I’ve been waiting for Avatar for over a decade.
James Cameron wrote Avatar in 1995 in such detail down to how the engines on the ships are structured, and how the chemical process that changes the texture of colors on the intricately designed Na’vi’s skin works.
This is his Scriptment from 1995 that goes into that level of detail. (It’s hard to believe I was just starting high school when I first got a look at it.)
This masterpiece of a work of art was not made by committee. Concept artists didn’t submit ideas for aliens, or how the ships would work. This man, who has invented new kinds of submarines, new kinds of cameras, and discovered new forms of life at the lowest depths of the ocean floor, had a vision, and worked to manifest it on screen.
When you go to see Avatar in Imax Digital 3D visit Pandora, what you will see and experience is the vision of one man, bringing to use a megaton of resources to let us look into his imagination and see what he sees, to every last detail.
This man has been making this movie for fifteen years. And it shows.
Yeah, the trailers look kind of stupid. Don’t worry about it- movie marketing is movie marketing. This movie is a thing of beauty.
I visited Pandora at 3:45am last night, and will be going back again soon.
staff:
Inspired by Wordpress’ seriously clever use of Loren Brichter’s new Tweetie options, we’re launching our own Tweetie and Twitterrific compatible API. This Twitter-like API should make it easy for a lot of existing Twitter clients to start supporting Tumblr.
The really cool thing - because our following models follow a lot of the same principles, we’ve been able to take advantage of a ton of native features:
- Retweeting = Reblogging
- Replying = Reblogging w/ commentary
- Favoriting = Liking
- “@david” = ”http://david.tumblr.com/”
- Conversations = Reblogs
To try out Tumblr in Tweetie 2, tap “Accounts” → “+” → enter your username and password → tap the gear icon → enter “http://tumblr.com/” in both fields.
For Twitterrific, tap ”Sources” → “Edit” → “Add a New Account” → enter your username and password → tap ”Advanced” → set “Base URL” to “http://tumblr.com/” and disable “SSL”.
This is pretty epicly brilliant. Great stuff
Falling Through the Rabbit... er Ladder Hole
biancarocksout:
So you may or may not have heard that a fell off/through a fire escape on Saturday night. And yes, I recounted the story to people very nonchalantly, because I didn’t really want to make a big deal of it. The thing is… it wasn’t just a ‘fall down the stairs and land on my butt’ kind of fall (the kind of NBD accident that would garner joking about it). It was a pretty intense and scary fall, that after sitting at home recovering for three days, I can’t stop replaying in my head.
I went out on to the fire escape to go smoke a cigarette (as I have done numerous times and numerous parties). I wasn’t even drunk, it was just really dark outside. As I walked to the other side of the fire escape away from the window I didn’t see the ladder hole (to one of those climb up ladders, not the kind you walk down), and all of a sudden found myself falling mid air. It was almost like Alice in Wonderland falling through the rabbit hole. It was both really fast and really slow at which point the thoughts that were running through my head were “Oh my god did I walk off the edge” and “What am I going to land on”… until about 10 feet later when I fell on my back to the impact of a bunch of wood on the apartment below’s fire escape.
Completely in shock I picked myself up, climbed back up to the party, and just freaked out over the fact that I dropped my phone. When Mallory’s roommate went down to find it… he let me know that had there not been a ladder (i.e. the wood I fell on) blocking the apt below’s fire escape I would’ve kept falling all the way through however many stories up we were to the bottom of the alley. And then came everyones reaction of “OMG YOU ALMOST DIED”… which I don’t like to think about.
Anyway, so I got pretty bruised up but I’m feeling a lot better now. Yes, I joked about it for three days to ignore the fact that I narrowly escaped death (not to sound like Tai from Clueless). But somehow I just feel like with some people’s witty responses or jokes to lighten the mood… nobody (except for maybe Mallory and Ben) gets what really happened.
I was lucky that something broke my fall after one story and that I only walked off with cuts and bruises and a hurt foot. I mean it could have ended a tragic story about a ‘reckless party girl’. I’m definitely not looking for sympathy, but if you make any kind of joke referring to the incident… excuse me if I don’t respond in the lighthearted manner that you expected. Sorry if I decline any invitations to go out and party… I’m not really up for it. And please… no stories about people who have actually fallen to their deaths. It will freak me out.
K, thanks.
I’m grateful to be friends with Bianca.
You can’t be worried and write a song at the same time
Don’t listen to people that tell you what they think audiences like. There’s a reason they’re not just saying what they like. They’re ashamed, intimidated or they don’t know. There’s no crime in being stupid, wrong or unsure, but it’s a costly crime not to admit it, and unforgiveable to let people who refuse to admit it run the world.
