Star Wars Kokeshi Dolls
Available at Kokeshi Clan.
“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays.”—Dead Poets Society (the book)
All true.
(Source: tastefullyoffensive)
This is the honest truth of what is so wrong with movies these days. We are being drown in a sea of special effects and explosions, so hypersaturated that we are desensitized. What’s left? Where’s the story? How will you differentiate one explosion-filled movie from another? What characters do you remember? For how long? Ask yourself, is it the character that you found memorable, or just the actor?
This isn’t to say that I don’t understand that movies are a business. It’s the livelihood of a good chunk of the people I know, including myself. I don’t mean to troll the movie industry, but don’t you think that it’s time to wake up and move on? Isn’t it time to try something really new and exciting? Let’s stop trying to one-up each other on the sensory overload and go back to the cute/funny/charming/heart-warming/chilling/thrilling/heart-wrenching/tear-jerking/heart-pounding STORIES.
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(Source: paperbeatsscissors)
Early Doctor Who
It’s not hard to see that the Doctor Who series in the ’60s had limitations placed on it by budget and available technology. Watching it, I realized something. One of the things which made it so impressive was the fact that BBC was responsible for creating it. BBC, being the public service channel, had access to a great deal of news footage that it could incorporate to give the show a global and SFX scope which would otherwise have been outside the realm of possibility.
This may not be a huge revelation, but I think that it’s good to appreciate the process behind our entertainment.
WB in the UK HP Tours
I’m really quite jealous. I want to go on one of these tours. To walk on the sets. For 3 hours. Sigh, just one more reason I need to get to the UK.
New Material for Hollywood
Will anything good come of this? I’m always a little skeptical of anime-gone-blockbuster-live-action. What do you all think of a Lone Wolf and Cub flick?