I had someone recommend that film to me the other day. I had no idea he was in it, but now I feel like fate is telling me to watch it? Also maybe I shouldn’t trust that persons film opinions?

Nice explanation and I agree that this is not a color calibration or grade issue. It is definitely contrast and even more so gamma, I would say - it looks graded at the gamma of a ref monitor and not a consumer set, right? Like you said, it should have been tested on standard displays first.

Raul Julia was a god damned national treasure.

I wasn’t a fan of “The Last Jedi,” but I am uncomfortable with how even the title of this film takes a very public dump on Rian Johnson. 

Absolutely this. I have to do this for my clients (I’m a photographer) because, if you’re not a humongous business, it’s kind of expensive to run those things. That’s not on me. That’s Capitol One demanding a pricey sum (on top of the millions they make in interest every day) for the honor of getting paid by them. If…

There are dozens of us. DOZENS.

I was going to add this as well -I suspect a great deal of CC users (myself included) write the entire expense off on their taxes. 

This article totally unlocked the memory of me and my father going to a sketchy computer fair, somewhere outside Detroit, to find a RAM upgrade (4 MB son!) for my pieced together 486. I remember someone running the game “Raptor” and it looking amazing, as well as seeing a boxed copy of “The Uninvited” and wanting it…

I was a big Lawrence Krauss fan and I remember reading his (insane) rebuttal and how it just proved what a guilty asshole he was. And now the exact same scenario for another person I used to enjoy (in small doses.) I can’t believe how angry his response makes me. He and Krauss should be dispatched to outer space…

We lived close to that neighborhood for a while. We eventually bought a house with a garage. That relief, never having to worry about finding parking, and not dealing with assholes who don’t shovel but put folding chairs in their spot all day......there is nothing like it. I don’t give a shit about my house, really.…

I know I’m late to this party, but Chiller is available to play on Archive.org’s collection of preserved arcade games (though I couldn’t really figure out the controls, and it was impossible with a keyboard.)

I love your description of how to properly read peer reviewed articles followed by how you find it best to read peer reviewed articles, something I also did a lot in school, and I think that’s part of why I always enjoy reading your work on Lifehacker - you would be a great professor, should you fancy another career…

That’s what I first thought as well. In Chicago, if you do any work off-duty you’re not allowed to be in uniform or armed. Although this seems to be the tenth most fucked up aspect of this story.

Fuch him indeed and I hope he goes away. However, I was a candidate for the Chicago Police Department a few years back, and I dropped out of the hiring process well into it, because that is EXACTLY the type of individual they are looking to hire. Their HR process is also responsible for this and a bevy of other…

Damn straight. This stuff drives me crazy. There is no mystery here - ANYONE is safer in a car if they face backwards. I didn’t think of that and you’re totally right - once self driving cars are a thing, we’ll all be facing backwards. 

I agree. The look works for Collateral, and I think you’re right that he just stuck with the workflow of the Sony cameras cause he liked it. Blackhat looks like the first film he made with an Alexa as his primary, and even then probably just because Sony stopped supporting that system.

True that. I’ve taught some digital photography and I have a hard time convincing people who grew up using film that “expose to the right” gets changed to “expose to the left” when shooting digital. 

You put that perfectly. If you mess up exposing digital it falls apart and looks like butt. If you mess up exposing film it often just looks unique and cool.

The first time I saw Public Enemies I had the same response - some scenes looked suuuuper video-ish. Same with Once Upon a Time in Mexico (and I think both films used a Sony F23, and early cinema camera.) Once Arriflex got into the business with the Alexa it normalized, I think. Then again Zodiac was shot with Viper…

I mean, at this point, it seems like you might as well just move somewhere frigid. How attached are you to your current location? Are you a fan of snow?