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Andrew

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  • I took Pauline to lunch and said, “Pauline, look, as a critic, you can say anything you want. That’s your right and I respect that right. But when you’re at a Hollywood party where people are packaging and making films, you are no longer a critic. You are an insider. And when you denigrate me at that party, you are not denigrating me as a critic, you are denigrating me as a financial element. So don’t get confused—what you are doing at these parties is not criticism anymore.” And as a result, she never reviewed anything I did again.
    Oscar Nominee Paul Schrader Says He’s Ready to Make an AI Movie (and Have AI Review It) | Vanity Fair
  • AI does better coverage than the average coverage. And AI doesn’t have to favor anybody. Often, when you’re doing coverage, you get a hint that the person who’s paying you wants you to like this. You can’t give that information to AI. So AI is the ultimate unbiased reporter then? In this way, yes. But of course, we can teach it to be biased.
    Oscar Nominee Paul Schrader Says He’s Ready to Make an AI Movie (and Have AI Review It) | Vanity Fair
  • They have the AI actress now; they have the AI director. I was just on the phone with someone today about a script I had, and I said, “You know, this would be a perfect script to do all AI.” Really? So you are willing to fully embrace it yourself? Yeah, it’s just a tool. When you’re an author, you have to describe someone’s reaction. You use a code—you use a code of words, a certain number of letters, and so forth, and you express their facial reaction. An actor has their own code. Well, now you’re a pixelator, and you can create the face, and you can create the emotion on the face, and you ca…
    Oscar Nominee Paul Schrader Says He’s Ready to Make an AI Movie (and Have AI Review It) | Vanity Fair
  • Cinema for most of its history has been a two-dimensional thing that was projected out of a wall in the darkroom, and that is going away now. It’s becoming a much more environmental experience. You can’t go to an art museum without seeing a movie anymore.
    Oscar Nominee Paul Schrader Says He’s Ready to Make an AI Movie (and Have AI Review It) | Vanity Fair
  • They are tastemakers of pop culture, but often they don’t have rigid, critical principles so it ends up being, “I like it. It’s cool. Blah, blah, blah.” Rather than taking a film and putting it right with “This is where this film exists in the history of film taste and genre. This is what it’s doing new; this is what it’s doing old. This is what it’s redoing. Here’s the new model, here’s the old model,” or vice versa.
    Oscar Nominee Paul Schrader Says He’s Ready to Make an AI Movie (and Have AI Review It) | Vanity Fair
  • I was a protégé of Pauline Kael’s. We’re all a Paulette at one point in our lives. I came up in the era of those five major film critics: Pauline, Andy [Sarris], Stanley [Kauffmann], Parker Tyler, and Roger [Ebert]. That was kind of the Mount Rushmore of the American film business. We don’t have that today because people don’t really…we’re getting into a whole other subject, a very interesting one. Film criticism didn’t used to exist. Then it flourished, and now it’s dying again. The very biggest change in the history of criticism is that streaming has returned us to the era of generic “the mo…
    Oscar Nominee Paul Schrader Says He’s Ready to Make an AI Movie (and Have AI Review It) | Vanity Fair
  • Sometimes you point out things like the PT Anderson film [One Battle After Another]—stunning direction, but deeply confused at the script level. And that’s what reviewers do. They say, “This is tour de force filmmaking. This guy clearly knows how to make a film. I wish there was someone that looked a little harder at that script, because the script has problems.” And certain films I have pointed out have a fundamental [plot] flaw.
    Oscar Nominee Paul Schrader Says He’s Ready to Make an AI Movie (and Have AI Review It) | Vanity Fair
  • one can surmise that creating a strong and opposing disposition for the characters in the story will lead to greater enjoyment for the viewer. By making a villain's actions terribly amoral, and the hero's actions extremely moral, one can create emotional arousal in a viewer.
    Affective disposition theory - Wikipedia
  • If the reader likes a character, they will hope for a positive outcome. If they dislike a character, they will hope that character fails, creating a counter-empathy.[5] By delaying this outcome, the writer can create suspense in the viewer. This suspense heightens emotional arousal and, therefore, the enjoyment of the narrative.
    Affective disposition theory - Wikipedia
  • In more simplistic terms, the enjoyment of the spectator or viewer has been found to increase the more the winning team is favored by the spectator/viewer and the more the losing team is disliked by the spectator/viewer. Henceforth, the maximum enjoyment of the spectator comes when the intensely liked team or player defeats the intensely disliked team or player.
    Affective disposition theory - Wikipedia
  • Raney also found that the expectation of experiencing enjoyment is the greatest reason that sports media viewers report why they consume sports media.
    Affective disposition theory - Wikipedia
  • Chanting, flags, and ties to the team's area provide a base for "local patriotism",[18] and thus, give way to the unnamed groups and organizations that hooligans identify with. This can expand to a national level, as seen in the case of the UEFA Euro 2016 riots caused by several countries' visiting fans as well as the French host fans. The violence at these tournaments can be amplified due to an increased degree of "patriotism".
    Football hooliganism - Wikipedia
  • In this way, each club began having its own barra brava funded by the leaders of the institution. These groups were given their tickets and paid trips to the stadium. For the barra brava to be prestigious, it had to be violent, so they began to increase the level of violence.
    Football hooliganism - Wikipedia
  • Argentine hooligans are reputed to be the most dangerous organized supporter groups in the world
    Football hooliganism - Wikipedia
  • Hooligans who have the time and money may follow national teams to away matches and engage in hooligan behaviour against the hooligans of the home team.
    Football hooliganism - Wikipedia
  • If you look at transcriptions of the speeches of Martin Luther King, you can see this process, too—how the material grows on stage as he improvises night after night, reacting to the audience.
    Pick an audience that is into the illegible you of today, not your past achievements
  • The audience is a genius. They know immediately, that’s funny, that’s not funny, that’s acceptable, that’s not acceptable. They make the call on all that stuff so you’re just like presenting stuff and going, “Is that okay? Is that all right?”
    Pick an audience that is into the illegible you of today, not your past achievements
  • Looking at live streams of Andy Matuschak taking notes allows you to pick up patterns of thought that he is unable to articulate. Looking at a hundred examples of garden designers redoing the layout of a garden gives you a mental representation much richer than the descriptions in the garden books.
    Scraping training data for your mind - by Henrik Karlsson
  • I especially enjoy it when intelligent people attack me; I then invite them to comment on upcoming drafts.
    A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox
  • The public has gotten very smart and they’re very hard to trick. You’re talking about the stars aligning in a way that may never be repeated again.
    How ‘The Blair Witch Project’ revolutionized movie marketing - Los Angeles Times
  • Young interns at the company were deployed to cafes and dance clubs around the country to ask people what they knew about the supposed legend of the Blair Witch, armed with realistic-looking “missing” posters for the film’s three stars.
    How ‘The Blair Witch Project’ revolutionized movie marketing - Los Angeles Times
  • Werner Herzog will spend days reading the Poetic Edda and listening to classical music at full volume to get himself into what he calls an “ecstasy of language” before writing a script.
    Scraping training data for your mind - by Henrik Karlsson
  • Unlike my musician friends, who are just jamming and listening to whatever catches their fancy, Frusciante seems to have a detailed understanding of who his influences should be and why. He knows how their playing styles interrelate and where he wants to position himself in that landscape of playing. He has a map of guitarists. The map is organized by technique but also by the effect they have on him, the kind of songwriting they open up. He tweaks this web of influences to change his playing.
    First we shape our social graph; then it shapes us
  • Frusciante has an uncommon discipline about what he lets into his senses; he is uncommonly deliberate about curating his milieu. His mode of writing songs is to select a set of guitarists and play along to their recordings (“I'm playing along with music that I'd like to be influenced by”) until new ideas start to emerge. He arranges a constellation of nodes and channels the input they send him into new music.
    First we shape our social graph; then it shapes us
  • Write on a post-it note affixed to a greeting card rather than on the greeting card itself, so the recipient can throw away the post-it and reuse your card
    Milan Cvitkovic
  • Start a blog or substack so you can say “I’m a writer” without lying. Then start conversations with strangers by saying “Hi, I’m a writer doing a piece about . Can I ask you a few questions?”
    Milan Cvitkovic
  • A Master Programmer passed a novice programmer one day. The Master noted the novice's preoccupation with a hand-held computer game. "Excuse me," he said, "may I examine it?" The novice bolted to attention and handed the device to the Master. "I see that the device claims to have three levels of play: Easy, Medium, and Hard," said the Master. "Yet every such device has another level of play, where the device seeks not to conquer the human, nor to be conquered by the human." "Pray, Great Master," implored the novice, "how does one find this mysterious setting?" The Master dropped the device to t…
    The Tao of Programming
  • A manager asked a programmer how long it would take him to finish the program on which he was working. "I will be finished tomorrow," the programmer promptly replied. "I think you are being unrealistic," said the manager, "Truthfully, how long will it take?" The programmer thought for a moment. "I have some features that I wish to add. This will take at least two weeks," he finally said. "Even that is too much to expect," insisted the manager, "I will be satisfied if you simply tell me when the program is complete." The programmer agreed to this. Several years later, the manager retired. On th…
    The Tao of Programming
  • A manager went to the Master Programmer and showed him the requirements document for a new application. The manager asked the Master: "How long will it take to design this system if I assign five programmers to it?" "It will take one year," said the Master promptly. "But we need this system immediately or even sooner! How long will it take if I assign ten programmers to it?" The Master Programmer frowned. "In that case, it will take two years." "And what if I assign a hundred programmers to it?" The Master Programmer shrugged. "Then the design will never be completed," he said.
    The Tao of Programming