. “Fewer and fewer executives in the industry love movies,” Soderbergh continued, “There’s a total lack of leadership in my opinion, that’s what’s killing cinema.” The director’s remarks came at the San Francisco International Film Festival’s annual State of Cinema Address. It was a sort of Jerry Maguire memo, “Cinema is a specificity of vision. It’s as unique as a fingerprint. If it’s done well, you know exactly who made it,” Steven Soderbergh defined on Saturday, “Is there a difference between cinema and movies? If I ran team America, I’d say fuck ya. Cinema is something that is made, movies are seen.”

Soderbergh said that he needed $5 million to make his upcoming Liberace movie, Behind the Candelabra, which stars Michael Douglas as the famous piano player and Matt Damon as the musician’s lover. Yet he said that the studios needed the movie to gross $70 million to make it work financially. “No one has figured out how to lower the costs of marketing movies…no one,” Soderbergh said. “The thing that mystifies me is in terms of spending, is there anyone in the galaxy that doesn’t know Iron Man 2 is opening that weekend!?” He continued, ”Studios only gamble on openings instead of supporting filmmakers over the long haul. In my opinion, it’s about horses - not races.”

“Executives don’t get punished for making bombs the way filmmakers do,” Soderbergh charged, “So there’s no turnover with people who don’t know their own business.” “I’m spending so much time talking business and sexy math because this is what’s driving everything right now,” Soderbergh said. Yet he also sounded a few optimistic notes. So what would he do differently? “If I were running a studio, I’d get a Shane Carruth, a Barry Jenkins and an Amy Seimetz and ask ‘What do you wanna make?’” Soderbergh said, “I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect someone running a multi-billion dollar business to be able to identify talent. I’m wrong a lot, it doesn’t even raise my blood pressure anymore, maybe the audiences are happy, the studios are happy – maybe I’m wrong. Maybe everything is just fine,” Soderbergh said at one point near the end of his speech. The room erupted with some chuckles because clearly those in the audience agreed with him that everything isn’t just fine. —The World According to Steven: Insights from Soderbergh

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Wed, 01 May 2013 07:54:42 -0700

Caught this in the theater ahead of UPSTREAM COLOR on Saturday....

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:11:54 -0700

Caught this in the theater ahead of UPSTREAM COLOR on Saturday. Fascinating.

ROBOT | Liz Garbus

laughingsquid: Interactive Map Reveals Origins of San Francisco...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:01:58 -0700

laughingsquid:

Interactive Map Reveals Origins of San Francisco Place Names

More like this. Less nitpicking of other people’s creative endeavors, please.

laughingsquid: Everything Wrong With ‘Django Unchained’ In 4...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:01:07 -0700

laughingsquid:

Everything Wrong With ‘Django Unchained’ In 4 Minutes Or Less

I’m only reposting this here because I got 13 seconds in before the guy was complaining about how the movie doesn’t over-explain the exposition.

Arrogant nerds who want everything spelled out like a calculus problem need to be righteously shunned.

taylororci: That just might be your bitch face, and that’s...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:00:22 -0700

taylororci:

That just might be your bitch face, and that’s okay.

I wroted this :)

laughingsquid: Face Dance, Participants Control Michael Jackson...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:40:41 -0700

laughingsquid:

Face Dance, Participants Control Michael Jackson Avatar With Their Face in Interactive Installation

atencio: Tiny DTLA from the roof of City Hall Tower

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:29:45 -0700

atencio:

Tiny DTLA from the roof of City Hall Tower

atencio: Zodiac rotunda at LA City Hall

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:29:02 -0700

atencio:

Zodiac rotunda at LA City Hall

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Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:28:45 -0700

nossidge: i am the path along unseen heather Snowball (also...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:25:10 -0700

nossidge:

i
am
the
path
along
unseen
heather
Snowball (also called a Chaterism): A poem in which each line is a single word, and each successive word is one letter longer. One of the constrained writing techniques utilised by the Oulipo (Workshop of Potential Literature).
o
we
all
have
heard
people
believe
anything
Given the mathematical genesis of the Oulipo and the interest in the movement among other programmers, I thought that someone must have created a program to generate these, and I was surprised that I couldn’t find one even after some pretty thorough Googling. So I wrote one myself. The C++ code is here.

It takes input from a text file which contains novels from Project Gutenberg, scans for word pairs where the second word is longer by one letter, and builds up a poem using Markov chains.
i
am
the
dawn
light
before
anybody
expected
something
disorderly
The poems in this post were all created by the program. They have not been edited.
i
am
the
very
great
change

liztellsfrank: Hey, friends! This is just a humble reminder...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:10:10 -0700

liztellsfrank:

Hey, friends! This is just a humble reminder that Liz Tells Frank: Volume 2 is still available for $0.99!

It is also followed by a humble request for a favor: If you’ve already picked up a copy and you enjoyed it, perhaps leave a quick review on the Amazon page? This will help the book find its way into the Kindles and whatnots of other people. And hopefully they will enjoy it! And the circle of life continues. Happy weekend!

Instapaper acquired by Betaworks

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:17:06 -0700

Instapaper acquired by Betaworks:

instapaper:

Big (and very good) news!

Innnnnteresting.

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Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:16:43 -0700

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Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:05:58 -0700

lambjustin: I just realized I can’t tell a Carl Sagan quote...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:55:50 -0700

lambjustin:

I just realized I can’t tell a Carl Sagan quote from a Jor-El quote.

thisistheverge: ‘Crabitron’ is a ‘reverse Kickstarter’ that...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:52:05 -0700

thisistheverge:

‘Crabitron’ is a ‘reverse Kickstarter’ that lets you fund a game by actually buying it

Live out your dream of being a giant space crab

Haven’t clicked through but how the HELL is this a “reverse Kickstarter”?

Nearly all video game Kickstarter projects are pre-sales. Is the game already finished and they are…gasp…selling it? That’s not reverse Kickstarter. That’s basic fucking capitalism.