September 2008
22 posts
Why Make Movies?
In cinema we have the unique opportunity to communicate through FILMSPACE, a kind of illusion specific to the moving image that can simultaneously suggest objective reality and subjective reality in a potentially transcendent gestalt.
In traditional Hollywood cinema, we see the reliance on suspension of disbelief, the premise that we are watching an objective reality with the privilege of...
Clarification
exacting excellence is not arrogance;
excusing mediocrity is not compassion.
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WatchFish Stew Show Down. STraight8 No cuts.
“I’D PREFER NOT TO!”
– scrivenerbly
“Nothing is ‘more admirable than the transition from the arbitrary to the...”
– Paul Valery in “Degas, Dance, Drawing (viatimetravelswithoutamachine)
GOP
party of sniveling weasels
DOINONIOD
i call into question the pervasive idea in our culture that one must always be doing *something*. i say better to do nothing than to do something which causes harm.
if people simplified their lives and were satisfied with less, many problems would go away on their own.