Added couture back; Kibo apparently got in under the wire, 'cuz his account was still there.

I don't think I'm forgetting anybody, but if I'm forgetting you and you're reading this: teague . chrystie [at] g.

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Okay. We are deeply sorry about this, folks — I'm rather wounded myself. Not everything we post on this forum constitutes a 'gem,' but some of it is meaningful as hell and some of it sure takes a long time to write, so I expect quite a bit better from us in terms of protecting the work people invest in their participation here. We'll figure out how to prevent this from happening again, and see that it's prevented; in the meantime, my deepest apologies.

Also: Thanks to Holden for stopping to explain all this. My plans spiraled and I ended up AFK for most of the day.

Vibes don't get enough love.

Oh, also, this was the first time I've seen Harrison Ford act in decades.

It's really cool.

For lack of other comments at this time, I'll also mention that I started singing 'Stairway to Heaven' over it a couple times.

Organs come pretty close, too. Jump to 00:20. (Right-arrow four times.)

This is such a cool project. Fabulous work puttin' it together; when this thing works, it really works.

I think there's a lot more whipping-into-shape that could be done here, and I think it'd pay off hugely. That said, I'd completely understand if you didn't want to hear those kinds of notes at this point, and I'm not sure I shouldn't just keep my mouth shut instead, so for now I'll just share the jist:

This becomes fun to listen to by the time we get to the ensemble scenes, and starts to really cook soon after that, but I don't think there's a snowball's chance in hell I'd make it that far ar a listener; the opening scene is killing me, and the scene after the opening scene is killing me. Unfortuntely, I think the adjustments I'd make to move that needle involve a rewrite and re-edit of at least first third or so, including reshoots, and either 1) recasting some people or 2) going back to get a different performance out of 'em.

I know feedback like this isn't what one hopes to hear after hitting the 'oh-thank-heavens-progress-is-finally-happening' stage on a project; this is why I wasn't even sure if I should speak up, because I know how much it sucks to assemble raw material into a finished product only to be advised to disassemble it.

For all we know, I could be off the deep end.

Please retroactively fill in all the cracks here with fandom, admiration and enthuasiasm.

Is thing; does happen.

Hey, it's Garrison Keillor!

Stumbling into one language from another is pretty much how I learned every language I know, except for HTML. I sat down with an HTML book and Notepad in 1997 or so, started fuckin' with it; this lead to comort with 'forum code' type A and 'forum code' types B-through-J, comfort fiddling with CSS, comfort fiddling with PHP, comfort diving into Arduino [Javascript, basically], which lead to comfort diving into AE expressions [Javascript, basically] and also Google Sheets programming.

Amusingly, it's also how I discovered I could 'read music' from chord sheets. One day I simply noticed the "D" over a certain bar in my sister's sheet music book, and then there was an "A," and then I realized those were chords, and then I realized I knew how to play them, and then... *plays D, plays A* ...holy shit I'm following musical instructions in real-time.

...still haven't learned sheet music, of course, despite being fairly deep into 'music theory' territory by now. Can't bring myself to trust that system for some reason. Seems shifty. HTML, on the other hand...

...and of course, I grew up with it. (Cloe too, I think.)