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![[T]here was a moment when I was writing Upstream Color where I fell so hard for what it was becoming that I couldn’t think of anything else.
- Television Without Pity
It really started with this notion of personal identity. […] And I think I had this view that, if you could strip away all that subjectivity, strip away everything you’d learned or that you’d been taught or accumulated, that maybe underneath would be this core—that would be plurality of thought, that would be the ability to be malleable to circumstances instead of having a predefined understanding of them. Eventually [it] lead to the idea that maybe there wasn’t anything inside, that maybe we are just an accumulation of these subjective key points of experience. That’s the bit that started to make this whole thing horrific, this idea that you’re not left with anything, that you’re just a lost consciousness in the world.
[…]
[on his next film] It’s actually set all over the world, in all sorts of remote places. It’s about shipping routes and trading commodities, pirates and privateers. It’s a tragic romance. I really can’t wait. It’s going to be a good thing.
- Interview
“My ability to make another film is directly connected to whatever revenue this movie generates,” he says. “It’s not like, ‘Maybe I can buy a house someday.’ It’s more like, ‘I get to make this film exactly the way it needs to be.’ ”
- Wired
JH: But you act in both your films and you’re a handsome boy. You could probably get acting work.
SC: Oh, well…thank…well, I don’t even know if that’s true. No. No one’s ever – well, actually, that’s not true…
- Film.com
I’m not saying I’m developing a thing for Shane Carruth, I’m just saying he is an engineer and a genius who has decided to use that genius to make movies and I’m not sure how to finish this sentence so I’ll just stop typing.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/2f0c31a07b54af76e8ce50c897de4dfa/tumblr_mmvds4EnCr1qzj6lto1_500.jpg)
[T]here was a moment when I was writing Upstream Color where I fell so hard for what it was becoming that I couldn’t think of anything else.
It really started with this notion of personal identity. […] And I think I had this view that, if you could strip away all that subjectivity, strip away everything you’d learned or that you’d been taught or accumulated, that maybe underneath would be this core—that would be plurality of thought, that would be the ability to be malleable to circumstances instead of having a predefined understanding of them. Eventually [it] lead to the idea that maybe there wasn’t anything inside, that maybe we are just an accumulation of these subjective key points of experience. That’s the bit that started to make this whole thing horrific, this idea that you’re not left with anything, that you’re just a lost consciousness in the world.
[…]
[on his next film] It’s actually set all over the world, in all sorts of remote places. It’s about shipping routes and trading commodities, pirates and privateers. It’s a tragic romance. I really can’t wait. It’s going to be a good thing.
“My ability to make another film is directly connected to whatever revenue this movie generates,” he says. “It’s not like, ‘Maybe I can buy a house someday.’ It’s more like, ‘I get to make this film exactly the way it needs to be.’ ”
- Wired
JH: But you act in both your films and you’re a handsome boy. You could probably get acting work.
SC: Oh, well…thank…well, I don’t even know if that’s true. No. No one’s ever – well, actually, that’s not true…
- Film.com
I’m not saying I’m developing a thing for Shane Carruth, I’m just saying he is an engineer and a genius who has decided to use that genius to make movies and I’m not sure how to finish this sentence so I’ll just stop typing.
Go after her.
Fuck, don’t sit there and wait for her to call, go after her because that’s what you should do if you love someone, don’t wait for them to give you a sign cause it might never come, don’t let people happen to you, don’t let me happen to you, or her, she’s not a fucking television show or tornado. There are people I might have loved had they gotten on the airplane or run down the street after me or called me up drunk at four in the morning because they need to tell me right now and because they cannot regret this and I always thought I’d be the only one doing crazy things for people who would never give enough of a fuck to do it back or to act like idiots or be entirely vulnerable and honest and making someone fall in love with you is easy and flying 3000 miles on four days notice because you can’t just sit there and do nothing and breathe into telephones is not everyone’s idea of love but it is the way I can recognize it because that is what I do. Go scream it and be with her in meaningful ways because that is beautiful and that is generous and that is what loving someone is, that is raw and that is unguarded, and that is all that is worth anything, really.
New letterpress cards! Hand-pressed for us by Public Letterpress in Denver.
that’s one sexy business card.
I had remarked a couple of months ago that Tumblr seemed to be focusing only on new features and completely ignoring longstanding bugs. I never posted this but I sort of thought the reason why they were doing this was so they could sell a larger base of users to a prospective buyer. I wonder if I was right.
It was good knowing you guys.
(via jhermann)
Kickstarter: Constellation Quilt
Look at this gorgeous thing Haptic Lab made! There are only 10 left (as of this writing), so hurry if you want to get your own.
EDIT: Ooops, they’ve been featured by Kickstarter so if you didn’t get a quilt yet, you’re out of luck, but there are some other great contribution levels too.
So on this very day [May 11], ten years ago, we began principal photography on ‘Shaun Of The Dead’ in London. To celebrate this we’ve decided to take you through every single day of production over the next month or two. Team Big Talk have gone through personal photos, stills, rushes and continuity photos to give you an unique day by day account of our shoot.
What a marvelous idea.
‘What are we doing? Where are we going, home? … Yeah, home.’
Upstream Color (2013)
The Starman falls to earth. Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, whose David Bowie cover captured the imagination of Earthlings yesterday, landed safely Tuesday on the steppes of Kazakhstan.
Photograph: Mikhail Metzel/AFP/Getty Images
Hey you guys I’ve had the worst couple of days (super week so far) but I just want to point out that there are so many awesome things you all are doing that I wish to christ I had the energy to talk up and I swear if I could get just one little tiny little second to get some rest please god just one good night I swear I’ll do whatever just let me sleep.
Francis Ford Coppola and Gene Hackman filming The Conversation in Union Square, San Francisco, 1973 (via the edit room floor)
The humanoid form of Robonaut is a little spooky onboard, at times.
With deference to the genius of David Bowie, here’s Space Oddity, recorded on Station. A last glimpse of the World.
Huge thanks in the making of the video to the talented trio of Emm Gryner, Joe Corcoran and Andrew Tidby, plus Evan Hadfield and all at the CSA.
I’m not being hyperbolic in any way whatsoever when I say this might be the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen.
Andrew Kolb’s adorable print set for Edgar Wright’s Blood & Ice Cream / Three Flavors / Cornetto trilogy
