"Worst idea of all time"? I wholeheartedly endorse this project on that basis alone.

Holy crap on a cracker.

I'm stunned beyond the capacity for rational thought.

This is the greatest thing ever.

Just got back from a meeting discussing this proposal with the museum's staff (three people). It's sort of comical to try to explain WordPress and Flickr and the concept of blogging and a pipeline and everything else to people who just know Facebook. I basically ended up going "It can kind of do anything you want, really."

If anyone here has any archival experience, especially with collections management software called Past Perfect, I'd love to chat.

For those who haven't seen the film, look at Tim's version and reflect on the fact that Tim had never picked up a paint brush before starting the project. This was his first attempt at color, even. His handful of tests had been black and white.

For anyone with an interest in both art and imaging technology, this film is a must-see. It's just a fascinating--charming--look at a smart guy obsessed with solving a mystery.

If you give characters proper motivations, then they should be driving toward whatever ending you have planned, surprising twists just adding color. If you haven't planned a good ending, you won't have a good ending, which is why most TV finales stink, even for the best shows.

How have i never heard of Secret Cinema?? Holy mackerel!

I'm still deep into digitizing old family photos and filling out my family tree. Every box of old photos i get from my parents' cousins leads to a new understanding of the lives of people who lived more than a century ago. Some even wrote reminiscences of their childhoods as pioneers. Some were involved in nefarious activity or terrible accidents.

For me, this stuff is like crack: it's research, photography, documentation, puzzles, story-telling... Everything that gets my motor going intellectually. And it's given me reasons to spend time and have quality conversations with my aging parents as well as cousins i hadn't seen in many years (and some i'd never met).

I'm sorry to report that John's mom has passed away after a brief stay in hospice care. My heart goes out to him and his sister and all their friends.

As you may know, John is is on permanent disability. Please consider popping over to the GoFundMe site and showing your support materially or more directly by using his PayPal donation link on the Sofa Dogs website.

This was the craziest, most frenetic movie I've ever seen. It's almost non-stop vehicular mayhem (Miller was a traveling trauma doctor before making the first movie, by the way) with the sparest dialog I've ever heard. There are silent movies with more dialog than this.

Loved Hardy, adored Theron, loved the wives and Nux and Immortan Joe and the crazy side characters. They aren't as well developed as the characters in the first film, but Miller is doing something different here. That was a biker rally; this was a rock concert. And there is some decent development eventually.

The only real negative (aside from possible hearing loss) is that the plot is pretty conventional. It's basically "let's escape from the bad man's fortress," and the rolling siege of a big rig is the same as the end of the second film.

But if you're up for this kind of movie, then you'll never find another that does what this does on anywhere near this scale and looks so good.

Bump.

It occurs to me that another workaround is cutting away to a readout within the hologram so we get away from the manipulation and just see the results.

BTW, the kids are now too old for reshoots, soooo if we need to cut back to just the swordfight to get a final film....