If it’s analog it’s not broken, just searching for signals no longer there.
The Fresh Ten Commandments: The Fresh Ten
The Fresh Ten
- You shall treat all people with respect regardless of race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, age, or national origin.
- You shall not kill, assault, nor intimidate with threats of physical violence.
- You shall not rape, sexually coerce, nor intimidate with threats of sexual violence.
- You shall cultivate intellectual curiosity, be open to new ideas, and respect the scientific method.
- You shall not cheat, nor cheat others out of what is rightfully theirs.
- You shall not lie, deceive, nor spread lies about others.
- You shall not steal, that is to say take or use what rightfully belongs to another person in a manner that causes harm. (Stealing is a trickier concept than it once was. How do you say yes to Fair Use and no to software patents?)
- You shall keep your promises.
- You shall not waste natural resources nor pollute the shared environment.
- You shall take responsibility for your actions and their consequences.
Here are some commandments I can get behind.
I love narrative and how it exists and why it exists and how it’s meant to be used. You can come up with a paragraph full of some truth, something that’s universal, some exploration, and it can be really informative but it’s likely to not be that interesting. But you ca spin a story, you can tell a narrative and you can infuse it with this stuff and if you’ve done your job right, you haven’t just captured somebody’s attention long enough to take them on this exploration, you’ve also maybe figured out something about the exploration through the act of the story because that’s what we key into. So I love narrative and I think that film is the height of narrative and I don’t know what 100 years from now looks like, but from right now, to be able to communicate non-verbally but still explore, I don’t know what would be better than that. So I guess that’s what I love about it. It’s like you’re feeding right into the main line of how we experience things.
Sinking Into the World of ‘Upstream Color’ With Director Shane Carruth
MUST. SEE. THIS. FILM. IMMEDIATELY.
One of the most quotable films of all time by a long shot.
You guys know my friend/hero Jenae, right?
(Source: underscorejenae)
“Powell was in love with Kerr when they were making the film, and one feels delicate shadings of chemistry in every scene between her and Powell surrogate Livesey. Indeed, there’s a kind of special, surreptitious charge between and among all three actors. Powell wrote that, in the course of making the film, ‘I learnt from Anton what an artist is. I learnt from Roger what a man is. I learnt from Deborah what love is.’”
— Molly Haskell, The Life and Death and Life of Colonel Blimp
One of my all-time favorites.
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Something in the Air official trailer.
I think Assayas and the 70s is one of my sleeper favorite combinations of director and time period. Still waiting for Cold Water to come to the US, clinging still to my fond memories of seeing it and its spectacular 20-minute-long bonfire/classic rock/teenage party central scene in college.
BERU Show/Impromptu House Party
