Film critic Tony Zhou looks at the point during the storytelling where Characters make choices which they cannot take back. The question being: how do you show this visually? Here’s one solution from Snowpiercer. Warning — SPOILS ENTIRE FILM:
Ex Machina [trailer]
•November 2, 2014 • Leave a CommentWritten and directed by Alex Garland (28 Days Later, Sunshine)
NaNoWriMo: National Novel Writing Month [Nov 1-30] — Write a Novel in a Month! Think You Can?
•November 1, 2014 • Leave a CommentThe world needs your novel! NaNoWriMo is an annual (November) novel writing project that brings together professional and amateur writers from all over the world:
I have signed up, so I suppose you will be seeing a few encouraging words and writing tips on here. Good luck to anyone attempting this creative feat of writing, and, focus, that I seem to have trouble with at times. Errr… (Not a good start, Fin) TODAY, I WRITE!!!
“And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.”
~ William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
I can’t say I like the layout of their website very much, but once I signed up and specified my location, I was surprised to find that there will be weekly meetings at a cafe in town, writing workshops and a few overnight writing sessions throughout the month. Not bad. I didn’t expect this would be that communicative. Wish me well Kurt:
I am just going to leave this here as a reminder to myself:
“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet,
then you must write it.” ~ Toni Morrison
Saving the World, and Conversations: Halloween TEXTS from SUPER HEROES
•October 31, 2014 • Leave a Comment
TextsFromSuperheroes is run by internet comedian Diana McCallum and stand-up comedian Andrew Ivimey.
The Expressionless
•October 31, 2014 • Leave a CommentIn June of 1972, a women appeared in Cedar Senai Hospital in nothing but a white, blood-covered gown. Now this, in itself, should not be too surprising as people often have accidents and go to their nearest hospital for medical attention, but there were two things that caused people who saw her to gasp and flee in terror.
The first being that she wasn’t exactly, normal looking. She resembled something close to a mannequin, but had the dexterity and fluidity of a normal human being. Her face, was as flawless as a mannequins, devoid of eyebrows and smeared in make-up.
From the moment she stepped through the entrance to when she was taken to a hospital room and cleaned up, being prepped for sedation, she was completely calm, expressionless and motionless.
The doctors thought it best to restrain her until the authorities could arrive and identify her. She did not protest. The doctors were unable to get any kind of response from the woman and most staff members felt too uncomfortable to look directly at her for more than a few seconds.
But the second the staff tried to sedate her, she fought back with extreme force. Two staff members had to hold her down as her body rose up on the bed with that same blank expression.
She turned her emotionless eyes towards the male doctor and did something unusual; she smiled.
As she did, the female doctor screamed and let go out of shock. In the woman’s mouth were not human teeth, but long, sharp spikes. Too long for her mouth to close fully without causing any damage.
The male doctor stared back at her for a moment before asking; “What in the hell are you?” She cracked her neck down to her shoulder to observe him, still smiling.
There was a long pause; the security had been alerted and could be heard coming down the hallway.
The woman leaned closer and whispered in the doctor’s ear; “I…am…God.” He went into shock and she quickly disappeared.
The female doctor named her, “The Expressionless.”
There was never a sighting of her again.
Can You Survive? A Deadly Halloween Choose Your Own Adventure!
•October 30, 2014 • Leave a CommentThis is fun, really well made and features some of the funniest final last words, ever:
Felicia Day / Michelle Glavan / GloZell / Sparky Sweets / Tay Zonday / FouseyTube / Steve Zaragoza
A party guest has disturbed the spirit of the house, and one by one, the party guests are gruesomely killed off! The partygoers split up and YOU get to choose who you join up with! Do you — FLEE, INVESTIGATE or KEEP PARTYING?
Depending on what you choose, you and the other party guests could meet one of several grizzly ends — only one path leads to safety — you must reverse the curse on the house and save what’s left of your friends!
Arma 2014 [comics]
•October 30, 2014 • Leave a CommentI have to say, Armageddon has changed A LOT since its early days. Cosplay is more popular among people who aren’t afraid to wear their geek pride on their sleeve, which is always cool, but I see through comic books and the prices that they go for, that the few stalls that were selling (4 this year) were only there to hawk off their junk from the 90s that no one wanted even back then. Don’t get me wrong, I love to scour for gems/forgotten stories, but the amount of overpriced, generic junk at Armageddon really bugged me this year. I am saying this out of love; — not because it ended up costing me, my brother and his friend $20 each just for admittance, although that too may be part of the issue — I hope Armageddon’s best days aren’t behind it. Here are a few comics I picked up, each for a gold coin:
And here are a few Kiwi *cosplayers looking fantastic:
*if you would like me to include or remove your photo/name, please do not hesitate to let me know.
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