published on December 20, 2009 » filed under WordPress
ach, can’t get motivated for even the simplest of endeavours this month, getting out of the flat was a mission in itself today, in this permafrostian chill. okay, so it snowed, maybe once… but y’know.
for the lack of blogging, my apologies- i’m working on a project or three that, happily, don’t involve going outside so that’s keeping me busy. here’s one: Catgut Music (Owen’s website / blog) is rocking out. we’re about to add a whole new video section, so that’ll be fun. For now I want you to check out Owen’s Blog. It is a treasure.
i’ve recently setup a Wordpress Multi-User blog (on leithermagazine.com). always amazed how well the Wordpress stuff works out-of-the-box. WPMU relies on the same structure – many of the same rules / hacks and plugins – which i’ve learned through running this mess of a site over the years… so all this is nonsense is coming in handy.
also- my photography portfolio gets a good updating every now and then: check it out. what are you crazy kids up to? anyone still out there?
published on November 17, 2009 » filed under Film, Tech
Cool it! The man said ‘restoring’ not ‘improving’ or ‘amending’ or any other form of buggering about which Lucas has previously used as an excuse to further indebt himself to the Star Wars fanbase. Look, you owe us one Georgie-boy.
In one helluva fascinating article over at secrethistoryofstarwars.com a fella by the name of Michael Kaminski has written a very comprehensive piece about the restoration of the original Star Wars film negative. There are some tedious facts, lots of fun for colourists and video techies but also some interesting details, or to put it kindly ‘oversights’, on the part of George Lucas are revealed. Shockingly the prequels to Star Wars were all shot natively on 1080p HD ‘film’. This is disturbing because, well, I can shoot that on my camera as a fun extra feature these days… despite not having that all-important Panavision lens-set to play with. 1080p was a brand new technology, it wasn’t the future resolution– no where near it. Dagobah to Lucas! Hello!?
… another undoable element of the prequels — filmed on 1080p HD, they have, at the most, less than half the resolution of the 35mm original trilogy… they have just under 1/5 the resolution…
I’m putting together and idea that should become a short film triggered by some of my photography (compositions and portraits) from the last few years. The first shot – as it stands today – is of a plane flying high above us… arrivals and departures is a theme as is friendship and dislocation but the film will mostly be a portrait of some of my real friends and any story that ties us together I haven’t yet found but I’m excited about that.
The ’script’ exists as a number of shots and locations. There’s an architectural quality to the compositions (as there is to most of my photos – I think) and there’s no dialogue at the moment. The sound is somewhere between David Byrne & Chopin. Just thought I’d keep you up to date.
Jason Schwartzman and Roman Coppola having a bit of fun on the set of Marie Antoinette- found here in the DVD features in a pastiche of that odious MTV programme ‘Cribs’, which many have confused with a real way of life…
