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 cultural rot corroded America’s sense of self so thin that she no longer cares? Or worse? Our future is bright and shining, just below the horizon. Whether it is rising or setting is up to us.

Posted by Qwertz at 11:50pm on 11 Sep | No Comments

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.

Posted by Qwertz at 9:22pm on 11 Sep | No Comments

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 “the human experience,” is straight out of Kuleshov, who was just applying Marx to film. It’s also wrong. I for one do not experience the world in a bouncy, jittery, spinning blur. Human physiology doesn’t work like that. Better to avoid the dishonesty altogether and put the camera on something. Cut it out with the handheld crap. We’re all getting dizzy.

Yours with love,
Qwertz

Posted by Qwertz at 9:04pm on 11 Sep | 1 Comment

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

~Chamberlain of Content

Posted by Chamberlain at 3:25am on 11 Sep | 1 Comment