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Re: In Defense of Godard and Film Socialisme

Ostleramrith — Mon, 30 May 2011 12:00:33 -0000

godard da lord of artistic movies

Re: Watch the First Five Minutes of Moral Tales

Mister McCall — Thu, 26 May 2011 09:14:02 -0000

Great job, man.

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Re: How I Improved an iPad Magazine

the88 — Sun, 22 May 2011 19:05:14 -0000

Great post. Thanks for posting the process and insight. Just one question - how did you actually technically make the app?

Re: Great Models via Lookbook.nu #3

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Re: Angels is Out Now

LettertoJane — Thu, 19 May 2011 02:19:18 -0000

Ya I noticed the typo as soon as I hit post, but I figured the album is boring enough no one would bother with the post anyways. And I was right you were the first person in 2 months to mention it.

Re: Angels is Out Now

andy88mail@gmail.com — Thu, 19 May 2011 02:12:56 -0000

I did not know the strokes has an album out called ' angels' but they did just release an album called ' angles'.

Re: How I Improved an iPad Magazine

LettertoJane — Tue, 17 May 2011 16:06:36 -0000

Thanks, glad to hear it!

Re: How I Improved an iPad Magazine

Universal Indie Records — Tue, 17 May 2011 13:30:59 -0000

GREAT READ. You've definitely given food for thought. I might steal a few ideas...lol

Re: Jim Jarmusch’s Golden Rules

Linda Patch — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:08:10 -0000

Thank you so much for posting this thoughtful commentary. #5 has filled a major gap in my thinking, I wish it was shared at every high school and college everywhere : )

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Re: Support Indie Film: Pawn

Erica | standard poster size — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 02:02:39 -0000

Interesting! would love to check this out.

Re: Vivian Girls – I Heard You Say

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Re: Interview With Toro y Moi

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Re: How I Made an iPad Magazine

neutrino23 — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 22:56:52 -0000

Near as I can tell there are four approaches to making something more interesting than a PDF.

1 Write your own app in Objective-C
2. Use Adobe's solution.
3. Use the solution from Aquafadas
4. Look to the Baker Framework.

I think Adobe and Aquafadas are similar in that you put together some content using something like InDesign, then use a special bundler, then load that file onto an iPad to be viewed with a special player. To my knowledge both approaches are free for simple use. Where they earn money is in branded players and when they host your content to be downloaded by the app for money.

I just met one developer from Aqufadas last week and was very encouraged. The demo was fantastic.

Baker Framework (http://bakerframework.com/) I know very little about but I'm interested. It is an open standards approach based on html5.

It sounds pretty easy. You need to know a smidgeon about programming.

Hope that helps.

This is all evolving rapidly so things may look different in a month or two.

Re: How Would You Change Magazines on the iPad?

Marina824 — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 16:03:01 -0000

I love this magazine on my iPad, it's exactly what I wanted when I got one. However, all of the content requires WiFi, so I don't get a chance to read it when I'm on the subway or away from home which is what I do with the other magazines I read.

Re: My Notes on Somewhere

LettertoJane — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 23:24:39 -0000

Thank you for the insights I enjoyed what you had to say. I think that even though you didn't like it, your thoughts still seem to go with my initial thoughts, the only difference is the things I liked you didn't and to me that's all anyone can ask for. I love that it wasn't a film were you either had to "get it" or not, if people love or hate this film it's based on actually having to evaluate the characters. I was able to bring my personal background to the film and I came out liking it, you brought yours and didn't and to me that's all that matters.

After I first saw Somewhere I went home and watched Lost in Translation just to see if there was really that much in common and that's when I came away thinking that Somewhere is the superior film. I get that they're both movies centered around hotels and people feeling empty but I feel they discuss different issues. I see Lost in Translation about people having everything that's familiar to them ripped away and how much of their identity is lost when they don't have anything to fall back on. That's an easier story to get behind rather than a look at excess like in Somewhere. Also Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson are much charismatic people, which masks a lot of what's really going on in that movie. Their characters aren't really that great of people, I think they're much more narcissistic than Johnny Marco, but they're much more lovable which helps us overlook that I feel. Somewhere to me is much more about what effect relationships really have on us. I really do like Stephen Dorff's performance. I think it's an honest portrayal of a rotten guy. If you didn't like what he did with it, I feel that's more of a problem with Coppola than Dorff. All of her fimls she's had to deal with people focusing on the stars instead of the character. Stephen Dorff was the perfect choice to me because he's recognizable, but not really. You remember him from something but you don't identify with him like say you would with George Clooney. For better or worse he IS Johnny Marco in this movie and I think that whether or not that person is interesting or not is more a problem to have with Sofia's script.

I don't use the Ozu reference in that there are simliar stories but more about her technique or mise en scene ( although i hate using that term), and not just because they both used a primarily stationary camera.

I'm not trying to change your mind or anything, I really appreciate what you said and wanted to add to that, thanks :)

-Tim

Re: My Notes on Somewhere

r s e — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 23:20:46 -0000

well i just saw somewhere...it was very interesting to read your notes on this film after seeing it for myself...while i agree with most of your points regarding the conceit of the film, i was much less enamored and the thing is i wanted to love this film but i just don't like it at all.

it is an overly confident film from coppola, by that i mean she wrote her "story" with room enough for the audience and the players to fill in the gaps and she was so confident that would occur - and i must say that it i think you performed better than i did, certainly you performed better than dorff. he was a lump who's most poignant performance was buried beneath a plaster mask.

a few years back i made a feature film called "ideas for a movie" it was an episodic contraption where characters simply went about their day. my feeling was that i would write a story that could drop to the side if the moments were there...well they weren't there and the movie turned out to be one of my most extravagant failures...

i cast the project with friends that were actors and then proceeded to give them absolutely no direction - on purpose. my lead actor was very dorff- like in that he inhabited the space where a lead should be but then did nothing and that is not to say that it was a natural or zen-like nothing performance. it was just nothing and he was not strong enough to pull it off.

i myself was overly confident that everyone would see that this is only a movie and that everyone, audience, crew and actors know what they are supposed to be doing and that combined knowledge is simply what a movie actually is...does that make sense?

i feel like coppola has made the same mistakes that i made in my movie, i hope that doesn't sound preposterous. there were some very nice moments - the plaster mask was indeed the best thing in the film.

my wife, juliet, felt like the whole film was a rewrite of "lost in translation" without good actors and without so much to lose, and what she takes away from the experience is that ms. coppola needs a new story.
i have to agree - juliet has a point - even down to words that cannot be heard...due to a noisy tokyo street or helicopter.

it is an interesting thing you bringing up ozu - he basically made the same story time and time again - but it is well documented that ozu was a transcendent artist and again coppola did have a couple of moments but they were relatively minor in the runtime and they transcended nothing much really for me.

perhaps if this same film were thirty minutes or less - i would be singing its praises along with you but as a feature it unfortunately is just an idea for a movie made by sofia coppola.

cheers friend on to the next one!

Re: My Notes on Somewhere

r s e — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 12:28:30 -0000

can't wait! thank you for sharing your thoughts...have a great holiday! oh and how do you feel about tran anh hung?

Re: Beatles vs Stones (Pre Sitar Edition)

LettertoJane — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 05:05:11 -0000

Ya I don't think I can do a vs post and include the Stones during those years as I don't think there is any comparison. Their output throughout that time and a bit afterwards is unparalleled, no matter what the medium. I can't think of any artist or group as prolific as The Rolling Stones.

Re: Beatles vs Stones (Pre Sitar Edition)

Jeff Singer — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 21:48:28 -0000

Let me know when you get to the Mick Taylor years, because that's when the Stones were at their best. Pre Mick Taylor I'd still go with the Stones, but it's closer. But with Mick Taylor the Stones were untouchable.

Re: How I Made an iPad Magazine

LettertoJane — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 21:39:46 -0000

Thank you very much Tommas. I first laid out what basic functions I wanted and built that in Xcode, and then made the mock ups in inDesign and then broke them up into different layers and images and put them into Xcode. That was the initial process, and then came the constant back and forth of tweak and adding or removing certain things, but the main way I did it was just the visual layouts in inDesign and Photoshop and the construction was in Xcode. A lot of what is used in the app is based off of Apple sample code.

Re: How I Made an iPad Magazine

Tommas — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 15:21:40 -0000

I am very inspired of your work. What do you use to develop it in. Indesign with woodwing? IOS SDK 4 or ???

Re: Happy Birthday Woody

Coldice4678 Aka JRameau — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:02:53 -0000

nice, happy birthday Woody, I love your films