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The only thing i watch on youtube is new messi and iniesta videos. I can't imagine football without the internet, i don't feel lucky to be able to watch these players playing now but that youtube came into existence at the exact same time as the rise of these 2 players, and that it captures everything they do in every football match they play in. The 2 best footballers to ever play the game. Iniesta for the sheer effortless beauty and elegance of his football and his Jedi-like foresight in knowing what a nearby player will do before even the player knows it, like he's on another planet to the best footballers on the planet, and Messi for all that except less elegance and more pure efficiency. I really hope every young footballer obsesses over these two and studies them every day. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNDuLRPQWJs

I love him. His music is so effortless in how it flows, it settles my mind and puts me at ease like nothing else. His music is never dreary or dull, it's always angelic and organic and lush. He can produce hundreds of tracks and songs lasting 25 minutes and not once do I get bored by any of it. His Age of Adz concert is still the best music concert I've ever been to, it was all-round amazing and pretty euphoric and nothing will top it. this is sublime

After Earth It's really really really bad isn't it. A film that convinces you Jaden must have wrote it himself and his dad put his name to the story (as what appears at the end) so he'd take all the flack, because it's just so stupid, po faced, humourless, predictable. Not even predictable, just obvious, inevitable, like you know within 3 minutes where the film will end up, actually you know before even watching it every single moment of the film if you're just slightly aware of the premise. And I really wanted to like it ! M Night just seems like a really boring person. Even his alright films are boring. I think just being in his presence is probably boring. So a film as dumb as this challenges your fight to be engaged. It challenges you to not wish a terrible death on Jaden. You want him to jump off that cliff and smash his skull against the rock face, and be taken away by the big bird and delivered as food to all her hatchlings. The cgi of the arachnid alien thing was alright, but you'll be surprised how bored you'll be. You'll come out of it feeling like you maybe don't like watching films after all. It's so devoid of interest, intrigue, even adventure. I mean, I'd have preferred it if Will Smith and Jaden just dossed around on this planet, tried to make each other laugh, daring each other to do wilder things until they mess with the wrong animal and Will Smith can only watch from afar as Jaden is mauled to death. Cut to credits. Right there, a better film. White House Down I enjoyed the hell out of this, it's the most action packed film I've seen in ages, i think cliche ridden-wise it's no better than Olympus Has Fallen, but in terms of direction and acting and being often very funny rather than lame and naff and tonally off, i think it's better. OHF is like an unintentionally bad B movie, which isn't often tense enough and knowing enough and silly enough to be funny. When it's bad, it's the cgi, or the poor direction, and those aren't funny things, they aren't enough to laugh at the film. With White House Down from the very beginning I was laughing with the film, in a way I didn't find it stupid because everything is so clearly intentional to poke fun at itself. From the very beginning, it sets the tone just casting Channing Tatum in the lead role, after 21 Jump Street i just find him naturally funny (he's probably the only actor who can make the line 'you don't use blogging?...i just learned that' funny, it was like watching him in 21 Jump Street again as the old kid at school not understanding anything). Jamie Foxx is coming off Django and James Woods is James Woods with a flat top hair cut. I liked that for the whole film Cale and President are basically being chased, the amount of slow motion diving across tables Tatum has to do, you think he's gone for. All I remember from OHF is Butler trying to be funny on the phone and creeping around in poorly lit rooms easily picking off unsuspecting baddies. Even when it doesn't make sense it was more funny because of it rather than just inane, such as White House Down accepts it has no new ideas but at least tries to be very entertaining in repeating the same formula and is frequently amusing and silly in the way it does it.

selection of character sketches from this year

The Lone Ranger The Peter Bradshaw Guardian review for this is fantastic, It mostly just feels longer than it actually is, even though it is long. 2 hours 20 mins (10 minute credits) feels like nearer 3 hours. I went back through the film to see what bits could be cut, I chose an action scene that I thought lasted maybe 10-15 minutes, in reality it lasted 5 minutes. It's not that there's just too much unnecessary stuff in it but that every scene needs to be chipped away so it flows and feels sprightly and light and doesn't inexplicably drag all the time. Even when the characters are being quirky and odd and there's a little funny aside it feels too serious. Depp switched from being hokey to being funny numerous times, sometimes he was both. The funniest joke was about the horse, for me, not sure why, probably because I engaged with that character more than anyone else. It's the rich moody cinematography and something about Gore Verbinski's directional style that feels heavy and slow with a real weight to every single scene and every line of dialogue. He could make a really great thriller, but for a pulpy fun kids film he doesn't seem willing to lighten his mood, with each Pirates sequel he went further into dark obtuseness. When the Lone Ranger theme kicked in towards the end, it woke me up, and despite the action scene being well thought out and fun to watch in theory, the music didn't match and I couldn't enjoy it enough because i felt kind of drained that it took so long to reach that point. I was forever waiting for the baddie to become the baddie because that's all the actor does, he's like the English James Cromwell. I actually really liked it otherwise, the action scenes are brilliantly directed with loads of different elements coming into play, one reminded me of The Good the Bad and the Weird and the other was like watching Jackie Chan's Supercop. Only once was cgi obvious for me, maybe twice, but in the major action scenes they felt real and like the actors were physically there in the scene and in genuine mortal danger despite their knack of avoiding the inevitable. I don't think it's fair for critics to lay into it as they have done, but they seem particularly spiky and unforgiving of long films because they have to watch so many in a day (I can imagine hating this if it was my third film of the day), Gore Verbinski isn't a hack and there's a lot of quality to the film.

The Thieves. (2012) This is such a peculiar film. It's far too long, in a way that reminds me of a Judd Apatow film, there's a lot of short scenes between characters that have little impact on the story and only establish their relationship to each other, but as each character is massively underwritten anyway because there's about 4 times as many as any other film it meant that a lot of the film isn't that engaging. It really does drag, but there are some funny asides between the characters, and some genuinely funny moments. It's just...odd, because really all that matters in the film are the relationships between the several characters in the film. It's like 4 films in one. Imagine Ocean's Eleven if every other character had a separate love story going on. Even the heist is like watching 4 separate heists in one. Where the film does come together is towards the end, when its laid back manner comes good with a fantastically menacing villain, an extended action scene that's brilliantly shot, intense and exciting...even the love webs become less tangled. Every Korean film I watch is about betrayal, you don't think that at the beginning, but by the end, there it is again, betrayal. And it'll also probably contain an incredible action scene that comes out of nowhere. Had the film been more economically edited, the heist more thrilling than confusing and ponderous, then I think it'd be a film that people would want to really recommend to others. As it is, I still recommend watching it. 7 or...8.

That's neat (i can't unsee the Pan Labyrinth creature now either...), you might like this guy's work http://gerbutal.deviantart.com/gallery/

Love those night shots. It's such a visual place. You might like this guy's gallery: http://burningmonk.deviantart.com/gallery/ recent stuff

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That's harsh. I thought it was brilliant, unlike Crash it lets the storylines play out naturally and doesn't hit its message over your head every five minutes, and while it does build to a climax it does so in a way that doesn't feel contrived. I was so wrapped up in it that it didn't bother me how actually predictable it eventually proves to be, but then I wasn't trying to work it all out and instead just enjoyed watching it all unfold. It's not 'anti technology' either, that's how you see it, but that's not how the director sees it. It's more about how we allow ourselves to become isolated from the closest people around us and use technology as an outlet to express our true feelings. There's many moments in the film where technology - despite everything that has happened to the characters - is used as catharsis.

Found out it's part of picasa's 'auto awesome' feature. Combines 5 or more similar photos into motion gif. Still seems glitchy with the grey texture flickering in. It's pretty random and hard to trigger too. It won't accept subtle differences, or slightly too big differences. some more, because it's quite addictive

Tried to upload a bunch of photos to picasa to an existing photo album, sometimes it messes up and puts them into a new album, this time it combined them all into one motion gif. That is what other people can see right.?

Recently discovered a whole load of iPhone using instagram posting photographers who put up impossibly good shots almost daily, that go back years. I only found them through the fact that one tested out the new Google Glass. They make me envious because other than the fact they post up masterpieces the likes of which are way beyond me they're able to get very close candid shots of people on a really consistent basis, i don't know if the iPhone enables that if you just pretend to be playing around on your phone as you hold it or whether it's clear to people that you're aiming to take a shot. But you can kind of just hold it and play with it and look like you're waiting for something/someone and blend in as you wait for a moment. http://instagram.com/koci# http://instagram.com/konstruktivist# http://instagram.com/koci_alt_delete# http://instagram.com/kejtgejv# http://instagram.com/fixelzero# http://instagram.com/wesq# http://instagram.com/100million# http://instagram.com/wallah#

Yeah they're mostly all multi exposure (the lx7 can do 3 overlays) then edited to be high contrast in photoshop to highlight the shapes. I did a few versions of this with her hair and flower pattern on her clothes shown, but never took out that little shape, i thought it helped plant her and she'd be a floating head if I took it away, and I like the space in between.

Thankss ! It's nice to get feedback of any sort, i never know if people like the same things as me.. The heatwave has ended here unfortunately, when it goes it never seems like it'll return. It's not the same in the cold. last set

Watching the final season of Six Feet Under. It's incredible. I think most SFU fans regard the first and second season to be it at its best, but for me i began to love the show from the 3rd season onwards. I distinctively remember the first season really underwhelming me, and the second season focussing so much on Nate and Brenda it got tiring. They felt narrower because they focussed on too few characters, season 3 added some more, and any scene with Claire doing art of any kind is so satisfying and brilliantly observed. The fifth season deals with so much more weightier subjects, each episode deals with a closure of some kind, each one is as moving as the most dramatic films i can think of. It feels like the show is really coming into its own, there's a kind of existential sadness at the heart of some of the characters, scenes don't seem so much like therapy sessions, characters feel more rounded. I have 3 episodes to go, already it's one of my favourite seasons of a tv show, I'd place it alongside the 4th season of The Wire, it feels similar in theme, stuff happens, nothing really changes, that's life. The Wire is so much grander, Six Feet Under is more personal.

http://www.braindance.net/phorum/read.php?5,36675,page=4 ---- http://www.braindance.net/phorum/read.php?5,36675,page=1

Fuck. 3 1/2 years ago? I still don't have LP5. Got Exai and Chiastic Slide. What a shit post.

I've read a game of thrones spoiler that's making me feel as nauseous as i would be if I was thrown out of an aeroplane. Finally finished a new character collection though. http://a-r-v.deviantart.com/art/twelve-373263689

I tried to get my dad into venetian snares (for him the pinnacle of music is prog rock like Yes, Hawkwind, Ozric Tentacles or stuff like Japan, Tubular Bells, Stereolab) by playing him Flashforward quite loud while we were laying down paving slabs in the garden outside. He said he liked it at first but then it really started to piss him off. He's right, it does start well. He calls him venetian blinds. Which is how funk got the name; from a story about people who'd been strangled to death by venetian blinds. At one point I was so into venetian snares and other electronic music that I was that delusional about it being so virtuosic people would take to it straight away and realise it's incredible-ness. But people don't listen to music in the dark, it's put on at average volume while doing something else and his music just irritates when played that way. For me it's like watching Lionel Messi taking control of a football and dribbling with it.

What if you despised the film and don't want to give him money to make another film, at least not for another 9 years? but you wanted to see it. so it deserved your money. if you hated it then you don't see the next one. plus half the fun of seeing a movie is (if it's terrible) complaining and pulling it apart I only watched it because there's some level of hype surrounding it, I expected it to be at least interesting and memorable. Had I paid money to see it I'd have regretted it. I downloaded it. I've watched other films that i felt i had to tolerant as much as enjoy them, like Tree of Life, Tokyo Story, Inland Empire, Holy Motors to an extent, but there's enough there to admire that the experience is worthwhile.

What if you despised the film and don't want to give him money to make another film, at least not for another 9 years? I gave it -1 rather than a 0 or 1 because it kept fading to black teasing me into thinking it was ready to end, it made me feel like a character in game of thrones. It's funny that a film that aims so high can so easily paralyse me with boredom and turn me into a simpleton incapable of engaging with it on any level beyond just wanting to idiotically tear it apart. How figuring out a good puzzle can make you feel smart, I don't even want to decipher the film.