JOSS WHEDON: I find that when you read a script, or rewrite something, or look at something that’s been gone over, you can tell, like rings on a tree, by how bad it is, how long it’s been in development.
NEIL GAIMAN: Yes. It really is this thing of executives loving the smell of their own urine and urinating on things. And then more execs come in, and they urinate. And then the next round. By the end, they have this thing which just smells like pee, and nobody likes it.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1109313,00.html#ixzz2RXrXd8TI
yet sweet as springtime flowers
In your honor, toast and tea. Now serenade me.
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Miniature Entertainments photos by Sebastián Vargas
These tiny, masterfully downsized electronics and gaming systems are accurate down to the most minute details: the miniature television set flickers and plays static sounds while the diminutive Playstation sports an equally tiny controller, memory card, and Parappa the Rappa game disc. Rule #883 of the Internet: every thing’s better when it’s kawaii-sized.
I FIND SUCH ENORMOUS JOY IN MINIATURE THINGS
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A Trip To The Moon - Georges Méliès (1902)
loved this movie. The Smashing Pumpkins used this in one of their music videos.
I’m not really sure why I decided to take the class Art History of the Cinema because I do not particularly care for art history and I’m not a huge movie enthusiast, but it ended up being one of the best classes I ever took as an undergrad at the UA.
I had to take a random elective so I took some beginner cinema class and this was one of the first movies we watched and I was SO impressed with the technology of this movie. It’s short but great! Watch it on YouTube :)
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The original story of the little mermaid is that she must kill the prince in order to be human, and in the end, she loves him too much and kills herself instead.
Ok, ok - important expansion: she only has to kill the Prince because the deal was if he fell in love with her she could be human forever, and he didn’t. By which I mean, he was a good person and genuinely nice to her, but he didn’t fall in love. He fell in love with someone else, also perfectly nice - not the seawitch in disguise, fu Disney. The Mermaid is told she can only return to the sea now if she kills the Prince. She goes into the room where he and his lover lie sleeping and they look so beautiful and happy together that she can’t do it.
That’s why she kills herself. And because it was a noble act she returns to sea as foam.
One moral of the story was that women shouldn’t fundamentally change who they are for love of a man, and in theory Hans Christian Anderson wrote it for a ballerina with whom he fell in love. She was marrying someone else who wouldn’t let her dance.
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