C.K. Burch's Blog, page 204
April 9, 2015
archiemcphee:A French artist going by the name “Stan” created...
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A French artist going by the name “Stan” created this awesomely impressive series VHS-style covers and cases for modern movies and TV shows. This project was conceived as an April Fools’ Day prank, but each cover is so detailed and convincing in its design that it’s also fair to call this a nostalgic work of art.
I created these VHS covers for “april’s fool day” pretending a parisian hipster named “Stan” only watched modern films and TV series on VHS. You can read my full article here: http://golem13.fr/hipster-vhs-paris
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis - Special Edition
We are devoted fans of Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, and this demo is considered an unofficial project until approved by Disney / Lucasfilm.
These guys are working on a fan project: a 3D remastering of Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. They’re getting signatures to petition Disney to let them actually publish it, and I put my name down. If you’re an Indiana Jones fan, you’ll want to check this out and put your name on the petition as well.
failbettergames:misterarendt:Here are the first two pieces of...
Here are the first two pieces of concept art for Zubmariner, the underwater expansion to Sunless Sea
Just concentrating on mood at the moment, trying to get a sense of how exploration will feel far beneath the surface, and what might be waiting down there…
We’re returning to the Unterzee!
WHAT
WHAT
NO I DONT THINK YOU UNDERSTAND
I MEAN ITS ONE THING THAT WE ZAILED ON THE ZEE AND SAW ALL THAT THERE WAS ABOVE IT BUT NOW WERE GOING UNDER IT TO SEE WHATS SUNKEN DOWN BELOW
I JUST LOST MY SHIT I CANT EVEN ANYTHING OTHER THAN CAPS
April 6, 2015
iamtheejenna:
cracked:
Which means…wrestlers are ghosts?7...
"The thing about an anxiety disorder is that you know it is stupid. You know with all your heart that..."
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Ten years of experience (via punkasspoet)
I once had a therapist tell me that having an anxiety disorder is like having a faulty alarm system wired up in your brain — instead of going off just when there’s danger (like it would for somebody without an anxiety disorder), it goes off all the time, over little things that don’t actually warrant an anxious response at all. It’s like one of those asshole smoke detectors that everyone’s dealt with at some point or another, the ones that go off whenever you turn on the oven or try to cook something on the stove — you can yell “OH MY GOD, I’M JUST BOILING WATER” all you want, but the stupid thing is going to blare on undeterred. That’s what having an anxiety disorder is like: it’s the smoke detector, and you’re the person on the ground yelling “SHUT UP, SHUT UP, THERE ISN’T ANY FUCKING FIRE.”
Under normal circumstances I don’t talk about my mental health stuff on the internet much — out of anxiety, actually, more than anything else — but I wanted to chime in here because I think this is something people really don’t understand about anxiety disorders. Friends: we know it’s irrational. We know we need to calm down, that things aren’t as bad as we think they are, that our reactions are making things worse than they need to be, that it’s all in our heads. We know. It’s what makes it all so incredibly infuriating, because in life you can just — you know, smack the smoke detector with a broom or take the batteries out or something. An anxiety disorder doesn’t work like that, though god, I wish it did; it requires years of work and active effort and (for some of us) medication to dial down our reactions, even when we know, right down to our bones, that our reactions are wrong.
If you’ve ever read that when someone is having an anxiety attack, it’s not helpful to say “Calm down” or “Stop panicking” or shit like that: this is why. We are saying that crap in our heads already, only we are saying it louder than you, and with more frustration and self-loathing, because we have been trying without success to calm down and stop panicking for the balance of our lives.
I know it can be exasperating to deal with someone with anxiety — boy, do I. I deal with an anxious personality every waking minute of every single day, and let me tell you there are times I want to smack myself with a broom, take out my batteries, and let my whole fucking house burn down. But the thing is, if you have someone in your life with anxiety and their shit is bugging the hell out of you, you have an option at your disposal that they don’t: you can walk away. And if you’re someone who gets frustrated by other people’s anxiety, who can’t be patient, whose very nature compels them to point out that it’s not a big deal and we need to calm down and we’re making it more than it is — that’s okay, everyone has shit they can’t deal with, but use that option. Walk away. Tune it out. Don’t pile on, because that’s actually so counterproductive to the goal of getting the calm, rational person you know out from beneath their anxiety. The more you say the things we’re already thinking (this is stupid, just shut up already, calm down, this isn’t a big deal, why can’t you calm down), the more we become convinced everything in our heads is true, and the longer it takes us to shut it down.
As always, the best way to be helpful to someone with any kind of mental illness is to ask them, ideally during a time when they are calm and in control: what can I do, what do you need, what should I avoid doing, is there anything that helps. But short of that, I can’t tell you how helpful it is to have people in my life that I know aren’t going to echo back at me the shit I’m already yelling at myself. So: try not to do that to people. That’s all we’re asking. Try not to.
(via gyzym)
I bolded some parts. I hope that’s okay. The quote and the commentary are all so great, though. Everyone should read all of this.
(via euclase2)
thesylverlining:dave-youfool:dylanthescientist:
princetanaka:
just a small town girl. Living in a...
just a small town girl. Living in a racist, insensitive, sexist, homophobic world,
(cant take the midnight train ‘cause im fuckin scared)
Just a city boy, shot by cops in south Detroit
“He coulda had a gun hiding anywhere”
Bullshit, racists,
Up and down the boulevard
Trash cops, assholes in the night
(it goes on and on and on and on)
Don’t stop retweeting
All the people cops are beating
They’re all people
Marion Ravenwood Appreciation Post - because appreciation of her is entirely lacking!
The first time we meet her she out-drinks a guy in a shot contest.
Then proceeds to immediately punch the hero of the film.
She stands up to four armed men and doesn’t take their shit.
She stops to take a drink during a gun fight in a burning building
She helps out in a fight and doesn’t cower away. She bashes heads in.
How’d this get in here??
Who cares about table manners while starving in the desert and being held captive by Nazis and a crazy French guy?
More head bashing, saving Indy from being shot.
Shoots a whole mess of Nazis with a double-barrel machine gun like it’s nothing.
Indy never actually saves her in the end, regardless of her somewhat Damsel-like role in the movie.
So yeah, can we all show Marion some well deserved love please?
fromdirectorstevenspielberg:Fans of The Big Bang Theory will...
Fans of The Big Bang Theory will remember the episode where Amy and Sheldon discuss a “story problem” with Raiders of the Lost Ark. Amy insists that Indy has no impact on the plot and that had he not
been involved, the Nazis would have still taken hold of the Ark, opened
it, and fallen to the wrath of God. Sheldon has no answer and its become
widely accepted that it’s a genuine story problem.Let me tell you: it’s not. It’s the point of the film.
The Indiana Jones of Raiders of the Lost Ark,
and pretty much all the other Indy films, is arrogant. He doesn’t
believe in the power of the Ark, just as he doesn’t believe in the power
of the Sankara Stones or the Grail. He takes no notice of Marcus
Brody’s warnings of its tremendous power (“a lot of superstitious hocus
pocus”) and only ever views it as a historical artifact - something he
can put in a museum and study. As an example of his arrogance, consider
the start and end of the movie.In the opening sequence, Indy
ventures into a Peruvian temple to steal the Golden Idol. He has no
problem with ripping this priceless item from its proper place and, in
fact, delights in dodging the various bobby traps set up to protect it.
Spielberg highlights his hero’s callousness in a brilliant shot in which
Indy removes a portion of sand from the bag he will replace the Idol
with. Sand slips through Indy’s fingers in the foreground, with the
shimmering idol in the background. The priceless and the worthless
together in one shot.Later, when the Ark is taken to the secret
Nazi hideout, Indy has learned his lesson. He realises the power of the
Ark and knows what to do: respect it. He and Marion close their eyes,
and while the Nazis around them burn under the Ark’s power, he and
Marion survive. No mere superstitious hocus pocus story, the Ark is
real, its power tangible and destructive. The arrogance Indy showed
earlier is at an end - Spielberg even reminds us of that earlier scene
by having the Ark filled with sand, which Belloq picks up and lets slip
through his hand, as Indy once did.The fact that Indy doesn’t
directly impact the events of the film plays into this idea then. When
compared to the power of the Ark, the sheer magnitude of this “hocus
pocus” superstition, Indy’s arrogance, and Indy himself, is irrelevant, just as we all are. He can’t
comprehend the power of the Ark, and never will, and
that’s what makes him such a fascinating and enduring action hero. If
other action heroes are about establishing authority and power, Indiana
Jones is undermining it and reminding us that no matter who we are,
there are always things much, much greater than us.
This is easily one of the summations of Raiders.
imakethemovies:
Raiders of the Lost ArkDOP – Douglas...
Raiders of the Lost Ark
DOP – Douglas Slocombe
Format - Panavision Cameras 100T
Lenses - Panavision Lenses
Aspect Ratio - 2.35 : 1
Delivery - 8mm, 16mm, 35mm and 70mm Blow UpNotable Strengths – Camera Movement (Spielberg Stares), Colour, Use of Location, Building Suspense, Lens Choice, Lighting, Composition and Framing, Action Sequences
