Dixon Hill

Here is the music from the Vlog with voices removed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTxcmi7ICX8

Hmmm, it's noon in New Zealand, so "later today" could be any time in the next 12 hours....
Sometimes this place makes me ashamed to be a part of it. Why the sad face? Why is anyone here knocking the song before they've heard a note of it? Who cares who wrote it? Plan 9 wrote the Misty Mountains melody, and that's awesome!
Seriously people, wait until you've heard the thing before you start dissing it. This isn't the comments section of youtube, we are better than this!

They're talking about what it was like on the last day of shooting....
No matter how you feel about these movies when all is said and done, it's going to be really difficult to say goodbye next year. It'll probably be a very long time until Middle-Earth comes back.

not too shabby. second best hobbit poster so far, I'd say!

They're showing the new vlog. Some shots of the recording sessions so far.

Ye gods, there really is no pleasing you!

Even more changes! PJ has made the Dwarves French!

Ye gods, there really is no pleasing you!

You know, Shore/Metric is a catchy combination. I dig the singer's voice. I think I like the idea of a Shore/Sheeran tune. Why not?

Not bad at all.

Saw yesterday Anastasia (1956) as a sequel to Nicholas and Alexandra I had seen the day before.
A well deserved Oscar for Ingrid bergman.

Does anyone miss the opening main titles with sweeping melodies in old films? I surely miss them!
I don't know but it's an element that makes a film timeless for me.. That grand introduction waiting for the movie to start...

Super 8
Loved this even more the second time. Omnipresent lens flare "jokes" be damned. I am an unapologetic Abrams fan. Plus, there's this.

I was at a friend's house last night, and she has one of those TVs with a higher "scan" rate or whatever. The result is essentially the same as 48fps in film. An episode of Modern Family looks as though it were a home movie you shot standing behind Ed O'Neil with a handheld camera.
It's not a matter of "progress" or "getting used to it." It's a fundamental aesthetic problem. It looks too real. You might say that that's the point, to make things more immersive, and yet audiences for many decades have had no issue being immersed by traditional filming techniques. However paradoxical it is, one of the linchpins of immersion and cinema magic is to present things through that flat, dreamy lens we're all so familiar with. I don't think 48fps will last.

Naturally. One for each room.

Probably one of my favorite John Adams pieces...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyU-Zazmk0E
It's so infecting! (in the good way)

Thursday night, I felt compelled to conduct the first two discs of Two Towers ... again.
Amazing how short two hours can feel with a stick in your hand.
Eh ,,, wait

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d6gt5fBzjc

Ooo la la, that white one is nice looking.

I think Doug should get an Oscar or something for his patience, good humor, and general contributions to the film music community in both literary and message-board form.

KHAAAAAAAAAAAN!

I think Doug should get an Oscar or something for his patience, good humor, and general contributions to the film music community in both literary and message-board form.

I'd bet you wouldn't get anything but a hole in your bank account.

Hmph!