Web Animation
"I was watching a digital Norman Reedus piss into a toilet, and when the toilet presented me a new piss grenade to throw at ghosts during my next hiking trip, I thought the piss looked a bit dark and orange, which in reality would be a sign of dehydration. I wondered if the game darkens Norman Reedus' piss if he doesn't hydrate often enough. I then further wondered if there was any game developer on this planet who could leave me genuinely uncertain as to whether or not their game has a urine coloration algorithm besides Hideo Kojima. Perhaps that alone is what makes him worth celebrating, even if his new game is more weird and boring than getting cornered by a caffeinated anime fan..."
"Take the youtube channel Kurzgesagt, which uses similar [minimalism's] flatness, but is so carefully animated and packed with detail, it's effectively separated itself from this category [this genre of art]."
— Solar Sands, Why do "Corporate Art Styles" Feel Fake?
Web Original
Whedon, Joss (n.) — Ginger feminist Shakespeare-nerd creator of nobly canceled TV shows turned Marvel Movieverse auteur. In Avengers, directed action scenes that could have been made by literally anybody, but also reimagined the superhero team as a Helicarrier full of sarcastic misfit divas, making the film identifiably his own; no other director of a Marvel movie has pulled that trick off nearly as well."
—Alex Pappademas Grantland Dictionary: Summer Movies Edition
They didn’t mention Russo by name on air, but you could tell it was him by his New York accent and edgy use of insider terms.
Directors are often known for their trademarks. For example, Hitchcock had blondes and the Dolly Zoom, while Tarantino loves him some feet and POV trunk shots. Michael Bay’s trademark — the unadulterated HILARITY of gays.
What a bizarre, frightening vision Michael Bay has, where everyone exists in a world that doesn't rotate, trapped in eternal twilight and pinned in a sweltering heat wave, sweaty and oily with the sun always directly behind them no matter which way they face. Everyone runs around in silhouette because of the blazing sun perpetually stuck just over the horizon. Every time someone gets out of a car or a helicopter (which they do as often as possible), it's in a slow-motion "glory shot" with the camera angled up so we can see the sunset behind them, preferably with rotors chopping out a low "whoof-whoof-whoof" in the background. I have no idea how Michael gets anything done if his idea of a full shooting schedule is "shoot for one hour at sunrise, take a twelve-hour lunch, shoot for an hour at sundown.''
Anything Else is about young comedy writer Jerry Falk (Jason Biggs)... During this he has a tumultuous relationship with his girlfriend Amanda (Christina Ricci). I would have played “Stop if you’ve heard this before” but you would have stopped me at “Set in New York…” before even getting to Annie Hall, writers, intellectuals, actress, jazz score, relationships, evil women, etc. So okay, this is a modern “Greatest Hits” of Annie Hall.
Oh, hey, it's Wes Anderson using production money to create a human dollhouse again...Again, this movie has not one, but TWO framing devices. As if filming one of his precious dioramas wasn't enough, Anderson had to nestle it inside two OTHER dioramas.
— Drew Magary, "The Hater's Guide to the 2015 Oscars"
, "The Hater's Guide to the 2015 Oscars"Web Video
"Tim Burton. Right... Lots of eyeliner... Vertical stripes... Danny Elfman... Daddy issues... Blonde ingenue..."
Real Life
In Paris, he gave me the story Rubio y Morena to read. I didn't like it. So fix it, he said. He knew, of course, that there is no fixing someone else's story (or life), but he was curious to see what I would do. So I reversed backwards-running sentences, removed repetitions, eliminated half those adjectives and adverbs that he always insisted do their work in pairs. I was proud of the result. He was deeply irritated. "What you have done is remove my style, which is all that I have."
—Gore Vidal on Tennessee Williams, Palimpsest
"There are better writers than me out there, there are smarter writers, there are people who can plot better - there are all those kinds of things, but there’s nobody who can write a Neil Gaiman story like I can."
"I feel like I definitely get along with people roughly 45% more if they know all the words to 'You're So Vain' by Carly Simon."
—Taylor Swift on her oeuvre
