Musings
Written by The Fish
(Fair warning, potential for ranting in the following post.)
Like the rest of America, I have been incredibly frustrated with the increasingly partisan tactics and squabbles in the federal government. When one party's stubborn ideological stance creates a crisis in our govenment serious enough that the media is predicting a market crash in response, we all see that there is a problem.
Where most observers might just stop at "all our representatives are being jackasses," (which I agree with wholeheartedly) to explain the trends that brought us all to this era of blockheaded politicians, it's also possible that advances in communication technology make this behavior inevitable.
Musings
Written by The Fish
Often, when speaking with clients or potential clients, it comes up that I am inherently a luddite. You see, though I advise on the use of modern tech, and sell services of modern connectivity, I actually have not drunk the koolaid of modern technology. I often wonder at the fact that, if the amazing modern interconnectivity that technology has brought us is so revolutionary, why are we a slave to our apps, as opposed to them serving us.
Musings
Written by The Fish
Somehow I have managed to stumble lately across some of the "wettest" movies ever made lately. I think that my netflix queue conspired to find the splatteriffic movies produced in 2009, and shoot them my way back to back. Add to that a few programs that I was not expecting to work a volcano of blood into the plot, and it seems like an epidemic of viscera-splattered lenses.
Now, If you are not familiar with what I'm referring to when I use the term "wet," you can get the general gist follows the above statements; over the top blood and gore splatter that result from even the slightest violence.
Musings
Written by The Fish
So, I find myself often noting the odd ways which the past repeats itself. You may have noticed a previous post discussing a modern media trend mirroring a 50's motif of scary science.
So, as an armchair media critic, I feel the need to put down on the record an observation I had today of another very retro 50's media technique. Have you noticed that everything is being released in 3D lately? Not just polarized image movies, they're also airing old-school blue/red separations on television for a 3D experience at home. It never really struck me before... I just chalked it up to the ease of producing a 3D separation of a CG film, which already exists a model with depth. But for some reason today it struck me that the exact same reason that 3D hit it big in the 50's is fueling the modern trend.
Musings
Written by The Fish
One of the purposes of this blog is to be a repository for those fragments and memes that bounce around in my skull long enough to form into a coherent thought and communication. Sometimes they tumble and recombine for years before they would be palatable for the general public.
A large portion of the concepts that I catalogued in some of my earliest journaling attempts, put down on paper long ago and now quite vanished from the world, revolve around philosophical or spiritual musings of a pretty outlandish nature. The type of stuff that may come up in rambling drunken conversations, but never really goes very far with those well-learned on the subjects or who make a career of them.
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