I did not know it was possible to do this. Its so amazing to see someone this connected to their instrument, with so much talent and coordination they accomplish what seems impossible.
Eddie are you okay? and Owner of a Lonely Hearts, on the fiddle... very fast.
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Interesting. I wonder what my color studies professor would make of social color... Some of what makes color jump out at you has to do with the environment you are used to (for instance, someone raised in a desert might find that greens and purples tend to stand out more.) I wonder how geographical color will graph itself.
No matter how much films may improve, their prospects are not likely to — which suggests that something has fundamentally changed in our relationship to the movies. The long, long romance may finally be losing its bloom, and that is why Hollywood should be concerned.
Movies were the barometers of the American psyche. More than any other form, they defined us, and to this day, the rest of the world knows us as much for our films as for any other export.
Today, movies just don't seem to matter in the same way — not to the general public and not to the high culture either, where a Pauline Kael review in the New Yorker could once ignite an intellectual firestorm. There aren't any firestorms now.
To the extent that the Internet is a niche machine, dividing its users into tiny, self-defined categories, it is providing a challenge to the movies that not even television did, because the Internet addresses a change in consciousness while television simply addressed a change in delivery of content.
The Internet ... plays to [a] powerful force in modern America and one that undermines the movies: narcissism.
In effect, we have become our own movies.
I don't think the problem lies with the ability of films to move people. I think the problem lies with the fact that Hollywood is insistent on releasing essentially the same movie repackaged over and over. People in general don't go to the movies to see something new, there's really high pressure to put something on the screen that they expect. Surprises have shown not to sell as well as the standard crap so the problem has more to do with American audiences that suck (in much the same ways they do in American elections.) In a closed system, entropy occurs and thats a pretty good summing up of Hollywood.
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Firefly | SerenityStuff » Blog Archive » Steven Brust reads him some Firefly at Oasis 19
Topic: Arts
1:16 pm EST, Jan 21, 2007
It may help you to know that the audience broke out laughing more than a few times. Brust is known for his sarcastic dialogue and his cheerful violence, and it serves him well here.
An audience member asked if Brust could get rights to publish it. Brust: “Good question. I’m workin’ on it. It’s a complicated question because of the question of, Universal having the rights, Joss having ideas on what books he wants, if any. Latest rumor is that there aren’t going to be any books because the movie didn’t do well enough. So I have no idea. What I am hoping, what I am sort of expecting once I figure out how this works is to publish it as fanfic. Just cuz I like it, I wrote it, I wrote it because I wanted to, and I’d like to have it out there for people who want to read it.”
Brust's writing style would suit this series like a glove. I hope this finds its way to a book store or a tracker sometime in the near future.
Bumping Cypherghost's link through to BoingBoing, but this burning Elmo video is one part of a three part series that starts with this video. Watching the chared, burning robot flailing its metal limbs against the ground and laughing manically evokes some of the moredisturbing scenes from the Animatrix. The future is machines that don't break down, they die.
