My film/video class has been interesting in changing the way i frame everything i take in day-to-day. My teacher made a rather interesting point about using a zoom lens the other day – a quick zoom shot is unnerving because human beings have no way to zoom in on a picture, but a slow zoom on something like a face is nature because it simulates us getting closer and closer to whatever we’re looking at.
Something else that i’ve been noticing is the distance i frame my visual “shots” from. I think we all mostly use a full or mid shot, where we’re looking at most of the torso of someone, plus their head and some of the space above it. A shot we almost never use in real life is extreme-closeup, where we don’t even focus on the entirety of an object but just the focus of its action. How often do we see a face in extreme closeup? Pretty much only when we’re close enough to kiss someone, wouldn’t you say? It’s hard to keep perspective on something when you’re that close … trying to remember what a cheekbone and a jaw have to do with the rest of a face or the entirety of a person. It’s almost easy to forget that anything else is there except for that fraction of a face… a visage floating more closely than you’d ever dare get with a camera.
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Well, that’s actually the most positive spin i’ve seen put on this whole George W. thing yet. We’re less than a week away now, aren’t we? I sorta forgot about him… i suppose i was waiting for him to fade away or something. No such luck, eh?
More mentions of the mysterious “IT” via our good friend Kevin at Fury.com. ABCnews doesn’t introduce anything new to the story other than an idiotic proposal that the device is a one-wheeled scooter (if it is, there’s something more to it than shown, if it’s gonna be $2000). CNet provides even less new info, but had much better reader commentary. But, you should probably go to theitquestion.com if you’re really interested!
Cast Parties are notoriously highly drunken incidents where approximately one fifth of those in attendance make an absolutely spectacle of themselves and don’t ever live it down. I always make sure to make a spectacle of myself so that i’ll always live in infamy,… at least until the next party. Last night was pretty tame, mostly because all of the Freshmen got their big first-time-drunk experience out of the way already, and everyone else was still recovering from New Year’s. As a testament to the amount of responsibility that was occurring, no one got flagged until past 3am, which isn’t such a bad time to be flagged. True to form, i made sure that i would be reminded about the party every day in the weeks to come. I’m almost afraid to go on instant messenger, because i’ll be deluged by comments from whoever’s on. Of course, they’re probably still all sleeping off their hangovers :p