a
break but also a busy time finishing off the capes and photographing them in a number
of photoshoots - am in the middle of learning new software to make a film
comprised of the stills created - also managed to see some films - Star Wars - most excellent - it felt
at times like a supercharged remake of the first (which isn't such a bad thing,
or is it? It's at its best when the camera is observing space, following flying
machines, watching stuff get blown up, shot and also looking at landscapes. Lobster - a straining tragic portrayal
of the disconnective connectedness of society - a beautiful parable for this
internet age- like! Big Short - a dark film about how the banks created a virtue out of
greed whose style feels like something new - a hybrid - a docu-mocku-post-meta
- informed by our experience of using the internet and how we engage with it including
a montage found footage, infomercials and complex ideas delivered to camera by celebrities
- wondrous. Anomalisa the 'puppet
film' by Charlie Kaufman - just plain astoundingly odd, in a good way. Finally if you haven't already you have to get
into the gut wrenching embarrassing train wreck that is Nathan for you - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2297757/
after binge watching some (every episode) I would recommend starting with smokers allowed http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5199634/?ref_=ttep_ep5
this episode twists and turns so that the 'joke' or focus eventually questions
every aspect of an idea, nobody and nothing is safe, especially your own brain
- all through Nathan's layered deadpan delivery. You have to see it to really
get it! Played beginners guide - a
great game - essentially it is a deconstruction of the very idea of gaming -
exploring the relationship the gamer has with the game maker through the act of
playing - existential crisis all round....
