siff day...it's Friday
Jun. 6th, 2009 12:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ironymaidennearly missed my last bus for downtown, but managed to waltz in during the announcements.
Egon & Donci is an animated film about an astronomer/inventor and his cat. computer animation that's a bit too in love with panning around and spinning. i spent way too much time processing orientation. pretty much no dialog, which i was looking forward to, but the story was slight, really just a hanger to hold bulbous guy and cat together with homemade machinery and giant cosmic vistas and some elaborate abstractions. there were great things done here with animation, but they were rarely used in service to the story. i would have preferred a short about the guy and his cat, and a short that was exploring the solar system set to music. one could create the two films by selecting scenes on the DVD...or you could watch the opening to Star Trek: TNG and A Grand Day Out and have just as much pleasure without the seasickness.
now, Art & Copy.
imagine if Helvetica had less dull filler. this had great interviews with people who made monumental ad campaigns, their clients, and the people who post billboards. (the projection was a bit washed out - it wasn't apparent until there were white words on top of light/bright backgrounds. unreadable. director was bummed about the projection, and i'm thinking no, that tells you that you need to go back and add a sliver of contrast around the letters, you can't control the projection conditions until the end of time.) lots of talking heads, would be a good Watch Instantly film. (i don't know about anyone else, but i do a lot of casual documentary watching on streaming Netflix that i wouldn't do if it took up a disc rental.) definitely recommended for folks in the industry.
i had plenty of time before the next film, so i decided to take the monorail instead of walking. (it's a 25 minute walk from Pac Place to the Uptown. depending on your timing, the monorail can be much faster or can take just as long or longer with the wait for the next train and going out of your way to Westlake. i usually go for the sure thing and the exercise.) the monorail is still my favorite simple pleasure in Seattle. alas, they've redone the guts so that the speedometer is on an lcd screen...i didn't get on early enough, (and some tourist joyriders didn't get off at Westlake so i couldn't take my favorite spot beside the driver) but i don't think the driver takes the steering wheel from one end to the other anymore :( oh well. i should ride more often. it's still awesome.
i had to look this one up to remember what it was. Sri Lankan handball team goes to Bavaria. please don't suck. C got out of work early today, so i'll be sad if i missed hanging out with him for a clunker.
there were projection issues at the opening of the film, so i don't know if i missed anything in the beginning. this is getting really frustrating. i think at this point i've had more problems with projection and transitions than not. grrrr.
i liked Machan. the handball team is an elaborate con to get visas to Germany. it's funny, and has a deal of charm, but it also shows why people are so desperate to get out and touches on the race issues and conflict in Sri Lanka without becoming completely embroiled. it's invested in the story enough that it's not as tightly paced as it needed to be for full comic effect, but i had a richer experience for it. worth seeing.
Egon & Donci is an animated film about an astronomer/inventor and his cat. computer animation that's a bit too in love with panning around and spinning. i spent way too much time processing orientation. pretty much no dialog, which i was looking forward to, but the story was slight, really just a hanger to hold bulbous guy and cat together with homemade machinery and giant cosmic vistas and some elaborate abstractions. there were great things done here with animation, but they were rarely used in service to the story. i would have preferred a short about the guy and his cat, and a short that was exploring the solar system set to music. one could create the two films by selecting scenes on the DVD...or you could watch the opening to Star Trek: TNG and A Grand Day Out and have just as much pleasure without the seasickness.
now, Art & Copy.
imagine if Helvetica had less dull filler. this had great interviews with people who made monumental ad campaigns, their clients, and the people who post billboards. (the projection was a bit washed out - it wasn't apparent until there were white words on top of light/bright backgrounds. unreadable. director was bummed about the projection, and i'm thinking no, that tells you that you need to go back and add a sliver of contrast around the letters, you can't control the projection conditions until the end of time.) lots of talking heads, would be a good Watch Instantly film. (i don't know about anyone else, but i do a lot of casual documentary watching on streaming Netflix that i wouldn't do if it took up a disc rental.) definitely recommended for folks in the industry.
i had plenty of time before the next film, so i decided to take the monorail instead of walking. (it's a 25 minute walk from Pac Place to the Uptown. depending on your timing, the monorail can be much faster or can take just as long or longer with the wait for the next train and going out of your way to Westlake. i usually go for the sure thing and the exercise.) the monorail is still my favorite simple pleasure in Seattle. alas, they've redone the guts so that the speedometer is on an lcd screen...i didn't get on early enough, (and some tourist joyriders didn't get off at Westlake so i couldn't take my favorite spot beside the driver) but i don't think the driver takes the steering wheel from one end to the other anymore :( oh well. i should ride more often. it's still awesome.
i had to look this one up to remember what it was. Sri Lankan handball team goes to Bavaria. please don't suck. C got out of work early today, so i'll be sad if i missed hanging out with him for a clunker.
there were projection issues at the opening of the film, so i don't know if i missed anything in the beginning. this is getting really frustrating. i think at this point i've had more problems with projection and transitions than not. grrrr.
i liked Machan. the handball team is an elaborate con to get visas to Germany. it's funny, and has a deal of charm, but it also shows why people are so desperate to get out and touches on the race issues and conflict in Sri Lanka without becoming completely embroiled. it's invested in the story enough that it's not as tightly paced as it needed to be for full comic effect, but i had a richer experience for it. worth seeing.
