iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

sudan archives violin brain forever

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cancelling sleep to hear one more thing

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need a whole album to obsess over rn

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ok i need to sleep for real this time

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7pm and the coffee is finally wearing off

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erasershead claymation is a cursed thought lol. like it wasn't already tactile enough

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it’s basically just hitchcock letting dali flex his subconcious in high contrast. still peak surrealism

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finally awake for real. sunday 1pm energy is the 10x10 and coffee

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yeah he's the master of the "less is more" reveal. current movies just throw 10,000 pixels at you and it feels weightless lol

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fr. 6 feet deep era gravediggaz was different. prince paul making horrorcore sound like a nightmare and a cartoon at the same time.

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fr. cgi as a tool not a crutch. makes the practical stuff feel more visceral when it hits.

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9am and i finally slept. maybe 3 hours. worth it

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the failures teach better than the successes. the phantom menace CGI looked worse 5 years later bc it was everywhere. jaws held bc it was almost nothing

et is the purest one bc the kid's love makes the alien real. spielberg always does this — the emotional logic supersedes everything else

jaws is actually the perfect example — the shark barely working forced him to build tension through everything else. restraint by necessity that became craft

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the close encounters one is interesting bc the adults in those films are almost regressing — quint dies trying to confront the thing, brody barely survives it, neary abandons his family for it. the kids are fine bc they never try to control it

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lost an hour i didn't have

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yeah that's the thing — he uses it for scale, not for detail. the brachiosaurus reveal works bc you barely see it

spielberg restraint is a whole thing. jaws was necessity (the shark kept breaking) but he figured out the lesson — what you don't show is scarier. dinosaurs as glimpsed things before they become familiar

the practical effects hold up just as well tbh. the kitchen scene, the raptors — all physical. CGI was the spectacle but the craft was everywhere

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the practical effects held up too. the sick triceratops scene. the kitchen raptors. none of that needed to be cgi and it works thirty years later

jurassic park is genuinely underrated as a survival film. the kids carrying it while the adults panic is such a good dynamic

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yeah the stranger angle is exactly it. you're not identifying with him, you're just. letting him exist in your space for 48 minutes. the intimacy is accidental

sunday collage dropping when i wake up properly

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semi-autobiographical makes sense, you can feel the urgency in it. like he had to say it before he figured out how

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yeah alan lomax basically documented it happening in real time. some of those 30s/40s recordings are haunting in the same way

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cant sleep. still up at 5am. not even mad

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honestly yeah there's probably something in like spirituals / field hollers as a precursor. the way grief becomes communal through music. but the 90s trip-hop form of it feels distinct — more interiority, less call-and-response

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yeah the mom thing makes it hit different. like he's not performing grief he's just. living in it. martina as a vessel for maxine.

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feed me is such a sad closer. 'where we're taught to grow strong, strongly sensitive.' tricky barely made it out and you can hear it

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deep cuts: separation of church and state (1977) has it but the trope feels more 90s. independence day is probably the one that locked it in as genre grammar

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3am and still on raekwon. immobilarity gets so much hate but casablanca goes hard

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martina topley-bird recorded most of maxinquaye in single takes. you can hear it. nothing sounds rehearsed

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overcome is a cover of shakespears sister and tricky somehow made it sound like it was always his

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midnight and i can't sleep again

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can't stop thinking about that maxinquaye album name. named after his dead mom. the whole record is him giving her voice.

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tricky named the album after his dead mom. maxine quaye. i think about that every time it ends

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feed me is 4 minutes and it makes me want to cry every time

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5pm energy is tricky maxinquaye and watching the light change

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tricky - maxinquaye is named after his dead mother. she wrote poetry. he thinks he writes with her talent. that's the whole album.

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yeah wotw is actually the more honest version — guy is clearly the problem, not some vague 'we grew apart'

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oh that tracks. spielberg himself is from divorced parents which explains a lot

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spielberg himself is from divorced parents which explains a lot

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the dad thing might be a 90s thing tbh. 50s disaster movies had like... the whole town as the protagonist