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    15 minutes ago, Nebraska said:

     

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    imo they do. in fact, they are both free now. the documentary goes into how they met their "handlers"who groomed the girls by first having them make a few "prank videos" for youtube. the promise was that due the success of the videos, they would submit one of the clips to a network in the hopes of having a show based around the concept. that was the prank murder. if they were in fact assets working for the regime, i believe there would have been some type of compensation for their actions.

     

    I'll need to watch this to see how it impacts my skepticism.

    the watmm GAS thread

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    49 minutes ago, thawkins said:

    If you intend to keep doing that hobby you will go through some sort of process or change, no? I can't imagine anyone enjoying a hobby where every time they do it, it is just like the first time. I mean there has to be some good part about the process too that you always enjoy, but there is also a 'getting slightly better at it' aspect.

    This goes on the assumption of a direct ratio of merit and talent to exposure and attention/opportunity. 

    It's rare someone actually has that ratio in their development and they are very lucky if so. So in turn, if someone wants to get to a "process of change", that could mean they just get better at what they like to do and their audience never increases. However, that wouldn't take it out of the realm of "hobby", it just makes them better at it.

    The idea of a "pro" to me is more based in the amount of time spent on presenting/emphasizing the artist's output so there's more attention and exposure. Talent is typically part-and-parcel with the presentation, but not *always*.

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    22 hours ago, xox said:

    Few potentially usable and interesting boxes that I’m kind of thinking about atm...

    Efx:

    - Vermona Retroverb Lancet 

    That thing is lovely. It's extremely versatile. Gain stage and the spring reverb are a bit noisy (to be expected with a spring reverb) but it's not hard to find sweet spots.

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    The Life of Oharu

    As great as advertised. Kenji Mizoguchi was lucky to have Hiroshi Mizutani as his set designer for most of his career. Their films have an amazing realism for all being set-based. This film may be the ultimate example. Most of it looks like real location shooting, much to its benefit.

    By far the best performance I've seen from Kinuyo Tanaka. The dignity she presents throughout the film keeps things from going off the rails into shallow melodrama.

     

    Also, had another rewatch of Norte:  The End of History yesterday. I find something new to marvel at every time I see it (not a huge shock for a 4+ hour film). This time, it was how the camera (so by extension, the audience as well) is used as a judge with the way it's canted to look down/level/or even up at certain characters in key moments.

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    Russian protests in Moscow.

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    24 minutes ago, dingformung said:

    Maybe I should have rephrased. She didn't directly make him more authoritarian but she couldn't make him more liberal either, as Schröder apparently could. Maybe Putin was just playing a smart game but during the Schröder era Putin was way more interested in doing compromises. Maybe the annexation of Crimea could have been prevented (speculative but possible). Part of why Putin and Merkel don't like each other is maybe that they are two completely different types of politicians. Merkel isn't that vain/narcissistic type and also a woman and a hardcore transatlanticist (she loves that the US sanctions Germany for trading with Russia). Schröder and Putin were friends and licked each others ass - which is gross but had the side effect that Russia was more peaceful and less repressive during that time and that the influence of the West on Russia kept increasing. Now Russia is seen as the enemy and as a result acts like it. But I'm mostly just speculating. I read an interesting article about that but can't find it right now. If I do, I will link it here.

    My own speculations: 

    Putin would have become more authoritarian with time no matter who was in charge in Germany. Between the rise of the Chinese economic influence on a world stage and the constant yo-yo of power styles in the United States, those alone parallel with the trajectory of Putin's despotic leanings.

    I'm also convinced that Putin had a hand in the apartment bombings of 1999 when he was still PM and look at that as a sign of his reflexive authoritarianism. His meddling in Ukrainian elections is another.

    I agree that Merkel probably has had an influence on the trajectory, I would disagree on its severity. The cynical side of me thinks that he's going to automatically keep opinions he had on German leaders from his days in the Stasi.

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    New Korg products!!!! :O

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    51 minutes ago, auxien said:

    thanks, that does sound interesting. gonna have to hunt up some videos to find some good sounds out of it. a bit like a drum machine i’d sorta conceptualized a few years back, i think drum machines going forward have a lot of potential but everyone is still seemingly stuck on 808/909 or gtfo.

    btw I also wanted to 2nd your compliments for the Volca Kick. I love that thing and along with giving a very wide range of great sounding bass drum tones, it also is a) the greatest laser drum creator I've ever heard and its not even close, b) Fun as hell to get wacky asymmetrical stuff by using the touch fx. As well, the sustain on that thing has a power that's unique and hard to explain. Just running a sustained tone out of it into like a spring reverb and messing with the pitch = lovely.

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    35 minutes ago, auxien said:

    is that one very good? i remember initially not being very impressed by what i heard and am mostly turned off from the volca stuff just given how teensy it is (only have a volca kick which came as part of a package) so i never looked more into it, despite being pretty interested in digital drum machines over the last year. how many voices is on there?

    also relevant is the volca kick fuckin' thumps but if this drumlogue doesn't have an analog filter (nothing i've seen states it, so probably not likely...) then it may not follow in that respect, necessarily.

    Volca Drum is 6 independent stereo engines (so 12 voices total in 6 independent engines). Each engine has 2 independent layers. Each layer has 3 options for source oscillator, mod and envelope generator, and any combo between. On top of that, layers have several other edit options (drive, bitrate, pan, etc.). Then there's a pretty cool waveguide resonator effect that you can send each of the 6 engines to (like a mixer send channel). 

    My only gripes about it are a) only one output, b) not enough MIDI control so some menu diving is needed

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    New Korg products!!!! :O

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    1 minute ago, auxien said:

    but holding off getting too hopeful about it. could very well turn out to be underpowered and hobbled and weak sounding.

    That's my concern. With the analog stuff, it will likely take away from the number of digital voices they offer in the Volca Drum. I'd far prefer the focus on the digital side than analog.

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    Blind Chance

    I am a big Kieslowski fan. With that said, this film is his most glaring example of a trend in his work I don't like. Namely the naive but ultimately good-natured and intentioned protagonist. There is one major scene that feels overly convenient and unrealistic but is pivotal to one of the potential outcomes (the film is structured to show 3 separate potential outcomes from the same origin moment).

    Kieslowski had a vaguely similar protagonist for Dekalog 5/A Short Film About Killing. I much prefer the latter to the protagonist in Blind Chance due to the ambiguity in the latter.

    Overall it's Kieslowski so it's ultimately still a good film (the performance of the song by one of the Solidarity guys alone makes the whole thing worth seeing).

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    I also hated the ending (plane crash and the protagonist dies, wah wah wah!). It works as a form of cynical humor but nothing more. And for this film, I def. wanted more. This is another point where Dekalog 5/A Short Film About Killing compares favorably.

     

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    A River Called Titas

    If you like the cinematography of Andrei Tarkovsky films, that alone makes any Ritwik Ghatak film worth watching. I am ignorant to the political history this film is a parallel for (Bengal partition) so there were quite a few character motivations that baffled me (I also think this film now holds claim to the meanest mother I've ever seen as well). Will be rewatching this. Great performances across the board, loved the music, and to reiterate, the cinematography is great.

     

    Dry Summer

    I fucking loved this movie. Its politics are obvious but they don't beat you over the head with it and still present a thoroughly entertaining story. The Osman character is Bluto from Popeye in the flesh, perfect casting! Even though the stories are different, I keep comparing this to Wages of Fear for the entertainment value. With one major warning:

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    There are two real and graphic (one especially so) scenes of animals being killed in this film. Neither do really anything to advance the story, but they're also not critical plot points either. So yeah, if that is a dealbreaker, don't watch this movie.

     

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    Not hating but ............

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    1 minute ago, Cryptowen said:

    tbh i don't even feel like there's much of a reason to want strangers on the internet to pay attention to your music in 2020. all you'll be doing is making some tech ceo slightly richer & helping to finetune his algoritm. your music will be one of the five thousand random-ass tracks that some kid streamed that month & instantly forget. if you get any sort of public image someone will go & find an embarassing comment you made somewhere 10 years ago & as a result you'll get cancelled from your job at the soap factory. is anyone even making money off this shit anymore?

    Point taken but one of the most beautiful things in art is a stranger finding something new they connect with!

    Not hating but ............

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    1 hour ago, Amen Lare said:

    It's not fair and you're right in noticing and your nickname is cool, yet we should be more specific in such cases as feministic/left-liberal view of the world is dominating the minds, so no generalized common sense discussion is possible as it's immediately viewed as macho/sexist etc. Just a matter of opinion fashion.

    So, your example is chick got way more attention to her social media post than you would with the same sort of material. And i guess it has little to do with music in this case and more with attention allocation in social media -- yeah, chicks get way more attention when they're young for biological factors. Say there's approx the same amount of women and men, and, broadly speaking, men age 14-70 will be on a lookout for women age 12-35 approx for baby manufacturing appeal, the higher the age distance the less intersection but you get the math. And this sort of lookout is way more deep than looking out for a cool track from fellow peniser.

    Where i suggest you to find fairness is you will get the same treatment throughout your life and chicks have more narrow window of getting attention. When she's like 50, it's unlikely she will have this kind of advantage over you. Be safe!

    Chicks, eh? Trolling in this scenario works better with a flat and academic presentation.

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    Not hating but ............

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    8 minutes ago, TheBro said:

    Yeah I hear what you saying. I guess my point is that it was mainly guys commenting on her music lol and to be fair it wasn't too bad but the point is the bias is noticeable and I just feel its shallow. I'd rather the playing field be level for everyone but I guess that's just not reality.  

    Always good to look at how the playing field has never really been level for women though. Imbalanced attention in a relatively niche social/artistic world isn't indicative of society at large.

    I stand by the notion that the point of entry for many interests in this world are guarded so closely by inherently misogynist (and culturally limited) institutions/systems/processes. It's making the output of these things to show a more realistic vision of how this world shapes out culturally, instead of trends that are developed/nurtured by strong financial backing. YA literature is probably the best current example of those barriers being broken.

    Not hating but ............

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    "us guys" is the first issue of the OP, but certainly not the last. Do you really want this place to be nothing but men?

    The irony is how closely this aligns to 3rd wave feminist principles of women being potentially put on a pedestal by a patriarchal system, but not for the work they do, but rather for base sexual desires.

    The way to fix this is to get an environment where there aren't gendered imbalances to begin with. There's a whole lot to be done on that front.

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