Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Oliver Stone's 'Snowden' w/ q&a tonight!
Film review excerpt- The Village Voice: The director also senses in Snowden's restlessness the signs, perhaps, of a kindred soul. "When you're really happy, there's a large part of you that wants to stay happy," our hero reflects. "Lots of people cruise happily through life. Why can't I?" I wouldn't be surprised if this is a question Oliver Stone has at times asked himself. p.s. Eliot
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Temperature regulated storage archive.
bye, Jill Ireland.
p.s. On the other side of things regarding temperature control, this is what a 4 terrabyte external portable harddrive looks like - not overheated- as it backs up about a week's worth of editorial cuts and sound work...
Sunday, September 11, 2016
9.11.
This day 9 11 may soon be marked as the most infamous calendar day in our country's history, for more reasons than one. Every day gets scarier and scarier in this election cycle. And nothing happening before our eyes and ears appears to be mortally 'rigged.' At all.
and then this...
p.s.
deplorable photography promo ...
http://www.upworthy.com/a-man-studied-photography-in-prison-these-are-the-photos-he-took-when-he-got-out
Saturday, September 10, 2016
Friday, September 9, 2016
Thursday, September 8, 2016
Things we shall never truly know.
Despite the blatant theft of the Errol Morris camera interview aesthetic, this NETFLIX project shall be quite an interesting tabloid character study. And, probably will be very educational with regards to the terrors that inhabit our unchartered judicial systems. bye.
Wednesday, September 7, 2016
"Film acting in many ways is the opposite of theatrical acting which is something that you can repeat and repeat and repeat, over and over again, where film acting is something that you want to have the opportunity to create something that can only happen once in front of a camera."
- director Ira Sachs on the magic of actors
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
North Dakota fight pepper spray and pipeline construction on their burial grounds.
"On Saturday, Dakota Access Pipeline and Energy Transfer Partners brazenly used bulldozers to destroy our burial sites, prayer sites and culturally significant artifacts," said tribal chairman David Archambault II in a press statement. "They did this on a holiday weekend, one day after we filed court papers identifying these sacred sites," Archambault added. "The desecration of these ancient places has already caused the Standing Rock Sioux irreparable harm. We're asking the court to halt this path of destruction." The emergency motion came after security forces hired by the pipeline company attacked Indigenous demonstrators with dogs and pepper spray on Saturday.
bye.
bye.
Monday, September 5, 2016
Sunday, September 4, 2016
Crackle this up.
Watchin' movies on the freebie movie app 'Crackle' makes ya feel like ya got cable when ya don't because of the commercial breaks. It's kinda great. And, they have 'Conan the Barbarian' and 'The Dead Zone' uploaded there this month. The Conan soundtrack is superb, but casting is Hollywood blasé. Special FX are cheesy fun against such a serious orquestral sonic backdrop. Good times, Mr. Labor Day weekend.
Bye.
Bye.
Saturday, September 3, 2016
Designing/composing film soundtrack to new scene footage.
hours. and hours. and more hours. work. work. and more work.
bye and must shave.
One step at a time.
Great song by that 80's band Survivor, but not sure if any band hired to write a song for those early Rocky franchise films stunk. Honestly, all of the first four Rocky movie soundtrack tunes would inspire any able person to wanna run up a steep flight of steps. Including Sergei Einstein's infamous 1925 Odessa steps scene...
bye , bye.
Excellent and horrifying documentary(ies).
p.s. One more horrifying documentary recommendation by dir. Brett Morgen
bye bye.
The Immersive Media movement.
The physical media world mixed with an immersive virtual storytelling environment movement..."that is the magic of cinema art, an ability to become transported."
www.storycode.org
StoryCode is a global movement and network for cross-platform, immersive and interactive storytellers. With chapters in Boston, New York, Paris, Washington DC, Barcelona, and San Francisco with an ethos that is inspired by open-source culture, a commitment to shared learning and creativity. StoryCode specifically is meant to embrace the growing world of storytellers experimenting on the many emerging mediums. Each chapter hosts regular events, which are free and open to the public.
Friday, September 2, 2016
From Rouen, with love.
"For roughly 50 years (from about 1930 until 1981), the only available editions of The Passion of Joan of Arc were bastardized ones, some with as much as 40% of the material excised by censors.
In 1981, an intact version of the original cut was discovered in a mental institution in Oslo."
'THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC.'
This classic is now available via Criterion.
bye.
Thursday, September 1, 2016
Vinegar syndrome camphor w/ no bend cooking stains.
Film was mounted on 2 x 1600' reels and printed on Eastman color film stock. No Vinegar Syndrome. Print has leaders and countdowns. Some people want to know, "how long is this film"? Well that's an interesting question. Sound films run at 24 frames per second, but silent films were often shot at a slower rate, 18 frames per second. This means that while a 400' reel of sound movies runs about 11 minutes long, a similar 400' reel of silent movies will run 14.5 minutes or so if projected at the proper speed. Similarly, a 100' reel of film will run three to four minutes. People ask about vinegar odor and/or the "mothball" smell. The mothball or camphor smell is a residue left over from camphor oil which was recommended by Kodak to keep films supple. Back in the 20s and 30s Kodascope film cans actually had a paper filter built into them which could be saturated with a drop of camphor oil, and it seems to have worked effectively. Camphor use on movie film was discontinued during WWII due to military use of camphor. But, a different situation is if a film is emitting a vinegar odor, that indicates it is beginning to deteriorate. Films that have light vinegar odor are almost always projectable and can be telecined. Films with heavier levels of odor or full blown "vinegar syndrome" -- an extreme version of the problem - require care, treatment with chemicals or molecular sieves, or other handling or repair before transfer. In some extreme cases they may not be salvageable. That was not the case with this transfer, thankful;ly (intended typo in order to play with my new mechanical loud glow keyboard).
bye...
sup·ple
ˈsəpəl/
adjective
- 1.bending and moving easily and gracefully; flexible."her supple fingers"
synonyms: lithe, limber, lissome, willowy, flexible, loose-limbed, agile, acrobatic, nimble, double-jointed
verb
- 1.make more flexible.
*Film archived works now exist on digital farms, and their physical storage remains to be the problem when transferring their material to a hardcopy form.
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