I agree. The video needed a bit more abstraction, not so literal in some scenes, and a bit more dreamy too.
Guys, I was NOT talking about zooming, stop replying about zooming and cropping. I was talking about using the rest of the original ultra-widescreen film to show more, in 16:9 -- as long as crew and gear are not visible, of course.
Anyone knows if it's going to be in 16:9 or 4:3? The sample pictures of the update seem to be in 4:3, but I really hope I'm wrong. Even if it won't match the original 4:3, I'd still like it to be 16:9.
While I don't disagree that he may be into drugs (I can't know), I don't think that all this excitement comes from drugs. I believe that he's genuine when he talks this way (fast, stuttering, waving arms -- I'm like that too when I talk about stuff I love, and I know I'm clean). I've seen him talk about music, philosophy, mathematics and chemistry in different interviews, and he's always as excited. So unless he's high 24/7, it's just who he is, and that would be something to celebrate about him.
I'd suggest you also look at John Maus' excellent album "We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves", one album that actually is currently present on many "best album of the year" lists on various blogs (Pitchfork had it as a "honorable mention"). It's sci-fi synthpop of sorts. Songs to check out: "Quantum Leap" (about the TV show), "Keep Pushing On", "Cop Killer", and his most well-known song, "Believer". The music video for the main single, "Head for the Country", is pretty sci-fi too, with a few scenes of RoboCop in it.
Except music, John Maus works towards a PhD in philosophy too. Definitely someone to check out speaking, he's very interesting about the stuff he has to say. Check the enclosed video from a recent interview of him talking about science fiction from a philosophical point of view.
I personally can't stand mainstream pop, so I guess I'm one of those who the algorithm was not written about. Indie music has some amazing songs that will never become hits, but they are so much superior to mainstream pop. Look for LesVilles' "Tr33s" song on Bandcamp for example. Or FiveNG's "Skin". Or John Maus, from the more popular indie artists. Now, that's music. Not Perry, or Gaga, or Rihanna.
I can see colors or pictures when I listen to certain music, and I see numbers as colors. I'd say that this is mostly a form of synesthesia though, not sure if it's the same as what the article suggests. This is my Radiohead's KID-A article, in a way that only I can see and feel it: [eugenia.queru.com]
I don't like Fringe. Very unrealistic, and I don't mean the sci-fi plot (which is fine for the most part), but the characters and dialog and type of shooting (I'm a filmmaker myself btw).
"Once Upon a Time" really is a pretty ridiculous, old style show, under the guise of "modern" and supposedly LOST-influenced (unfortunately that influence is skin-deep). I was a big LOST fan up to season 5 so I expect a lot out of the two screen writers, but I watch this show mostly because of the excellent Robert Carlyle, who I'm a big fan of. Other than that, I think the show stinks. It's reeking with pretense and cheesiness.
If you want to know how to make a contemporary show, look at "Game of Thrones" or "Breaking Bad". I want THAT style of "cable TV screen-writing", on these broadcast TV shows. On broadcast, each show sucks more than the next. The last good show on terrestrial TV was LOST, IMHO. For the last 5 years or so, nothing good was ever made for the TV (there was a good one on FOX two years ago, but it was canceled within 3 episodes). Cable TV has the upper hand now, but still it doesn't have that many great shows (they're still small in numbers).
As for the plot itself, it was stupid, from the dynamite used for rescue (!), to the kid going left and right all the time, being the only plot-stirrer. The show is just too safe and its plot not deeply thought out. I noticed the Apollo bar, and I told my husband about it, but that won't save the show in our eyes.
I was surprised that "Once Upon a Time" did so well with the US audience btw, the ratings are not half-bad. Maybe it's a lot of kids watching it, I don't know what else to think about it. I refuse to think that mature adults are watching and enjoying this cheese-grating show.
If you want to know how to make a contemporary show, look at "Game of Thrones" or "Breaking Bad". I want THAT style of "cable TV screen-writing", on these broadcast TV shows. On broadcast, each show sucks more than the next. The last good show on terrestrial TV was LOST, IMHO. For the last 5 years or so, nothing good was ever made for the TV (there was a good one on FOX two years ago, but it was canceled within 3 episodes). Cable TV has the upper hand now, but still it doesn't have that many great shows (they're still small in numbers).
As for the plot itself, it was stupid, from the dynamite used for rescue (!), to the kid going left and right all the time, being the only plot-stirrer. The show is just too safe and its plot not deeply thought out. I noticed the Apollo bar, and I told my husband about it, but that won't save the show in our eyes.
I was surprised that "Once Upon a Time" did so well with the US audience btw, the ratings are not half-bad. Maybe it's a lot of kids watching it, I don't know what else to think about it. I refuse to think that mature adults are watching and enjoying this cheese-grating show.
I would like to see a "Top Free" list on Google Music Market, right now only the ones that are paid are showing up in the charts. If an indie band puts their whole album for free, and it happens to be so good that people downloading it en-mass, this must show up in the charts!
Any one has the kickstarter URL? I'd like to donate. Brainwaves is the kind of "UI" I believe that's next in our computing evolution (I used to work with user interfaces in the past, and that was the ultimate for me). I wrote an article about all this, but I'm not sure what the linking policy is here.
Yes, I can have it both ways, because "poor diet" is not considered poor by most people when you eat whole grains, meat/fish, veggies, fruits. It wasn't poor with the traditional thinking, but it PROVED poor, that's what I meant.
Also, it would be nice if you didn't try to get on top of me about what is causing IBS btw. I spent 10 years with the illness. It's not like I didn't try everything I could. At the end, it was a major change in diet, to a diet that people *consider unhealthy* that brought me back health. Consider that for a moment. This is my story btw [eugenia.queru.com] and this is after just 6 weeks on the diet: [eugenia.queru.com] (long list of ailments there fixed). And I'm only one of the many thousands of people who found health that way. The proof is out there, online, just do your own search. Many blogs and testimonials of people who found their health this way.
Also, it would be nice if you didn't try to get on top of me about what is causing IBS btw. I spent 10 years with the illness. It's not like I didn't try everything I could. At the end, it was a major change in diet, to a diet that people *consider unhealthy* that brought me back health. Consider that for a moment. This is my story btw [eugenia.queru.com] and this is after just 6 weeks on the diet: [eugenia.queru.com] (long list of ailments there fixed). And I'm only one of the many thousands of people who found health that way. The proof is out there, online, just do your own search. Many blogs and testimonials of people who found their health this way.
The evidence is out there, the research is not yet. All you have to do is read testimonials from people. Only one research so far has confirmed major medical benefits from Paleo, because only one got funded.
IBS arrived for me when none of the things you listed existed in me. In fact, it even caused some (e.g. poor sleep). The only thing I know, is that Paleo fixed a buttload of ailments for me, not just IBS. Read my personal blog for a full listing.
The Agricultural Revolution brought a lot of bad things to the human race. Ancient Egyptians were eating grains by the ton, Europeans too, no wonder they were diseased (they were still better than us though, since their wheat/veggies were less selected, no mercury in the sea fish, and everything was grass-fed and natural). I'd say that cancer was much more common for Egyptians than with Paleolithic people, but way less common compared to us today. That's why I follow the Paleo diet personally (I had IBS-D, symptoms vanished with a few days after following the diet).
I've read that some people can tolerate goat lactose-free dairy (e.g. hard goat cheese) or raw dairy (e.g. raw goat milk), but they can't tolerate normal cow dairy. Maybe you could talk to your doctor and see if something like this can be an option, before wishing for this reported magic pill that puts your immune system to sleep (that could create new problems). Also, most allergies are nothing but the auto-immune system being out of whack because of leaky gut (which allows toxins/feces into the bloodstream). I think this video can enlighten why people have celiacs, IBS, allergies, asthma, even mental conditions. [www.youtube.com]
Following a diet like GAPS, SCD or Paleo (all very similar diets), could fix a lot of these problems in 1-2 years of following such a diet (since that's how long the gut requires to get healed -- it's faster for children).
Following a diet like GAPS, SCD or Paleo (all very similar diets), could fix a lot of these problems in 1-2 years of following such a diet (since that's how long the gut requires to get healed -- it's faster for children).
I do not agree with the author. Science fiction can definitely be SF even if one day the science depicted can be plausible. That's what we call "hard sci-fi", and it happens to be my favorite kind. Non-realistic sci-fi, about science that's not possible, not even with very high technology, falls more into fantasy, and that's something I dislike. I mean, sure, fantasy-type technology might exist in10000 years, who knows. But I'm more interested in stories that use the kind of technology that is possible within 50 to 2000 years from now (personal rough estimate, of course). Anything more crazy than that becomes so far off, and we have no way of understanding of how it might work. When we stop understanding having a ROUGH idea of how something could work, then it becomes total fantasy. Becomes too disconnected with our current reality. And I don't like that.
Yes. The show is obviously "episodic". Sure, there is a small thread of back-story with the sixers/son, but it's obviously not the main focus of the show. Most episodes are bound to be self-contained. A true serialized show, e.g. Breaking Bad, Lost, BSG, Dexter etc, wouldn't be like Terra Nova in terms of story build-up. This is obviously on par with other traditional TV shows, where the backstory is actually far laid back, and only rarely sprouts out. That's not good enough for me. I hate shows where there's a story building up in the first 15 minutes, and then scientists magically find the answer in impossibly little time.
That's why I liked SGU. Because it was more serialized (although it also had self-contained episodes), but the science of it was not a matter of a 10-minute breakthrough. Dr Rush spent 6 months breaking the root password of the ship for example. That's way more believable and nicer to watch.
That's why I liked SGU. Because it was more serialized (although it also had self-contained episodes), but the science of it was not a matter of a 10-minute breakthrough. Dr Rush spent 6 months breaking the root password of the ship for example. That's way more believable and nicer to watch.
I personally do not like Terra Nova. I find the show very traditional in the way it's built, very '90s in terms of story-building. Very episodic too. Instead, I would have loved for the show to be on cable TV (even if I'm a cord-cutter myself), so it could have the freedom it needed to move away from the standard "happy family" vibe that it's got right now. I mean, having the scientists find the "cure" in the last 10 minutes of the show, it's so cookie-cutter old-school television that it's not even funny. As an occasional filmmaker myself, I'm allergic to this type of scripted TV shows.
The vast majority of the people with Type2 diabetes can get better with diet, otherwise they would be Type 1 (and diet even helps Type1 people, they require less insulin). The people who can't get better with diet are in the extreme minority. For these people, sure, a pill might work, but I still have my reservations about pills that try to stop a whole chain of events inside one's body. In my book, such pills are dangerous in their own right.
