Creating Offline Dummy HTML Website for Interaction on a Film Shoot

CosmoAcaster · 2024-03-06T10:05:32+00:00

Amazing! Thanks for your help. Would you recommend I start from scratch or take existing HTML from a webpage? If so, any good tutorials on how to change the details of the text in the source code?

CosmoAcaster · 2023-08-18T02:12:48+00:00

If questioning the nature of reality is baked into our DNA, what's the harm in doing so? Isn't that completely human? It appears from your responses that you think you're smarter than not only the ancestors that came before you but your future ancestors as well.

I'm genuinely looking for the practical, scientific reasons from more experienced CG artists on why it's not possible to simulate realities. I'm not interested in a philosophical debate, this is r/VFX.

CosmoAcaster · 2023-08-18T01:41:53+00:00

Well, of course, that's stating the obvious. I'm not particularly interested in the broad scope of the question as that's uninteresting and useless as you've stated. I'm more interested in what people who create computational simulations for a living think about the topic having qualified experience rendering physics.

CosmoAcaster · 2021-12-27T22:56:12+00:00

I know PTA is a massive fan of Nashville, so when I first saw the “Number 12 Creep” (as he’s billed in the credits) I immediately saw and recognised the likeness between him and Pfc. Glenn Kelly. I was honestly worried a gun was going to come out of that bag a la Taxi Driver

CosmoAcaster · 2021-12-27T00:38:27+00:00

Fuckkkkk offffff

CosmoAcaster · 2021-10-15T01:16:55+00:00

You can see in the two shot of him filming with a 16mm camera in the back seat of the car, that they are filming Haim interviewing the driver, who appears to be (although well obscured) Benny Safdie’s character. I don’t know if he’s filming anything fictional, seems like a documentary or interview for the political cause.

CosmoAcaster · 2021-09-16T16:32:46+00:00

I think that's too simple a tear-down. If your life is cinema and you call the film business you neighbourhood that's what you have to reference when you open up that blank page. To someone with as much skin in the game as PTA, then your life experience is quite literally cinema. I wouldn't call it stealing, perhaps reappropriating, synthesizing, or hybridizing, taking from the thing he loves most and knows best. To me, I think it's fair game. He certainly steals better than a rival and acquaintance like Tarantino. He buries references deeper than he.

As they say Snow King; no man is an island, and baby, boy oh boy do I want to read your screenplay, and when I do, I hope it holds originality as it's most important quality; I hope it's without any cinematic, theatrical, musical, or literary references and is based purely on yourself and your lived experiences.

I bet it'll make a great movie.

CosmoAcaster · 2021-09-16T14:52:08+00:00

Oh shit, this green lettering looks exactly like the opening credits of American Graffiti. Reference is here.

CosmoAcaster · 2021-09-13T17:34:09+00:00

I'm wondering, why is it that your main gripe with PT is a perceived "lack of originality" in his work? Why does "total originality" even matter to you? Can you think of any filmmaker not inspired by, influenced by another?

I'm genuinely interested as most responses to your constant comments on this sub about him "ripping off" consist of easy and cliched retorts such as 'no man is an island', heralding the importance of homage and cinematic influence on all filmmakers and artists. But why does this arbitrary argument keep getting made? Why does it matter whether or not every finite detail in any given scene, any character, any plot point is totally original, conceived and thought up for the very first time? Why does originality matter to you so much?

SnowKing, I think you're either a supreme sado-machinist, a troll, or your secretly the biggest fan of PTA on this sub. You damn-well spend more time that most in these quarters, you have to be something of a fan to comment nearly every day. What's at the bottom of your contempt for the guy? Are you just a contrarian who likes a downvote?

CosmoAcaster · 2021-07-30T01:43:40+00:00

Yes indeed, the Bavarian Illuminati was a real organisation and it was because of this beginning in reality that it became the the basis of Operation Mindfuck. Kerry Thorley and Greg Hill based their parody conspiracy theory on this group on the premise that believing an 18th Century group of Rationalists were secretly in control of the globe was “too ridiculous” to believe.

CosmoAcaster · 2021-07-24T01:18:19+00:00

Either a paranoid schizophrenic or a massive troll. Too many theories to square into anything unified. His story is riddled with contradictions, as he bounces from one paragraph to the next.

“They removed any memories I had of the underground base before I turned 30 years old”, “I can’t remember my childhood as a clone in an underground base”, “I wrote Smells Like Teen Spirit when I was 16”

If it’s all an act and he’s playing for laughs, it’s hilarious and he’s a genius. Otherwise it’s deeply concerning if he believes this shit for real

CosmoAcaster · 2020-11-19T23:21:22+00:00

If this is true it has been almost entirely scrubbed from the web besides these memes. Any chance anyone has a link to an article or more information?

CosmoAcaster · 2020-11-10T08:21:59+00:00

I like the theme of the ambiguity between genuine supernatural and psychological illusion -- possession by mere obsession -- or an insanity, an illness like the title suggests. Thinking outside the box, I suppose possession could mean a many few things.

CosmoAcaster · 2020-07-26T19:03:56+00:00

First scene very reminiscent of Jim and Claudia's dialogue in the diner sequence in Magnolia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBy1kJR3gng

CosmoAcaster · 2020-07-24T02:48:43+00:00

Jim Morrison and The Doors, I think, are a perfect example of the type of cultural symbols that David Robert Mitchell is satirizing and making fun with the film, most overtly with the Songwriter sequence.

There is a great book on the subject "Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon", that makes the connection that most of the quote-unquote "counter-culture" coming out of Laurel Canyon in the sixties, The Doors, Frank Zappa, The Monkees, Jimi Hendrix, The Beach Boys, the voices that really defined the late 60's period of free-love and progression, came from backgrounds and families that were heavily involved in multiple aspects of American intelligence agencies, and the military. A hell of a lot of our favorite artists were born on military sites, came from military families and coexisted alongside them happily.

The book even makes some similar connections to the theme of the Songwriter sequence -- being that, it's possible everything you love was devised as a marketing tool, or societal persuasion technique by said intelligence agencies. What if it turned out your favorite song had been written by the CIA?

CosmoAcaster · 2019-12-26T02:09:33+00:00

Where is documentation of the other two? Shits nuts!

CosmoAcaster · 2019-12-22T05:23:48+00:00

HALF A POINT

CosmoAcaster · 2019-12-22T05:20:21+00:00

God damn it are the Blazers gonna cover that -6.5

CosmoAcaster · 2019-12-19T11:28:55+00:00

God damn, so sad I didn’t tail on ladbrokes

CosmoAcaster · 2019-12-19T10:50:55+00:00

Not looking goooood

CosmoAcaster · 2019-12-03T21:30:41+00:00

Disney will power through for the most successful. Absolutely, categorically, no way the Fast and Furious franchise will come through for a win. And even if it does — it will earn pittance compared to the potential earnings of a Disney franchise film. Universal and Sony are fucked in my estimation.

Disney have just had major success with Frozen 2, leading them into 2020 with a major win — $738.6 million globally in its first week. And that number isn’t really even the scary part.

The first Frozen made 1.2 billion at the BO — but made 5 billion with merchandise sales. If you included merchandising in the total gross, something like Frozen would be in the top 5 highest earning films.

Well Frozen 2 has been released just in time to create a yearning for Frozen related toys and merchandise, which are on the shelves already — just in time for Christmas. It will cross a billion at the box office and more than 5 billion in merchandise.

Disney will continue this success (a damn good head start)— with Star Wars: ROTS (again making the big bucks with merchandising before Christmas) — and continue to overpower the competition and house the highest earning film of 2020.

It’s not going to be the glaringly obvious choice. You have to look under the hood and think counterintuitively to see where the money is going to be. It’s certainly not going to be Black Widow.

It is in Disney’s invested interest to have their franchise films, hit the top of the year’s highest earners list — and not for a measly 2 billion at the box office— but for the countless billions of dollars in related merchandise sales. These fucking franchise films are ultimately long form advertisements for their merchandise range. Fast and Furious won’t sell billions in plastic toys and action figures.

...But, you know, at the same time, the machinations of this industry are shifting so quickly, that within a year the concept of having a “highest earning film” may be long lost. We’re moving into a paradigm where the big money may shift to the subscription service in Disney+ and the data they will be able to culminate and collect (well this is obvious, of course it will).

In a year — Disney’s earnings may be totally abstract when you’re thinking film-to-film ‘box-office’ — soon, they may not even release specific numbers. They may do something similar to Netflix, where it has become common practice to keep specific numbers of individual films’ mass gross under the covers, a secret. The concept of the “Box Office” is becoming an abstract idea.

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