With blockbusters focusing on CG spectacle, and high-profile filmmakers rushing towards the latest digital innovations, one cinematic option often gets left behind: the grandeur of 70mm. Hollywood’s own high-resolution alternative to 35mm film, the format was used to shoot the likes of Lawrence...
70mm meets 4K
People have long been fascinated by dreams, and popular movies like Until the End of the World, Paprika, and most recently Inception, have heavily focused on the concept of recording and even entering others' dreams. While we may not yet have the...
Trying to recapture the spirit of MTV's golden era of music videos, Eric Spiegelman recently launched the Awl Music App for iPad, a companion app for The Awl's Awl Music Tumblr site. It's a simple idea: what if your favorite writers and editors had a way to play the role of online VJ, picking the best music and videos available on the web? Eric took a few minutes to talk about the advantages of...
In 2009, Louis C.K., a comedian known for tackling politically charged subjects from gay marriage to white privilege, went on Conan O’Brien and delivered one of his most famous impromptu sermons:
Now, we live in an amazing, amazing world, and it’s wasted on the crappiest generation of just spoiled idiots that don’t care because — this is what people are like now, they got their phone, they’re like, “[imitates someone thumbing a BlackBerry] Ugh! It won’t…” Give it a second! It’s going to space! Can you give it a second to get back from space? It’s the speed of light!
The comedian elaborated on the video in an interview later that year on Opie & Anthony: “The thing is that people expect things… people think it’s in the Constitution that they just have a clear signal without any interruptions.”
I’ll be...
"People think it’s in the Constitution that they just have a clear signal without any interruptions." Louis C.K.
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