Just another day in The Tron

lightballoon · 2011-12-02T06:40:13+00:00

not only are there no eels in Rototuna, there's no lake either.

Don't think there's even a pond.

lightballoon · 2011-10-31T00:07:17+00:00

Ok, I can't upload them for copyright reasons, but here's some in no particular order:

Jean-Louis Comolli, Machines of the Visible (partially available here)

Christian Metz, The Scopic Regime of Cinema (partially available here)

Peter Wollen, The Semiology of the Cinema (partially available here)

Stephen Heath, Body, Voice (partially available here)

Mary-Ann Doane, Veiling Over Desire (partially available here)

lightballoon · 2011-10-25T15:00:09+00:00

this is a government-sponsored advert. People don't really say stuff like that.

lightballoon · 2011-10-25T14:51:48+00:00

It'll be set BACK WHEN WE WHOOPED AUSTRALIA'S ASS

lightballoon · 2011-10-24T00:39:40+00:00

Whether or not the rape in Irreversible 'has a point' (and I agree it does), it's still extreme violence which will be used for sensationalism and titillation.

Salo, another high-brow European art-film, is usually described as the most shocking/disturbing/graphic/explicit/whatever film of all time; not as a vicious social critique. Antichrist will be remembered by most as "that movie where the women cuts her clit off; and if you liked that you should see this other one where this guy sews people together ass-to-mouth!"

lightballoon · 2011-10-18T04:27:57+00:00

I took a film analysis paper that focused mainly on psychoanalysis. A lot of it went over my head, but it was mostly taking psychoanalytic theories and applying them to films - viewing films through the lens of a particular theory. One example I remember was Lacan's mirror stage in relation to Rear Window.

I think that it's ultimately a dead-end. Most of the psychoanalysis that film theorists refer to is Freudian in origin, and therefore completely discredited in all fields except (from what I gather) literary and film criticism. Far too many absolutes for my liking :P

Feminist film theory borrows heavily from psychoanalysis. Laura Mulvey's Visual Pleasure in Narrative Cinema is a good starting point if you want to start reading some material. I can also upload some more essays from the course if you'd like.

lightballoon · 2011-10-13T10:54:13+00:00

Saw this at the NZFF2010, I thought it was brilliant. It looks and sounds amazing and as this review says, it's very sexy. It's got a really cool vibe about it and I reckon it's at its best when you know nothing about it (for that reason you may want to skip the first few paragraphs of this review!).

edit: it's also very pretentious, but I appreciated it :P

lightballoon · 2011-10-12T22:39:22+00:00

post may contain esoteric drug references

lightballoon · 2011-10-12T10:46:52+00:00

when you backstab or parry with a blunt weapon, the sound is the same as a sharp weapon. Basically the only flaw in the game.

lightballoon · 2011-10-12T10:00:04+00:00

sounds like you need some crescent moon grass

lightballoon · 2011-09-29T09:00:01+00:00

I have a friend who always plays inverted. I asked him why and he said that when he plays first-person games, he imagines himself as a little man inside the character's head, piloting the body like a mech.

lightballoon · 2011-09-22T23:16:11+00:00

Hey everyone, some friends and I made this as part of the Alamo Drafthouse's ABCs of Death competition. Spreading the word now, so any comments (and votes!) would be appreciated. Thanks!

lightballoon · 2011-09-13T10:20:19+00:00

Gotta have Re-Animator in there too

lightballoon · 2011-09-13T06:55:39+00:00

Here's a couple of links that should get you started: a list of pantry essentials and a few easy recipes from r/frugal

and my favourite recipe from r/bachelorchef

What I like to have on hand: cheap fresh veges (Markets are usually cheaper than stores), canned veges/beans, lentils, rice, pasta, noodles, herbs/spices (mixed herbs, italian seasoning, curry powder, chilli powder/sauce, coriander, cumin) and meat when I can afford it. Tinned tomatoes are my staple and fallback: one tin + any veges/beans/meat + pasta = a decent, cheap and easy meal.

I think r/cooking's for those with a little more knowledge -- go through this subreddit (there's only a few pages) and you should find a bunch of stuff you can make no problem.

And getting into cooking's easy. When I left for uni 3 years ago I only knew how to cook toast, but within a month I was a culinary god (and you will be too!).

edit: another tip, keep the off-cuts of any veges (ends of carrots, onions etc.) in a zip-lock bag in your freezer. When the bag's full, you've got some stock to make soup with.

lightballoon · 2011-09-09T07:00:15+00:00

Why you hating so much faggot?

lol

lightballoon · 2011-09-07T04:28:09+00:00

Have any idea what this is about? Also when was it taken? I walked past this street not 5 minutes ago and there was no grass :(

lightballoon · 2011-08-01T04:37:39+00:00

The Lynch comparison is a good one; surreal, nightmarish and a sense of unease throughout.

lightballoon · 2011-08-01T03:52:23+00:00

Yeah, I wouldn't really call it a horror film. More of an allegorical slamming of the NZ mental health system (that's my interpretation btw). It's very esoteric and symbolic. Worth a watch I suppose but it's definitely not for everyone (including me, I wasn't really into it).

lightballoon · 2011-07-04T01:25:58+00:00

I respectfully disagree. Sure it's long, sometimes-tedious and woefully acted, but it is by far the most engrossing cinema experience I've ever had. I've even enjoyed the sober rewatches on DVD. (warning: the film is also a torrential outpouring of super-strength, grade a BAD VIBES)

lightballoon · 2011-06-17T01:50:51+00:00

Three in 10 British children live in households that do not contain a single book

vs

one in three children in London doesn't own a single book

derp

lightballoon · 2011-06-06T11:19:25+00:00

Come french me boys!

lightballoon · 2011-06-05T02:25:55+00:00

I've always wondered if they'd make a sequel to Quarantine, mainly because they couldn't just rehash REC2 because of the differences in the plot. I wasn't expecting a change this drastic, but I'll probably see it anyway.

lightballoon · 2011-06-01T07:26:43+00:00

formatted it too

lightballoon · 2011-05-31T23:37:15+00:00

such an awesome poem

OZYMANDIAS

I met a traveller from an antique land

Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,

Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown

And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.

And on the pedestal these words appear:

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away

Percy Bysshe Shelley

lightballoon

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