david927

Not for my short films, but here's where I put some existing films I've cut and edited to music (and a few from others)

https://brodlist.com/sfe

oh, it can be anything, in the same way a short story can be. A lot of times it has a music track which is central to it.

I'm interested in film making. Writing, directing. Mainly short films, often without dialog.

The 1990's

Your argument is silly. Europe is more content than the US and a big part of that is the social protections such as universal healthcare.

I like accelerator pedals on cars, I do, but I also like the brake pedal.

It's a subjective measure each way, to be sure, and really applies to the the coasts. If you want to see it that way, no one can correct you.

But as an American who has spent decades living in Europe (across five different countries), I'm confident that this isn't just a mistaken impression.

> I think a part of it is the individualism we’re raised to embrace.

> We don’t care for our children, our elderly, or our communities. It’s all me me me. How do I get mine and fuck the other guy.

Capitalism, I'm looking at you.

Will we call it "The Big Short 2" and just reuse footage from the original?

I would need more information. Maybe make a small website that shows some screenshots, etc.

Fantastic. The additional context for each work is wonderful.

I would prefer if I could restrict it to a style or movement, say, "Baroque" or period "1400-1600". I think it would make it both more interesting and the learning more memorable.

This is a better article than the initial paragraphs reveal.

The author is saying that what James Joyce called ‘proper’ art is essentially a stepping stone for our understanding of the world and ourselves. And if that's true, it could possibly be a candidate for human exceptionalism, and that would be a differentiator between AI and humans, where AI can only mimic what has been done -- up to this step but no further.

Unfortunately, the author is a poor lawyer and argues against his own case. One exhibit is Rothko. Yes, Rothko was important in expanding our ideas of color and composition... but he did that through such works as a big red square. Could silicon randomly generate a big red square? Yeah. So where is that line? Sometimes it's our interpretation of a work that moves us forward, more than the work itself.

Which means humanity invents humanity.

It was always supposed to be part of the question -- not just what cool projects you might be working on but also ideas that you might be thinking about. It fits nicely! Consider it done.

Each second Sunday of the month, I post an "Ask HN: What are you working on?" thread. I can add this to that, since the idea is the same. What do you think?

An argument that tries to refute a fairly dumb argument in favor of an idea does not, in fact, negate the idea.

"It's not debt, it's what they owe, and it's not hidden, if you dig you can find it."

Yeah, something like that but more utopian and closer to Jacques Tati's Playtime.

And I think that's what would make it funny: the affordance of the efficiency in design creating that expectation of a correctness in delivery which is slightly subverted.

I thought about writing a comedy, set in the far future, where everything looks beautiful but nothing works right and it's just accepted (almost unnoticed) as a running gag throughout the film. Now I wonder how prescient that would be.

It was famously Dijkstra, so they were almost certainly quoting him. He was responsible for a lot of great aphorisms; I think he was as quotable as he was irascible.

"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes," Edsger Dijkstra

I always liked that quote because telescopes can introduce artifacts, so astronomers absolutely have to know them in a foundational way, just as the artist needs to know the brush and the canvas.

I don't care for computers and I hate all programming languages but I love computer science.

That sounds fun! Very cool project.

Nice

I also stumbled onto Crime and Punishment at 18 and expected it to be difficult and was blown away with how Dostoyevsky wrote one of the greatest novels of all time, to be sure, but as the author here says, also how engaging he made it.

The scene where he commits the crime is an absolute stunner, edge-of-your-seat, thriller. Who does that? Who can pull that off? Dostoyevsky

I think we're past that point; they're absolutely useful already for a lot of tasks. I think it's about costs, convenience, and benefits of a frontier model for what you're doing.

I loved this when it came out. Lars von Trier was one of its creators and has a collection of amazing films. Check out Dancer in the Dark (2000) if you haven't already.

But it should be remembered as returning to an earlier technique. For example, one of the two or three greatest directors to ever live, Abbas Kiarostami, has a film called Where is the Friend's House (1987) which is pure -- and pure magic.

Thank you for taking the time to say that. I really appreciate it.

When YouTube was new, a guy named JT Helms made that top one (Once Upon a Time in the West cut to Arcade Fire) and when Bruce Springsteen was asked if he liked anything on YouTube, he said that. And it made me happy because it was my favorite too. And I thought we were on the cusp of something like a new art form.

I still think that. I'd like to see short films shot to music as well.

Fair use copyright covers areas such as this.

I'm using an old domain to put together a curation of film edits set to music

https://brodlist.com

The DoD was running illegal bioweapons labs in the Ukraine? This is huge.

I'm a huge believer in this. It's something we need to do more, in our industry, and everywhere, honestly.

When I moved back to the Bay Area after having lived in the south of France for years, one of the first things I did was set up a sort of "salon" of people I found interesting in the space I liked -- and it worked like a charm. We met once a month for the entire time I was there, with eventually the coolest collection of people. All it took was setting the calendar date, inviting people, and prompting good questions to discuss. Recommended.

When I was in high school I was a reckless driver, and with each narrow escape, I became more confident and certain that I was in control and a bad outcome wouldn't happen, couldn't happen. Your comment was downvoted with the same hubris. Success is not a teacher.