Hey! No electioneering within 100 feet of the forum!

Blame Trey. He destroyed your childhood. And he cackled while he did it.

Talk to Ryan, he had an AF100 for awhile. I worked on a movie that shot with it. I wasn't in the camera department, but I know the camera gave them (and subsequently me) a lot of headaches with technical issues. But, as I recall, most of those issues stemmed from using the Aja Ki-Pro in conjunction with the AF100.

I agree with Squiggly that you're probably better off getting a 7D (or 60D or similar at this point) and spending whatever remaining money you have on fancy accessories like follow focuses, filters, and such.

Having now done exactly that - introducing a six year old (and a three year old) - by watching The Muppet Movie the night before going to see the Muppets, I have to partly disagree with Michael. Nothing in the Muppets eclipses the fourth wall breaking of the original movie. Remember, in The Muppet Movie, Kermit gives the Electric Mayhem Band a copy of the script which they use to track down Kermit and Fozzie later in the movie.

That said, there are definitely rough spots to it. The maniacal laugh bit, as mentioned, doesn't work. Mainly because they don't tell us at the beginning that he does it because he can't actually maniacally laugh. And his rap number - I don't even what.

And there is an awkard switching between the muppets and Segel/Walter/Adams. The Segel/Walter/Adams side feels under developed and incomplete, likely because they (Segel/Stoller I mean) wanted the movie to be just the muppets as much as you and I, but were required by the studio to bank it with real stars, as is reflected in the movie's plot (which is such a great use of leaning on the fourth wall that I'll forgive any fourth wall bits that may not have been as subtle). One thing that I did love was openly acknowledging the musical form. "I can't just go back, I just got finished singing a whole song about it."

Ultimately, it got me the cynical 20-something to the emotional place I wanted to go and I think my niece and nephew both enjoyed it (though my niece vehemently denies being a muppet when accused). It ain't a masterpiece and it doesn't go on the perfect movie shelf, but it kept the promises I think it was making.

By the way, Sarah Vowel's Evacuation Day bit on the Daily Show the other night was amazing, I had no idea such a thing existed, and from now on I'm celebrating that this time each year.

Heh, I'll have to pass that along to Kevin, I'm sure he'd get a kick out of that.

Heh, na. Assistant editing on a commercial; a candid camera thing with laundry detergent.

But the producer is probably going to sell the cameras off at half price at some point, and I've totally called dibs on the button camera. That thing is cool.

AVI and MPG

Show. Finally just finished the first season.

I really don't want to commit to the books. But goddammit. Am I otherwise supposed to wait 5 or more years for fucking winter?

Hrm.

That's what Lost started out as, just a bunch of people figuring out how to live together on an island. Then people at the network decided it needed more monsters and spooky shit, so they brought in JJ Abrams to mystery box up the place.

Because just watching human beings doing things is too boring. You need smoke monsters and dinosaurs.

That's no joke, that accessory is expensive.