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This avant-garde anthology that presents and defines the New Weird -- a hip, stylistic fiction that evokes the gritty exuberance of pulp novels and dime-store comic books -- creates a new literature that is entirely unprecedented and utterly compelling. Assembling an array of talent, this collection includes contributions from visionaries Michael Moorcock and China Miéville, modern icon Clive Barker, and audacious new talents Hal Duncan, Jeffrey Ford, and Sarah Monette. An essential snapshot of a vibrant movement in popular fiction, this anthology also features critical writings from authors, theorists, and international editors as well as witty selections from online debates.
Author Biography
Ann VanderMeer is the award-winning publisher and editor of Buzzcity Press. Jeff VanderMeer is the coauthor of The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases and the founder and coeditor of the Ministry of Whimsy Press. He is a two-time winner of the World Fantasy Award and a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Hugo Award, and the International Horror Guild Award. They live in Tallahassee, Florida.
Table of Contents
|Introduction: The New Weird: "It's Alive?"
|p. ix
|The Luck in the Head
|p. 5
|In the Hills, the Cities
|p. 29
|Crossing into Cambodia
|p. 63
|The Braining of Mother Lamprey
|p. 81
|The Neglected Garden
|p. 109
|A Soft Voice Whispers Nothing
|p. 117
|p. 129
|p. 141
|The Lizard of Ooze
|p. 159
|Watson's Boy
|p. 175
|The Art of Dying
|p. 207
|At Reparata
|p. 225
|Letters from Tainaron
|p. 253
|The Ride of the Gabbleratchet
|p. 263
|The Gutter Sees the Light That Never Shines
|p. 287
|New Weird Discussions: The Creation of a Term
|p. 317
|"New Weird": I Think We're the Scene
|p. 333
|Tracking Phantoms
|p. 337
|Whose Words You Wear
|p. 345
|European Editor Perspectives on the New Weird
|p. 349
|Festival Lives
|p. 365
|Death in a Dirty Dhoti
|p. 365
|Cornflowers Beside the Unuttered
|p. 375
|All God's Chillun Got Wings
|p. 379
|p. 382
|Constable Chalch and the Ten Thousand Heroes
|p. 385
|Golden Lads All Must...
|p. 391
|Forfend the Heavens' Rending
|p. 398
|Recommended Reading
|p. 405
|Biographical Notes
|p. 409
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The original creator or narrator of this great epic is God Shiva himself. Lord Shiva created and narrated Ramayana, but did not write it. Once Lord Shiva and Ma Parvati were seated on mount Kailash. The Lord, as was his wont, was in deep meditation. Parvati was bored. Nothing interesting was happening on earth (prithvilok) and in heaven (swarglok) to warrant her attention. So when the Lord opened his eyes, Parvati requested him to tell her one story to kill time. After some initial hesitation, Shiva agreed. Parvati requested that the story should be long. Shiva put one condition that Parvati could not sleep till the end of the story. Parvati, in turn, put her own condition that the story should be interesting enough for her to keep awake for long hours.
So, Shiva started to create and narrate the story of Rama and Sita . The characters and incidents were entirely created by Shiva from his imagination. The story lasted for days on end and it was so interesting that Parvati never blinked. Parvati was so impressed by this mammoth tale that later she insisted that she wanted to see the story enacted live and for the Lord to create real characters on Prithvilok so that they can see them perform from their abode on mount Kailash. And so it was. Lord Shiva himself was so obsessed with his own story that he transferred the same in the mind of Muni Yagnavalkya and often listened to the same story from the Muni. The orator became the listener of his own epic. Yagnavalkya Muni repeated the story to worthy people down the line. Finally, Valmiki wrote the epic, titled it Ramayana, adding and omitting a few incidents here and there. Still later of course many people wrote Ramayana according to their own interpretations to suit the time they were written in.
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Honestly, I hate Christianity. In fact, I run from it. I can't stand the music. I despise the denominationalism. Christianity, to me, can be full of condemnation and hypocrites. Christians can be the first to throw a stone based on your outward appearance and actions. They're the first to tell you the "rules" of hanging with the cool kids. You know the ones with their noses higher than their foreheads. Welcome to the perfect club. "Don't forget to buy our tshirts." and "You're a sinner for not buying that CD." "Did you see me give in the offering last week? Because I didn't see you give anything." "Didn't see you at church last couple weeks, Backslider." They are better than you, and they know it and show it.
Ok, I could be over exaggerating but sometimes these statements can be worse. Believe me.
You know, Christians have good motives, they want to please God. Sometimes, though I wish they would love more. You know, love like Jesus. Because in the end it doesn't matter how I feel about Christianity and in humanities worst moments, Jesus takes away all the shame and welcomes them and me with open arms. We're all the same. We all fall short. We have all became better than our neighbor at one time or another in our heads. But the good news is: Jesus isn't carrying our sins anymore. He's not worried about what people are wearing or what their hair looks like. He's not worried about our past. He has dropped our sins at the cross and made His arms completely free to welcome you with open arms. Right now He is making a way. "I can't believe you did that?" or "You did what? Wow." is NEVER statements Jesus would say. He would NEVER point out our short comings but only bring us back to himself. He's not one to pick up something that He already took care of thousands of years ago. He actually loves those people who listen to Christian music, and He loves everyone in the different denominations.
So to all the klove fans and Catholics, and to all the other religions and denominations,
No matter how unworthy you feel or who you are, you will never be less loved and welcomed into the family of God then you were yesterday and tomorrow. Jesus is not scared of our sin or mistakes. You were not made to live in the guilt and condemnation of your past. Condemnation will keep you from running to the one person that can save you, while Jesus, the lover of your soul, is running straight toward you. Take a step and embrace it. Here we are in this battle between what our heads believe we deserve and what Jesus has already laid before us: grace. It's the story of the gospel. It's the highlight, the gift. Jesus came to redeem the sinner, the lonely, the dirty… so that person can become righteous, cleaned, adopted, free. Trust in Jesus. He will never leave you, divorce you, hurt you. You are not to hard to love. You are not to far away. He has good things in store for you. He loves you.
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my coworker just told me about a kid he knew in second grade that was really allergic to peanuts but one day during lunch he said that he couldn't take it anymore and wanted to know what reeses taste like so he pulled out his epipen, ate the reese cup then stabbed himself with the epipen and told the teacher to call the hospital and that kid is the most hardcore kid I've ever heard of I wanna be his friend
the dumbest thing is when parents say "this isnt how i raised you" like ?????? yes it really is you literally raised me and here i am
i remember one time this dude sent me a shirtless pic with the caption "lol maybe u can save this for a rainy day ;)"
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A fourth player has been confirmed as being released by the New Orleans Saints and it's quite a shocker.
DE Alex Brown confirmed via Twitter that the Saints have released him. The veteran was brought in last year after the Chicago Bears released him off their roster. Brown was drafted by the Bears out of Florida.
Brown played left defensive end and was expected to have a good year after the Saints made some key additions to their front defensive line. The move comes as a shock since most expected him to help lend a veteran hand to rookie DE Cameron Jordan.
It's also a surprise since DE Will Smith is expected to be suspended for either 2-4 games in the Star Caps case. Having Brown still on the line would have lessened the blow. Nothing negative has been reported about Brown in training camp.
Brown's wife Karimar and their children embraced New Orleans and were always present for games in the Superdome. They actually sat in out section and were always smiling and greeting people, with Karimar wearing her flashy custom made "Mrs. Brown" jersey.
I know Who Dat Nation wishes them the best of luck and is thankful for their contributions to the Saints organization and the fans. Karimar Brown stated on her Twitter, "gonna miss getting #crunk at the game" and "are very sad to leave". Eventhough this is L.S.U. Tiger country, we're sad to see these Gators go.
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Miley Cyrus' first kiss with Liam Hemsworth wasn't the most tender of moments. It unfolded on camera – in front of an entire crew – during The Last Song.
Not that the Australian actor was disappointed when it happened.
"We turned up on set the very first day and originally it was just a scene where we were running through the water and splashing and having fun," he said.
All in her first movie acting gig. No wonder Miley's quitting music.
"And halfway through the scene, the director yelled 'Kiss!' And we got thrown into a kiss on the boat," he recalled on Ryan Seacrest's KISS-FM radio show.
While it was "hard not to get close" to his costar while filming in Tybee Island, Ga., "It was good, 'cause, you know, [you] get the first one out of the way."
"We were filming together every day, and hanging out every day," Liam added. "We really didn't have any other friends down there, so we just hung with each other."
It also helped that Miley Cyrus' mother, Tish, whom Liam Hemsworth described as "the boss," gave a stamp of approval on the budding relationship early. Her dad?
Well, Billy Ray another pressing question for Hemsworth, which Seacrest relayed: "How serious is it gonna get?" Hemsworth's reply was simply: "It's pretty serious."
Recently, the couple stepped out for the first time as a couple on the red carpet for the Los Angeles premiere of The Last Song, which hits theaters on Wednesday.
Hemsworth said he's still getting used to the media spotlight – not to mention attention that comes with a high-profile girlfriend: "It's all very new to me," he said.
New and hot. Don't you think these two make a great couple? Much as we are often critical of Miley, it seems like Liam's been a good, grounding influence on her.
such a cute couple! hope it works out
as long as they love each other......... i guess its gonna be perfect
hi miley i love you verry much and i will sow happy if you read my letter you are my heart i love you and you look nice
hi miley i love you verry much and i will sow happy if you read my letter you are my heart i love you and you look nice
@Mr X--good comments,and great sentiments...As you know,I refrain from speakin' on her relationships,so it's good that someone who avidly supports her and isn't bashing can speak for her on such matters...Great job,dude!
So long as she follows her heart,I doubt she'll go wrong...I'm lookin' forward to seein' the 'Last Song' tonight!
WHOA! Gotta Go--Miley is on Ellen Degeneres--Talk to y'all later!
are u kidding me??? "do u think these two make a great couple?".... they luk as if they were made for each other.....they luk really happy together....and cute....and adorable....and, oh i can go on and on....anyway, i'm just happy that miley has found someone really great who cares abt her.....they have a serious relationship and everything looks gud....


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Date Prepared:October 14, 2013
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Under general supervision, the NASNTI Peer Mentor will oversee group mentoring sessions to the PASS Students at Seminole State College.
- Mentor must encourage Mentees to engage in conversations
- Mentor must encourage students to have a relationship with their advisor, professors and peers in ALL classes
- Mentor will have available a Survival Guide Handbook to every mentoring session
- Mentor must have each student sign in and out on the attendance log
- Mentor must notify NASNTI Student Development Specialist about early warning signs they see with their Mentees
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I hate the end of the summer. Doesn't matter that I'm out of school or living in Los Angeles where it's as eternally sunny as the set of Oklahoma!, but autumn means the death of whimsy and the rebirth of darkness. That's all! Sigh! I refuse to cope. As a tribute to the trillions of children marching back to homeroom this year, I'm toasting one of my favorite kiddy movies ever and the definitive Disney caper, Aladdin.
Surely there are plenty of you who prefer the giddiness of The Little Mermaid or the majesty of Beauty and the Beast, but for me, Aladdin is Walt's definitive latter-day exhibition of style and chutzpah. And it's effing funny. And almost every character is lovable and openly crazy. Without further ado, let's investigate the five key reasons why Aladdin may just be the best movie ever.
1. Aladdin is the finest Disney prince.
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Let's get the nitty-gritty out of the way first: Aladdin is a f*cking fine piece of animated ass. His aw-shucksy social skills are endearing, his street smarts are sexy, and he can also sing. He'll steal a loaf of bread for you and another loaf of bread for some poor kids. He's swarthy enough to pull off a shock-white robe. And he shows off his body rather unassumingly, which is kind. Though he's a self-proclaimed "street rat" who finds a magic lamp and uses the genie within (Robin Williams) to leverage a relationship with periwinkle nightwear queen Jasmine (of the glorious, pastry-colored kingdom of Agrabah), his sinister grin and fancy footwork compensate for his slight douchiness. Also: He was voiced by Scott Weinger, a.k.a. DJ's boyfriend Steve on Full House, and if that fact's not a seismic aphrodisiac to you, we'll never get along. This brings me to my next point…
2. Best vocal talents ever for a Disney flick?
And now, a list of the supreme Disney voice artists: George Sanders as Shere Khan in The Jungle Book. Peggy Lee as almost everyone in Lady and the Tramp. Bob Newhart and Eva Gabor in The Rescuers. The untouchable Betty Lou Gerson as Cruella de Vil in 101 Dalmatians. And from Aladdin, Lea Salonga as Jasmine's singing voice, Gilbert Gottfried as the squawking parrot Iago, and Robin Williams as the unforgettable genie. At 85 minutes, Aladdin is a remarkably swift flick, and I think that has something to do with the quality of its voice work, particularly Robin Williams' genie, who bursts with vigor and pop culture references (including a killer Jack Nicholson impersonation) while managing to exude a real soul. When a certain villain (whom we'll discuss momentarily) takes control of the genie and Robin Williams morosely mutters, "Sorry, kid," it is heartbreaking. And it transmits just as much personality as his two gigantic songs, "Friend Like Me" and "Prince Ali." It's rare that such a well-known performer's personality can translate so well to animation, and with Williams, it's just bizarre that it took until 1992 for the synergy to occur. It's fair to say it's the man's best performance to date, wouldn't you agree? Besides, of course, RV.


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Work on new India-Bangladesh railway link from 2015
The Indian and Bangladeshi governments will start work early next year on a new rail link to ease surface transport, officials said here Tuesday.
India will build a 15-km railway tracks linking Tripura's capital Agartala with Bangladesh's southeastern city of Akhaurah, an important railway junction connected to Chittagong port, resource-rich Sylhet and Dhaka.
An Indian delegation and a Bangladeshi team attended the third meeting of the Agartala-Akhaurah railway link project steering committee here Tuesday. They will Wednesday go for a field inspection on the Indian side.
"The work for new Agartala-Akhaurah railway link will start early next year. The DPR (detailed project report) will be finalised within a month or so," India's external affairs ministry's joint secretary Alok K.Sinha told reporters after the meeting.
Sinha, who led the Indian delegation, said: "... We will mutually sort out if any problem comes up... The fourth meeting of the project steering committee will be held in Dhaka in December."
The Bangladesh delegation was led by its railway ministry's joint secretary Sunil Chandra Pal.
Pal said: "With the setting up of the new railway connectivity between India and Bangladesh, people of two countries will benefit as they will come closer. Men and materials will be ferried very smoothly."
An agreement to implement the railway project was signed between India's former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Bangladesh Premier Sheikh Hasina during her visit to India in January 2010.
"Total cost of the proposed project is estimated at Rs.252 crore. The Indian Railway Construction Company (IRCON) would lay the new railway tracks on both sides of the border," a senior official (construction) of the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) told reporters.
Of the 15 km rail line, five km of tracks fall in the Indian territory.
The official said: "With the establishment of the new railway link, northeast India will be connected to the Chittagong international sea port by rail."
He said: "The proposed rail link will not only improve bilateral ties but also help in establishing connectivity with inaccessible areas in the northeast as journey from Kolkata to Tripura and other northeastern states via Bangladesh will save cost, time and distance travelled."
Surface connectivity is an important factor as India's northeastern states are surrounded by Bangladesh, Myanmar, Bhutan and China. The only land route to these states from within India is through Assam and West Bengal. But it passes through over 70 percent hilly terrain with steep roads and multiple hairpin bends.
India has for long been seeking land, sea and rail access through Bangladesh for ferrying goods and heavy machinery to its northeast from abroad and other parts of the country.
Agartala is 1,650 km from Kolkata and 2,637 km from New Delhi via Guwahati and West Bengal, whereas the distance between the Tripura capital and Kolkata through Bangladesh is just about 350 km.
The NFR is now laying tracks to connect Tripura's southern most border town Sabroom, 135 km south of here. From Sabroom, the Chittagong international sea port is just 72 km.
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... of clinical trials are testament to its value- BiDil improved survival rates among blacks who had suffered heart failure by 47 per cent. In white patients, the figure was only 15 per cent. While ... for treating heart failure, has proved three times more effective in black patients than it has for their white counterparts, its manufacturers claim. Due to go before the US Food and Drug ...http://www.scmp.com/article/504069/leap-heart-drug-blacks-rekindles-race-row
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The Nutcracker
Sunday December 5, 2010 / 3:00pmThe Nutcracker
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The view was obstructed by people in front and was difficult to see the show and enjoy . Not a pleasant experience .


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The World Bank's Integrity Vice Presidency (INT) investigates allegations of fraud, corruption, collusion, and coercion in Bank operations. Based on INT's investigations, the Bank may impose sanctions against firms and individuals, including Bank staff, found to have engaged in misconduct. The Bank publishes the names of sanctioned firms and individuals on its website.
The Bank is currently enhancing its investigation and sanctioning capabilities with proactive tools that further combat corruption through prevention and deterrence. One of these new tools is the Voluntary Disclosure Program (VDP).
Under the VDP, participants commit to (1) not engage in misconduct in the future; (2) disclose to the Bank the results of an internal investigation into past fraudulent, corrupt, collusive, or coercive acts in Bank-financed or supported projects or contracts; and (3) implement a robust internal compliance program which is monitored by a Bank-approved compliance monitor. Participants pay the costs associated with almost every step of the VDP process.
In exchange for their full cooperation, VDP participants avoid debarment for disclosed past misconduct, their identities are kept confidential, and they may continue to compete for Bank-supported projects. Similar programs successfully promote legal compliance in the European Union, Brazil, Japan, Pakistan, the United States, and other countries.
All firms, other entities, and individuals performing under Bank-financed or supported projects or contracts are eligible to participate in the VDP unless they are Bank staff or under active investigation by the Bank. Participants enter the VDP by agreeing to a non-negotiable, standardized set of Terms and Conditions.
A VDP participant conducts an internal investigation of all its Bank-project-related contracts that were signed or in effect in the five years prior to its entry into the VDP. The participant reports the results of its investigation to the Bank, and the Bank verifies the completeness and accuracy of that investigation. The Bank then shares selected disclosures with member countries, Bank management and staff, and other stakeholders through reports carefully redacted to keep the VDP participant's identity confidential.
A Bank-approved compliance monitor monitors a participant's internal compliance program for three years and reports annually to both the participant and the Bank. The Bank will debar, for a period of ten years, any participant that continues to engage in misconduct or otherwise materially violates the VDP Terms & Conditions.
For member countries, the VDP helps ensure proper use of Bank and donor funds and facilitates meaningful enforcement action by national authorities based on VDP participant disclosures.
For firms, entities, or individuals performing under Bank-financed or supported projects or contracts, the VDP provides incentives to stop corrupt behavior and become compliant with Bank rules and guidelines. In the long term, this will promote a business environment characterized by merit-based competition.
For the Bank, the VDP is an efficient and very cost-effective method of combating corruption. Information disclosed by one participant can provide high-quality evidence of the nature, forms, and patterns of corruption in Bank projects, as well as the identities of corrupt actors. Lessons learned from VDP disclosures are mainstreamed into Bank policies and operations. Participants also alert the Bank to ongoing or planned corrupt acts in real-time, enabling the Bank to safeguard projects throughout their development and implementation.


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Classy Jackie
High society is a social realm filled with expectations, refinement, tradition, and composure. Luckily Jackie is a natural with all of these things and looks every bit the studied gentlewoman in her fancy hat and skirt suit! Don't for an instant imagine that this spouting of champagne is anything less than ladylike, it is merely a customary greeting spray!


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Having looked at Roy's Goldfinch image, I was wondering what the current superzoom compact and bridge camera market is like... I would like something that costs no more than a few hindered pounds and yet which I could use for distant or small subjects when I am in the car or otherwise without my normal equipment. Image quality, noise suppression and image stabilisation are key to me and I am not wedded to any particular brand. What do you all suggest? Do you know of any high-quality review material in this area?
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I only use Superzooms, John, so I'm always checking what the latest improvements are to sensors etc. at the moment (and In my humble opinion) the two best Superzooms are the Canon SX40HS and the Panasonic FZ150; both would be more than adequate for your needs. Links to reviews here: http://www.photograp...sx40_hs_review/ http://www.photograp...c_fz150_review/ Look at the Sample Gallery for each, to see the full ISO range of images You might want to wait a few weeks, as Panasonic usually announce a few new cameras later this month.
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This might interest you, John; it's not released yet, but will be later in the year. Probably the most useful upgrades are the constant f2.8 aperture and the higher resolution EVF.http://www.dpreview.com/previews/panasonic-lumix-dmc-fz200/
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Your Wednesday Links: Absolutely Nothing About Star Wars
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IndieWire: How Jeremy Saulnier Went From Corporate Videos to Making 'Blue Ruin'
FiveThirtyEight: Statistical Breakdown of Every Blockbuster Since Jaws - The new Nate Silver news site that emphasizes statistical stories also recently had great pieces on the IMDb's worst-rated film and how Mean Girls has impacted our vocabulary.
Filmmaker Mag: "he's frustrated by what he seems to perceive as the unthinking tyranny of editing" - There might be something to this, but the way it is being reported makes it sound colossally stupid. Film grammar to me is rooted in biological facts of how we perceive information, but, like spoken language, it is also a constantly evolving set of arbitrary structures. If you throw out those signposts, you end up sounding like Nell.
Advice to Writers: Billy Wilder's Rules for Screenwriters
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Under The Skin and the Problem with the Adjective "Kubrickian"
Hitfix: Has life in the age of casual magic made moviegoers numb to the amazing? - This essay occasioned much discussion in the filmmakersphere. From what I hear, the new Godzilla will be an answer to the casual magic approach. It will be interesting to see how audiences respond to the Jaws approach of teasing and delaying the payoff.
Playwright Howard Lindsay (Arsenic and Old Lace, State of the Union) advised taking the great lines from secondary characters and giving them to the lead. Keep the hero the hero and the star the star.
What are Martin Scorsese's favorite films?
Your Wednesday Links: Under the Scorsese Edition
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Guardian: How Scarlett Johansson helped me challenge disfigurement stigma - I'm still turning over how I feel about Under the Skin. Some of these anti-narrative films I like, and some, like this one, strike me as indulgent and ponderous. But I can't figure out where the line is. It might just relate to what I had for lunch that day.
Dave Chen Video Essay: Raid Director Gareth Evans' Top 5 Fight Scenes
AICN: Steven Soderbergh Takes A Cleaver To Michael Cimino With HEAVEN'S GATE: THE BUTCHER'S CUT! - And also on the subject of editing, be sure to read No Film School's summary of Thelma Schoonmaker's Tribeca Film Fest lecture on the editing of Raging Bull
Deadline: Time Warner Cable To Netflix: "Here Are The Facts" About Comcast Merger - I know my bias is against the cable companies. But in the interest of fairness, here is their argument. I trust reader judgement to see any bologna.
Deadline's Mike Fleming: Bravo Joss Whedon! For Online Launch Of Tribeca Pic - This is basically a distribution model Louis C.K. already showed works several years ago. But still, between Dr. Horrible, Much Ado and now this, Whedon is definitely one of the most forward-looking filmmakers out there, and deserves some plaudits as a real trail-blazer.
Cinema Blend: The Wolf Of Wall Street Honest Trailer Is Effing Brilliant - And also on the Scorsese tip, Joshua Brunsting argues (persuasively) that Bringing Out The Dead deserves a full Criterion treatment.
Mashable: 8k televisions are real, and they're spectacular - Once again, movie theaters are going to have to step up their game.
LA Times: How Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter rewrote Oscar campaigning
Story is about more than plot.
Avid Error of the Day: Real-time effects not displaying on monitor
When I encounter an odd error message and its solution, I make a note. This is one of those notes. I want solutions to turn up better in searches for other Avid users (and myself). As with all error posts on the site, the casual reader can just skip ahead to other less-technical content.
This is a simple one (maybe even a forehead-slapper), but I think worth throwing out there.
I had dropped real-time mask and timecode effects over a whole sequence and they didn't appear to be effecting the footage in Source/Record Mode, only Effect Mode. What happened? I had toggled off the "Render On-the-Fly" option.
Solution, toggle it back on. It's something that's set on by default, so I'd never taken notice of it. Turn it off, though, and you will take notice.
Have a similar story of another simple but hard-to-know Avid option getting accidentally toggled? Leave a comment below.
Your Wednesday Links: The Real Box Office Figures
Most of these links come from the @makingthemovie Twitter stream. If you'd like to see them as they come, follow us on Twitter.
Deadline data on how much profit blockbuster films ACTUALLY make - In honor of the NCAA Basketball Tourney, Deadline ran a mock bracket between 2013 blockbusters. The data they used is closer to what studios see, and a rare peek into more realistic profitability numbers than the "dumb" box office numbers that news outlets put out each week. I really wish there was a lot more reporting around these numbers, not just silly brackets.
What these numbers do omit is a discussion of the risk and how it is distributed across a studio's slate. Disney had an unexpectedly big hit with Frozen, but they also had some recent celebrated misses with Lone Ranger and John Carter. (Or were they misses? My guess is those movies made back quite a bit of the upfront losses in ancillary revenue. Can't know without seeing the numbers...)
BuzzFeed: How many bad movies have you seen? - A far-from-comprehensive but still broadly inclusive list of cult crappy cinema.
538 crunches the numbers on female characters in Hollywood films - Far-from-rigorous but still interesting way to point out Hollywood's double-standard. Indies who are passionate about this topic should be making female-centric films and looking to capture the money that is being left on the table.
Cinescopophilia: The Amazingly Tiny one-cam Camera That Shot Scarlett Johansson in Under the Skin - Also related to that film, Seth Madej's essay "Scarlett Johansson's Boob Problem"
Kottke.org: Photos taken on the set of 2001: A Space Odyssey
Marlon Brando / Don Corleone before and after photo. - One of the great movie makeups.
Digital Rebellion: CinePlay aims to be alternative to QuickTime Pro
Film Comment Interview: Longtime Scorsese collaborator, editor Thelma Schoonmaker
Don't be afraid to test your films with tough critics. Don't be afraid to make changes that you believe will improve the film, even if other people suggest them.
All About Movie Test Screenings (with Free Questionnaire Download!)
Billy Wilder on audiences: "Individually, they're idiots. Collectively, they're a genius."
I'm not sure when Hollywood began running test screenings, but I know it goes way back. In 1942, two preview screenings of The Magnificent Ambersons (written and directed by Orson Welles) went over like wet blankets and RKO, the studio, lopped 40 minutes off and re-shot the ending. Likewise, the recent World War Z had a third act that tested poorly and was completely re-written and re-shot. One might conclude not much has changed.
Criticisms aside, there is a scientific method to modern test screenings, which are more often aimed at figuring out how to market the film than how to re-edit it. The two main companies that make a business of running audience-recruitment screenings -- and make no mistake, sample quality is more important than sample size -- are NRG (a division of Nielsen, expensive) and MPG (geared toward indies).
What is the standard format for a test screening?
Rent a theater, show an audience a cut, have them fill out a questionnaire.
Depending on what you want to test, you gather an appropriate audience. If you want to see how the movie plays among suburban soccer moms, you need to get out to the soccer fields and offer free orange wedges.
You can get good and useful opinions from friends and family, but it is hard to know how much bias they bring. You definitely know they bring bias. Sometimes, they over-compensate by hating on your movie much more than the general public. This is a very real phenomenon. The screening companies even try to screen out anyone who works in the film industry. (Although the recruiters they employ don't try too hard, since they are paid based on who shows up to the screenings.)
Any way, I hope you don't need a lot of convincing to imagine that the best test screening audience is one that A) Doesn't know the filmmakers; B) is not a wanna-be filmmaker; C) approximates more or less the type of audience that the actual marketing for the film will pull in.
That last reason is why you'll see screenings advertised as "GENRE starring ACTOR A and ACTOR B about BASIC PLOT DESCRIPTION" -- e.g. A thriller starring Arnold Schwartzenegger and Zach Galifinakis about a father and son trapped in an avalanche.
Free Questionnaire Template
While the screening companies are tight-lipped about their methodology, I've come across a sample questionnaire that looks very similar to ones I've seen at screenings.
You will have to customize it, obviously, to your film and what you'd like to know. John August's favorite test screening question is, "Given a pair of magical scissors, is there anything you'd snip out?"
What are the top two boxes?
The top two boxes are the two "Yes" answers to "Would you recommend this movie to your friends?" I have heard that the rule of thumb is that movie is ready to release when it scores 80 or more on the top two boxes, meaning 80%+ of the audience would recommend it. Word of mouth is still the holy grail for movie marketing.
If your film doesn't manage to score what you wanted with your target audience, then maybe it's time to rethink the film -- or the target audience.
What are the limits of audience testing?
"What is wrong with audience research? It doesn't work. If it worked, there would be no flops." - David Mamet
Audience testing is a guide, but the ultimate artistic decisions to hear or ignore it will determine whether it mauls a masterpiece (as in the supposed case of Magnificent Ambersons) or whether it rescues a turkey (as in the supposed case of World War Z).
Happy screenings!
'Movie theater' image by Bonita Sarita
Fully-Conscious Filmmaking: An Interview with Ethan Shaftel
Ethan Shaftel is director, writer and editor who has worked with artists like Beyoncé and John Legend. He also makes visually-arresting, mind-bending science fiction films, the latest of which is the short "Flesh Computer". Check out the trailer:
I had a chance to speak with Ethan via email about how he pulled off the complex digital and practical effects you see above. He also talked about recruiting top talent on a low budget and, oh yeah, the philosophy of consciousness. Lots of great info for fellow filmmakers. Enjoy...
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Making the Movie: Where did the idea for "Flesh Computer" come from?
Ethan Shaftel: I had been mulling over two very different concepts for quite some time before I connected them and realized I had the makings for a really cool short.
There was a time when I had fruit flies living in all my potted plants. Since I work at home, I would kill literally dozens of flies every day just by clapping them with my hands and casually brushing their carcasses into the trash. They are so small it didn't even seem gross, I wasn't even aware of "blood and guts" spilling out onto my hands. I couldn't feel their bodies being destroyed. And at some point I realized that my actions would be horrific if the flies were even just a little bit bigger -- if they were puppies, or even small birds, crushing one in my hands would be absolutely disgusting and upsetting.
And the reaction of the creature itself -- the wriggling, the frightened cries, the accelerated heartbeat and struggle to escape -- would make it very clear that it's own death is not something it regards ambivalently. And this is regardless of the mechanism that controls those reactions -- as consciousness is not a given even if the creature flees pain and is driven to survive. The question of how much awareness the fly might have of it's own destruction leads one to think about the fly's awareness of it's own existence. Which is the connection with the next idea that lead to the short as a whole...
I have long pondered the relationship we have with our electronic belongings, imagining a future where one would care about the welfare of your computer in a much more visceral way, as someone might view the safety of her pet or even her child. So I imagined a parent figure who cares for a computer that is as helpless and alive as a small child or an animal.
Again, the logical next thought is about the awareness or consciousness of the computer itself. The main connection between both these stories is not so much the quality of the consciousness of the various creatures, but just the vast power differential that exists between different pairs of beings: the fly exists as an unimaginably tiny and insignificant thing to the man who carelessly swats it. To a lesser extent, that differential is also found in the various pairs of Owner/Pet, or Parent/Child. The greater of the pair understands the lesser completely, while simultaneously assuming that the lesser has no sense of the richness of existence. Other relationships with power differences presented as contrasts in "Flesh Computer" include the Bully vs the Victim, the Child vs. the Toy, and even the Conscious (in the sense of being awake) vs. the Unconscious -- the person who is simply asleep, and thus unaware and defenseless.
Ultimately "Flesh Computer" is about the concept that everything has a point of view, and in some way everything is conscious. And since that question is so big and so scary and could lead us in so many directions, I decided that the best way to tie together the story of a computer and its caretaker with the story of a fly's death was to get a sense of the "state of the art" in the philosophy of consciousness by weaving in an interview with a philosopher working on the cutting edge.
How long was pre-production vs. the shoot vs. post-production?
Pre-production -- including writing the script from a set of loose notes -- took three months. Production was four days, not counting a couple pickup shots a little later. Post was spread over nine months. Of course, when there is considerable CG work, the distinction between post and production is less clear. The plates for the fly sequence were shot in less than half a day, but that animation work took several months.
What were the challenges in each of these chapters of the process?
Your Wednesday Links: Wrap on Ramis
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RIP Harold Ramis - As @NotoriousJLD pointed out: "In an 8-year span beginning at age 34, Harold Ramis created Animal House, Meatballs, Caddyshack, Stripes, Ghostbusters and Back to School."
Filmmaker Mag: Making a film is like having a child. - The responsibilities continue after birth...
Tim Berners Lee in WaPo, Josh Gans in Digitopoly - Some different perspectives on the recent Comcast/Netflix blow to net neutrality.
Q. Will this Comcast/Netflix deal harm indie filmmakers? A. Time will tell. Not a very conclusive answer, but accurate.
Q. Why did it happen? A. Looks to me like Netflix read the tea leaves, found net neutrality was going to die a slow death and decided to get a lock in an early sweetheart deal. In return, Comcast has bought out one of the biggest opponents to the merger with Time/Warner Cable. Welcome to the brave new world of pay-for-cable-play.
Movie Morlocks: Jean Renoir's Less Grand Illusion
Daily Beast: An Oscar Voter Spills Secrets on Woodygate, Wolfgate, and Awards Scandals
Vanity Fair: The Most In-Demand Composer in Hollywood Shares Stories About His Latest Collaborators
John August: Scanning scripts on your iPhone with Weekend Read + Prizmo
Steven Soderbergh on Joseph Von Sternberg
SlashFilm: Watch Extensive 'A Field in England' Making-Of Footage
A new goal for myself: make more eye contact with performers and less with screen/paper. #recording
-Audio Craftsman @RandyCoppinger
Only Connect: An Interview with Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza - The trailer for his Kickstarter success, Know How, a musical by and starring foster care youth, is now online.
Everything You Wanted To Know About Reel Breaks - Added more information on reel length standards and rules for where to split reels.
Your Wednesday Links: Guns in Theaters Edition
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FilmDrunk: Follow-up: The Man Who Killed Another Man For Texting During Previews Before Lone Survivor - This is a sad story. Surprised it is not getting more attention given that other "violence and the media" stories saturate the news.
LATimes: Richard Linklater's 12-year project Boyhood to premiere at Sundance - Super excited about this film. What an epic project!
BuzzFeed: 25 Things You Didn't Know About Fight Club - Well, I knew some of them.
Forbes: Negotiating Dynamic Changes Between Netflix and the Studios - You heard it here first, of course.
No Film School: How to Set a Living Room on Fire with VFX in 4K
The Dissolve: The Simpsons pay an inspired tribute to Hayao Miyazaki
Top Rated Films by Location They Were Shot - Created by a Reddit user using IMDb data
Martin Scorsese's open letter to his daughter about the future of cinema
"Bored by the scene you're writing? Cut away. Maybe cut the whole scene. Get out of there, man." -@jonspaihts
Free Film Leader Download - made some changes to the files, now improved for v2
Avid Error of the Day: AvidBinIndexer works locally but not on external Unity drive
When I encounter an odd software error and its solution, I make a note. This is one of those notes. I want solutions to turn up better in searches for other Avid users (and myself). As with all error posts on the site, the casual reader can just skip ahead to other less-technical content.
Running MediaComposer 7.0.2 with a fiber Unity on MacOS 10.7.5. The project was originally set up locally and Avid Search worked fine, finding lots of sound effects by name across multiple bins. Once we moved the project to a Unity drive, the search no longer worked, even after deleting the SearchData folder to force a rebuild. Even after changing Find > Settings tab > Search Data Folder to "Local Default" from "Default" (the Project Folder).
I tried all kinds of things, including re-importing the sound effects manually in various projects. Search would find sequences and audio mixdowns but it just wouldn't find the video or audio media, even if the clips were moved into fresh bins.
The project was at the root level of the Unity workspace. Moving it up another folder level made the search work. Simple and Avid recommended, no hacky-panky. Thanks to my friend JCB for helping figure this out. (more…)
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Reel Breaks
A holdover from the days where films were shipped as individual reels of film, modern editors still break feature films down into 10-20 minute sequences called "reels".
These reels are a convenient length to send to the sound editing team, the composer, the colorist, etc. This is called in the biz "turning over a reel" or "turnover".
The editor I'm currently working with cuts individual scenes as dailies come in, quickly grouping them together into short sequences. From 87 scenes, he ended up with 21 groups. When those were all done, the groups were stitched into the first assembly.
Traditionally this "editor's cut" would then be shown to the director. This typically will make the director suicidal, as they must confront the movie that was shot, not the perfect vision imagined in their head.
Another way to go is to break the assembly into reels immediately, and go through these one-by-one with the director, which will help keep the director from being overwhelmed. The editor can do quick notes passes on each of the reels. Only then is a longplay assembly made. This way, the first time the director sees a whole cut, there will be no rude surprises.
At whatever point in the process you decide to "break" the film into reels, there are some things to keep in mind...
- Maximum length of reel for 35mm 4-perf will depend on the studio specs. The longest my sources have seen was just under 2100 feet (that's 23 minutes, 20 seconds according to the Panavision footage calculator). UPDATE: According to the book Dialogue Editing for Motion Pictures, 2nd Ed., the limit is 2050 feet.
- To find the break, add 2000 feet to the previous break and work down, looking for a picture cut that is a good break point. (Most reels lose length during the editing process. See "rebalancing" below for what to do if they get too long, or short enough to combine.)
- Having as few reels as possible makes the film less costly to deliver down the road. This thread says the industry average is around 1800 feet per reel.
- Look for a place where there is a clean sound break, preferably between scenes. Sometimes you'll need to break in the middle of a scene. If so, look for where the camera reverses angle completely, which will hide any color shifts between film reels. Always choose to break between shots that can be rolled out a little longer.
- Also, according to Dialogue Editing for Motion Pictures, "Avoid splitting within a musical cue or a place likely to have one later. ... Don't allow any significant sound within the first second of a new reel. This sound will fall within the changeover and could cause trouble."
- The first reel should be shorter to leave room for credits and studio titles. Absent any specific direction, 1500 feet is the rule of thumb -- or so I've been told.
- You will also want to leave 800 - 1000 feet on the last reel for the end crawl and any "main on ends" -- main credits sequences that are increasingly placed at the end of films.
- If questions remain, ask an experienced sound editor.
- Leader is added to head and tail of each reel. The 8 second (12 foot) Academy Leader has been superseded by the longer SMPTE Universal Leader, but in my experience people are using only the last 8 seconds of SMPTE Universal to match the timing of the Academy Leader. SMPTE Universal Tail Leader is 6 seconds, and again my experience is people extend this another 2 seconds to make it 8 seconds. Learn more and grab a free download in this post.
- Each reel starts with the hour of the reel. Reel 1 starts at 01:00:00:00, Reel 2 starts at 02:00:00:00, Reel 3 starts at 03:00:00:00 etc. As of Avid MC5, this setting is accessed by right-clicking on the timeline and selecting "Sequence report..." You will then click "Apply changes" and, unintuitively, "Cancel".
- The edgecode (EC) starts at 0+00 for all reels.
- While cutting, some reels may get too long or too short and the film will need to be "rebalanced."
- The same rules for finding new reel breaks apply.
- Most films end up being 6 or 7 reels long. Shorter films can do it in five.
- Fun fact: Early screenplays were written in sequences meant to correspond to reels. In those days a "feature" was a movie with four or more reels, while "shorts" were anything from a "two-reel comedy" to a single "newsreel".
- To get a change list (from Avid FilmScribe, at least) to play nice after a rebalance, you may have to create versions of the old sequences which match the same cutting point. Sound auto-conforms then hand-conforms using a hand-written change note with what is added or subtracted from the head and the tail of the reel.
Anything to add? Still something you want to know? Leave a comment below.
[Special thanks to AE reader MT for the fact check.]


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A lifelong White Sox fan, Hawks president John McDonough is what South Siders need
BY DAN McGRATH September 1, 2012 6:48PM
Blackhawks president John McDonough would help the White Sox get rid of their second-banana tag in Chicago. | Larry Kane~For Sun-Times media
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The thought occurred to me Monday evening as Ryan Braun's monster home run was soaring out of Wrigley Field and heading up Kenmore Avenue as if it were late for a date.
It was reinforced when old friend Aramis Ramirez's laser-beam line drive scattered the few remaining loyalists in the left-field bleachers, and it became a sure thing after Corey Hart followed with a blast to the top row of the seats in left-center:
Man, these Cubs are going to be bad for a while.
Alex Hinshaw, the unfortunate purveyor of those three consecutive gopher balls, was gone the next day, but the act of cutting him was symbolic. Trial and error — a lot of it — will be the Cubs' on-field M.O. for the foreseeable future as they grope their way toward becoming competitive.
They can't even rely on their charming old ballpark to serve as an alternative to good baseball. It's rather disingenuous to extol the virtues of Wrigley Field at the same time that you've declared it necessary to gut the place.
Public money to help fund the renovation? Good luck with that. The county is broke, the state is broker and the city's mayor is mad at your daddy for his strident political leanings.
It's almost like a perfect storm of bad for the Cubs. We are grateful, Lord, for Pat Hughes and Bob Brenly.
The White Sox, meanwhile, hit a rough patch in Baltimore, but they reached September in first place in their division, and you don't need many fingers to count how often that happens in Chicago.
Does anybody care? A recent three-game series with the New York Yankees was both a showdown between first-place teams and the storied Bombers' only appearance in Chicago this season. Total attendance: 78,127, with nothing close to a sellout.
Equally telling was a scheduling quirk that had the Cubs and Sox at home simultaneously last weekend. The Cubs won two of three from the fifth-place Colorado Rockies, who are comparably sorry, and averaged 32,966 fans each day. Coming off that invigorating sweep of the Yankees, the Sox made it six wins in a row by taking three from the Seattle Mariners, but the per-game average was 25,255 — or 7,711 fewer than the Cubs drew for a C-list attraction over the same three days.
There is no pat answer for the Sox' perennial second-banana status, but with the Cubs looking uncommonly vulnerable, now is the time for Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf to address it. With a decisive, uncharacteristically bold move, he might even reverse it.
The Sox should hire John McDonough away from the Blackhawks. Leave baseball operations in place — Ken Williams, Rick Hahn, Buddy Bell, Robin Ventura — and put McDonough in charge of everything else they do. He's a Chicago guy who gets how it goes here.
The move might be a pipe dream, given McDonough's staunch loyalty to Hawks chairman Rocky Wirtz, but if the Sox are truly concerned with putting fannies in the seats while raising their flat-line profile in a competitive marketplace, McDonough has a track record for doing both.
The confluence of Harry Caray, WGN's reach as a superstation and a magical 1984 season put the Cubs on the path to where they are today, but McDonough was their marketing visionary. The Cubs drew 2 million or more fans in 21 of his 24 seasons there, despite having a losing record in 17 of those seasons.
Some of his moves to revive the moribund Hawks were no-brainers — home games on television, an olive branch to exiled legends Bobby Hull, Stan Mikita and Tony Esposito, rapprochement with popular broadcaster Pat Foley. Other new-age innovations transformed a wheezy, battered jalopy of a franchise into a sleek, smooth-running Ferrari.
Winning the Stanley Cup helped, obviously, but attendance records were falling and the sellout streak began a year before the Hawks hoisted it. The streak continues two years after their million-person downtown bash.
A sharp promoter — a John McDonough, say — would banish the inferiority complex that seems to permeate the Sox' business plan: "We're not the Cubs, but …" Hawk Harrelson fosters that us-against-the-world mentality with his goofy diatribes against those evil umpires out to get "us." Ed Farmer, too — he brings no joy and little juice to the radio booth.
The Cubs don't want Peoria? Maybe McDonough puts a Sox affiliate there and joins the Cubs-Cardinals battle for Downstate allegiance. He reroutes some of the tourist buses from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, by promising a stimulating, fan-friendly experience at the Cell, just as he has done at the United Center with the Hawks.
He sells the Sox for what they are, not for what they wish they were.
McDonough has worked eye-catching miracles with the Hawks, and his work there will seem unfinished until they win another Cup. But hockey is hockey, a niche sport on the brink of being torn up by more labor strife.
It's baseball that stirs Chicago's soul. McDonough is not just a baseball guy; he's a Sox fan, lifelong. If he can quote you Floyd Robinson's career batting statistics, he can probably sell you a ticket and put your fanny in a seat.


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