you did it yooooooooooooour way?

it's the whole My First Teenage Beard thing he's got struggling to grow out of his face.

obviously you are not a Koch brother.

I angled a mirror toward your camera to capture the reflection of the image in the lens, which I then acid-etched into a steel plate, which I am now running off thousands of copies of on my press.

picture above: Courtney Cox having just shot cocaine intravenously.

I bought a videotape of this article from a streetcorner vendor in chinatown.

"Tonight on Frontline, we examine the alarming new trend of online piracy…"

screw you, I gave him useful advice that if he were willing to listen would help him avoid these mistakes in the future. you come charging into a new place completley misreading the tone of an article, fine, you're gonna get mocked a bit. I was, what, like the forth one to tease him about it?okay, so then when you…

Adobe Illustrator (or it's open source equivalent, Inkscape, which I highly recommend) is the only piece of graphics software that I believe can actually help to improve and hone the skills of artists working in physical media. it really trains you to think objectively about shapes like nothing else.

lens flare isn't a cheap gimmick when there are actual lenses to flare. it's a natural thing for lenses to do, which for the first five or six decades of film, filmmakers put great care into avoiding, seeing it as a limitation of the technology that was best kept hidden. then some time in the late 60's and early 70's…

you know what a person who would be happily welcomed into pretty much any community he would like to join would do in your situation? the second he learned that the article was sarcasm, he would apologize for misreading it, not dig himself in and commit to defending his ignorance to the bitter end.

HA! that's ridiculous, I live in Portland.

maybe you just can't handle having a mirror held up to you.

when you're talking about films with 100 million dollar budgets, whatever expenses are associated with film seem kinda negligible.

every community is exclusive to those people who are willing to try to "get" that community. so spend some time trying to "get" this community, or else you will only make yourself look foolish and tone-deaf.

I bet the only reason they even let them in was that Levar Burton was best friends with the guy that plays the blind dude.

why place such artificial either-or limitations on artists? why decide that just because there's this new thing, the other thing must be permanently retired?

boo to whatever humorless prude flagged that.

maybe hang out and lurk a bit, get a gauge on the tone of the room and the particular voices of different writers around here, and then come back and enjoy the conversation.

I don't know why some people seem to think that JJ Abrams could possibly do a worse job than the last guy. it's almost as if they're so angry at Abrams for resurrecting Star Trek that they are willing to feign selective amnesia of the prequel trilogy just to continue the irrational over-the-top narrative they…