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Cinema Crapadiso

On May 23 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Diary

The Boston Globe reports that AMC, National Amusements, and Regal cinema chains are leaving 3D projector lenses on for 2D movies. This means that the projected image is polarized and far dimmer than it should be. The chains won’t acknowledge that they’re doing it, but one quoted insider says its an “unspoken” corporate policy.

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Children of Men is one of my favourite films… and one of Slavoj Žižek’s as well

On January 18 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Diary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbgrwNP_gYE

via @secretsquirrel

I love the atmosphere, the bleakness, the visualisation of a future London, the house in the woods, the morning chase from the farm.

Žižek loves it because it appears to show precisely what our royally buggered capitalist society is going to look like: “the true focus of the film is there in [...]

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What will happen in the event of a hung parliament. Probably.

On May 6 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Diary, Video

via youtube.com

Or, you know, not.

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The man who showed me what spaceships look like

On September 23 2009 · 1 Comment · In Diary

Spice leaking from a ruptured pirate ship by Chris Foss

Have you heard of Chris Foss? If you’ve seen any of the major science fiction films of the last thirty years, you may have seen the influence of his work. He worked on visualisations for a never-produced film adaptation of Frank [...]

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