Not much to add, except it's one more miracle brought to me by the Internet! Lemme' hear a "Hallelujah!"
Seriously, man, I just love that I have place to throw out ideas as I see fit, to try to pour the most interesting parts of myself out there into the world. Obviously, there are areas I don't go into, but by and large my passions are on the screen for all to see. I've been without evening Internet access these last couple of weeks so my posting has tended to be of a less personal nature. (I can't compose a personal entry at work, that just doesn't...work, for me.)
Perhaps as aspects of my personal life become clearer I'll be more inclined to post about them. Perhaps.
I'm also thinking seriously of starting a spinoff blog for my film reviews. That way, others who love film as I do will have a place to go see my (hopefully interesting) take on various films without having to dig through this blog to find them. I think I have excellent taste and a unique background, having studied film extensively (with the late Gerald Mast, author of numerous standard texts on film history) and having also worked in the film industry in the late Eighties/early Nineties, in L.A., New York, and Prague.
At any rate, even if absolutely no one wants to read them, at least I'll have a place to put all my reviews and an extra, public motivation to keep doing them...
2 comments:
Ahhh...Kafka. Thanks for the kind words, Bro. How did you like Mast's class?
Thanks for sharing! From Mast, I learned to watch framing and movement. One of his favorite expressions was, "Notice how he INVADES her space." Everything was about what was happening in the frame, the choices made by the director.
I was thinking about this last night watching the second Lord of the Rings film. Peter Jackson has a genius for finding the "meat" of a scene by careful framing and shot selection. He knows how to go in close and intimate but he also is a master at going wide and epic.
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