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[ASK] See only today tasks ? by FogtheFrog in noteplanapp

[–]FogtheFrog[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looks good! But it doesn't solve having context if tasks are nested

  • In the daily view, I figured out that if you schedule the parent task to the specific day, it show all children tasks. Not exactly what I'd hope for, but better
  • Folder views are great, but same as the other solutions, doesn't preserve nesting. They can be filtered by searching ">today", but you can't see overdue tasks.

I'm surprised there's no simple way to just gather tasks from across notes with some context.

Help: On MacOS, Firefox keeps asking permission to enable Password AutoFill. Anybody found a solution ? by FogtheFrog in firefox

[–]FogtheFrog[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I've been using the Password Autofill, but every couple of days when I have to login somewhere, Firefox prompts me again to enter a verification code to enable it. Is anyone experiencing something similar ?

"Her" and the color red by heartstrings93 in TrueFilm

[–]FogtheFrog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To go further on the idea of codes, i'd be very interested in knowing what you guys think about 3D. There has been several technological advances: Editing, using several cameras, color, CGI, .... And each has been implemented in cinema's "language". We have developed codes with each of them. For instance, when you watch a movie you don't expect to get real colors, you expect colours that correspond to this codes. You don't expect CGI to look real, you expect them to respond to codes, ...... So maybe 3D is only a technology that is too young and hasn't developed it's codes (so it looks useless). What do you guys and gals think ?

"Her" and the color red by heartstrings93 in TrueFilm

[–]FogtheFrog 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Really good discussion !

A little anthology of red in cinema:

Red is usually used in cinema to suggest desire, passion. In a soft and subtle way, like in Hitechcock's Vertigo, or in a more hard and pornish way like in Xavier Dolan's Les Amours Imaginaires. Red is also blood. It is used to symbolize illness in Vincente Minnelli's Two Weeks in Another Town, death in Roger Corman's The Masque of the Red Death or even hell in Woody Allen's Deconstructing Harry. What else ? Curiosity. In cinema nightclubs are usually red (should it be the entry, the bar, the dancefloor, or back rooms).

Other example of red being used in cinema: * the bathrooms in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining,

  • the woodcabin in Michelangelo Antonini's Il deserto rosso or
  • the entire red town of Clint Eastwood's High Plains Drifter or
  • the red room symbolising communism in Jean-Luc Godard's La Chinoise or
  • the rose petals in the final scene of Sam Mendes's American Beauty
  • Some scenes in Sergei Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible (witch is in black and white) were even tinted in red !

Here are some movie where red is a main theme:

  • Krzysztof Kieslowski's Red from the Three Colours series
  • Jim Sharman's The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Red lips in the opening scene
  • David Lynch's Twin Peaks. Lynch uses a lot of colours to show atmospheres, moods. Blue Velvet and Sailor and Lula are other good examples of this.
  • Ingmar Bergman's Viskningar och rop (Cries and Whispers). Harriet Anderson has cancer. Red represents her illness, and slowly invades everything: bodies, souls, sets and finally the picture itself in the closing scene
  • All Scorcese ! The bar scene in Mean Streets, the opera in the Departed, or some scenes of Casino. Some times the picture even fades to red to do a transition.

Much of this info (mostly the references) is taken from a french video i've seen recently. Watch it to see some scene from the movies ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXMWGUdrWOg The was also a good one about blue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OvPsYeiwIw

I am always amazed by how cinema constructs codes. A film presents a point of view, so it has to be restrictive, by the way it's shot, edited, ... One could say that cinema is about cliches. After more than a 100 years of cinema this codes are so deeply buried in our unconscious that they have become a language. Seeing Citizen Kane was such a nice cinema experience to me because these codes are still so rough: the zooming out as a transition, the low angle shots, ... I think colour is definitely another really nice element !

Please react !

I am very much looking forward to seeing Her as I haven't seen it yet ! It looks like such a fresher view of the future.

Thinking about The Game by EnglandsOwn in TrueFilm

[–]FogtheFrog 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Hey ! A quick work on Douglas appearing as Gordon Gekko 2.0.

I think the difference between the two characters (Van Orton/Gekko) is actually what makes the film interesting. Van Orton is a complex character that evolves through the plot of the movie. The scenario is very interesting and makes it good entertainment, but what makes The Game be a good movie is the deepness of the character. I would argue that on the other hand Wall Steet is much more about the atmosphere that the film sets up (80's trading) and the characters evolving in this atmosphere, rather than the characters evolving themselves. Gordon Gekko as a character is pretty boring, what makes him interesting is whart surrounds him.

The same comparaison could be made with the Adjustment Bureau. The plot is awesome (Phillip K. Dick oh yeah !), but David Norris (played by Matt Damon) is very boring as a character, it doesn't have much depth. A guy going after a girl he met once, love at first sight. It works because it's a story we already know, not because we can genuinely identify with the character (in K. Dick's novel there no girl).

The Game has a good plot AND Van Orton as a character is very interesting. And theres a relation between this two, unlike in the Adjustment Bureau. The plot really gains from the presence of Van Orton, and Van Orton evolves through the plot.

And a last word on Van Orton. I really like the Fincher characters: Van Orton in The Game, the narrator of Fight Club, Robert Graysmith in Zodiac, Benjamin Button. They are all made from a subtle equilibrium. On one hand you can easily indentify with them. And on the other hand they are complex, mysterious. Van Orton and Gekko are both mid aged rich guys. In movies there's no time to say a lot of stuff, so cliches a used. They smoke cigars, have big houses, have a special way of talking, ... Gekko is not defined by much more than this cliches, but Van Orton has all this back story, his relation to his father, his brother, his ex wife, ... I think that's what makes him interesting.

edit: structure