cinematic, classic, circus, beautiful
Saturday, 11 March 2023
Jared Halley - "Pirates Of the Caribbean (He's a Pirate)" a capella
bloody fucking amazing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPLVszsHANo
Teddie Films (ft Israel Curtis, Ryan Richardson) - "The Star Wars that I Used To Know"
amazing joke on the Gotye song
Promare
Amazing anime, lots of computer anime taking the visual into abstractions (2D triangles floating to represent blood, dust, ...)
Half Life / Half Life 2 story telling
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-narrative-had-to-be-baked-into-the-corridors-marc-laidlaw-on-writing-half-life
he was a rationalist rather than a populist - oppressing with appeals to reason, not emotion.
(this is not directly important to the story or the game or the article but the sentence itself is amazing)
[Marc] Laidlaw had the dev team explain the stories they were trying to tell, and helped them solve narrative problems through level design. “Lots of traps and detours and obstacles and occasional moments of breakthrough,” he says. “Really good level design tells its own story. You don’t need NPCs popping up to tell you what to do if your visual grammar is clear enough. Then when characters do pop up, they can say lines of dialogue that make them feel like characters instead of signposts.”
Wednesday, 8 March 2023
Monday, 6 March 2023
Censor
Quite good horror film where the censor slowly goes mad because of the terror she watches all the time.
words with no English equivalent
the Danish word hygge. It means the comfortable, secure, and enjoyable feeling of a space, a gathering, an event. “Last night was so hyggelig”, or “your house is hyygglig”. I love it. Snuggly
Mono no aware - Japanese. Untranslatable, but roughly: wistful melancholy at the realization that living is ephemeral (over too soon).
Saudade - Portuguese. Also untranslatable but, approximately: The sadness of deep longing for one’s true homeland.
Կարոտ (karot / garod) — the state of longing for a place, time, person/s, interactions, events or even things, usually one’s home, homeland, loved ones. Similar to saudade but even more complex
The word "yalla" in Lebanese dialect has many meanings depending on its context. Could mean "I'm coming" or "hurry up", can be used to cheer someone on, or even be like a verbal "shrug".
Irish: craic. Example usage: "The craic was great". Meaning: you enjoyed yourself / had a fun time / were entertained and laughed a lot / had good chats / in good company. Can also mean news or gossip, i.e "What's the craic?" = "Any news?"
the Hungarian hiányérzet, which is the feeling that some unnamed, unknown thing that you can't quite put your finger on is missing.
Indonesian.
Kami = refers to a group of people that includes the speaker but not the person being spoken to.
Kita = refers to a group of people that includes the speaker & the person being spoken to.
in English, both words are simply referred to as "we".
Arabic: soubhiyé. That quiet time when you’re the only one awake in the house and can enjoy a cup of coffee before the day starts
I love 'sobremesa' in Spanish, which describes that chill time around the table with those you love - normally after you've finished eating, and you're just chatting and connecting
My favourite is the Japanese "Tsujigiri", the term for trying out your newly acquired sword by decapitating a random passer-by...
the Japanese word tsundoku (積ん読), meaning acquiring books and letting them pile up without reading them.
My grandfather would say the Finnish word "sisu." Loosely translated, "stoic determination, tenacity of purpose, grit, bravery, resilience and hardiness," but it's hard to describe in English. You might hate doing a thing, but the thing has to be done, so you will do the thing.
Titane
Worthy successor, the director, of David Cronenberg, as she made yet another amazing body horror film. Girl with titanium skull has strange obsessions.
Director said it’s the second installment, after Raw, of films exploring unquestioned, unlimited love.
Flotsam, jetsam, lagan, derelict
Flotsam - cargo that fell overboard
Jetsam - cargo jettisoned overboard intentionally
Lagan - cargo at the bottom of the sea, still retrievable
Derelict - cargo at the bottom of the sea, irretrievable
Sunday, 5 March 2023
Bones and All
Fun quiet cannibal roadtrip where a young girl finds out her cannibal background (and that of her mum, who ate her own hands) and goes on a roadtrip with a fellow "eater"
Twice or so interesting edit with quick "zoom" shots.
Friday, 3 March 2023
Undone
doing a bit of a weird thing with shaving and bathroom cleaning after midnight, but this seems great.
Existential, time travel.
Thursday, 2 March 2023
Diego Crespo - "Geek Mythology: The Religious, and Spiritual Folklore surrounding Programming"
https://www.deusinmachina.net/p/geek-mythology-the-religious-and
A Koan is a Zen Buddhist story, question, or dialogue that is told to provoke a deeper understanding of a subject. Many programmers count themselves as Zen Buddhists. Whether due to the stress of Silicon Valley, or the insanity that comes from trying to speak to something as unfeeling or unforgiving as a computer, that drives them to Buddhism.
Philip Rogaway - "The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work"
https://notes.ekzhang.com/papers/moral-crypto
The document would become known as the Russell-Einstein manifesto. [...] It speaks of the existential threat to mankind posed by nuclear weapons. Its final passage sounds desperately plaintive as Russell writes:
We appeal, as human beings, to human beings: Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. If you can do so, the way lies open to a new Paradise; if you cannot, there lies before you the risk of universal death.
James B. Stewart - "Disneywar"
all the shit happening at Disney...
Despite his frugality, Eisner was on occasion willing to take financial risks. After two other studios balked at the high projected costs, and even Diller opposed the project on financial ground, Eisner signed Star Wars writer George Lucas, director Steven Spielberg, and actor Harrison Ford to make Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. With $240 million in U.S. box-office receipts, it became a "franchise," a huge hit that spawned a series of highly profitable sequels.
[Eisner complained about Diller, "not coming to work before 11am". Katzenberg was often described as their "golden retriever"]
[Roy] was particularly upset that Walt would now claim ownership of the Disney name. It had been bad enough when Walt insisted on changing the name of the company from Disney Brothers Productions to Walt Disney Productions to reflect his creative role. Even so, Roy grudgingly acquiresced rather than prompt a showdown with Walt.
citing Walt's adage that the only publicity worth the money was free. When Tron finished its opening weekend in a dismal sixth place, Walker still refused to increase advertising, insisting that word of mouth would come to the rescue. Much of the $17 million cost had to be written off.
In 1962, [Miller] and Diane had watched To Kill A Mockingbird with Walt and Lillian at their home screening room. When it was over, everyone was moved, and Walt said, "I wish I could make movies like that." Even Walt had felt constrained by the Disney brand. As he put it in one outburst, "I've worked my whole life to create the image of what 'Walt Disney' is. It's not me. I smoke, and I drink, and all the things that we don't want the public to think about." Miller had vowed that someday he would make adult films at Disney.
Eisner soon experienced firsthand the fate of deposed studio heads. Michale Ovitz was at Eisner's home one evening when Eisner called Morton's restaurant to book a table, only to be told that nothing was available. "Let me call," Ovitz said, and quickly secured a reservation for Eisner.
"In Hollywood, you're only as good as your job," Eisner commented, sounding dejected.
Wednesday, 1 March 2023
Neon Yang - "The Tensorate Series"
Took me less time to get used to the gender neutral "they" than I expected.
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