{"id":4569,"date":"2010-09-01T18:30:37","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T22:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4569"},"modified":"2010-09-01T16:36:11","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T20:36:11","slug":"wednesday-various-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4569","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>James Cameron <a href=\"http:\/\/blastr.com\/2010\/08\/james-cameron-piranha-3-d.php\">doesn&#8217;t like <i>Piranha 3-D<\/i><\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>I tend almost never to throw other films under the bus, but that is exactly an example of what we should not be doing in 3-D. Because it just cheapens the medium and reminds you of the bad 3-D horror films from the 70s and 80s, like <i>Friday the 13th 3-D<\/i>. When movies got to the bottom of the barrel of their creativity and at the last gasp of their financial lifespan, they did a 3-D version to get the last few drops of blood out of the turnip..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Something tells me he&#8217;s going to <i>hate<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1116184\/\">Jackass 3-D<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, though, it&#8217;s films like that &#8212; cheap horror movies with visceral, jump-out-at-you scares &#8212; to which I think 3-D is actually most ideally suited. Cameron may be throwing his full weight behind it as a tool on the artistic palette, but even in <i>Avatar<\/i> I thought the 3-D was a lot less impressive than advertised. It has its uses, but even at its best, I don&#8217;t think it rises above a gimmick. (For which you trade a not-insignificant amount of brightness and comfort.) So a film like <i>Piranha<\/i>, which embraces it fully <i>as<\/i> gimmick, may actually be exactly what the technology is meant to do.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blastr.com\/2010\/08\/eye-chart-for-geeks-guess.php\">Eye chart for geeks<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>And interesting look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/25\/nyregion\/25about.html?_r=1&#038;adxnnl=1&#038;adxnnlx=1283372260-cngXF66UY+liNjIaSrj8pw\">Yiddish in America<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>The survival of Yiddish in America is an on-the-one-hand, on-the-other-hand story. Yiddish, once the language of the Jews of Eastern Europe, is undoubtedly moribund, with its last full-throated speakers, Holocaust survivors, now well into their 80s and 90s. (A smattering of their children speak it through sheer willpower whenever they can buttonhole a comprehending ear, but some, like this writer, grew up nagging parents to speak English and regrettably saw their first language wither.)<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the language is booming among Hasidim, for whom it is a lingua franca, mushrooming so prolifically that by some estimates the ultra-Orthodox will form a majority of American Jews by century\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s end. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookninja.com\/\" title=\"Bookninja\">via<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>Have you been reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaleidotrope.net\/\">Kaleidotrope contributor<\/a> Jason Heller&#8217;s weekly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/blogs\/2010\/08\/frequency-rotation-the-locust-flashs-theme\">Frequency Rotation<\/a> posts at Tor.com? You really should be.<\/li>\n<li>And finally, based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WNFf7nMIGnE\">this clip<\/a>, I would totally buy Lin-Manuel Miranda&#8217;s Alexander Hamilton rap album. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beatonna\" title=\"@beatonna\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Cameron doesn&#8217;t like Piranha 3-D: I tend almost never to throw other films under the bus, but that is exactly an example of what we should not be doing in 3-D. Because it just cheapens the medium and reminds you of the bad 3-D horror films from the 70s and 80s, like Friday the &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4569\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[92,149,4,64,14,15,31,10,7],"class_list":["post-4569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-history","tag-humor","tag-kaleidotrope","tag-language","tag-movies","tag-music","tag-sci-fi","tag-various","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}