Raiders, Junk-Food Porn + What’s in the Box?
25 Mar
Some days I work very hard to help you be more awesome. Other days the Internet does it for me.
Essential Reading:
Thanks to Lars for directing me to the Mystery Man on Film. He has an exquisite post about the leaked transcript of the first Raiders of the Lost Ark story conference.
In addition to his analysis, he provides a link to the transcript. If you care about telling stories, then you must download that transcript.
Essential Reading + Barfing:
When does a blog merit the attention of HarperStudio, one of the coolest, most forward-thinking imprints in publishing? When it’s clean, simple and has pictures of this:
White Castle Casserole from vulturedroppings.com
Congratulations to This Is Why You’re Fat on the book deal. My goodness it can happen fast.
Not Essential (but Interesting) Viewing:
I stumbled across this video while looking for something else on Kotaku and I can’t stop thinking about it:
It’s likely done by professionals. It’s likely part of a viral marketing campaign for a video game or a movie. It’s likely that I’m going to be disappointed when I get the “reveal.”
But it’s just homemade enough to feel like maybe somebody did it just for the hell of it. A college student. A fan. A suburban mom with three kids.
Okay, probably not the last one, but in five years, who knows? Every day it gets easier to make stuff. Every day the bar gets raised a little higher on “amateur.”
Terrific post Dennis! The “Raiders” stuff is an education. But heck, that “book deal” doesn’t seem right does it? Too easy. What do you all of you make of the video? Kind of in the spirit of that release late last year where the city is under assault by the alien (or something like that, title escapes me)–all the POV stuff. Still, undeniable, tension line, enigmatic and surprising, has it’s own logic. Speaking of logic, just picked up a book of stories by Donald Barthelme yesterday. Intricate, fascinating, bewildering and new to me. Any Barthelme fans out there to provide insight?
The movie you’re thinking of is Cloverfield, which I haven’t seen. The vid also reminds me of the Half-Life video game franchise.
I’m less interested in the content than in the feel. Call it “high-end homemade” if you will.
Will you?
I will. I think there’s some semi-sophisticated special effects also. But falls apart on second viewing. Also remindful of the witch-hunt, set in Maine mockumentary (title escapes me) that grabbed some attention a few years ago. The first-person, on the run, jerky, shot with cell phone look loses its luster quickly. No? But I’ve never seen a video game. Understand stunning, graphic imaginary worlds are being created.
You folks ever see a video promoting an esoteric lab–”automated pipeting”–product for extracting nucleic acid? I think it’s called “Sweet ep motion”. Has the feel of an MGM musical. Marvelously unexpected. “Crazy evocative”? On Youtube.