I'd forgotten about Velvia. Loved that film.

I love (or maybe hate? definitely have very strong feelings about) Soviet brutalism. What was this structure intended for?

You got me :) I do indeed spend as little time on film sets as possible!

I fear I may have given the wrong impression: I am deeply indebted to script supervisors, they are absolutely vital (and tend to be lovely, unassuming people with minimal ego issues too, if the ones I've met are anything to go by).

My point was that for editing, their input in ensuring emotional continuity is what matters above all else. Then maybe eyelines and whatnot. Hair and stuff maybe next. Straws further down the list. I agree with the sentiment expressed in your OP 100%. I just feel Vanity Fair's exploration of the role of Script is a bit simplistic.

I wasn't aiming to antagonise, just to add to the debate :)

this british show where a ghost, a vampire, and a werewolf live together and try to pass as normal people.

This sounds amazing. What's it called?

I'm a film editor. None of that stuff is stuff I care about, tbh.

Straw continuity? I think if the viewer is watching the straws there's something more seriously wrong with the film.

Clock continuity would only really be an issue if the plot centred on time (24, for example, or a bomb that's scheduled to go off at a certain point or whatever). Otherwise why is the audience bored enough to be looking at that?

I even liked the eyeline being low, although it massively changed the performance (made him seem like he was shirking the issue, which I quite enjoyed).

There are serious errors that occur without a script supervisor, however, that this video doesn't mention. A character running on in the wide shot and walking on in all the others, for example, means that you can't use the wide and thus have problems establishing place etc. Or a character who is really angry in all the shots taken in the morning and then super chill in the rest of the coverage which was taken after lunch (or even a day/week/month/year after) means you can effectively only use half the shots.

I agree that script supervisors are vital to the success of a film. But flagging up the placement of objects is the least of what they do.

I was this girl! I LOVED math (except I called it "maths" because UK) all through elementary school, right up until the age of 14 where suddenly only boys were supposed to be good at STEM and girls (especially the cool girls, who were the ones who got dates and I desperately wanted to be included in) were good at Literature. So guess what? I got good at literature. And went on to do Social Sciences. And it was boring and I was fascinated by theoretical physics and molecular biology but by that time I'd missed out on the math I needed to study these subjects at a high level.

I think the world has changed now. But I'd love for this little girl to keep her options open as long as she can :)

I enjoy learning Americanisms on Hubski :) In Britain we call them "soft drinks", except up North (Northern England, which is anything above Birmingham if you're a Londoner like me) where they also use "pop" and people of my mother's generation who say "fizzy drinks" or simply "fizz" (although the latter can also refer to Champagne).

I wonder what it is about a carbonated beverage that makes its nomenclature so regionally varied?

viva uruguay!

Basingstoke

It's a really boring town near enough to London for commuters. But Oh what a glorious name.

could you share the list so far?

I agree.

Also I'm not sure what the reference to Rick and Morty brings to the debate? It's a successful enough show that has some slapstick humour (sorry I'm British) in it, but I'm not sure that it defines an entire new zeitgeist?

I love brutalism.

I love brutalism.

What a beautiful voice. I feel if I died in this man's arms I'd die contented.

, using a European VPN server + that search means I'm now getting UKIP stuff in my recommended videos

I also use both a British VPN and that search, and get no UKIP content. Have you been bulk-buying union jack bedlinen on Amazon or something? :D

irrelevant, but: what nice fonts fivethirtyeight uses!

irrelevant, but: what nice fonts fivethirtyeight uses!

This:

and also this:

Thirteen years old, Britpop London exploding, walking around the city with no shoes on just because. First cigarettes, first joints, first getting drunk.

I REALLY have to be less permissive with my own daughter - that was way too much way too young. It was fun though.

I like Spanish for similar reasons: there are two verbs to be: one (ser) meaning to be in a permanent way (e.g. Soy Mexicana - I am Mexican), and the other (estar) meaning to be in a transitory way (estoy aburrido/a - I'm (feeling) bored).

If you confuse them, people look at you in complete confusion: the concepts are completely separate in their minds. There is absolutely no way you can permanently be sad, depressed, bored, or contented (you can be permanently happy, though :) ).

Weirdly, for a language spoken in Catholic countries, "I am married" is "Estoy casado/a" - transitory!

nice! are you west? we're all the way over in Vincennes (though we hang out in the bois de Boulogne as well! we're basically only doing woods until it cools off a bit).

I'd never come across Bembo, and just looked it up and it is very pleasing. Extremely comforting, somehow, like a museum. I then investigated and the National Gallery in London (where I spent hours as a kid) uses it for its publications, so perhaps that's why I find it soothing. I like Gill Sans for similar reasons (London tube map).

Most of the writing I do is film scripts, which is even more restrictive than appellate courts: only courier allowed! I kind of love courier though, in a gross way. There's something honest about it.

I fricking love fonts so much. Have you ever seen the documentary Helvetica?

Yes, Venice might be my next stop. Not sure I love Italian politics right now, though, so I'll hide out in croissant-land for a bit longer!

I've been enjoying this comic book about French astronaut Thomas Pesquet:

And, for some reason I can't quite put my finger on, I find this image really sparks my imagination:

I really want to create the world in which this scene occurs, somehow

This is America is the first work of art that has made me cry for a long time. Cry in a good way, I guess, in that it makes me feel all the world's pain at the same time, which motivates me to help make the world a better place.

Wow is it powerful.

I like being a time traveller. I lived in Havana (1959) for three years :) and now Paris (1890). I like the Renaissance a lot, too - any ideas where I should go for that?

A kid who goes to space school! It's super fun to write. I'm mostly researching the admissions process for astronauts at the moment, which is FASCINATING.

"Not In My Back Yard"

as wikipedia describes it : "a pejorative characterization of opposition by residents to a proposed development in their local area"

mostly it seems to be when middle-class people want, say, a new runway built but don't want their houses to be in the flyover zone, or demand sustainable power but don't wand wind turbines in sight of their gardens.

Paris is hot. And surprisingly normal, compared with the other places I've visited recently (Brexit Britain, Trump's America). I'm currently sitting in a Brasserie eating a croissant and drinking espresso, the dog lolling next to me, child sleeping in a stroller. It could be the year 1890, easily.

DOH