What a fascinating read!
Thankfully, we were not in danger of being displaced. Newsweek’s art director was calling to coordinate Stanley’s photo shoot. There was a two-day window. Great. No problem.
I was overloaded with last-minute deadlines and was preparing for an imminent trip to New York. But before running through our evening checklist, I wanted to confirm a time for the Newsweek shoot. Stanley didn’t look up from his desk, “Tell them I’ll take the picture. And I’ll need their specs.” I was stunned. “Stanley, this is the cover,” I said. “They have their photographer; you have photo approval.”
There would be no budging. “I’ll take the photograph,” he said. “Find out when they need the negatives in New York.”
Will Star Wars ever die?
C3PO Descending A Staircase – by John Mattos
via: theuniblog
Star Wars x Duchamp? Way dope.
Honestly, I can’t believe this took so long.
Above: The partial set from Citizen Kane consists of a foreground doorway and the butler (Paul Stewart), while Kane (Orson Welles) stands on a distant soundstage floor.
Below: The final, deep-focus image was completed with a matte painting by Chesley Bonestell. The live-action elements of the doorway in the foreground and Kane in the background were optically composited with a painted hallway, columns, and floor. The distant reflection of Kane on the floor was painted as well.
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MFP
Music video for M.I.A, Bad Girls, 2012, directed by Romain Gravas.
The new dystopia. See also, Saudi Women Driving Videos.
Desert swagger.
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“Crushed, underneath an overturned Semi”
Among the topics of discussion are the many liberties, large and small, that Kubrick took with the original novel. Mr. King, who declined to comment for this article, has never concealed his dislike for the film and the way the director changed and discarded scenes, themes and details. In the book Jack’s Volkswagen is red; in the film it’s yellow. No big thing, until one discovers that King’s red VW actually did make it into the film, crushed underneath an overturned semi.
I will now try to use the phrase, “crushed, underneath an overturned semi” as much as possible.
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Indy loves mentos.
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http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1
Painfully accurate. painfully.
Also, nice touch on the street roots newspaper. Awesome call out.
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“If it’s the pinnacle of capitalism, we should be worried.”
Apple executives say that going overseas, at this point, is their only option. One former executive described how the company relied upon a Chinese factory to revamp iPhone manufacturing just weeks before the device was due on shelves. Apple had redesigned the iPhone’s screen at the last minute, forcing an assembly line overhaul. New screens began arriving at the plant near midnight.
A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company’s dormitories, according to the executive. Each employee was given a biscuit and a cup of tea, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift fitting glass screens into beveled frames. Within 96 hours, the plant was producing over 10,000 iPhones a day.
– Jared Bernstein
I have a “no helicopter” rule, just because I can’t figure out what to do with a helicopter that hasn’t been done, and still is appropriate for whatever film you’re making. I’m sure there’s some crazy shit nobody’s done, but the point is, you shouldn’t be doing crazy shit just because it’s crazy shit. That’s something you always get asked when you’re going and making a road movie like this. The unit production manager will ask you, “Do we need a helicopter?” and I say, “No. No helicopters.”
Steven Soderbergh
Rule 1. (to kill expectation)
Go into the film without having read or watched anything. Trailers are acceptable, as they are sometimes created by film directors themselves, though even that sometimes is questionable.
Rule 2. (to kill projection)
Assess what the film is trying to say or achieve within the realm of what kind of movie it is trying to be. Do not project your own expectations. Let the film dictate the level of expectation, be that tonally, narratively or conceptually.
Then, assess how well you think the film reaches whatever goals it set out to achieve.
Rule 3. (to kill hype)
Don’t talk about the film with anyone who has not seen it, except if you’re encouraging them to go see it. Only discuss the film with those that have seen it, and discuss it »
good:
How Oliberte, the Anti-TOMS, Makes Shoes and Jobs in Africa
Canadian Tal Dehtiar founded Oliberté Footwear, the first company to make premium shoes in Africa using African materials and explicitly linking shoes sold by Western retailers to job creation on the continent.
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Now THAT’S an artist’s rendition of a far-away planet I can get behind. I don’t usually go for those, since so few are based in real science.
This one, however, is different. HD209458b is a planet orbiting a star not unlike our sun. By studying its atmospheric makeup using the Hubble Space Telescope and predicting how light would bend in that chemical makeup, Frédéric Pont made this scientific interpretation of what a sunset would look like if you were on this planet, 150 light-years away.
But don’t think about that right now. It’s just really pretty,
(via Bad Astronomy)
The Invention of the Modern Box-Office Report
Word quickly spread that Stanley had a computerized system to track theaters and grosses based on technical information he had acquired while developing HAL 9000, the all-knowing computer in 2001. For months these stories persisted in the trades as the roster of Clockwork cinemas was refined. They were neither confirmed nor denied.