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celebritycloseup: january jones

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:17:44 +0100

celebritycloseup:

january jones

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Tue, 26 Jun 2012 12:26:13 +0200

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newyorker: If you’re planning to watch Aaron Sorkin’s new show...

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 22:30:42 +0200

newyorker:

If you’re planning to watch Aaron Sorkin’s new show “The Newsroom,” which premieres tonight on HBO, you may want to think again: http://nyr.kr/MsynVN

Firewall & Iceberg on Aaron Sorkin’s New Show

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:09:00 +0200

Firewall & Iceberg on Aaron Sorkin’s New Show: In this podcast, Sorkin’s new show The Newsroom is...

"This is always what I wanted to do. What I love about it, I love the sound of dialogue, I love..."

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:30:00 +0100

“This is always what I wanted to do. What I love about it, I love the sound of dialogue, I...

Aaron Sorkin and Truth

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:26:00 +0200

I came upon an old account of Sorkin’s quirky internet forum forays that most likely effected his...

My Fundamental Problem with “The West Wing”

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:17:00 +0200

The aforementioned quote by Aaron Sorkin led me to conceive of the best way to formulate my problem...

"My parents took me to see plays, starting when I was very, very little, and I was too young to..."

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 03:43:00 +0200

“My parents took me to see plays, starting when I was very, very little, and I was too young...

All the green screens and CGI suck out all the magic of movies,...

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:50:00 +0200

All the green screens and CGI suck out all the magic of movies, don’t they?

"One of the main differences between a movie and a TV show is, with the TV show, as with the novel,..."

Mon, 30 May 2011 21:58:00 +0200

“One of the main differences between a movie and a TV show is, with the TV show, as with the...

"Now everyone is a filmmaker. Maybe that means home movies can no longer be considered naive..."

Fri, 14 May 2010 19:19:19 +0200

“Now everyone is a filmmaker. Maybe that means home movies can no longer be considered naive...

stayforthecredits: jakpikey: I shot this video while playing...

Tue, 11 May 2010 23:06:00 +0200

stayforthecredits:

jakpikey:

I shot this video while playing with my nephews last week on Easter, they were so happy and full of joy that i got a little bit nostalgic :)
We should never forget how being a child was like…

Camera: Canon 5d Mark II
Lens: Canon 24-70mm f2.8
Edited: Final Cut
Additional animation: Motion

Song: Summer 78 (instrumental) by Yann tiersen

I remember my Dad’s home videos being longwinded and a chore to sit through, but maybe that’s because we don’t have the editing software we have today. I doubt Dad would have splurged on a VHS editing machine back then anyway. Today, even the basic Macbooks come with iMovie and iDvd.

It’s getting easier to find to make anything we’ve experienced cinematic. Which is why I find this video so lovely. Speaking as a future aunt to be, the prospect of making future home videos of my little niece really excites me.

It’s an interesting development; the problem is that—at least at some point—we fictionalize reality. Obviously, your run-of-the-mill family home video could use some Shooting 101, but we owe it to ourselves to remember that we shoot the video as a timeless vista of history and our lives. It is unfortunate that people are in a situation where they desire to recreate and -narrate their lives—especially if they take other people into the fiction as well.

The videographer is infusing post-processing nostalgia into present day, but nostalgia is not a cinematic technique; it is the feelings, sensations and introspection elicited by the retrospection.

Or at least it used to be?

Theory 101—Author, Intent, and Reception (Part I/II)

Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:25:00 +0100

A brief intermezzo with some narrative theory to tie the knot on our observations on Mad Men and...

Eyes of Mad Men II

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 03:25:00 +0100

From Don and Betty’s Paradise Lost by Bruce Handy in Vanity Fair: January Jones on playing...

"My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time; they are indiscriminate but fleeting,..."

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:00:00 +0100

“My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time; they are indiscriminate but...

Sapphire gaze from Elisabeth Draper (January Jones) in Mad Men.

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:05:00 +0100

Sapphire gaze from Elisabeth Draper (January Jones) in Mad Men.

Patricia Hewes (Glenn Close) in Damages. Notice the eyes.

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:47:00 +0100

Patricia Hewes (Glenn Close) in Damages. Notice the eyes.

Eyes of Mad Men

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:51:00 +0100

After watching the first season of Mad Men, I know the colour of all the regular characters’...

Intro

Tue, 27 May 2008 02:15:00 +0200

No autobiographical dealings, no ouverture and no vague manifest as for what the future of this...