While I'm working on my big ambitious video, I did a new installment of Tight Focus. This time, I'm looking at Andrew Bujalski's 2013 film Computer Chess, and how it uses its outdated video cameras. youtu.be/F2CRf0W-4qw
AVC-3260 video in Computer Chess (2013) - Tight Focus # 4
YouTube video by Hollandspiele
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Always funny to be reminded of The OA, "what if you could stop a mass shooting by praise dancing?" and you weren't immediately picked up by the scruff of the neck and thrown out of the pitch meeting. The "money is fake" years of streaming saw some things.
Jane Fonda reads Garfield, while Tom Hayden reads Mad Magazine. The extra legs belong to Fonda's children Troy Garity and Vanessa Vadim. 📷 Steve Schapiro, 1982 Wait - I’m two kids & a dog short!
Always funny to be reminded of The OA, "what if you could stop a mass shooting by praise dancing?" and you weren't immediately picked up by the scruff of the neck and thrown out of the pitch meeting. The "money is fake" years of streaming saw some things.
I guess that the best argument, for me, against AI is that everyone advocating it seems to be a psychopath.
Of the new experiments, the only one I wouldn't revisit is Atlantic Rim. And that's not on them, that's just how punishingly awful and joyless I find that whole Asylum school of filmmaking.
iknowthezarbi 🏳️🌈@iknowthezarbi.bsky.social · 17h agoI’m seeing Avalanche, Cry Wilderness (cry laughing, more like) and Beyond Atlantis being mentioned a lot, which I heartily agree with. Funny how it’s rarely the films you’d *think* would make the best riff-fodder that turn out to be their masterpieces.
I’m sorry, but if you bring a cow as white as milk, a cape as red as blood, hair as yellow as corn, a slipper as pure as gold - or any damn potion ingredient at all - to a job interview, you’re disqualified. It’s not hard, people.
Also, there's no fucking need to produce art faster. It's not food. If an animated movie, or a book, or a music album takes five years to make, then so be it. "We need to make it faster" is a capitalistic mindset, and it's there to benefit the owners of corporations, not the workers/customers.
The Paramount–Warner Bros. Merger By The Numbers https://theonion.com/the-paramount-warner-bros-merger-by-the-numbers/
The real-life story that inspired the film is just as remarkable: How a small group of young women in Boston launched a movement to organize secretaries that transformed how women are treated in the workplace.
9 to 5: Inside The Movement That Inspired the Iconic Film
When Dolly Parton died recently, radio stations and music streamers filled our ears with her irresistible anthem, “9 to 5.” The song topped the music charts and was nominated for an Osc…
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"Honky Tonk Women," Leon Russell & Friends. youtu.be/eRlkIunIU-c?...
Leon Russell & Friends 1971 -Honky Tonk Woman
YouTube video by Mike Zieroth
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Of the new experiments, the only one I wouldn't revisit is Atlantic Rim. And that's not on them, that's just how punishingly awful and joyless I find that whole Asylum school of filmmaking.
iknowthezarbi 🏳️🌈@iknowthezarbi.bsky.social · 17h agoI’m seeing Avalanche, Cry Wilderness (cry laughing, more like) and Beyond Atlantis being mentioned a lot, which I heartily agree with. Funny how it’s rarely the films you’d *think* would make the best riff-fodder that turn out to be their masterpieces.
Same here, Beyond Atlantis a repeat watch for her.
Rob Humanick@rhumanick.bsky.social · 18h agoLords of the Deep is one of the few that really stand out for me. I also wish we had more episodes with Emily
"Honky Tonk Women," Leon Russell & Friends. youtu.be/eRlkIunIU-c?...
Leon Russell & Friends 1971 -Honky Tonk Woman
YouTube video by Mike Zieroth
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The moment in the host segment for Cry Wilderness where Jonah belly laughs as the bots so increasingly destructive scenes is when I knew the new crew Got It.
crimsondynamo4.bsky.social@crimsondynamo4.bsky.social · 19h agoBeyond Atlantis is the one I enjoyed the most, that or Cry Wilderness
G.P.C as The Grimace spilling balls from her mouth made me laugh so hard I cried the first time I saw it.
MMissRori@missrori.bsky.social · 19h ago
Well I think I go back to The Day Time Ended the most, but Mac & Me might be the purest distillation of the modern approach, starting with the choice of subject. Hard to choose!
So glad I caught that one in the theater.
Brad Hart@bradhartmusic.bsky.social · 19h agoSting Of Death felt like the old stuff.
Same here, Beyond Atlantis a repeat watch for her.
Rob Humanick@rhumanick.bsky.social · 18h agoLords of the Deep is one of the few that really stand out for me. I also wish we had more episodes with Emily
"Get him a coke! Get him a coooooooooooooookkkkkkkkeeeeeeeee!"
muscular baby jeb lund@mobute.bsky.social · 18h agoMac and Me, with runners up Mac and Me and Mac and Me.
"Get him a coke! Get him a coooooooooooooookkkkkkkkeeeeeeeee!"
muscular baby jeb lund@mobute.bsky.social · 18h agoMac and Me, with runners up Mac and Me and Mac and Me.
Starcrash might be my pick, "It's cool, my dad's the dean."
Hilarius@hilarius.bsky.social · 19h agoWait until the Rifftrax experiments are done, but StarCrash is up there and Sting of Death was amazing
Inflammable mom with a drinking problem meeting her end makes me laugh way too hard.
Arends@aarendsvark.bsky.social · 19h agoI might not say best, but I keep coming back to Avalanche.
Placing my iced Crow on the desk, not breaking eye contact with the job interviewer.
