http://cinema.celebrity-dream.net/2006/12/21/darkly-scanned/ cinema dissection blog Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:42:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 http://cinema.celebrity-dream.net/2006/12/21/darkly-scanned/#comment-4 Sat, 23 Dec 2006 03:13:16 +0000 http://cinema.celebrity-dream.net/2006/12/21/darkly-scanned/#comment-4 [...] I walked into Borders the other night to get a copy of the the Scanner Darkly DVD, and impulse-bought Newtype Magazine, as I was checking out. I’m only on page 3, and already I am hooked. The magazine looks and feels great. But a big part of the appeal is that I’m actually on page 158! Yes, you guessed it, the magazine is printed back to front, just like in Japanese. The magazine’s editors had this to say about it “Let’s get something clear here: People in Japan have been reading and writing a lot longer than us English-speaking folks — so don’t even think about calling this book backward. This is a magazine that focuses on Japanese pop culture, so it’s only fitting that it follows a similar format” Well, how fucking cool is that — [...] […] I walked into Borders the other night to get a copy of the the Scanner Darkly DVD, and impulse-bought Newtype Magazine, as I was checking out. I’m only on page 3, and already I am hooked. The magazine looks and feels great. But a big part of the appeal is that I’m actually on page 158! Yes, you guessed it, the magazine is printed back to front, just like in Japanese. The magazine’s editors had this to say about it “Let’s get something clear here: People in Japan have been reading and writing a lot longer than us English-speaking folks — so don’t even think about calling this book backward. This is a magazine that focuses on Japanese pop culture, so it’s only fitting that it follows a similar format” Well, how fucking cool is that — […]

]]> http://cinema.celebrity-dream.net/2006/12/21/darkly-scanned/#comment-3 Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:55:48 +0000 http://cinema.celebrity-dream.net/2006/12/21/darkly-scanned/#comment-3 [...] “Drawing on film” (though only in a digital, metaphorical sense) is more descriptive, but “manipulation” helps me make my point better. In A Waking Life, there was a wide range in the level of manipulation, from scene to scene. At moments, the underlying “actors” readily emerge and appear almost as they would in regular “live-action” films. At other moments, the digital goop is applied so liberally that the viewer detaches from the physical reality of the actors and the set, and the film becomes just a cartoon — a scanner darkly review [...] […] “Drawing on film” (though only in a digital, metaphorical sense) is more descriptive, but “manipulation” helps me make my point better. In A Waking Life, there was a wide range in the level of manipulation, from scene to scene. At moments, the underlying “actors” readily emerge and appear almost as they would in regular “live-action” films. At other moments, the digital goop is applied so liberally that the viewer detaches from the physical reality of the actors and the set, and the film becomes just a cartoon — a scanner darkly review […]

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