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Showing posts with label camera. Show all posts
Showing posts with label camera. Show all posts
Thursday, 2 August 2018
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Wednesday, 18 January 2017
1. THINGS WILL WORK OUT PIN
2. WHITE TIGER ENAMEL PIN BRASS PIN
TIGER PIN WHITE TIGER LAPEL PIN ENAMEL LAPEL PIN
3. ENAMEL CAMERA PIN
4. FEELING MYSELF PIN
5. ADAM J. KURTZ THANK YOU
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Sunday, 30 October 2016
FILM 1586: TROLL HUNTER
TRIVIA: The film contains several references to old Scandinavian
folklore. For example, the goats on a bridge and a troll under it are a reference
to the "Three Billy Goats Gruff". At one point Thomas mentions an
eating competition, a reference to the story "Askeladden".
The movie contains several characters played by Norwegian comedians: Otto Jespersen (the troll
hunter), Knut Nærum (the power
plant supervisor), Robert
Stoltenberg (the Polish bear supplier), and Hans Morten Hansen (Finn,
the troll hunter's boss) are all high profile comedians.
Wednesday, 13 July 2016
BOOK 152: CAMERA LUCIDA: ROLAND BARTHES
In a deeply personal discussion of
the lasting emotional effect of certain photographs, Barthes considers
photography as asymbolic, irreducible to the codes of language or culture,
acting on the body as much as on the mind. The book develops the twin concepts
of studium and punctum: studium denoting the cultural, linguistic, and
political interpretation of a photograph, punctum denoting the wounding,
personally touching detail which establishes a direct relationship with the object
or person within it.
(information from Wikipedia)
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Thursday, 24 March 2016
FILM 1496: THE QUIET ONES
TRIVIA: Sam Claffin trained in 70s
filmmaking and shot some scenes.
The Script was heavily rewritten
for budget reasons.
Filmed in 2012, it sat unreleased
until 2014.
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Wednesday, 30 December 2015
FILM 1449: VERTIGO
TRIVIA: Uncredited second-unit
cameraman Irmin Roberts invented the
famous "zoom out and track in" shot (now sometimes called
"contra-zoom" or "trombone shot") to convey the sense of
vertigo to the audience. The view down the mission stairwell cost $19,000 for
just a couple of seconds of screen time.
The film was unavailable for decades
because its rights (together with four other pictures of the same period) were
bought back by Alfred
Hitchcock and left as part of his legacy to his daughter. They've
been known for long as the infamous "Five Lost Hitchcocks" amongst
film buffs, and were re-released in theatres around 1984 after a 30-year
absence. The others are The Man Who
Knew Too Much (1956), Rear Window
(1954), Rope (1948), and The Trouble with Harry
(1955).
When Kim Novak questioned Alfred Hitchcock about her
motivation in a particular scene, the director is said to have answered,
"Let's not probe too deeply into these matters, Kim. It's only a
movie."
There is a 25 year age difference between
James Stewart and Kim Novak, who were 49 and
24 respectively when the film was shot in 1957.
The Empire Hotel where James Stewart eventually
finds Kim Novak is (as of 2009)
the Hotel Vertigo (formerly the York) located at 940 Sutter St. in the heart of
San Francisco. Novak's character lived in Room 501, which still retains many of
its aspects captured in the film.
Alfred Hitchcock was
embittered at the critical and commercial failure of the film in 1958. He
blamed this on James Stewart
for "looking too old" to attract audiences any more. Hitchcock never
worked with Stewart, previously one of his favorite collaborators, again.
Alfred Hitchcock
reportedly spent a week filming a brief scene where Madeleine stares at a
portrait in the Palace of the Legion of Honor just to get the lighting right.
Alfred Hitchcock had
originally wanted to use his now-famous Vertigo zoom in Rebecca (1940), but due to
lack of technology at that time he couldn't do it. The technique was inspired
by a time when Hitchcock had fainted during a party.
Costume designer Edith Head and director Alfred Hitchcock worked
together to give Madeleine's clothing an eerie appearance. Her trademark grey
suit was chosen for its colour because they thought it seemed odd for a blonde
woman to be wearing all grey. Also, they added the black scarf to her white
coat because of the odd contrast.
This film is often credited
(blamed) for creating or popularizing the misconception that vertigo stands for
fear of heights. For the record, the proper name for that condition is
"Batophobia", whereas vertigo is "a sensation of whirling and
loss of balance, associated particularly with looking down from a great
height" (Oxford Dictionary).
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