‘This video is an actual voicemail from a woman that was kicked out of one of our Austin theaters’
For Deron. It immediately made me think of his recent experience at Tree of Life.
How to project “The Tree of Life”
Project the film in its proper 1.85:1 aspect ratio.
The correct fader setting on Dolby and DTS systems is 7. Malick asks that faders be kept at 7.5 or even 7.7, system permitting.
The film has no opening credits, and the booth operator is asked to make sure the “lights down cue is well before the opening frame of reel 1.”
With all the recent talk of “darkier, lousier” images, operators are asked that lamps are at “proper standard (5400 Kelvin)” and that the “foot Lambert level is at Standard 14.”
As reported in the San Diego Reader.
(Gracias a JJ.)
headline of the day, II
2-D Glasses Remove Nausea from 3-D Movies
quote out of context
Ms. Mohr even designed a candle to address the flatulence of Rufus, her Rhodesian ridgeback. Made with floral ylang-ylang, white tea, myrtle and fennel, the “Fart & Away” candle “won’t completely stop them,” Ms. Mohr says. “But it will help.” The price: $28.
(via marginal revolution)
The Tree of Life comment thread
I thought there were some good moments throughout this comment thread. If you haven’t seen the movie, you might want to wait, though.
fyi
Today is a national holiday.
Update: MacRumors and Engadget seem to be doing a good job with the live blogging.
headline of the day
Palin Fans Trying to Edit Wikipedia Paul Revere Page
Charlie Chaplin and Helen Keller
Susanne Wallumrød, Love Will Tear Us Apart
More about Susanne.
We’re off to DC in the morning…
being picked up at the house @ 4:15 am. (ugh.) Danny’s working, I’m vacationing. Anything we (I) need to see while I’m there, you DC folks? (Dave Vogt, I didn’t give enough warning, I know you’re a workin’ boy, could you meet us tomorrow night at La Tomate, Dupont Circle? (We’ll pick up the tab) Or if you have time off one day that fits, meet me for lunch someplace? (We’re there tomorrow afternoon through Thursday afternoon.) We’re staying at L’Enfant Plaza. (sp?) Right off the Mall.
I plan to check the “things to see” once I’m there. It’s a given I’ll go to the East wing of the National Gallery of Art, and to the Hirshhorn. Anything else is up for grabs.
One day of summer
Just a Reminder
Amanda’s Kickstarter project is at 50%, in the final week, with 45 47 49 50 contributors. Let’s get it to 60 if we can.
The New Old Helvetica
A restoration of Helvetica called Neue Haas Grotesk will be released by Monotype June 7.
“The biggest difference,” Schwartz explains, “is that I made separate versions for text and display, which allowed each to do what they need to do in order to work best at their respective sizes without becoming clogged and spotty in texture at text sizes, or overly loose at larger sizes.” For the non-type person who may be reading this, this is not the equivalent of angels on the head of a pin. These are essential design issues. Neue Haas Grotesk, the original name for Helvetica, was initially produced for typesetting by hand in a range of sizes from 5 to 72 points, but Schwartz notes, “the digital Helvetica has always been one-size-fits-all, which leads to unfortunate compromises.”
What the six-year-old came to the door to tell me
Somebody put toilet paper in our trees! The dog loves it.
Nothing is all bad, there could be some good in there as well
spam name
Pearlie Wildridge.
The Tree of Life
At the end of two and a quarter hours of people fucking their mouths with popcorn, during one of the most visually poetic movies I have seen, a third of the audience laughed. If you would like to know what I said to them, we can talk about it in comments. I’m pretty sure it will be a long time before I see a movie I care about in public again.
By Way of My Translato-Wheel…
I’ll attempt:
Los frijoles se ubican dentro del grupo de las leguminosas, que se caracterizan por crecer en forma de vaina y se caracteriza por ser uno de los alimentos que contienen más proteínas que constituyen hasta el 20% de nuestro peso corporal y sirven para el crecimiento, el proceso del metabolismo, la formación de anticuerpos que protegen de enfermedades y la producción de energía, entre otras funciones.
Lee Otis Johnson, 1939-2002
“Why are those people hollering about beans?”
“Free Lee Otis! Free Lee Otis!”
I still think that’s funny even, or maybe especially, if you don’t know any Spanish, but there’s a Texas Monthly article about Lee Otis Johnson that’s not funny. You need to “register” to read it, but I think that’s all.
Lee Otis Johnson was a symbol of many things, and that can be a killing burden. All his life he had been reduced to shorthand labels: radical student agitator, black power advocate, casualty of Texas’ draconian drug laws, victim of racism, petty criminal. But labels are beside the point in death, and Lee Otis Johnson died alone, in Houston, on June 12 of complications from circulatory problems. He was 62 years old.
He was best known for the thirty-year prison sentence he got in 1968 for passing a marijuana cigarette to an undercover police officer in Houston. Those who thought the punishment didn’t fit the crime distilled their outrage into a chant–”Free Lee Otis!”–that was heard on campuses around the state, including Texas Southern University, where he had been a leader of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee in the mid-sixties.
Frijoles
It was the photo of a friend’s pot of weekend frijoles that called this to mind, and now I want to tell a story.
It’s a Texas gubernatorial anecdote. Could well be spurious, but even if so, it’s true. In the early 1970s, a white man named Preston Smith was governor of Texas. And there was this Texas member of the Black Panthers named Lee Otis Johnson, who got 30 years for possession of one joint. And then there was this one day (probably one of many) when people were demonstrating outside the Governor’s Mansion or the Capitol. And Preston Smith is said to have asked, “Why are those people hollering for beans?”
They were chanting, “Free Lee Otis! Free Lee Otis!”
from the comments
Phallus, Phallus, Fucker, Fuck, Fuck, Fuck, Fart, Fart, Farty, Bitch, Bitch, Bitchy, Faggy, Boobie, or, in British English, Fanny or Fanny
from the comments
I need to give pickled beets another try. I often roast beets in winter, and I like them, but they’re just too sweet for me to take more than a couple of bites. I’ve always associated pickled beets with sad meals with old people, but now that I’m old myself, I think it’s time to embrace them.
R. Luke Dubois: “A More Perfect Union”
The Web Urbanist on A More Perfect Union, a project by R. Luke Dubois:
Touching and, at times, hilarious, these keyword maps by R. Luke Dubois associate each town with the terms most often used by locals to describe themselves and their desired partners on their online dating profiles. Dubois joined 21 dating websites and analyzed the language used in 21 million profiles to come up with the data, which was then displayed on maps. Chicagoans say things like “prankster”, “pizza”, “smoker” and “synagogue” while Central Texans are all about “churches”, “boundaries”, “barbecue” and “Madonna” – the latter presumably referring to the Virgin, not the pop star.
IRS: “Making documentaries is a hobby.”
The International Documentary Association has filed a friend of the court brief in this case.
In a US Tax Court trial held in Arizona on March 9, Judge Diane Kroupa made a statement that, if memorialized in a ruling, will have a devastating impact on independent documentary filmmakers across the US. Judge Kroupa questioned whether a documentary could be “for profit,” since by its nature it is designed “to educate and expose,” and she invited the parties to present case law on the issue.
Judge Kroupa’s speculation came in a case in which the IRS argued that filmmaker Lee Storey could not deduct business expenses pertaining to her film Smile ’Til It Hurts: The Up with People Story because the primary purpose of her film (and by inference all documentary films) is to educate and expose, not to make profit, and that therefore documentary filmmaking is a not-for-profit activity. The IRS believes that if the person has no intent to make a profit, then the activity is a “hobby.” Therefore, they claim that Storey owes hundreds of thousands of dollars in back taxes and penalties for the business deductions she took.
The Life Zone
Three women have been kidnapped from abortion clinics and are being held for seven months–until they all give birth. The film, which appears to cut right down the middle, examining the topic from both sides, offers a powerful, anti-abortion climactic twist.
And no, this isn’t satire.
