Gneiss Things

And Hardison is like you are MISUSING my TALENTS. You are DISREGARDING the fact that I am an INTERNET MAN and my skills lay in HACKING. You DARE to ask ME to do something as MUNDANE as perfectly construct an 18th century diary, complete with all of the writing inside of it, in TWO DAYS. That is BENEATH ME and also I dont think I can DO IT and you people are RIDICULOUS and why am I even WORKING with people who dont APRECIATE me and ABUSE me so. This house is a FUCKING NIGHTMARE.

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Is your tea getting cold?

Did you turn on your kettle and forget about it and now the water is cold again?

Is the tea bag still in?

Did you intend to start the tea making process and forget?

With a mug!

ID 2: Tumblr tag that says: what is he reading that put them to sleep. End IDs.]

If your hot take about the movie industry involves the blaming of artists, I am begging you to resist that instinct. Because they are rarely at fault.

I have been working on an essay about subtitles and cinematic audio mixing for probably 6 months. It is about 80% complete. It's a complicated, multifactorial issue.

"Audio guys" are asked to take a cinematic timeline that looks like this...

And then make it sound good on a system like this...

While also making that same mult-track cinematic mix sound good on speakers like this...

And then people hate on these artists because they can't violate the laws of physics.

Could studios invest in a second audio mix that is more suited to tiny speakers?

Absolutely.

They literally did it for years on DVDs and Blu-ray discs. You could select a basic stereo mix or a surround mix.

Why don't they do that anymore?

I'm going to try and dedicate any future writing energy I have to finishing the subtitle essay.

I don't mean co-writing either. I mean having a friend or two who you talk through plot ideas with, who you bounce ideas off of, who you trust to tell you if something doesn't work.

guy who is really talented at everything he tries but mostly just punches people

girl who would rather be crawling around in your walls than socializing

guy who has strong opinions on star trek and thinks “a good time” is hacking into the NSA

girl who hasn’t stopped lying in forty years and may or may not be royalty

I’m “bad at” working on long-term projects without an imminent deadline or someone breathing down my neck? Okay, let’s change that: I can’t work on long-term projects without an imminent deadline and someone breathing down my neck. So let’s create an imminent deadline and recruit neck-breathers. Find a sympathetic prof who will agree that 3 weeks before the due date they expect me to show them my preliminary notes and bibliography. Get a friend I trust to block off an hour to sit with me and keep asking, “Are you working on your project?” Write a blog post about my progress. Arrange to trade papers and proofread them with another student.