Sawyer Paul's Blog, page 93
July 7, 2012
If you’ve only got time to watch one mst3k movie this...
If you’ve only got time to watch one mst3k movie this weekend, make sure it’s this one.
July 6, 2012
oberservationpaper:
“I understand what you’re saying, and your...
“I understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.” - Mr. Fox
rachelfershleiser:
50 Shades of Grey is the iPhone of...
50 Shades of Grey is the iPhone of mainstream erotic literature — it changed the game, and now all the other not-entirely-explicit romance novels have to compete or die.
July 5, 2012
sketchamagowza:
BROWN RECLUSE SPIDERMAN! based...
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BROWN RECLUSE SPIDERMAN! based on http://harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=308
(posted with permission)
July 4, 2012
Making Exhibition-Quality Prints: Tips from a Printer
Making Exhibition-Quality Prints: Tips from a Printer:
We still vastly prefer working from film. Getting a good drum scan gives you the quality to blow up an image to any size and there’s nothing in digital that compares to it, unless you’re going to spend $35,000 on the huge digital backs. Even in that case, I’ve done work with a photographer who was using the 80 megapixel Leaf, and we mixed 4x5 negatives and the digital images he had shot. The sharpness is pretty comparable, but you’re limited. The look of digital doesn’t compare to film. I know that digital is so popular, and we’re dealing with that more and more. People are bringing us all kinds of digital files, and the quality of the files is all over the place.
July 3, 2012
[Edwin Turner] Reviews Tom McCarthy’s Essay “Transmission and the Individual Remix”
[Edwin Turner] Reviews Tom McCarthy’s Essay “Transmission and the Individual Remix”:
McCarthy’s concern here is to point out that nothing is original, that all
creation is necessarily an act of synthesis. To read a novel is to read
through the novel, to read the novelist’s sources (or, to use McCarthy’s
metaphor, to *listen *through). McCarthy’s insights here are hardly new, of
course—*Ecclesiastes *1:19 gives us the idea over 2000 years ago, and* *surely
it’s just another transmitter passing on a signal.
What makes ”Transmission” such a pleasure is its frankness, its clarity.
Unlike so much postmodern criticism, McCarthy doesn’t trip over jargon or
take flights of fancy into obscure metaphor.
