"Remember that no color, light, shadow, or reflection is there by mistake in a film." I always advise caution on that one, because there are plenty of mistakes in films (though they are likelier to involve the 'mise en scene' and the background.)
There's the Grand Canyon, and then there's Nino Castelnuovo chin.
The trick to preserve the original color scheme really impressed me. People forget how transitory so much of this stuff really is. One of the reasons why I heartily approve of the digital preservation of books in some form or other of cloud storage. For example:
The data from the Pioneer, Viking, Voyager, and Galileo space probes (and speak to later probes, because I was no longer working in the SFOF when they came along) was all stored on 9-track digital reel-to-reel tape. No more than 10% of that data has actually been read and processed. It is unlikely that any part of the remaining 90% will ever be read, because the machines to read it simply no longer exist, and the tapes themselves have decayed to the point where it likely would make no difference even if someone some how kluged together a reader.
I feel better about never having seen "La La Land."
This right here made me think of a book I just read with a similarly heartbreaking theme: "And when hard choices must be made, it’s never disapproval you feel, only a sad acceptance that life is complicated, it doesn’t come in a Skittles’ bag of rainbow colors, and at the end of the day, most of us must, and do, adapt ourselves to our circumstances. That might be the most poignant truth of all."
Check out Alison Stein's Trashlands, it's a wonderfully thoughtful story, in part, on what it means to live in poverty in a post-apocalyptic Appalachia and how art is something that is critical, no matter the circumstances.
"Remember that no color, light, shadow, or reflection is there by mistake in a film." I always advise caution on that one, because there are plenty of mistakes in films (though they are likelier to involve the 'mise en scene' and the background.)
There's the Grand Canyon, and then there's Nino Castelnuovo chin.
The trick to preserve the original color scheme really impressed me. People forget how transitory so much of this stuff really is. One of the reasons why I heartily approve of the digital preservation of books in some form or other of cloud storage. For example:
The data from the Pioneer, Viking, Voyager, and Galileo space probes (and speak to later probes, because I was no longer working in the SFOF when they came along) was all stored on 9-track digital reel-to-reel tape. No more than 10% of that data has actually been read and processed. It is unlikely that any part of the remaining 90% will ever be read, because the machines to read it simply no longer exist, and the tapes themselves have decayed to the point where it likely would make no difference even if someone some how kluged together a reader.
I feel better about never having seen "La La Land."
Yes, I should have more carefully qualified that. But Gares...do yourself a favor and NEVER see La La Land. You will possibly vomit ;-)
This right here made me think of a book I just read with a similarly heartbreaking theme: "And when hard choices must be made, it’s never disapproval you feel, only a sad acceptance that life is complicated, it doesn’t come in a Skittles’ bag of rainbow colors, and at the end of the day, most of us must, and do, adapt ourselves to our circumstances. That might be the most poignant truth of all."
Check out Alison Stein's Trashlands, it's a wonderfully thoughtful story, in part, on what it means to live in poverty in a post-apocalyptic Appalachia and how art is something that is critical, no matter the circumstances.
ON IT. Are you kidding? A recommendation from a smart, thoughtful person? Imma read the you-know-what out of that book.