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Post by Ingram on Nov 6, 2021 19:51:12 GMT
You know who I think aren't appreciated enough? Actors. I don't mean classically inclined working stage actors or theater-school academics or city park bohemians...
No, HOLLYWOOD Actors!
I would pay to watch this on the big screen. In 3D.
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Post by Subtext Mining on Nov 9, 2021 10:23:58 GMT
What about aspiring actors who end up as pop singers? I think I used to know this at one point, but today I re-learned that the runner up for the role of Princess Leia was Terri Nunn who later went on to become the lead singer of Berlin, most well-known for their hit Take My Breath Away, which was the theme song for the 1986 blockbuster Top Gun. youtu.be/Bx51eegLTY8I just find that interesting being how Padmé literally took Anakin's breath away in more ways than one. And he was an ace pilot.  |
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Post by Cryogenic on Nov 9, 2021 13:59:50 GMT
What about aspiring actors who end up as pop singers? I think I used to know this at one point, but today I re-learned that the runner up for the role of Princess Leia was Terri Nunn who later went on to become the lead singer of Berlin, most well-known for their hit Take My Breath Away, which was the theme song for the 1986 blockbuster Top Gun. youtu.be/Bx51eegLTY8I just find that interesting being how Padmé literally took Anakin's breath away in more ways than one. And he was an ace pilot. A tinge of inspiration here, perhaps:  |
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Post by Ingram on Nov 9, 2021 20:53:31 GMT
What about aspiring actors who end up as pop singers? I think I used to know this at one point, but today I re-learned that the runner up for the role of Princess Leia was Terri Nunn who later went on to become the lead singer of Berlin, most well-known for their hit Take My Breath Away, which was the theme song for the 1986 blockbuster Top Gun. youtu.be/Bx51eegLTY8I just find that interesting being how Padmé literally took Anakin's breath away in more ways than one. And he was an ace pilot. Interesting, too, that the band's name is Berlin, despite being a pop group entirely of Southern Californian origins—interesting once we jump over to yet another early '80s neo-punk new wave band from actual West Germany, Nena, and consider their biggest international hit '99 Luftballons' which the English translation would add '99 Red Balloons' and wherein if one were to flip the number 99 it then becomes 66. As in, Order 66!
The song, being an anti-war anthem of its era with lyrics that tell of 99 harmless balloons set loose along a border between two opposing state powers that trigger a paranoid response between both ministries that then leads to a cataclysmic war. In the wasteland thereafter the singer-narrator closes the song with a single (red) balloon she finds floating about, before letting it go. It's just sorta kinda maybe a little bit in a metaphorical way like the Republic and the Separatist!
My crackpot tangential theory it this: despite whatever tranquil artistic safe-haven bullshit that is sold as Skywalker Ranch, the true place where George Lucas indulged his brainstorming writing phase for Star Wars was always a mall cafeteria, where heard playing in background ambience were muzak covers of popular radio hits; George then including as much subliminally into his epic Skywalker saga... 
...the whole "Berlin" vs. actual German band new wave genre thingy simply being a coincidence. Or was it? The Force did it.
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Post by Cryogenic on Nov 10, 2021 2:20:25 GMT
My crackpot tangential theory it this: despite whatever tranquil artistic safe-haven bullshit that is sold as Skywalker Ranch, the true place where George Lucas indulged his brainstorming writing phase for Star Wars was always a mall cafeteria, where heard playing in background ambience were muzak covers of popular radio hits; George then including as much subliminally into his epic Skywalker saga... Wouldn't you just love to be that t-shirted guy in the background, his backpack casually hanging off his shoulders as he waits to order, unaware that GEORGE MOTHERFUCKIN' STAR WARS LUCAS is in the house, calmly making his way through a plate of noodles on a tiny two-person table? George Lucas The Multi-Billionaire Philanthropist And Filmmaker -- casually slumming it with the rest of 'em. If you're interested, this picture was snapped in 2016, at the David Jones food court off Rundle Mall, in Adelaide, Australia. The paper resting on the tray in front of him is purportedly a copy of Adelaide's daily tabloid, The Advertiser. High-quality reading to go with high-quality gastronomy: www.adelaidenow.com.au/entertainment/confidential/star-wars-creator-george-lucas-in-adelaide/news-story/b3ee94fbf1a44a3868de109f52303730The article also contains an interesting tidbit: Hmm... Of course, I mean no sarcasm about Lucas' personal tastes and choices. Some people on this Reddit thread, however, are surprised to see Lucas eating such basic food in such a basic establishment, given his considerable fame and fortune: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/4amdb3/george_lucas_having_lunch_in_a_food_court_in/ But honestly, haute cuisine is overrated, and Lucas -- like Elvis -- has always been partial to basic food, rarely stimulating his palate with anything fancy. Even when the original Star Wars came out on May 25th 1977, he was casually eating at a hamburger joint with Marcia (Hamburger Hamlet in Hollywood -- albeit on the gourmet side of things), initially unaware of the commotion as people queued outside of Mann's Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard to get their first taste of the most indelible blockbuster film ever made (Lucas had apparently forgotten, amidst all the last-minute sound editing and dubbing for foreign versions, that his film was releasing that day). One thing Marcia Lucas complained about after she divorced Lucas was that he preferred staying in and eating TV dinners to going to lavish restaurants and living it up or splashing the cash about. How dare he! Anyway, here is the other 20th Century big-haired American genius having a quick bite, captured by MGM cameras at MGM Studios, rolling for his concert documentary film "That's The Way It Is", at Culver City, California in 1970: So, yeah... Another reason to like the both of them. Both misunderstood in some pretty big ways, too. Anyway, if you want to further your little conspiracy theory, Ingram, note that the tray in front of Lucas is bright red! To the side of his head, in the background, the word "fire" is also emanating from his head -- the fire of a creative imagination never at rest? Some good Qui-Gon greens in the background, too. |
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Post by Pyrogenic on Nov 10, 2021 14:14:44 GMT
You are what you eat.
Star Wars
Written and Directed by
Noodles
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Post by Subtext Mining on Nov 10, 2021 17:34:53 GMT
What's crazy is; I'm 98.6% sure I'd never seen that Berlin video or any imagery of Terri Nunn before, but a cartoon character I created and worked with about ten years ago has almost that same hair. (I was kind of going for a yin/yang thing). It was about three siblings, Jean, Jeremy and Rudy, who live with their obese grandpa.   This is the first page of a longform comic based on a true story told to me by my friend's daughter.  This one's got SW toys.  I even made a Jean hoodie.  |
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Post by Ingram on Nov 10, 2021 19:58:54 GMT
What's crazy is; I'm 98.6% sure I'd never seen that Berlin video or any imagery of Terri Nunn before, but a cartoon character I created and worked with about ten years ago has almost that same hair. (I was kind of going for a yin/yang thing). It was about three siblings, Jean, Jeremy and Rudy, who live with their obese grandpa. This is the first page of a longform comic based on a true story told to me by my friend's daughter. This one's got SW toys. Thank you for not illustrating comic/cartoon art like an asshole.  |
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Post by Subtext Mining on Nov 11, 2021 17:44:43 GMT
Thank you for not illustrating comic/cartoon art like an asshole.  I learned what I did by emulating cartoonists from the Golden Age of the 30s-50s, and from the cartoon Renaissance in the 90s. You know, when cartoons were made by cartoonists. I even had some online tutelage from the creator of Ren & Stimpy, my favorite cartoon. In short, one major philosophy is to never use the same pose or expression twice. Each drawing should be specific to the emotion of the moment. And the stories should revolve around a wide range of real emotions. Nowadays the philosophy is, always use the same drawing every time, and only use the basic form of a few emotions. |
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Post by Subtext Mining on Nov 11, 2021 17:49:42 GMT
Terri Nunn kind of has a McKenzie Phillips thing going on. I wonder if that's why George was so keen on her.
And in that Shia Labeouf & Kristen Stewart video, when they do the things with their hands, it reminds me of this scene from Garden State.
I actually also made an animated short with the audio from this scene (0:18-0:26) for a contest about ten years ago. Mine was of two fish and the Natalie one evolved into an amphibious creature who crawled out of the water and walked onto land.
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Post by Ingram on Nov 18, 2021 7:47:53 GMT
Notice how the background clouds between their closeups never changes. I feel that's important for some reason.
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Post by Subtext Mining on Nov 19, 2021 9:31:28 GMT
Ahh, they're learning green screen but have the bg set up to be the same no matter what shot the cameras are getting. Reminds me of how Kubrick uses the same cloudy backgrounds in many shots during the Dawn Of Man sequence in 2001: A Space Odyssey.   flipped horizontally    I feel this means something, as well. |
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Post by Ingram on Nov 19, 2021 11:00:00 GMT
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Post by Ingram on Nov 24, 2021 21:16:59 GMT
The puffer jackets and Members Onlys per capita...
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Post by Subtext Mining on Nov 29, 2021 8:51:48 GMT
Ah, these were the cool big kids I looked up to.
And who remembers when you could smoke in malls?
Now I want to make a movie where someone walks into a mall and its the early-80s inside, like some time capsule mall.
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Post by Ingram on Nov 29, 2021 21:13:27 GMT
Ah, these were the cool big kids I looked up to. And who remembers when you could smoke in malls? Now I want to make a movie where someone walks into a mall and its the early-80s inside, like some time capsule mall. Like that scene from The Legend of Billie Jean?
Anyways, malls are surreal places now, anachronistic cathedrals of commerce; at their best, polished and lit up with store signs yet largely devoid of human life. A mall on average lately, at any time during the day, feels like they used to feel during the early, pre-business morning hours, where traffic mostly consisted of elderly people doing their power-walks. It's like being onboard a self-automated mothership ...the occasional star-citizen passerby:
"Greetings, Ingram."
"Good day, Psylore."
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Post by Cryogenic on Nov 30, 2021 18:15:52 GMT
Anyways, malls are surreal places now, anachronistic cathedrals of commerce; at their best, polished and lit up with store signs yet largely devoid of human life. A mall on average lately, at any time during the day, feels like they used to feel during the early, pre-business morning hours, where traffic mostly consisted of elderly people doing their power-walks. It's like being onboard a self-automated mothership ...the occasional star-citizen passerby: Incidentally, have you seen those "exploring an abandoned cinema/shopping mall/high school" videos on YouTube? There's a ton of 'em about: I feel a bit icky about sharing those "abandoned house/mansion" ones -- I mean, that is, or was, someone's personal property. But there's plenty of those, too. Don't we humans love creating a mess and leaving big wastelands of lost opportunity wherever we go? Perhaps we evolved to haunt ourselves and litter our home planet with decaying mausoleums of vanished realities and monuments of brokenness, and lonely citadels of dreams -- and nightmares -- interrupted. |
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Post by Ingram on Nov 30, 2021 21:47:47 GMT
Incidentally, have you seen those "exploring an abandoned cinema/shopping mall/high school" videos on YouTube? Seen 'em? Oh, they're among my Youtube 'visual-stimuli' addictions alongside early film-footage clips colorized/digitally enhanced and exploding factory videos, to name a few. Don't we humans love creating a mess and leaving big wastelands of lost opportunity wherever we go? Perhaps we evolved to haunt ourselves and litter our home planet with decaying mausoleums of vanished realities and monuments of brokenness, and lonely citadels of dreams -- and nightmares -- interrupted. Um, excuse me, Cryo... the name of the thread is Inflatable Gorilla House of Silica Gel Cereal & Fun. As in, nightmare-free..?..
Please check your baggage at the gate.
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Post by Cryogenic on Nov 30, 2021 23:18:45 GMT
Incidentally, have you seen those "exploring an abandoned cinema/shopping mall/high school" videos on YouTube? Seen 'em? Oh, they're among my Youtube 'visual-stimuli' addictions alongside early film-footage clips colorized/digitally enhanced and exploding factory videos, to name a few. *slaps head* Oh, yah! Of course. Mine, too. Along with car crash and road rage videos, cats doing cat things, 8mm holiday videos in 4K, tiny house shite, interior decoration and architecture shite, Your Daily Dose Of Internet, Star Wars memes, television bloopers, archival talk show material, assorted film clips and film trailers, "best of" TV show reels, millennial psychology stuff, science videos, history videos, travel videos, all kinds of photography channels, gaming videos, social critique, crypto news, animals doing crazy shit, people doing crazy shit, etc., etc. Rey visiting the Death Star??? Star Wars. Star Wars is fun. |
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Post by Ingram on Dec 1, 2021 6:22:06 GMT
Take a shot every time Abrams swoops the camera forward in that clip. Don't, actually. Alcohol poisoning is a real thing.
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