Archive for September 11th, 2007

Requiem?

It has been six years and we are still losing the war. On this the first Tuesday 11 September since the last Tuesday 11 September, it is profoundly heart­breaking that, instead of iden­ti­fying and destroying our enemy, our government has instead shackled our ability to defend ourselves to the whim of collec­tivists, appeased and pandered to those who would destroy us, and visciously undercut the very prin­ciples for which we should be fighting. Can it really be that Americans have forgotten what it did to us? If it happened again, would we react the same way? Or has the post-​​​​terror [ . . . ]

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Watch the World Burn

Untitled Batman Begins Sequel went and got itself a title without telling me. A title and a (somewhat dull) teaser. The Dark Knight is due out on 18 July 2008. Mark your calendars. If you haven’t seen Batman Begins yet, you should look into new real estate. Your current abode under that huge rock isn’t helping you any. Also in sequels that got names recently, Untitled Fourth Indiana Jones Movie is now Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. I am cautiously intrigued.

On Nausea

Open letter to TV commercial directors of photog­raphy: Shaking the camera will not make what the ad is saying more true. It will only make your viewers seasick. This is espe­cially so on larger screens. No one wants to buy a product whose ad made them barf. It doesn’t make your subject more “real,” or “raw,” or “edgy,” or “relevant.” It’s also such a Commie thing to do. Cinéma vérité, Dogme 95, reality tele­vision, docu­mentary film­making — all are direct ideo­logical descen­dants of Soviet agitprop and dialec­tical mate­ri­alism. The idea that shaking the camera makes the subject more realistic, by analogue to [ . . . ]

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Announcing Astrolabe

The Chamberlain announces the completion of the Astrolabe. Please see the Clocks page. ~Chamberlain of Content