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Comedian Kate McKinnon, actors Chris Evans and Amy Adams, CEO of DreamWorks Animation Jeffrey Katzenberg and actor Meryl Streep attend MPTF’s “The Night Before” at Fox Studios on February 25, 2017 in Los Angeles, California.
Not Quite Sadness Tinged with Apathy
Not Quite Sadness Tinged with Apathy
The link just leads to the website. I’ve made too many changes as of late. Summer is ending and, as I transition back to school, I may be getting more than I bargained. When people ask me what I did this summer, I always gave them three words: work, school and radio. I kept my job at Gap from the school year, took two classes, and worked at my school’s radio station. As summer comes to a close, I…
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My Mother's Hand
My Mother’s Hand
My mother’s hand sits on her coffee cup for a daily eternity. At least ten minutes. I do not know just what she is doing in the car—my view obstructed by the roof—but I can see her hand and know she is there. She waits, outside my building, for a while. I watch as her hand moves away from my view. It returns. I have to pee. Wow, do I have to pee. I do not know if she will be there after the brief…
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Famous Last Words. Leonardo Santamaria. acrylic, colored pencil, gouache, and graphite on paper. 15" x 22"
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Ten Reasons To Read YA (No Matter What Age You Are)
1. You like good books more than you care what section of a bookstore they’re found in or maintaining some ill-defined sort of lit cred (spoiler alert: it does not really exist).
2. You’re interested in developing your own informed opinions about various genres and varieties of fiction. The lit cred of being actually well and widely read does exist.
3. Because YA is so powerful that it’s built an enthusiastic reading culture all its own that includes both teens and adults, now in this our age of greatest distraction.
4. You’ve ever experienced something, anything for the first time, but especially one of those great big moments that help define or redefine who we are, that shape what we think and feel about love and death and life, those great big moments that change us or make us dig in deeper to who we already are. You want to feel that again. Or you want to understand it better. You want to understand what it’s like for someone else. And guess what? These moments keep happening, your whole life.
5. You like stories that aren’t afraid to put the experience of girls front and center, all different kinds of girls, and treat them as importantly as they deserve to be. (There are plenty of fine YA books starring boys and taking them seriously too, but I think we all know that finding those stories has never been a real problem, just a fake one.)
6. You like story. The pure, focused, raw stuff. It may be simple or it may be deceptively simple or it may be—oh yes it may be—complex, it may take place on a spaceship or in a mansion that houses a dark early American science experiment or in a high school, or in the future or in the past or right now. But you will have no trouble finding books that prize story, and there’s no mistaking that. And story is one the most powerful substances in the world.
7. You’re intrigued by the fact that while outsiders, aka those not well-read in YA, may try to pit fantasy and science fiction against realistic contemporary, humor against horror or girl books against boy books, most of the people in the YA community will tell you that’s nonsense and that one of the best things YA brings to the reading experience is its ability to have all those things exist side by side, often within the same book, to mix and match them with the freedom that comes from being a category more than a genre. A category that contains most genres and isn’t afraid to push at the boundaries of them and of the category itself.
8. You crave an emotional journey and whether it’s dark or swoony or light you can find an excellent example in YA.
9. You don’t dismiss reader pleasure—not your own, not other people’s. Whether it comes from delicious prose, unforgettable characters, strong voice or perfectly-executed twists, so many YA authors are masters at creating reader pleasure, while still telling whatever kind of story it is they mean to tell.
10. I could have really ended this list with number one, couldn’t I? So the TL/DR is:
You like good books.
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Originally posted at the other place: http://www.gwendabond.com/bondgirl/2014/06/ten-reasons-to-read-ya-no-matter-what-age-you-are.html
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Let’s Talk About Movies:
Color: A Storytelling Device because the eyes never lies.
Color is a powerful communication tool. It affected our emotion, mood and behavior. In films, color is one of the most important visual device to tell a story. Adding color to films is was one of the first major development in cinema. Take a look at some of the creative use of colors in filmmaking.
In both La Vita e Bella (1997) and Titanic (1997), the color narrates the story. It marks the dramatic change of the story line. In the beginning we see the colors are bright, warm and sunny but as the movie comes to painful end, the colors are getting colder, darker and more desperate.
For a fantasy movie genre, color represent different period of time or different world. In Pan's Labyrinth (2006), Guilermo Del Toro decided he is going to do a contamination process as the 2 worlds in the movie start to come together. “We found the language we needed to help the audience understand the complexity of the movie.”
Red is a color that’s often linked with sex, but the dramatic context determines whether the red (and the sex) is seductive or repellent. In American Beauty (1999), the unhappily married protagonist (Spacey) escapes the banality of his suburban hell by fantasizing about a flirtatious teenager (Suvari). He often imagines her nude, covered with red rose petals— a symbol of his fiercely aroused sexuality, his reawakening manhood.
Spike Jonze collaboration with production designer K.K Barret in Her (2013) also focus on the color of red, it is to underscore a bright future ambience in the film setting. The key color motif is blood-orange red with a blue-less color palette. We see red in almost every frame of the movie. "It seemed to fit Theo’s temperament–his passion, compassion, loneliness, and hopefulness. Red was the perfect thing to use in the movie and we did it every which way we could.” says Barrett.
Alfred Hitchcock uses the color of clothes symbolically. In Psycho (1960), Marion Crane is wearing a white underwear the moment she was introduce on screen. We can’t help but sees her as this pure, angelic, romantic woman who is in love. Once she has stolen money she wears a black bra. Our view of her shifted, Marion is not as sweet as we think we are, she is also dark, sly and her life is about to get an evil turn.
Oscar winner Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic (2000) has a complex story line with several different characters and settings. So he uses color filters to help to distinguish between these groups and colour is a purposeful narrative function.
for more of history and science in color films, check out this video Source: 1, 2, 3, and Louis Giannetti’s Understanding Movies (Ninth Edition).
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This is from a talk she gave at Brown, the link above is to the YouTube video and the whole thing is great.
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