Out of nowhere I see this movie trailer on YouTube. It's about the David Mitchell novel. There was one part of it I have read, the futuristic cyper-punk dystopia, which I thought was pretty sharp on a few levels, both as genre fiction and social observation. So the trailer, to me, makes the film look like it's the next Inception. Except potentially more confusing.
So Tom Hanks is in this movie, they've got 'Outro' by M83 playing in the trailer, and the words "EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED" show up on screen at one point – really exciting stuff. In a five minute trailer I've seen a bunch of stuff out of the movie. They've referenced a bunch of concepts: metempsychosis (this one's about to trend, trust me), love, action, dialogue, narrative exposition... if you watch the trailer you will discern a dozen more. Considering the nature of the trailer, I wonder if I've seen a condensed version, which also makes me wonder, taking the unfinished book into account, if it's going to be a must-see.
It sounds like the sort of achingly metaphysical and deep movie that will keep people thinking until they reach their cars or have walked for a half hour. It definitely looks cool, and you can forgive any foreseeable cliches and laziness by the sheer variety of settings. It just seems like the trailer generously lays the movie out and, really, how hard is it to pair the movie with a neat little conceptual trailer, even if it has to be half as long?
It's got me thinking all existentially, even at this moment, and for me this is the most hypeable moment of this particular upcoming film release. Really there's always a reason to cheer when a book is turned into a movie, or concerning movies anything that's not a sequel, prequel, remake, or franchise reboot. I just wonder if Cloud Atlas will suffer in the same way Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy did.
Anyways it's a cool trailer. It starts out with ethereal music and then kicks into more tense music and then goes insane. Dudes on horses, clones in a future dystopia, inspiring quotes. Then an explosion and a moment of silence and M83 and some more inspiring material. It's hard to resist, and in just a few months we get to see if it meets or exceeds expectations.
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5/3/12
Does the Internet Make You Sick?
Well I think anybody who has thought about it already knows the answer, and there's no point in spoiling a surprise, so...
What Hasn't Made Us Sick?
Someone knowledgeable should write a book about that. I'm deeply allergic to knowing anything about health or myself, so I would probably not buy it, but I would pay someone to do the work. I would pay at utmost 5.00 in whatever currency 5.00 still means something. If there is some sort of hypervaluation crisis (and it would be one, don't even fool yourself) I would pay .5, .05, down to .000005 depending on circumstances. The project of discerning whether or not the internet can make you sick could be completed (or at least started definitively), with global co-operation and collaboration (via the internet), in a as little as 12 hours. For free, I'm sure.
If the internet has taught me anything it is to always rush noobs, pick the noobiest weapon/build, the following acronyms (too many; mainly 'afaik'), there is no such thing as too many clicks, don't ever get involved in anything, avoid chat in general unless to friends – and most importantly: to not be a total dick when you start beating the shit out of other players, in any game except online chess. Also doubt everything, and avoid anyone who has anything to say as they're most likely charlatans or shills.
So the prognosis isn't great.The suppression of it is variable. The internet is still more a force for freedom, except it, like any other media, can be just as detrimental to it. Oh and dangerous, possibly catastrophic. But that's just about anything, and the laws of mediocrity will hopefully minimize the odds of anything extraordinary happening.
What Hasn't Made Us Sick?
Someone knowledgeable should write a book about that. I'm deeply allergic to knowing anything about health or myself, so I would probably not buy it, but I would pay someone to do the work. I would pay at utmost 5.00 in whatever currency 5.00 still means something. If there is some sort of hypervaluation crisis (and it would be one, don't even fool yourself) I would pay .5, .05, down to .000005 depending on circumstances. The project of discerning whether or not the internet can make you sick could be completed (or at least started definitively), with global co-operation and collaboration (via the internet), in a as little as 12 hours. For free, I'm sure.
If the internet has taught me anything it is to always rush noobs, pick the noobiest weapon/build, the following acronyms (too many; mainly 'afaik'), there is no such thing as too many clicks, don't ever get involved in anything, avoid chat in general unless to friends – and most importantly: to not be a total dick when you start beating the shit out of other players, in any game except online chess. Also doubt everything, and avoid anyone who has anything to say as they're most likely charlatans or shills.
So the prognosis isn't great.The suppression of it is variable. The internet is still more a force for freedom, except it, like any other media, can be just as detrimental to it. Oh and dangerous, possibly catastrophic. But that's just about anything, and the laws of mediocrity will hopefully minimize the odds of anything extraordinary happening.
1/25/11
The Internet 'IRL', Courtesy of Something Awful
I've been watching the Flash Tub at Something Awful for years. It was originally quite good, but the quality always varied, and there hasn't really been anything outstanding or noteworthy there for a while, in my unfair estimation. It's a flash animation weekly feature, often with goofy and/or violent animation and tends to stray into nonsensical self referential territory.
But now and again it proves that it does have a right to exist. For instance, when it does what Something Awful is best at: internet meta-commentary. The preceding sentence is a link to a flash tub cartoon that illustrates exactly what the world would be like if it were like the internet, as imagined by knowing denizens of the internet. When it comes to timely slap-downs of internet memes, social fads, or the type of snobbish commentary on music that Pitchfork simply cannot provide, Something Awful has been everyone's friend since at least 2001 and has doled out mountains of advice to loners, strangers, and goons of various persuasions.
To be honest, the cartoon is sharp as hell. Say what you want about the production (which, statistically, is above and beyond a majority of Flash work on the internet), but the content delivers.
But now and again it proves that it does have a right to exist. For instance, when it does what Something Awful is best at: internet meta-commentary. The preceding sentence is a link to a flash tub cartoon that illustrates exactly what the world would be like if it were like the internet, as imagined by knowing denizens of the internet. When it comes to timely slap-downs of internet memes, social fads, or the type of snobbish commentary on music that Pitchfork simply cannot provide, Something Awful has been everyone's friend since at least 2001 and has doled out mountains of advice to loners, strangers, and goons of various persuasions.
To be honest, the cartoon is sharp as hell. Say what you want about the production (which, statistically, is above and beyond a majority of Flash work on the internet), but the content delivers.
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