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Evidently, any of the Qatsi trilogy films are beyond comparison as background visuals.

A few things:

1) I have a hard time seeing how sexy or cool someone is when I'm listening to them on the radio. I judge music solely on what I hear. I liked "crazy in love" the first time I heard it--I didn't know who the chick was or the rapper, and I hadn't yet seen her & her friends shaking their asses in the video (mmm...), I just liked it, partly because of the "Are you my woman?" sample. I also liked "Whodat" the first time I heard it, and it was just some random thing I had downloaded off of mp3.com in the early days. I just went to the Rap page, downloaded a dozen songs, and gave them a listen. 5 years later, it's still a favorite. Never heard from them before or since, never saw them, and can't even find any evidence that the group still exists or ever did.

2) I, and 99% of the rest of the populace, go to movies to be entertained, not to judge olympic-style the technical quality of the acting. If you have high standards, great, but don't look snobbishly down your nose at the rest of us. We're having a fine old time, thankyouverymuch. I *like* seeing women in skintight outfits blow shit up. (I liked the qatsi trilogy as well, btw.)

3) A question: Very few pop movies induce me to say "Wow, that was really impressive acting." I gather from your statement that you see many pop movies? (I don't think you would have said "very few" if you had only seen three and didn't like two.) Do you *ever* like them? If not, why do you keep going? After all, you can usually tell from previews and reviews if they're going to suit your tastes or not. Did you go to Charlie's Angels 2 with your expectations high and leave with them unmet?

on IMDB and the whole trilogy at the site. KOYAANISQATSI is a life changing movie. It isn't preachy, you can get what you want from it.

Just watched koyaanisqatsi with my 3.5 year old son.

Got past 20 minutes of mind numbingly beautiful scenery followed by some scenes of strip mine blasting and atomic tests.

Two minutes later:

"Want more 'splosions Daddy... What gets `sploded next"?

The planet is doomed.

Or did you really try to navigate the structure of Mozilla's FTP site with the Windows command-line FTP program?

Ok, I admit it, the suggestion was hypothetical :-) If you tell me how to install Win2K and not get IE, then I'll do the "ftp.exe" work myself.

(You wouldn't happen to know KQ of Wikipedia [wikipedia.org], would you?)

Nope. But we both know this and this.

Most Indie film is shot with minimal ADR, due to lack of time, money, and knowledge. Thus, it's important to get the best audio on the first try. Foley, of course, is done later, but that's signifigantly easier than doing ADR.

Audio is not a separate art from video, unless you're doing something like Koyannisqatsi.

And no, I would disagree that the audio tools in FCP are on a par with the video tools in FCP. While the video tools aren't up there with Fire boxes, they are pretty good. The audio tools are a joke, though... and I like FCP. Primere is worse.

Also, we're talking about people who are concerned about spending as little as possible on their film... hence the need for a free video editor. Let's talk about those, please, rather than multimillion dollar Hollywood productions.

-T

by Godfrey Reggio, one of the genii behind Koyaanisqatsi. It's a 8 min film watching kids watching television!

I saw part of this without remembering what it was: I was initially disturbed that a movie would make fun of retarded kids! The groups of 3-10 four year olds stared blankly at the camera, mouths often open, swaying gently. Watching children watching television was unnerving, seeing them be still and quiet for many seconds just didnt seem right.

Evidence is chilling, and quite moving -- go see it.

Tune out with some movies, Katz:

KOYAANISKATZI. Discuss.

POWAKKATZI. Discuss.

NAQQOYKATZI. Discuss. (This film hasn't been made yet, but thankfully the US Government have arranged for live television screenings over the next few weeks.)

While my caffiene addled mind urges me to invoke jihad against jingoistic, xenophobic and increasingly schizophrenic Americans, it seems that the great Australian champions of free speech, This Is Serious Mum, have already beaten me to it. The first stanza of their 1983 epic "Kill Americans" runs as follows:

Kill all the flag-waving, red-blooded, young Yankee boys
String their torsos up and use their dicks as toys
Nuke every US city, blow them to the sky
Every single fucking yank deserves to fucking die ...

obviously encourages the reader to find out what could possibly make the US the subject of such wanton and vitriolic language.

While I myself am not in a position to lament the absence of death threats at slashdot, rather, to amend this woeful state of affairs, I am in a position to threaten to amend this state of affairs.

I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I bite my thumb.

0rl0k
Former Sov-Cit PsiKop

Tune out with some movies, Katz:

KOYAANISKATZI. Discuss.

POWAKKATZI. Discuss.

NAQQOYKATZI. Discuss. (This film hasn't been made yet, but thankfully the US Government have arranged for live television screenings over the next few weeks.)

While my caffiene addled mind urges me to invoke jihad against jingoistic, xenophobic and increasingly schizophrenic Americans, it seems that the great Australian champions of free speech, This Is Serious Mum, have already beaten me to it. The first stanza of their 1983 epic "Kill Americans" runs as follows:

Kill all the flag-waving, red-blooded, young Yankee boys
String their torsos up and use their dicks as toys
Nuke every US city, blow them to the sky
Every single fucking yank deserves to fucking die ...

obviously encourages the reader to find out what could possibly make the US the subject of such wanton and vitriolic language.

While I myself am not in a position to lament the absence of death threats at slashdot, rather, to amend this woeful state of affairs, I am in a position to threaten to amend this state of affairs.

I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I bite my thumb.

0rl0k
Former Sov-Cit PsiKop

Tune out with some movies, Katz:

KOYAANISKATZI. Discuss.

POWAKKATZI. Discuss.

NAQQOYKATZI. Discuss. (This film hasn't been made yet, but thankfully the US Government have arranged for live television screenings over the next few weeks.)

While my caffiene addled mind urges me to invoke jihad against jingoistic, xenophobic and increasingly schizophrenic Americans, it seems that the great Australian champions of free speech, This Is Serious Mum, have already beaten me to it. The first stanza of their 1983 epic "Kill Americans" runs as follows:

Kill all the flag-waving, red-blooded, young Yankee boys
String their torsos up and use their dicks as toys
Nuke every US city, blow them to the sky
Every single fucking yank deserves to fucking die ...

obviously encourages the reader to find out what could possibly make the US the subject of such wanton and vitriolic language.

While I myself am not in a position to lament the absence of death threats at slashdot, rather, to amend this woeful state of affairs, I am in a position to threaten to amend this state of affairs.

I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I bite my thumb.

0rl0k
Former Sov-Cit PsiKop

In other words, US power consumption is a symptom of koyaanisqatsi (for the link-challenged, it's a Hopi word meaning, amongst other things, 'a state of life that calls for another way of living').

It's all very well getting defeatist, but don't get defeatist just because you can't fix the symptoms. Look at the causes first

TomV