Tala

This movie is like ambien encapsulated in 3:2 aspect ratio

I finally finished watching John Andor and, dude,

Quick portrait sketch of (shh dont tell the other goats) my favorite goat Hank. He's a little goober.

Don't mind me, just rushing to IMDB to check the character list for the 4th time as these two characters change their hairstyle, haircolor, make-up, and clothing style again, which makes them unrecognizable to me. I don't even have face-blindness, but I struggle with chameleons from time to time.

colour corrected balto ! i was kindly informed that he was black and white rather than a dark brown tone - his taxidermy coat has faded over the years.

so here is a full body version of him, stockier build and all - the bg is from the original film :-)

The Laughing Storm 🦌
#AKOTSK #LyonelBaratheon

Sorry I didn't mean for this space to become film/TV shitposting. I've been working through my tremendous backlog because for once my attention span has been cooperating to watch things. I wish I was the configuration to be more creative and actually do things... but I guess that's not happening.

And because of how creatively bankrupt the world is going, it's making me pause and question... is this AI? Are how things are being crafted and constructed preparing me to ease into the idea that one day all of this will be AI and we as the viewers won't even notice nor care anymore?

I'm having a hard time figuring out if it's a stylistic choice, or if it's just a side-effect of Volume usage. Like the people and objects in the background of EVERY shot, they aren't more than 10-15 feet away. And yet the depth of field is so constrained and confusing.

A screenshot from Andor.

The amount of weird blurriness always happening in the background and foreground of this show is just bizarre. It also doesn't even feel like Gaussian blur anymore or bokeh but like the entire background went through the motion blur filter in Photoshop. It doesn't make sense conceptually.

A screenshot of the Maya Pei Brigade from Andor Season 2.

Every scene with these useless fucks gatekeeping John Andor Season 2 from me and making the first couple episodes borderline unwatchable.

A screenshot from Wicked For Good

This movie is like an interior decorator went nuts in a beige bathroom.

I do like draw some protoss from time to time.

A screenshot from A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms highlighting the anamorphic lens effect.

A recent show that used the focal effect from anamorphic lenses properly. There's the exaggerated bokeh as well as a vignette added in post, but they only utilized this effect in flashback scenes. Yes, good.

Zootopia 2 had a whole 3 minute scene devoted to the same therapy-speak shit, but I'm unsure if it was a meta-commentary about how cringe therapy-speak dialogue is in jest. Or... if it was actually just... cringe.

Therapy-speak dialogue to fill the silence because we're in the era of Telling Not Showing. Or I dunno, maybe the writers and actors are paid by the word these days.

Right now it's just a game of 'split the groups up so that when they inevitably meet up again in the at the end of the episode/the next episode, we have an excuse to explain what's going on again to everyone'. Repeat.

jeeeeesus they fucking got me

I'm begging these 'kids' to stop yelling the plot out at me every 38 minutes.

Exactly! It feels so exaggerated and artificial, like it's an effect added in post. I already have a hard enough time with how poorly lit everything is, as well as the current trend of being allergic to color and contrast. But now I have to feel like my eyeglasses prescription is out of date too??

Like, I know what anamorphic lenses are and I get that they are so popular because they feel vintage and cinematic. But there are times for distortion and times where it just doesn't fit. Half the time if a character is standing in the middle of the screen, the top of his head and torso are blurry.

Hoping that one day TV and movies will knock this shit off. I'm tired of getting headaches from instinctively squinting all the time because of the insanely overtuned bokeh as if these cinematographers think I don't know where to look anymore. This trend is so terrible.

Exploring a tomb is an ideal first date.

Rick and Evie from the Mummy!

We also had a rule that we would inform people that no one should call between 4-5 because that was his chosen vocal hour, when he'd just holler his heart out freely. You could hear him all over the neighborhood he'd be so loud.

EXACTLY. I feel like my day didn't start and I could actually be productive until the bird went to bed, which is probably what contributed to me being a nightowl to this day. It was the only time there was actual silence.

Ohhhh my god, this is so strangely specific to my life and childhood. My mom had a macaw for most of my life, and it was well-known amongst my friend circles that I was incapable of being able to talk on the phone without him SCREECHING and screaming the whole time.

My partner made a meme about how I have a tendency to go through the same cycles. I found it to be way too funny, but accurate.

Z2 spoilers but maybe you were looking at your phone for the three other times they told you the plot and missed this one.

Modern movies and tv retelling the plot up to the point of the third act and then reiterating again what's about to happen in the third act aloud just in case you happen to not be paying attention to what just fucking happened.

+*.First Snow.*+
Collab with @johannatarkela.com <3 (2019)