One of my professors back in film school had this grotty turn of phrase—"the deflowering of the gaze," by which he meant to describe the feeling of how, once you learned to analyze movie (or even worse, to make them) you never really could
Sign that millennials are aging: R-Pat is now Hugh Grant I'm kind of fascinated by how extreme and intense of a reaction everyone in this movie has to [the fact that causes the titular drama]. It's interesting because I cannot really define…
Actual question: Say you're building a piece of software; the exact details are unimportant here other than to say it's an application, that it runs on a server and talks to a database while providing a service over the network. You want to…
Tempted to start a silly little project: a sort of anti-RSS reader. Program that just takes in as input a list of feeds and spits out a static website that is essentially just a fauxsimile of a newspaper, with 'cont. on page 13' replaced wi…
Rewatching this (in a theater this time) I'm just struck by how much of this movie is Kati Outinen's face. I don't think I've ever seen a movie that is more carried by a single actor. And she's doing it here in a performance where she gets
orteil42 on Tumblr: unconvinced i'll ever find "the vitamin" that makes me all better so i can get real work done but i do expect they'll elucidate whatever my deal was post-mortem, after which what i did manage to accomplish with my life w…
A year and a half out from Failbetter my body is finally unlearning the schedule. I spent a long time kind of doing a poor impression of a morning person because of the time differential between here and London; now I'm finding myself being…
Kati Outinen is the whole deal here, wearing a mask of impassivity the whole movie but always with so much bubbling under the surface. This is still middle period Kaurismäki, with the same icy gaze that also haunts Lights in the Dusk. But i…
From Laura Michet's blog, a post about an abandoned project to catalog Los Angeles' "No Pedestrian Crossing" signs: The main thing I'd want to communicate is that the places where these signs go up are uniformly miserable. It sucks to be a
Sword and Shield: If you could get sustenance by buying big bags of dry human kibble, you would. Long sword: You have an attention deficit. In the sense that you want others to pay more attention to you than they currently do. Great sword:
Dietmar Rabich, Rome (Italy), Piazza della Rotonda, Hub of a Coach, CC BY-SA 4.0 This article is mostly an attempt at naming and cataloguing some recurring design ideas from Fallen London, which are definitely relevant to anyone building a
I really do think you should learn to use the Linux (or Mac, I suppose) command line if you can find the time at all. It is, genuinely, a dramatically more empowering way to use your computer than the alternative, and it will enable to thin…