elemental furies
Now and then, a long
Suppressed bellow rises up
From the earth, a great sweeping rage
That drowns cities and peoples
We have no space for Noah’s Ark
No easy classification of species
Willing themselves to salvation
All this I thought about
When I saw the well-dressed men
And women abandon themselves
To the wrath of God
Climbing out of cars
No better than toy boats,
Sinking uselessly
Mired in mud waters -
Just rewards of our capitalist age
Rich or poor, you will all die
Of boredom or despair
Crawling your way out
Of the Fallen metropolis
While a helicopter looms overhead
And takes aerial shots
For the evening news
[august 16 2007]
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on an unrelated note, got this from lobit's blog:
[aside: crazy urge to realize dampa comedy into film slowly waning... no time or energy or even momentum to start on a script! waaaah. but 'twas fun imagining the project with xam and debbz, sana we can do something in the future]
DAVID LYNCH DUMPS FILM, GOES DIGITAL
David Lynch (great director I admire, and who doesn't) said in a recent interview with MTV that he's quit using film (you know, those celluloid strips used by ancient cameras) and is going digital from now on:
MTV: You shot "Inland Empire" using digital technology. Will you ever go back to film?
Lynch: Never. Digital is so friendly for me and so important for the scenes, a way of working without so much downtime. It's impossible to go back. Film is a beautiful medium, but the world has moved on. The amount of manipulation we can do, anybody can do, is so much the future. Film is so big and heavy and slow, you just die. It's just ridiculous.
Anti-"piracy" rhetoric carry some moral currency when you consider how bloated and expensive film and its related technologies are. Traditional film outfits invest a lot of money, and as a matter of policy, the law should protect their expectation of a reasonable return. But digital technology (lighter, cheaper, more accessible) changes the calculus. When it costs so much less to produce movies, does it still make sense legally protecting old business models?
Suppressed bellow rises up
From the earth, a great sweeping rage
That drowns cities and peoples
We have no space for Noah’s Ark
No easy classification of species
Willing themselves to salvation
All this I thought about
When I saw the well-dressed men
And women abandon themselves
To the wrath of God
Climbing out of cars
No better than toy boats,
Sinking uselessly
Mired in mud waters -
Just rewards of our capitalist age
Rich or poor, you will all die
Of boredom or despair
Crawling your way out
Of the Fallen metropolis
While a helicopter looms overhead
And takes aerial shots
For the evening news
[august 16 2007]
********
on an unrelated note, got this from lobit's blog:
[aside: crazy urge to realize dampa comedy into film slowly waning... no time or energy or even momentum to start on a script! waaaah. but 'twas fun imagining the project with xam and debbz, sana we can do something in the future]
DAVID LYNCH DUMPS FILM, GOES DIGITAL
David Lynch (great director I admire, and who doesn't) said in a recent interview with MTV that he's quit using film (you know, those celluloid strips used by ancient cameras) and is going digital from now on:
MTV: You shot "Inland Empire" using digital technology. Will you ever go back to film?
Lynch: Never. Digital is so friendly for me and so important for the scenes, a way of working without so much downtime. It's impossible to go back. Film is a beautiful medium, but the world has moved on. The amount of manipulation we can do, anybody can do, is so much the future. Film is so big and heavy and slow, you just die. It's just ridiculous.
Anti-"piracy" rhetoric carry some moral currency when you consider how bloated and expensive film and its related technologies are. Traditional film outfits invest a lot of money, and as a matter of policy, the law should protect their expectation of a reasonable return. But digital technology (lighter, cheaper, more accessible) changes the calculus. When it costs so much less to produce movies, does it still make sense legally protecting old business models?