One argument I see in favour for AI as an art tool is that it allows someone with a lower budget to make art that can compete in terms of commercial viability with higher-budgeted work, and so will (hypothetically!) lead to less-financially-resourced people building financially stable arts careers.

The state of these guys. Look at what he's done to them. 😭

[Suppressing panic every time someone points out a gaping unresolved hole in my writing I didn't recognize]: Heh. So, I take it you don't know about Hitchcock's concept of an 'Icebox Scene'?

you can't say proud of you without sounding condescending. have to say "happy for you" instead which only gets across part of it. messed up situation. woke ruins everything.

I think I’m gonna make a lengthy thread sometime today or tomorrow with my thoughts on the Matthewmatosis video, but my general take is that it’s engaging with and orbiting interesting concepts but missing a few key considerations and so coming to a faulty conclusion about their values and drawbacks

That's not what unc means: aftermath.site/unc-aave-afric...

Not sure whether I should try to grind out getting consistent with jab infinites as Haggar, need to figure out if they’re viable without autofire.

FINAL FIGHT very early update: I think this is a good moment to both chat about where I'm at in this 1CC effort (a VERY long way away from even being able to *see* the finish line), and how I generally conceptualize and approach improving at an arcade game towards a goal clear. Feedback's welcome!

i literally can’t suppress a snicker every time i see the new yorker put that goofy ass diaeresis on there like they really must have a lil humiliation fetish or something

It is ludicrously hard to find a barista who actually knows how to properly froth milk into a foam, regardless of a cafe’s general quality. I don’t think even 10% of the time I get the foam I ask for, and it’s not hard if you know how.

IMO Timelines should scroll, profiles should paginate. When I'm trying to find "That funny post by Josh Sawyer early in march" by going to his profile page, infinite scroll is hell.

Rocks. Has nothing to do with them being bad for you, I just REALLY do not enjoy eating them

Akiman's praise for Akira Nishitani's work is completely overflowing and he was right there for FF and SF2

how about you disclose YOUR day first. then well talk

Ok let’s get started 1ccing this thing

fine, if he doesn't want it i'll use it myself. go play the bun buster demo store.steampowered.com/app/3605570/...

Not even the Cronenweth dynasty can stop an Aaron Sorkin movie from looking like an Aaron Sorkin movie.

You may have already seen me posting gripes about the way large formats are used and understood in the current landscape; the first episode back for the podcast seemed a perfect place for me and Devan to dive into that more!!

FILM FORMALLY is back!!! @willaharlowross.bsky.social and I return for a (now monthly) podcast in which we break down cinema to its building blocks, tackle myths, and go on and on about all things preservation. Our premiere: a deeper dive into the myths around format size. Now in video form!

I still haven’t ever taken the time to appreciate basketball as a sport over years but I have taken the time to appreciate people posting about basketball, and it’s a great time once you know “ball”

i love that gif where the guy's like "well, we're waiting". lmao. he's really taunting 'em there. i oughta use that to taunt someone

Another tack to criticizing this phenomenon that the gamers among my followers may like: The artistically-indeterminate format glut that has become common with tentpole movies is an abdication of design and intent to audience whims and comforts that reminds me of difficulty sliders.

I've had a lot of conversations about this in recent months and given it serious thought, and I've concluded: It's a perfectly valid artistic choice to film and release a movie in a myriad of aspect ratios that just change depending on the area of the screen they're shown on. It's also a bad one.

One thing I really like and respect about Steven Spielberg that gets me excited for his movies is that he chooses an aspect ratio.

The last of @dagscott.bsky.social's four-video series about the history of lighting motivation in movies is up, and if you have interest in beautiful art at all and appreciating it in a thoughtful way, I can't think of many more fruitful uses of your time than these. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Audience scores on review sites being treated as an indicator of general public sentiment is a blight on analyses of the contemporary film industry. That stuff is extremely hard to measure outside the extremes. Treating these scores as representative or meaningful is tantalizing but wrong.

Hard to overstate how exciting and nourishing it feels to hear my new voice in a Film Formally episode, not only for the voice but the reformulated personality and psyche behind it. A person can really remake themself in extraordinary ways. Happy Pride!

John Troutenter

ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK the only Carpenter score that I would call "very good" Some other ok or kinda good stuff (and bad stuff) but EfNY? very good

This headline is a lie. In the quote she said “There’s various ways you could do it. You could go the AI route, which I’m a bit terrified of. I thought I could make some really strange sounds.” Then they didn’t do it. That’s it. No indication it was even suggested, or needed to be “refused”.

I try to restrain myself from just yelling at clouds like an old man, but when misinformation goes viral it ought to be pushed back against: this video is a nearly-unbroken string of misinformation and should be entirely disregarded when it comes to digital color science.

Can’t believe a new Star Wars is in theaters and even the music is not worth going out to see it smh

It’s funny how at the start of STAR TREK TNG the writers (understandably) perceived an issue with the utopian lack of character conflict and flaws, and meted them out thoughtfully thereafter, and VOYAGER just has one crew member who is just a giant mess of complexes and emotional underdevelopment

Does anyone here have opinions on the best top-notch music recordings to test out a new sound system with?

I can finally show the kinds of evil little bastards I've been cooking up

there are no backups in star trek that institutional knowledge was lost in wwiii

what if there were rooms in the back. admit it. just reading that made you a bit scared

Did a proper listen to THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU's music yesterday and was more bummed out than I expected that Star Wars's 49-year streak of amazing scores for live-action theatrical films is over. It's not awful, just super incohesive and inconsistent. Still. 11 great scores. Can't complain.

arcade games are like if someone invented jazz to sell gumballs

One of the coolest characters in movie history is the normie-seeming dude in THE KING OF KONG who's friends with Donkey Kong World-Record Contender & High School Science Teacher Steve Wiebe, knows fuck-all about gaming, but is still actively stoked for his buddy and proud to be in his orbit.

The rapid-cut tutorial section in FIRST LIGHT is wonderful stuff, a welcome reaffirmation of the value and potential for narrative-heavy, low-input-consequent game design elements, but god there is so much crap in the cutscenes, QTEs, and walk-and-talks around it, along with a terrible “cold open”.

Full version of my new theme music for the revival of FILM FORMALLY: "The Wider World". Podcast returns June 9th!

For about ten years in video games quite a lot of effort went into combining guns and blades to make a really cool weapon and tbh it feels like they’ve just given up.

Big, big news! FILM FORMALLY - in which @willaharlowross.bsky.social and I break down the component parts of cinema - returns with a whole new season on June 9th. Subscribe and stay tuned.

It's been a few years, but the best podcast in the universe about the building blocks of cinema is (about to be) back. If you like the movies, or you've ever liked how I or @dagscott.bsky.social talked about art, we've got a treat for you very soon.

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It’s pretty interesting how basically the whole original STAR TREK series (live action and animated) spend a lot of time and detail sketching out Spock as a character to great success, and then they resolve his inner conflict in the very first movie and have him be a benevolent monk for the rest.