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freshdumpsmonthly · 9 months
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32-Rbit (2018)
"...I don't remember the first time I connected to the internet. But I liked it. I thought that in that parallel world I had somehow reached freedom. It was anarchic, anonymous, and best of all it was free. In that utopian time, I was bold and naïve. And I was really convinced that happiness could be reached by pressing on a key. But I was wrong. And when I understood what was happening, it was impossible to escape... While enjoying it for free, they watch us with enthusiasm and with the algorithm, they manipulate our emotions. That's how they managed to make Kardashian's ass the synthesis of our desires. But through this glory hole only the shadows of reality emerge. And without realizing it, we became the witnesses of how the telephone became smart but also, how human stupidity became liquid. And how we get stuck on this lubricious 32 bit drool that smears everything and everyone... I am lonely and I have forgotten everything. As soon as I open my eyes, I connect myself. And I think I will disconnect myself when I will close them. I make the same mistake over and over again. But I cling to the certainty that one can solve everything with Ctrl+Z. I no longer belong to myself. And my will hangs like a cowhide over a trunk."
— Victor Orozco Ramirez
See also: [ Jun Kurosawa's short films ] [ Indefinite Pitch (2016) ]
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ctrl-z--short-film · 3 years
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"If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
~Toni Morrison
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mathiasriverus · 4 years
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Sci-Fi Short Film: "CTRL Z" | DUST
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radreactions · 5 years
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Companions Getting Caught Writing Fanfics
Written by a guy who can dance better than Star Lord himself, @saintlyguy!
Ada: Accidentally playing one of Ada’s personal holotape journals led to quite the discovery; Ada likes stories. A particular favorite seems to be Frankenstein’s Monster, as evident in her own self insert. Wait, what?
“Forlorn after the death of their lover, the estranged Mr/Mrs. Freeze of the abandoned Vault 111 creates an automaton to care for them and maybe even grow to love.”
ADA WHAT?!
Cait: She’s scrappy and hasn’t exactly had a taste of the good life (albeit the nuclear apocalypse makes that nearly impossible). But that’s probably why she has a soft spot for that radio play on WRVR that came on about that street girl who gets taken in by some gentleman to be educated into some Fair Lady. Cait would often be seen singing and dancing all night about how the rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain; singing as if she were the punk taken in by Professor Sole-
“CLOSE THE DOOR! KNOCK NEXT TIME! Did you see anything?”
No Cait. The Sole Survivor definitely didn’t see you singing and dancing then shoving your fan script into your mouth to dispose of the evidence.
Codsworth: He can’t exactly write, but Codsworth can be found daydreaming his fantasy of being a titular sitcom butler. Because he already is living out his dream of serving his Sole Survivor! Accompanying them out in the wastes and tidying them as well as their house is perfect for a bot such as himself. Although he will put those Old World sitcom jokes to use.
“Hey Codsworth, could you make me a sandwich?”
The butler places his master’s head between two slices of bread.
“There, I’ve made you a sandwich.”
Curie: How in the world does a scientist develop a taste for sci-fi? Hanging around MacCready and Kent. If you go through Curie’s notes, you’ll see doodles and short stories of her and her Sole Survivor in many situations where motley romances could blossom. Like there’s one where she’s a hologram assistant to vigilante Sole in the year 2099. Hell there’s even one where she’s a doctor who develops feelings for a cyborg ninja.
Danse: A man who’s situated to the influence of knighthood and chivalry, you would guess right that you’d find some fantasy AUs in his room. One where he’s a paladin (of course); in fact one of five who must venture into the Castle of Lions to find the Legendary Defender. There’s even one where he’s a Templar who falls for runaway mage Sole, the very target he was sent to capture.
Deacon: Ok who gave Deacon those old sitcom holotapes? It’s bad enough that him being a pathological liar makes hime good at telling stories, but it’s worse when he puts his friends in them:
(SING ALONG)
“Here’s the story, of a single parent. who was gearing up to form some sort of crew.”
“There’s an android detective.”
“A robot butler.”
“Even a ghoulish mayor.”
“It’s the story, of a secret agent. One of the greatest to ever walk the wastes.”
“And a reporter.”
“An android doctor.”
“Ad Victorium!”
“So then one day all these people were assembled. To find the child who was stolen from the vault. And this crew was labeled The Companions. That’s how we all became the Fallout Bunch!”
Dogmeat: He can’t write, not that he needs to! His dreams are reality because he has YOU!
Gage: Pirates?! Oh come on! Is it cuz of the eyepatch? Or was it those stories Longfellow told? Well... I guess the idea of being the scourge of the seas does has it’s appeal. For the bootlicker Gage is, it wasn’t surprising that in most of his poorly written stories he was the Sole Survivor’s first mate. What was surprising and even off putting was that one fic where he was the prisoner of a siren and was made to... do things for his freedom.
Hancock: The mayor had always wanted to be in a rock band (he probably is one in another life), to the point of playing air guitar and even writing stories. Whenever Sole tries to see what he’s writing, Hancock lights it on fire and throws it. That’s because Sole was always in his rockstar fantasies; whether as his number one fan or manager. Sole got a peek at his stories when they found Hancock asleep in the middle of writing! And would you look at that, he even started writing a song.
Longfellow: A rugged man in a place like Far Harbor wouldn’t know where to find someone after Hannah. However stories of survivalists and men of the land making city girls swoon did have some appeal to him. His favorite being about a reporter falling for a guy who can commune with animals and survived a crocodile attack. He has written a story or two for fun; often there’s a damsel in distress who needs rescuing from the mediocrity of urban life.
Maxson: “What the hell is this?!” Sole thought to themself as they read Maxson’s fantasy of recruiting girls with cat ears into the Brotherhood, all of which have feelings for their Elder.
“Y’know. Like nya?”
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“Arthur. I don’t want your garbage.”
Nick: While Nick wasn’t a detective, he was an adventurer! At least on paper he was. He still had a fedora, but instead of a nightstick, Tomb Raider Nick had a whip! He’d go to exotic places and uncover the secrets of lost civilizations. Often he’d run into the mysterious stranger Sole who’s often after the same treasure as he is. Sometimes he wins, sometimes they win, and sometimes they both win...in bed.
“Nick, what are you typing?”
CTRL Z!
MacCready: You couldn’t have survived Little Lamplight without having some fun. Mac’s escape was comic books and writing his own stories, some of which insert him into The Unstoppables. Mac’s longest fanfic is where he is admitted into UA High School, Unstoppables Academy. There he trains to become ALL MAC, the symbol of peace!
“It’s fine now. Why? BECAUSE I’M HERE!”
The most recent chapter shows All Mac recruiting the anti-hero, Survivor on a mission and on a date.
Piper: She’s a reporter on and off the record. Someone as articulate in writing as Piper uses it as a past time as well. She writes bedtime stories for Nat as well as scribe her daydreams. Lately she’s been writing about a Boston Bugle reporter attempting to get an exclusive with the city’s super powered defender clad in a blue jumpsuit and red cape. Coincidentally this started a bit after she started traveling with the Sole Survivor.
Preston: He’s got a thing for diners. Yes diners. He’s seen many old ads that show the vibrant environment, delicious non irradiated food, and pretty waitresses. You can sometimes see him hanging in the old diners after establishing a perimeters to have a lunch and do paperwork. Wait, paperwork? What the hell is he writing?
“The strapping general sat down awaiting for his favorite waiter/waitress to take his order.
‘Want something sweet?’ They ask.
He responds ‘How about you?’”
Yep. Nope. It’s paperwork, definitely nothing else.
Strong: Sometimes Strong can be found using raider and glowing one blood to draw on the concrete in Sanctuary.
“Hey Strong, what are you drawing?”
“Us.”
On the pavement, there are two super mutants. One of them is drawn with synth coolant to have blue.
“Strong wishes you were super mutant. Humans are losers.”
Gee thanks Strong.
“Strong is loser too.”
“But together, we take back what we lose!”
Huh, that was actually sweet.
X6-88: This guy knows nothing outside of recapturing synths. Although in the Institute he has seen many old films that the scientists enjoy during their downtime. His favorite being the one where the singer and her bodyguard fall in love. He especially liked the song in that movie. When he was asked to write something for a maintenance test, X6 wrote a story of the bodyguard named X who’s hired to protect Boston’s favorite singer. And from that story, the Institute programmed a synth to sing. Although no one knows what happened to her. When charged with guarding the director’s parent, X6 was asked what he could do. Besides shooting.
“I can write.”
What have you written.
X6 pulled out a binder labeled Work in Progress.
It’s as heavy as a dumbbell.
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gwdiscotech · 4 years
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Mudbox and Kaiju
What is Mudbox:
Mudbox is a software based around digital 3D sculpting and painting developed by Autodesk, it is one of the largest and most common sculpting tools in the industry along with its competitor Zbrush.
Sculpting Examples:
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Starting in Mudbox:
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Upon opening mudbox, you’re given a variety of options, the tabs on the left are short videos that instruct you on how to use the software, in the middle are some preset models which can be used as a starting point and on the right are recent files which you’ve worked on.
Once in the software itself, the UI layout differs from its Modelling counterpart a little, but thankfully the tools are rather easy to find and the scene navigation works the same way.
In the top right is where all of your outline is kept, this displays the objects within the scene and object's sculpt and paint layers.
Much like photoshop or gimp, you can create layers for sculpting objects, this is a good nondestructive method of sculpting that allows you to modify an object without completely ruining what you've done beforehand. For example, on my own kaiju, I had a layer for the head's base shape, a layer where I refined that shape, a layer of the eye sockets, for skin detail and so on.
You are also able to increase the subdivision level of your layers, and you'll need to due to the base objects having rather low polygons. It's best to leave the base object at its default polygon count and just subdivide the layers.
While sculpting you are generating a displacement map, which is a texture that manipulates the position of object's polygons. This essentially means you arent actually changing the shape of the object, because as soon as you take off that displacement map, the object turns back its default state. This technique allows you to create different LODs and actually gives you the power to show a 8 million polygon object on a mesh that only possesses 500 polygons which helps drastically with performance.
Kaiju Research:
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Kaiju, from Japanese “strange beasts” are giant monsters in Japanese culture that are often depicted attacking major cities, engaging the military or battling other kaiju. Possibly the most famous kaiju is Godzilla and is the first kaiju film. Godzilla is a great example of the somewhat metaphorical nature of Kaiju, for example Godzilla serves as a metaphor for nuclear weapons and the fear’s of post-war Japan after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as the Lucky Dragon 5 incident. Other prominent examples of Kaiju include Rodan, Mothra, King Ghidorah and Gamera.
The Japanese word kaiju originally referred to monsters and creatures from ancient Japanese legends, the term earlier appeared in the Chinese “Classic of Mountains and Seas.” Once Japan was opened to foreign relations after the end of sakoku, the word kaiju came to be used to express concepts from paleontology and legendary creatures around the world. For example, in 1908 it was suggested that the extinct Ceratosaurus was alive in Alaska, and this was referred to as a kaiju. Despite this there are no traditional depictions  of kaiju or kaiju-like creatures in Japanese folklore; but rather the origins of kaiju are found in film.
Due to Kaiju character’s being considered giant science fiction and fantasy creatures, their appearance is usually very alien and unlike anything found on earth. Many kaiju share a few physical traits, such as leathery furless skin, multiple eyes and many arms and legs. Their behaviour can also be depicted as antagonistic, protagonistic, or even as neutral force of nature.
There are a few other terms related to kaiju, such as diakaiju which literally translates to “large kaiju” or “great kaiju” and refers to the larger monsters, though the exact distinction is debated. Godzilla, Rodan and Mothra are referred to as the san daikiju, the three great kaiju.
Another term within the kaiju sphere is kaijin, literally translating to “monster man” or “mystery man” and is the term used for humanoid kaiju.
Examples of Kaiju:
Sculpting Kaiju:
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A sphere is usually the best shape to start with when you're sculpting an organic shape since it helps in avoiding a boxy shape, but a sphere too round for a kaiju head, so i used the scale tool to turn it into an oval shape then rotated it slightly so it wasn’t perfectly straight along the X axis.
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Using the sculpting brush I blocked out the general shape of the head, mostly the ridges above the eyes and along the cheeks, I also used the version of the sculpting tool that takes away (Hold Ctrl while using the sculpting tool) to give a more dramatic depression where the eyes would sit. During this process I used the mirror option to keep the head symmetrical.
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I decided to use the scrape tool to refine the head’s shape, especially around the ridges. I added a sphere to the scene which would represent the creature’s eyes, I then used the sculpt tool to model the eye socket and eyelids around the sphere.
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In Mudbox, there is a texture/stamp option which uses a heightmap to dictate the shape of the brushes. There are variety of different stamps that come with Mudbox, I used a few of the scale stamps to make the creature’s skin less smooth and hopefully more life like and organic.
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I decided to add horns to the creature, I did this by adding another sphere to the sphere which I sculpted to a point then copied it and added to the creature. I found that I liked how the lower horns look, but didn’t particularly like the two higher ones appeared, so I removed them.
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Finally I added the last small details such as the mouth and a few scars, for this I used the knife tool which makes small cuts into the mesh.
I’m still debating whether or not I want the creature to have a mouth, since it has a rather mystical quality when it doesn’t have one.
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Overall, I'm very happy with the outcome I got, though it's a shame that I didnt model the jaw as a separate object that could be animated; I may have to try and remove the jaw and make it possible to be animated.
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viromoon-blog · 5 years
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WK3 Premiere Introduction
ONCE YOU OPEN A NEW PROJECT
Check Location, don’t want your file going to default save. Need to browse where you want your file to be located.
Underneath video audio and capture
Hour Min Sec frame- timecode its the default
Audio , audi samples
Capture, DV , tape based camera
Scratch disk same as our project
NOW OK
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WHATS IN PREMIERE
Multiple layouts on top, workspaces (learning, assembly, editing, colour, effects, audio, graphics and libraries)
2 panels on top, source and project
Source monitor deck and record deck
Project window, sequence window
Which footage to put in first, size
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Editing in the time line
Left and right arrow goes frame by frame
Chopping the front and the end of the video off
Chop the video into 2, razor blade tool short cut ‘C’ for cut, stop cutting press ‘V’ or undo ‘Ctrl Z’
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Resize
Double click on a video
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Effects menu
Blur and sharpness
Gaussian blur, good for movement or closing and opening an eye
Channel blur can change colour of the image
Immersive video, VR chromatic aberrations
VR Digital Glitch
Blur only on a certain video use KEY FRAMES
Up and down arrows snap to each edit
Toggle animation put a key frame
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Video Transitions
Dissolve
Cross dissolve
Non additive dissolve looks interesting
VR Spherical Blur
VR Light Rays perfect transition
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Edit sound on premiere
Need to unlink to work on film and music separately
P, pen too, key frame the volume
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AUDIO EFFECT
Volume is a cool effect to put the volume to -6 DB
Tiling and making a video
Credit at the end of the video
File -new- legacy title
Still, roll credit
subtitle
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Exporting film
Tropfest art comp, every year in February
Recommend H264, good format quality and not big file size.
Preset
Footage not in size, as it has black bars needle to toggle with the size
Bitrate version 2
1080p
Video to do bitrate version
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Cut tool
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Sliced video
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Keyframe
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Effects controls
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Audio workspace
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How to unlink clips of film and audio
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EQ 100DB, audio effect
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how to make a subtitle or rolling credit
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Easy way to center text
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Making a new project
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Making a new project, make sure the scratch disk is the ‘same as project’
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Source and project workspaces
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buzzfeedreader · 7 years
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SZA’s Ctrl is a black girl’s Tumblr come to melodic, vibrant life.
SZA, who is 26 years old and grew up in New Jersey, is speaking in a specific vernacular that will be familiar to black women who spend chunks of their time in certain corners of the internet. It is apparent right from the opening song, "Supermodel," which begins with a recording of the singer’s mother speaking on the grand theme of the record (“That is my greatest fear. That if, if I lost control or did not have control, things would just, you know. I would be be...fatal”). It’s not that the lyrics come in the form of some impenetrable fancy language, necessarily — it is standard (African-)American English, after all — it is the attitude with which she throws out the lyrics that catches the ear, and then makes the words linger on the mind.
When she plaintively sings “Why can’t I stay alone just by myself / wish I was comfortable just with myself” on that opener, for example, you can almost taste the minimalist Tumblr theme; if you close your eyes you can picture an ironic Blingee lighting up on a loop behind your eyelids. Ctrl is covering much of the ground that fills my own dashboard up every single day, the hundreds of posts that essentially boil down to a quest for self-determination — self-determination in a world that seems hell-bent on pushing us into predesignated roles and situations. And that is expressed in pithy but heartfelt text posts about black girl magic in all its forms, mood boards and videos of hair and fashion inspiration, and the men and women we fancy and love, alongside photo sets and GIF sets of nostalgia-nourished TV shows and age-relevant quotes about life and love and self-care. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that SZA was for a good long time an active Tumblr user (I have followed her on there for years). Even now, via her million-follower Instagram, her preferred platform these days, SZA is still doing much of what her Tumblr used to do (minus the direct contact afforded by her Ask box). Last month she posted a screenshot of a Tumblr post about awkward flirting with the caption: “who dragged me like this?”
SZA’s reputation has been building for years via a couple of well-received EPs, See.SZA.Run and S, and her first studio album Z. In 2013, she signed with indie label Top Dawg Entertainment, the home of Kendrick Lamar and the rest of the Black Hippy crew — the first woman to do so. Three years later, she appeared on and co-wrote Rihanna’s opening Anti track, “Consideration.” Collaborating with the likes of Jill Scott and Chance the Rapper, she’s been making atmospheric, lush, and moody R&B that is as much throwback as it is forward-looking, and it is a combination that has made listeners consider her a safe pair of hands (3.9 million monthly listeners on Spotify is no small feat, after all) — the evidence of which lies in her label’s ease with releasing Ctrl in the same week as Katy Perry’s latest.
Music like SZA’s found its first home on Black Girl Tumblr. Or, at the very least, gained loyal followings there. Artists like SZA, H.E.R., Jennah Bell, Jhené Aiko, and so on were the much-cherished discoveries of like-minded girls and young women who were also yearning for their own reflection to come back undistorted. And so perhaps it is inevitable and fitting that listening to SZA’s Ctrl often feels like reading a series of all lowercase, punctuation-free Tumblr text posts. Those posts are often telling a version of the truth, comically bemused but with an arched eyebrow. SZA is earnest, yes, but that doesn’t mean her eyebrow isn’t raised throughout Ctrl.
You can almost hear that eyebrow creak upward on "Garden (Say It Like Dat)” in which she sings engagingly about self-doubt and anxiety: “Lie to me and say / my booty gettin’ bigger even if it ain’t” is a funny, relatable lyric. And even before she expands it into something more plainly stated, it carries undertones of a little sort of sadness. The latter half of this second-verse lyric, for example, is tongue in cheek and on the nose: “I know you'd rather be laid up with a big booty / body hella positive ‘cause she got a big booty” (her ad-lib — an incredulous “wow” — is pitch-perfect). But then the emotion pinballs quickly again with the quiet admission that comes by verse’s end: “You know I'm sensitive ‘bout havin' no booty / havin' no body / only you, buddy / can you / hold me when nobody’s around us?”
In many ways SZA is singing about the things we have come to expect from our indie-slash-folksy white female singer-songwriters, but what Ctrl is delivering comes as experienced and reported through a firmly black girl lens. Like another young musician who has developed an ardent following, British singer-songwriter Nao, SZA makes pop that's sincere — almost painfully so — but she is also playful and smart and funny. Even when she is not in control (of her gravity, of her ex, of the size of her booty), she’s still "finding herself" while remaining refreshingly self-aware — she knows who she is and roughly where she wants to end up. I thought a lot about Nao’s For All We Know while listening to Ctrl and had a clear thought: Where Nao’s constructions sound something akin to black girl church, SZA sounds like the aftermath of a black girl night out (one in which you might have found yourself crying in the club). It perfectly encapsulates that keyed-up post-club, pre-sleep 3 a.m. feeling when feelings are close to the surface.
There is also a firmness in SZA’s persona on this record, best exemplified by her grandmother’s short, spirited interlude at the end “Love Galore”, addressing SZA by her given name, Solána Imani Rowe: “But see, Solána? If you don’t say something, speak up for yourself, they think you stupid. You know what I’m saying?” It’s a nod and a wink to the listener. SZA knows who’s listening, and who that message is for. Another noteworthy and matter-of-fact exemplification comes straight out the gate on “Doves in the Wind”: “Real niggas do not deserve pussy.” Which is self-explanatory.
On “The Weekend,” a soon-to-be sidepiece classic, SZA is funny: “My man is my man is your man / heard it’s her man too,” she coos dismissively before telling her paramour to make sure he’s at her place “by 10:30 / no later than / drop them drawers / give me what I want.” And on “Drew Barrymore” (a geniusly titled song, effortlessly conjuring as it does images of '90s teen rom-coms and coded norms of suburban insecurity and acceptance), she is sharp: “I’m sorry you got karma comin’ to you.” When she sings wistfully about the titular character from 1994 film Forrest Gump (first in cinemas when she was 4), SZA’s being cute but also serious — imagine a world in which pussy was given to only deserving men! “Where's Forrest now when you need him?” she intones almost solemnly on "Doves in the Wind.” “Talk to me.”
The dip into the '90s oeuvre of Robert Zemeckis notwithstanding, Ctrl is very much of the now. Even with its dizzying array of producers, the entire record sounds cohesively and fluently like 2017: Peep the references to Netflix show Narcos (which also got a shoutout on Stormzy’s 2017 LP Gang Signs and Prayer) or the aforementioned “body positive” (a term whose overuse has given it an unearned negative reputation on Tumblr and beyond). On “Normal Girl,” SZA borrows liberally from Drake’s 2016 single “Controlla” (“You like it / when I be / aggressive”). Even the nostalgic TV Ctrl harks back to is curiously very current again: that period in the '90s that young people have rediscovered and which they quote liberally from, thanks to streaming. SZA refers to comedy sketch show MadTV on “Doves in the Wind,” and on “Go Gina” she uses one of Martin Lawrence’s catchphrases from his sitcom Martin.
Ctrl is a mishmash of so many influences, which will continue to reveal themselves as it beds in with listeners. Its pop DNA is evident in its many catchy hooks and choruses (“Prom” sounds like a 2017 update of Gwen Stefani’s “Cool,” for example), and her guest stars — Kendrick Lamar, Travis Scott, James Fauntleroy, Isaiah Rashad — add weight but are never overwhelming. SZA has an ear for what is aurally pleasing and commercial: Upon my third listen to the record, I was struck by how happily pretty much every song would sit on the soundtrack of a teen show (won’t someone invite her to score a black girl coming-of-age movie, please?).
What sells the record best, though, is SZA’s own conviction. Like the black girls who live their multi-adjectived lives on Tumblr, she is the best chronicler of her own life. It’s an expansion of self-identity that stretches beyond Strong Black Woman (which is not entirely discarded as one facet) and travels into the territory we have always known was in us. SZA’s music is vulnerable and sweet, self-questioning and self-affirming, all at the same time, in a way that is performative, yes — but also intimate and tender. It is a snapshot of one 26-year-old’s life right now, much like all those Tumblrs are moments in amber. Ctrl feels “Dear Diary” real, which is to say it is Black Girl Tumblr writ large. Control, in all avenues, is the defining characteristic, and it is powerful. “I belong to nobody / hope it don’t bother you / you can mind your business / I belong to nobody” SZA sings on “Go Gina.”
Listening to Ctrl, you don’t doubt it.
—Bim Adewunmi on SZA’s new album
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theamazingstories · 4 years
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msamba · 4 years
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Sci-Fi Short Film: "CTRL Z" | DUST
Sci-Fi Short Film: “CTRL Z” | DUST
A hopeless romantic invents a device that allows him an infinite amount of attempts to impress the girl of his dreams…but he must die each time.
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CTRL Z (short science fiction film).
CTRL Z (short science fiction film).
In this twenty-minute-long free short science fiction movie by James Kennedy, CTRL Z, we find a hopeless romantic who has invented a device that allows him an infinite amount of attempts to impress the girl of his dreams… but, sadly, he must perish each time to achieve this hack of the fabric of space-time.
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CTRL Z (short science fiction film).
CTRL Z (short science fiction film).
In this twenty-minute-long free short science fiction movie by James Kennedy, CTRL Z, we find a hopeless romantic who has invented a device that allows him an infinite amount of attempts to impress the girl of his dreams… but, sadly, he must perish each time to achieve this hack of the fabric of space-time.
So, how much pain is true romance worth? Hey, for the right person, quite a bit as it…
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INKTOBER 2017: How I found success through taking on the challenge!
Hey Guys, its Chris!
As of this posting, I am on day 15 of Inktober (Yay!!!). Which is the farthest have ever gotten doing this challenge. Years, past I would get up to day five or eight before quitting. I think its because I would get super excited, then I would fall behind then finally get bored then quit. 
So what made this year different? How did I find success through taking on this challenge. Here is what I found throughout the journey so far. 
I focus on improvement vs being a perfectionist.
I think when artist take on this challenge or any art piece (correct me if I am wrong down below in the comments) but they want to make it the best that it can be. Whether to sell it on their Redbubble store (shameless plug of my Redbubble store down below where I have all of my Inktober drawings of this year available for purchase.)
Or...
Just wanting people to really love their work...to gain followers...to have them click on their redbubble store ( shameless plug again) in order to support their artistic endeavors...so that they can focus on working on their art full time...to be able to created animated short films  or be hired at Disney to create concept art for their next animated feature film...*breathes in after long rant*
(Self projecting much Chris?)
In any case, I would think in the way that I needed to make the best piece ever. In reality, I needed to focus on self improvement as an artist. 
Jake Parker, the creator of Inktober, said it best when ask about working digitally. 
For myself I wanted to focus on bettering my inking skills since I have started creating my Molly's Follies web comic using color pencils and inks. While my drawing and coloring skills were pretty good, my inking skills were so-so. Thus wanting to improve on my inking skills in order to help improve my Molly's Follies web comic. Also focusing on inking without any colors or digital components made the challenge more challenging because I had to focus on making decent artwork with a medium I don't have a lot of experience with. Plus without the ability to erase inks or ctrl + Z the living crap out of each line, it was permanent and I had to  evolve my techniques in order to save a drawing. 
An opportunity to document my journey.
This was also the best time for me to document my journey through Inktober on my new DSLR camera and learn how to be comfortable in front of a camera. Cause I want to be able to make tutorial videos that don't feel stiff or looking nervous as all get out lol. Also not feeling self conscious about vlogging in public.
So each morning I would talk about my sketches as well as day before drawings. What things I have found throughout each drawing while also trying to be myself in front of a camera that is me rather than something that is scripted. 
*Side note: I had a weird fear of someone coming up to me and being like "VLOGGER VLOGGER WE GOT SOMEONE VLOGGING OVER HERE!!"  but I realize that nobody really cares what I am doing in public. 
Also I posted my journey through my Instagram and openly talked about what I liked about my drawings, what I hated about my drawings as well as issues that I have been having with using inks. Its has been a self help diary for when I look back on I can remember "Oh yeah I been through this before, I got this."
Building a routine through the chaos of life.
Bit extreme title but let me explain. I think we all have a want to just sit down and work on our art without interruption. What can we create if we have just time to focus on our art. Well that's fantasy, this is the reality.
 YOU WILL HAVE TO FIND WAYS TO WORK ON YOUR ART IN BETWEEN YOUR OBLIGATIONS WITH FRIENDS, FAMILY AND SOCIETY.  
It a challenge on it self let alone just trying to get 31 drawings for Inktober done. However its not possible. I found what worked for me was to get up early before work. Sketch out my idea for that day's theme. Go to work. Come home, chill for an hour or two and then work on inking before bed. 
While seems like a good routine, something always came up. I had to work late, the trains weren't running on time, the cat wanted to play, had to meet friends for dinner, etc etc. 
In the past, I would find myself a couple of days behind because life happenings and find myself overwhelmed with not being able to catch up. 
One thing I found that helped were to combined the days that I missed into one drawing. To which I found to be a better drawing than if I did these themes separately. 
Being a Creative student throughout the challenge. 
I think the overall thing I learned is that you have to be creative with the challenge. Make it fun for you while also figuring out ways to improve yourself. I learn that not every ink line has to be perfectly crisp, straight and good. Sometimes thinking of a ink pen as a pencil can really make your drawing look different and not stale. Keeping yourself in the mindset of that your learning and that your showing that your learning will help you in the long run. I been drawing for 29 years and I am still learning how to become a better artist. 
Overall I have been loving all of my Inktober drawings and I feel that I am getting better with my inking skills. There are 16 more days of inktober left! Can't wait to see what I create next. 
If you want to follow the journey check out my Instagram @ChrisJaserArt
Until next post!!
Chris J
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The Z-List: Are arts degrees as valuable as sciences?
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EVERY time A-Level results roll around, I’m always equally taken on a trip down memory lane (a path which seems to get longer with every waking second) and surprised by certain patterns in Britain’s education system.
Whilst all of these bright young things get excited about university, I try to hold back my opinion that what they really have in store is spending an excess of £27,000 on an alcohol dependency and a lifetime of anxiety and financial woes. Some may call this pessimistic, I call it realistic.
In this year’s episode of “let’s-cross-analyse-young-people-using-statistics-rather-than-actually-speaking-to-them,” The Times cited a drop in arts and humanities based subjects and a subsequent rise in so called “STEM” based subjects.
33% of all university entries this year were in science, technology, engineering, and maths, up almost ten percent from last decade.
Applications for English language fell by 10.2% and history by 8.1%. English literature took the worst hit- until 2013, it was the most popular A-Level, now it is sixth.
As an English Literature graduate, I’m kind of saddened by this news (or, maybe three years of over-analyzing metaphors means I’m in a constant state of melancholy.) Whilst I did decide to study English Literature in full knowledge my job prospects would fall short of someone taking maths or bio-something-or-other, I never wanted an adult job anyway, so I think I can just about live with myself.
The “Science Community,” who we all know is a bunch of nerds sat around computers flicking boogers at each other, is understandably delighted now science is in vogue. “Mathematics is essential for understanding the modern world and provides the foundations for economic prosperity,” said Frank Kelly, chairman of the Royal Society’s advisory committee on mathematics.
“History, art and literature fill our museums, our social structures and our culture, and to lose that would mean losing our full understanding of the world around us.”
I’m not discrediting science and maths for a second- I can barely operate a calculator so imagine if hundreds of versions of me were put in charge of running the economy. However, I believe social progress, which has never been so needed in today’s deeply divided society, requires a diversity of mind set and a world of knowledge that is not just limited to facts and figures.
Subjects notorious for having no “right” answer like English, philosophy, and art require you to think critically, questioning everything and refusing to see the world in black and white. History, art, and literature fill our museums, our social structures, and our culture, and to lose that would mean losing our full understanding of the world around us.
When science and art come together- that is when real change is made. My university housemates all did science subjects, and although they would plead superiority to my arts degree, we were able to have discussions that tackled big issues with an open mind.
University should not be a matter of segregating science and arts degrees, but rather building an academic community that is able to share the kind of knowledge and ideas that has the power to change the world. Optimistic perhaps, but an ambitious possibility nonetheless.
  FOLLOWING… @vegansofldn scour the city in search of the best vegan finds- sucks if you don’t live in London but awesome if you have an oyster card and buckets of free time.
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EATING…Junk food, vegan junk food to be exact. During my travels in Amsterdam, I was craving comfort food and stumbled across the Vegan Junk Food Bar, which does what it says on the tin. Their menu is 100% plant based, and with everything from burgers, fries, sandwiches and “chicken” nuggets, I’m praying they open a branch in London soon!
WATCHING… The Incredible Jessica James- I’d heard whispers about this Netflix original film on social media, but it exceeded all of my traditionally low expectations. Jessica Williams plays Jessica James, a struggling playwright trying to navigate her way through her complex love life. Whilst she’s stylish and sassy, she can also be vulnerable and just plain clueless about relationships. Refusing to play into any black woman stereotype, this is the most relatable black female character on mainstream TV to date.
SZA’s dreamy debut album, “Ctrl.” Source: TIDAL.
Jessica Williams in ‘The Incredible Jessica James.’ Source: Glamour Magazine
LISTENING… SZA- I came across this songstress by accident despite my Dad saying “have you heard of scissor?” so many times because I thought he was referring to an EDM artist. SZA, real name Solana Imani Rowe, is a breakthrough R ‘n’ B artist serving Jhene Aiko soul and Nicki Minaj realness. Her debut album Ctrl is just dreamy.
What’s on your Z-List? Let me know by following me on Twitter or Instagram.
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