Random Rants
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I would like to congratulate and thank the cinematographer for Man of Steel for almost single-handedly ruining a movie with camerawork alone. I didn't think it was possible but there you have it. The latest mutation of cinema verite, where you as a cameraman must pretend you have palsy when you zoom, focus, or move the viewframe.
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Didn't bother me at all, but I know loads of folks who hated Cloverfield and thought the camera work was awful whereas I thought it was genius.
I guess it's not everyones cup of tea, but it's a style I quite like.
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Turns out it's the guy from Fast and Furious, a Transformers movie, and the forthcoming Wolverine flick (damn):
While Snyder worked with cinematographer Larry Fong on both 300 and Sucker Punch, the cinematographer for Man of Steel is Amir Mokri whose previous works include Fast & Furious, Transformers: Dark of the Moon and The Wolverine, which is scheduled to be released in July 2013. That shift in talent shouldn’t change Snyder’s individual convictions though, and we can expect something extremely stylised, even if it resists the temptation to go full comic book.
Read more at http://whatculture.com/film/man-of-steel-5-reasons-itll-rule-this-summer.php#YIKCVfSFDcAkVUWG.99 -
If you're going to fire someone, have the common courtesy to do it face to face. I have no use for people so cowardly that they fire a person via text message.
The woman that we "share" a nanny with fired her today in said manner.
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This is the most uplifting Rant page I've read in quite a while. Can't wait to see the outcome. It will be great to reference when someone wonders what makes $400 jeans really $400 jeans.
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Have they met you?
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Was taking out the garbage this morning to find a two foot long black snake wrapped around my gutter
Call the police (standard procedure in NYC). They tell me to call the Department of Natural Resources. The DNR tells me to call a private contractor to have it removed…I'm like "don't I pay taxes for this?"
Call animal control, and was informed that 1) there are poisonous snakes in Maryland, and this could be one 2) they do not remove the animals and 3) I cannot harm the snake as they are protected by Federal law
Wondering if there is any level of common sense in this state
The contractor eventually called me back and told me that the snake I described is not poisonous, but I'm still annoyed. She did tell me that I'm allowed to open fire on it if I feel like my safety is at risk, there is a provision within the law for that
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This is a good rant, Doug. I will call it the 1st world problem.
Here in Canada for example, we have to trap/cage/release raccoons humanely….. c'mon, they are on my property and these m..fkers are real pain in the ass. My uncle lives in Wisconsin and he blasted one because he felt his faimly safety was at risk......., but the clean up was a mess. -
Another story about the frickin animals in Maryland
This must've been a couple years ago, I saw a large bird rummaging through the garbage bags on the curb (we must've had a chicken carcass in there). By big bird, I mean, I thought it was a turkey
So naturally, I grabbed a large wrench from my garage and snuck up behind it, thinking I was going to kill me a turkey
Then it turned around
Holy fuck
It's a vulture
Then it opened it's wings
Holy fuck
It's a REALLY BIG VULTURE
I back away, and my neighbor comes out and goes "holy fuck, that's a vulture". Yeah, no shit
I need to move
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Guessing it was "both," a turkey vulture
I grew up in the Deep South, where we have some dangerous/annoying critters in terms of snakes, spiders, and bugs.
Up here, we don't really have the same thing. We have elk, moose, bears, and rattlers, but that's all theoretical.
We do have a number of bold urban cohabitants in Minneapolis. I see deer by my place all the time. Big ones. Ones I wish I could eat. They are almost domesticated, so fearless and bold they are around humans. Same goes for the fucking massive raccoons, aside from the desire to eat them. But the weirdest thing is we have these urban turkeys. They're huge and have a bad attitude. They will chase a motherfucker. They will attack a car. They just walk around in the hood like they own it. All because someone wanted to (illegally) farm turkeys in the city.
http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2011/11/northeast_minneapolis_turkeys_video.php
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I see deer by my place all the time. Big ones. They are almost domesticated, so fearless and bold they are around humans.
Ugh wished I lived there… I love deer
