Month: June 2008

An Overlay :: Three Days of the Condor Bebop

Posted by Ryan A - June 3, 08

Sydney Pollack, pass away last week; quite sad :/. To tribute him, TCM has spent a large block airing his films. Last night, I caught 3 Days of the Condor [reflection], which was a decent film. Aside from the quality of conspiracy, it debuted in 1975, but the looming atmosphere held was something that quite reminded me of my experience with Cowboy Bebop.

I am not stating any influence, but the particular scene, where Turner and Hale parse each other is worthy of comparison to that of Spike and Julia. Perhaps many will never experience the film, so I shan’t go into it, but three notes: music, lighting, situation.

The error of this comparison is that of the heroine. Julia was much more involved in the overall thick of Bebop, than Kathy Hale (Dunaway). Still, Turner and Spike have decent character similarities, and Spike was always an interesting one to eye.

Ryan A

Note: Public library FTW, they had the film, and somehow I found the ADV release of Kanon there as well. OCLS is something.

Micro-Blogging Revisited

Posted by Ryan A - June 2, 08

I took the time and signed up for Twitter, after learning about it sometime in Autumn 2006. I’ll just say, MAL “microblogging” is not, even melative “reflections” are not (though pushing towards the lightweight implementation and availability). These lack the interfacing and simplicity, and that thing of time-saving. Truthfully, “Notepadding” is closer to microblogging, but it isn’t social.

Here is a presentation by Jyri Engestrom, and I ask where do anime blogs stand in this social currency market, because blogs are quite the slow and time-consuming bag. Mind you, this is not new stuff, but Jyri makes a good point about “value” and while the steam of the otakusphere is “the current, the hot, the seasonal”, a couple months later it just doesn’t matter (editorials rule the time! glad to see more of these in recent months!!).

So what we have are blogs that just don’t stand, are continually “hot” and updated, but it’s being done in a very tedious way. It’s gotta be the mobile ease, and probably my stimulation here is my lack of leisure computer-time in the past few weeks to realize that the mobile connection works even being away from “home” half the time (adventure always calls, usually nature).

Efficiency and effectiveness will find a way :) and I’ve found sitting on a computer looking at the RSS feeds just isn’t that effective, because eventually time explodes and I just won’t be on the computer very often.

Ryan A

btw: relevant film reflection, Cafe Lumiere, see it. [reflection]