Space Cadet

I wonder if some of the problem is the words themselves? Words are not objects or ideas, they're sounds that categorize and label those objects or ideas. You definitely have something that makes you unique even in messageboard form, but as soon as I try to think of a word that describes it, I can't. Because using the words for it sets up a category, which instantly makes the idea of the thing not unique any more since it's a big enough idea to fill an entire category. It's all the little nuances that make a personality different from the category that add up to uniqueness.

I'm a collection of classic stock traits put together in a thoroughly odd way. So I guess the oddness makes me unique? Well, there is the age thing. My boss just told me that he thought I was eighteen until I told him I was nearly 30. Which means I have been posing as an 18-year-old for the last 16 years of my life, since people started asking me when I was graduating from highschool (they meant that year) when I was 11. :wtf: I guess being too young for my age is nice after being too old for it for so long. ...On an entirely different note that also has to do with identity so I guess here is as good as anywhere... Reilly- just thought I'd give you a heads up that I'm naming a character after you in a story (possibly comic/graphic novel) that I'm writing (drawing?). I finally figured out who he is, and Reilly is the only name that seems to fit... and your online personality is one of the four he's absorbed a bit of, so...

I care about Walt. :P Good stuff there. It actually indirectly cleared up most of my leftover questions. Man, I really want to see what island life is like now.

:laugh3: You really like yanking the fangirls chains around here, don't you. :sneaky:

^Sporadically. :tongue: I'm at that awkward 'I've run out of written symbols and now I have to photoshop new ones together to make them belong' stage. Not too many left to do... maybe I'll put an effort in to get through them today if nothing comes up.

Avatar was filmed in 3D and was designed to use the 3D to bring you into that world. There was skill and purpose in the way the 3D was composed, and it worked. It really did feel like being on an alien planet looking at all the amazing scenery around you. The first 3D movie I ever saw about 10 years ago was like that- it was an IMAX movie about the ocean and it was AMAZING in 3D because like Avatar, it was immersive. The fish were swimming all around you as if you were underwater with them. And then there was Coraline, which was wonderful in 3D. The stop motion puppets are 3D in real life so filming it in 3D made sense. The director of that movie made intelligent artistic choices about the sets and their interaction with the 3D to add meaning to the movie. The lenses would be closer together or farther apart than actual eyes so that the rooms would be flat and drab or huge and colourful depending on whether it was the real world or the fantasy world. When that tunnel opened up for the first time the 3D made it feel like the whole movie was opening up. There was intentional composition going on with the 3D. Computer animation in 3D sort of makes sense because the models do exist in 3D within the computer. But it will always be a static 3D that the computer spits out and which doesn't add anything to the story or composition of the movie. Once you've seen one of those in 3D the novelty wears off. We're now getting to that point. But the biggest reason 3D is dying is the glut of poorly converted 2D to 3D movies that hit the theatres after Avatar. The studios saw a cash cow and they hopped on board as fast as they possibly could. Killed the goose that laid the golden egg, even. They took a gently ramping up trend and turned it into a bubble. Bubbles pop. They thought of it mechanically rather than artistically, they flooded the market with sub-par product in both plot and visuals, and then they're whining now that it's failing. Well they got what they had coming. How many people saw Clash of the Titans in 3D and vowed never to watch a 3D movie again, I wonder? The sad part is genuine 3D still has so much untapped artistic potential when used right, and the cynical conversions are destroying the opportunity for that. If the studios think it's cheaper to film in 2D and convert it to 3D rather than filming in 3D, how is that artistic potential going to be realized? If the audience doesn't think there's a difference between Clash of the Titans and the next Coraline, who's going to watch it? 3D didn't have to be a bubble or a fad. It could have lasted a long time if it had been used carefully and sparingly, and only when the movie called for it. Sad. And typical. Here's hoping that theatres don't get rid of their shiny new 3D projectors out of spite, so that if and when a better plotted Avatar-ish movie comes along and shows genuine artistic merit, the tech will still be there. :disappointed: eta: Also, wow that rant turned out really long. Maybe it should go on my blog. :tongue:

^The coolest scenes were Paris folding and the hallway fight. The best scenes were like you said and especially when Cobb makes peace with Mal in limbo- that's the heart of what the movie is really about, I think. I saw it on IMAX and it was wonderful there. One of the rare movies that are really worth IMAX. But it isn't in 3D. Nolan refused to convert it. (Thank goodness.)

....Aaaand that's book 6 done. :uhoh: :nice: Those are really, really addictive. I went through the first five in about 2 or 3 days, and would have read them all if 6 wasn't so hard to locate. Good stuff. :D Great stuff, even- they were brillant. And now for the movie.

It's a side project squeezed in between working on Doctor Who- which is more than a full-time job itself. We're lucky we got three hours so far. ...and it sounds like he's not having the easiest time of it all today: "All this praise would be a lot more fun if I HADN'T COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN HOW TO BLOODY WRITE!!!!" about 9 hours ago via web "Lots of coffee. Still stupid, but grinding my teeth more." about 6 hours ago via web Heh... suddenly I don't feel so bad about my writer's block-y days like that if even he has them. :uhoh:

Just saw it. Wow! :D Very well done. Even though it's modern, everything fits together so seeminly effortlessly there's a little bit of why hasn't someone done it this way already? to it. Also, does anyone else think Sherlock looks an awful lot like the guy from Merlin, but older? Cute, though. :nice: Yes you are, soonish. Steven Moffat said on his twitter that PBS co-produced it and it's going to be on Masterpiece sometime this year.

Anyone hear about the comicon panel on Thursday- first Simon Pegg showed up :heart: and then at the end Edgar Wright asked who wanted to see the movie *right now* and led people who were given a certain badge at the door down the street to a theatre to watch the surprise world premiere. And the word is that it is very, very good. :D I so wish I was at comicon now. :bomb:

Slash seems to be common to all fandoms, not just ones centred around bands. It actually seems to be worst in scifi and genre stuff, but bands do seem to particularly encourage it by being close irl out of necessity, probably from touring. I find the best solution is just to point and laugh, since nine years after my introduction to the genre (the original Secret Fellowship Diaries 0.o (...still not king yet)) being creeped out still doesn`t work. *points* Haha! :P

No, haven't read the books. (Though clearly I should) I only heard about the series a few weeks ago. And yeah, The real places thing is cool, but it doesn't really mean that much to me- Toronto is far, far away from here, and I've never been to that part of Toronto.

Ok, just found out that both the books and movie are set in Toronto. As if I didn't want to see this enough already. :bomb:

Hooray! And welcome. :D Don't worry, most people pick up the basics of the show pretty fast. Yeah, Matt (the new/current Doctor) has been awesome. Which is still a little odd to admit being a longtime crazy diehard David Tennant (10th Doctor) fangirl. But it's true. You've probably heard this already, but just in case, one of the big things about the Doctor is that he regenerates whenever he's about to die- his whole body changes, but he's still the same person, and he remembers having those other faces. Sort of like if James Bond was self-aware of how he always changes. Not Crests, but I did write out a list earlier. And the 11th hour really is a perfect starting point- it was specifically written to get people new to the show up to speed. (As well as being one of my favourite episodes of the show in general.)

I like it. :smug: Quick, someone put it on urban dictionary.

^Eh, Texas for you. :P (I kid! I kid! ;)) Almost everyone in my theatre did.

A lot of the time when people are wanting to jump into the middle of the series, I tell them to watch Blink first. It's brilliant, it doesn't have much to do with any larger plot arc, and you don't need to know much about the show to get what's going on- the perfect starting point.

He's certainly the most under appreciated character and actor in a long time- He's so subtle and dry that he can throw in a real cracker of a joke and no one even notices. (Course it probably doesn't help that in the middle of some of his best moments, people are too busy staring at his girlfriend's legs. :smartass:) Major Spoiler for tonight: Arthur Darvill is sure freaking talented. That's him playing guitar for Fyfe Dangerfield from Guillemots: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1S_DoEKgHc]YouTube- Fyfe Dangerfield 'She's Always A Woman' - live performance[/ame] And he sings too: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXslYq4HFMI]YouTube- Arthur Darvill in 'Marine Parade'[/ame]

My favorite is still 'The Girl in the Fireplace' closely followed by 'Blink'. Though this season did add more new favorites to the list than normal: 'Vincent and the Doctor', 'The Pandorica Opens', 'Time of Angels' and 'The Eleventh Hour'. Though my relationship to the Eleventh Hour got a lot more complicated after the finale. I had that one on my mp3 player and watched it on the bus a lot. It was fun and light and very funny (and Amelia is adorable). But now some of the funniest lines mean different things after what we find out in the end, and they're so, so sad and a little bit scary. :(

Wow. Holy crap, wow. :mad: And that's about all I have to say about that. ^Yeah, a lot like Memento in some ways. Same reaction from me at the end too- everyone is still scratching their heads working out details while I'm trying not to cry because of all the layers of emotional stuff that are hidden underneath. For those who have seen it, did everyone in your theatre scream at the end too?

Woo... Pandorica tonight! Stonehenge, here we come! :D So, for those following the US broadcast schedule, what do you think is in it?

Heh, no experience, just a handful of theory. And if that was a fluke, it was one amazing fluke- you did a great job. Saves me a ton of work figuring out how some of the letters work together.

I'm alive! I really am alive, I promise! :P Anywho, been distracted, but it's back to work now. Here's the numbers, symbols within the week (fingers crossed). Sue, could you pretty please biggify these too? Well go for it if you want to, I guess, but I really want to take a whack at the more or less official Prospekt font myself- I studied a little bit about typesetting when I studied graphic design, and when I cut out these letters I had a specific visioin of how they were supposed to fit together by sitting just above or below the normal boundaries to look more like the original handwriting. Some of the little stylized bits weren't meant to sit flat on the line. Oh, and I've been modifying the embiggened letters to look more like the originals, since vectoring smooths things out that shouldn't be, so there's a whole new set of those... ...heh, it never ends, does it? *snerk* :laugh3: Sorry to laugh, but it usually takes me at least an hour or two per character. The samples are too small for there to be an easy way. Plus a big part of it is modifying the letter in a way that will look more like how we perceive them than a simple tracing. Don't worry, I should be done soonish.

3 minutes! :dance: Holy crap, the part where they're at had to visually be one of the single greatest Who moments ever. Amazing two-parter.