That intro was spiffy.

I've been a distracted person, but I'm always down to record some dialogue for a thing.

*jumps on Vapes*

*just stays there now*

Hm.

I second.

These are all great, I'mma let you finish, but the top left character in the first picture is like burnout ET selling his snowboard on Craigslist.

There are several clips in The Right Stuff and October Sky.

/super-helpful

EDIT: Also, if you haven't seen the episode of From the Earth to the Moon called "Spider," check it out post-haste. No explosions, but that whole "work the problem, people" engineering mentality runs front and center.

Cloe and I have been catching up on old movies we missed. Here's some stuff from this week.

The Hustler

Great. Paul Newman is outstanding, Jackie Gleason is cool as hell, interesting portrayal of vicious cycles, addiction and hubris. Plus a handful of "how many attempts did that take?"-style trick shots.

Sunset Boulevard

A classic. Meh. Some interesting dynamics at work, but overall this was a good idea for a movie that was brought down by shit-ass plotting and some of the laziest character writing I'm aware of. It'd be a hell of a story if I could ever once find Norma Desmond plausible, but seeing as she's only slightly more realistic than Miss Piggy, it's a struggle.

To Kill A Mockingbird

A bit underwhelmed by this one also, but not for lack of craftsmanship— it's just precisely what it is, and not much more than that. An outdated moralizing polemic that's becoming harder and harder to be moved by as the modern world keeps setting new traps for it to fall into. Atticus Finch is one principled motherfucker, and Walter Peck manages to make it convincing, but standing among all of this story's hifalutin moral stances are a number of bigger "death of the director"-style cultural insights, like how the happy ending of this story about a white guy believing the story of a convicted black guy actually includes no justice to speak of, just some very moral white people telling each other life lessons. Slice of life, history, etc., fair rebuttals — but go back and actually watch Philadelphia sometime, that aggressively-tolerant "AIDS victims are people too" movie; see if you don't find yourself cringing all the same.

The Bridge on the River Kwai

*whistles tune*

Despite this movie's own ultimate message — and despite the preceding example of Walter Peck in To Kill A Mockingbird — Alec Guinness slowly-but-surely illuminates what at first seems like an absurd moral position (that captured officers in a POW camp, like Guinness himself, shouldn't have to work alongside their captured soldiers) until by the end of the movie the purpose and pragmatism of his position have become completely clear, and he's able to move mountains with the careful application of civilization. Not that it matters much.

Yeah, this movie ages better than To Kill A Mockingbird. Rather long, mostly due to '50s shoeleather and a couple repeated dramatic beats, but interesting and instructive all the same.

Wanna trade the bike for some candy?

Duuuuuuuuuude. Cool!

EDIT: If my cocktail-napkin math is right, they had eight megs of memory to work with for the whole system.

I totally missed the

thing, if that's real.

Well, I don't have many movies, but I'll show ya what I got. My setup is a square.

Sure, I could have spent three seconds squaring up all the picture frames before taking this photo, but I didn't. This is the new reality. The framed pictures are prints from Paulou's art project in Creations, btw.

Movie Shelf #1

Mostly movies I bought for DIF/WAYDM.

Items of note include:

• Project London — feature by friend of the show Ian Hubert.

• Apocalypse, CA — feature by friend of the show Chad Peter. I did one of the posters for this movie, a print of it hangs elsewhere in the living room. (All of the art that hangs in our living room / kitchen area is by artists we know personally.) (Or by me.) (Who we don't know at all.)

• It's not really a movie in this photo, but... some of the aforementioned living room artwork is by my buddy Alex Pardee, who designed the Sucker Punch logo, which is a movie in this photo, so ha.

• "Star Tours" mug on top of Star Tours ship model. You don't see that every day. But I do.

Movie Shelf #2

A couple more DIF/WAYDM movies, plus Cloe's box-set of The Prisoner, plus some drum loops, and that Hitchcock box-set I talked about once. Plus Queen at Wembley.

Movie Shelf #3

The rest of the movies I've accumulated over the years.

Items of note include:

• 2010: Moby Dick — feature by Trey.

• Brooklyn Force — short by TFN's Adam Bertocci, first thing I ever scored.

• Hunter Prey — feature by friend of the show Sandy Collora, with VFX by Weebs.

• The Z-Team Star Wars Parodies — collection of shorts by friend of the show John Hudgens.

• Feast 3 — I did VFX on this one, and when we needed to bring on another artist, I emailed Dorkman out of the blue and asked if he was still doing VFX. (As far as I knew, and know, all of the VFX he'd done prior to that point had been personal projects and fanfilms. I knew he was good, but I didn't know if he'd worked on a "real" show before.) (You know, a "real" show, like Feast 3.) (I guess he hadn't.)

• Undercut — MTV-Movie-Award-nominated short by friend of the show Steve Reedy. (The Fountain guy.)

• USS Iowa — feature doc by someone I know but you don't so it doesn't count; the really amazing story of how a couple enterprising fellas bought the battleship USS Iowa off of the government to keep it from becoming target practice, and restored it with the help of a flock of volunteers.

• Monsters, Inc. — nothing interesting here, just that I never returned it to Blockbuster.