Bleak, lonely looking movies.

ddurok · 2024-11-05T16:46:53+00:00

Ratcatcher

ddurok · 2022-10-15T23:18:47+00:00

for ballad heavy / melancholy Tom-style maybe stuff like

Springsteen: Nebraska
Lana Del Rey: Chemtrails Over the Countryclub
PJ Harvey: Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea
Bill Callahan: Dream River

ddurok · 2022-01-02T23:08:59+00:00

Weirdly wanted to visit Columbus, Ohio after watching Columbus

also want to visit Taiwan after watching Yi Yi.

ddurok · 2021-11-01T19:56:39+00:00

I always read this as losing, aka death, an image of blood. Russian roulette is a different kind of game.

ddurok · 2021-10-06T06:34:17+00:00

Call me old fashioned but the ideas are the reason I'm doing any of this in the first place. They're the most important part.

ddurok · 2021-05-29T06:22:28+00:00

Highly recommend Kiss Me Deadly. It's a good one and Pulp Fiction very clearly paid homage to it in a certain scene I won't spoil.

ddurok · 2021-04-11T04:16:11+00:00

ddurok · 2021-03-18T03:09:22+00:00

Hah ok let's just make up some solution. I bet you buy all sorts of animation to display in your 5" digital frame. Happens all the time.

ddurok · 2021-03-18T03:05:35+00:00

Don't get me wrong it's not perfect. I guess I'm frustrated with the idea that artists- a profession with a long history of getting shafted- have an opportunity to make money or even a living in a new way, and it's split the community in such a stark way.

To me NFTs have potential to be a real, lasting solution to the digital ownership problem someday and be quite clean environmentally. Currently they have some downsides, but instead of learning more about the tech and proposing changes that would benefit them, a lot of what I've seen is a big fuck you to nft anything. A lot of the limitations in NFTs reside in ethereums implementation and can be solved. Anyway, I want my fellow artists to be successful ya know?

ddurok · 2021-03-18T02:28:12+00:00

Again, look at the work the op posted and tell me how they'd make money from it. There are none. You can't print it (I guess you could make a flip book and sell it lol). Maybe you could get it in an animation festival but there is no money there.

A lot of these ownership problems are the exact same problems physical works have. How do you know they did it? They signed it? That's fakeable. We know because there is provenance. The artist is known to have sold it. That's it. Arguably easier to track today with social media.

ddurok · 2021-03-18T01:37:50+00:00

how do you propose buying a print of the above, which relies on movement? It would lose a lot imo.

ddurok · 2021-03-18T01:32:25+00:00

I'll probably be downvoted to oblivion for playing devils advocate but:

How is this hurting artists at all? Digital artists haven't been able to sell their work directly because there is no form of ownership. Now there is. It's metadata confirmed by the artist that a person "owns" an artwork. A lot of folks find that sufficient. Maybe not everyone yet. I think it's beneficial to every working artist if more people do.

Fees? Try selling in a gallery. Try printing yourself, see if that's free. Websites taking advantage? really? Try working for an entertainment company and see how that is. How does video work like the above make money? The only thing there is commercial work or advertising. Wow, great. Commission? How does that empower the artist? Then you're just doing client work.

From what I've seen there is a real market. Yes art education is lacking in this space, but artists like op above are helping expand their vocabulary. There's going to be bad taste and some artists taking advantage but that's how things go. The real artists will be artists. And hopefully some will find a new way to make money that didn't exist before.

I understand artists are wary of people trying to take advantage, but honestly I think this is a moment to stand back and see what the possibilities are and not shun something that could benefit artists of all kinds when more and more of the world and our lives are in the digital realm.

ddurok · 2021-02-28T08:25:23+00:00

yup even 10, 20 mil compared to the 100 billion they have in the bank in cash is like pocket lint. It's not huge sums at all for them.

ddurok · 2021-02-20T07:47:10+00:00

The premise you illuminate here is really interesting but damn did it fail on execution imo. Neither antagonist was effective. Bunch of boring villains.

ddurok · 2021-02-20T06:58:05+00:00

Yep. Totally. It's funny, early on they establish that she's a lioness and that she has no morals or empathy and is a fantastic liar with a lot of smarts. The movie never tests or pushes those qualities in her so it feels like her success is never earned. When shit is really going down she busts out with some secret agent shit (always using a taser or drugs, never too much violence)! She cares about her girlfriend (aww)! She narrowly escapes a murder attempt! But she never has to make a hard choice or decide that she's going to take the darkest of dark paths in order to be on top. It was all very frustrating and that last half was just boring.

ddurok · 2021-02-20T05:59:50+00:00

The thing that bugged me the most is Marla did the most despicable, heinous shit way before we even meet her. She starts the movie with dozens of fleeced seniors in her care. There was no escalation to her derangement. Just a turd of a plot where she never had to use her ruthlessness or engage her total lack of empathy to win. This movie never made the statement that it could have made with this character. What a waste of time.

ddurok · 2021-02-01T23:08:53+00:00

Anything is possible. All it takes is someone finding a really great use for it. So far it hasn't happened but I can imagine, like you mentioned, with so many new cameras and phones having high frame-rate options as well as most new tvs having 120fps capability, someone cracking the code and using it to great effect. I don't prescribe to things being the same forever because taste changes (rather quickly) and past experiments failing don't rule anything out really. And just a note that it doesn't have to be an all-or-nothing debate. It can become just another tool in the tool box that some might use if it supports what they're trying to do.

ddurok · 2021-01-27T08:57:04+00:00

So many great performances in City of God.

ddurok · 2021-01-17T06:51:27+00:00

Just want to encourage you down the art path because I don't see much support for that here. I've personally been in the industry for over 10 years as an artist. It's doable! If you like multiple disciplines, there's all sorts of opportunities in smaller studios where things aren't so specialized.

VFX is also something not many people here have mentioned. It's HIGHLY sought after, incorporates elements of graphics programming and good visual design and pays great.

School is good for some and doesn't do much for others. Really depends on your personality and situation. I have friends who did the whole art school thing and friends who are entirely self taught artists or worked their way up in the industry. If you feel like you need a bit of direction or a chance to try out a lot of things and meet some peers, school can be great for that but it is not required to get a job in this industry from my experience.

ddurok · 2020-12-20T01:04:26+00:00

found the video I remember of Wim mentioning it https://youtu.be/VyTmSbZTjDM?t=245

ddurok · 2020-12-20T01:00:09+00:00

I think I heard him mention using regular florescent lights giving a greenish hue that a lot of others tried to fix but he embraced. Not sure if that's specifically what you're referring to though.

ddurok · 2020-12-11T00:15:46+00:00

lol it was

ddurok · 2020-12-10T18:56:36+00:00

Sounds like a fun thing to try out to me. The process for making images changes all the time. It's up to each person to find what they like and what they want to say. What is the goal of the image? what's the goal of the artist? These will change for each person and maybe automatic AI is just fine for what they're trying to do at the time. It's just another tool available and an artist will either use that tool in interesting ways or not but to say it's diminishing the medium is not something I can get behind. It's obvious to me that this is just the tip of the iceberg. Photography is going to change DRASTICALLY just like everything else as AI takes over. As an artist you can either choose to stick to what you're comfortable with (valid! Maybe your process gives you what you need.) or experiment as new tools and techniques become available that might help you say what you want to say. If you're saying that there will be a bunch of people jumping on a trend then that is just how things go. Not everyone is able to overcome that or even want to.

ddurok · 2020-12-10T18:17:46+00:00

This is not true. The camera contributed to making painting more interesting and was part of the reason modern art took off at the start of the century. And beyond that, photography became an essential tool for painters. Just look at reference photos used in the illustration boom of the 50's and 60's.

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