...And The Battle For The Future

Ok, I’m a FILM SNOB. I admit it. With the internet being bombarded with DIY Filmmakers, and YOUTUBE Users, who we will now  kindly refer to as “Uploaders”, I’m spent and exhausted constantly looking for something new, and fresh, and finding nothing but crap. With the advent of the Internet, and especially in the last few years, the ability to post anything you have, anywhere you want, has made people’s own opinion of self worth skyrocket. That’s why 99.9 percent of the time whatever you’re searching for, no matter how mundane, or “OUT THERE”, some one, some where, has taken the time to POST it. Whether it is YOUTUBE, VIMEO, dailymotion, Facebook, GOOGLE Video, if you can think of it, it’s out there.

Hitchcock Your Wagon To A Star

Alfred Hitchcock is a favorite director of mine, so when someone publishes a 26-page academic paper about him, of course I'm going to read it!

This one is particularly interesting; it deals with Hitchcock's use of ellipsis transitions in what's probably my favorite of his, Rear Window.

Read the article here:

What We Don't See, and What We Think it Means: Ellipsis and Occlusion in Rear Window

-Tim

Stop-motion the Insanity

     Stop-motion animation, a technique used as early as 1898, is a laborious, time- and energy-consuming, tedious method of filmmaking; its evil and gluttonous necessity of hours upon hours of back-cramping and eye-straining diligence should only be relegated to either masochists or serious offenders. Unfortunately, the results of the process can often be wonderful and magical (as anyone who grew up watching Sesame Street or Gumby can attest to), making filmmakers like me return to the form whenever possible.

Electric Theatre Company

As I’m sitting here writing the first of (I hope) many blogs to come, I am really concerned about what in the hell am I going to write about. A frightening task, to say the least. Am I going to write about how 25/8 came to be; my experiences that got me to where I’m at; what I thought of the latest episode of THE KARDASHIAN’S, I didn’t know. But then it dawned on…I’ll tell a little tale. A tale of a boy who once was blind, but now can see.