Lighting

[Wizard of Whatever]

Too many video productions have too many dark scenes. The directors should sacrifice realism for ease of viewing.

 

[Sarkus]

What is "too many"?
Any examples, or is this just a random brainfart of yours with no actual purpose other than to tell people how unhappy you are with their hard work that you have no obligation to watch?

 

[C C]

Too many video productions have too many dark scenes. The directors should sacrifice realism for ease of viewing.

Do they really make that many Westerns these days? I vaguely recall The Pinkertons having realistically gloomy interiors for that era, but the scenes were probably still brighter than what a lamp and few candles would provide (granting even those being in use).

The spaghetti Westerns shamed Hollywood by introducing weathered, dirty clothing and grimy looking faces that the latter had once abhorred in favor of freshly produced garments, daily bathed bodies, and salon hairdos and styles. But not sure the Italians also encroached on the heresy of eliminating the blinding studio arc lights or not. Been a while since I watched a baby-faced Eastwood in the course of hubby's fascination with those flicks. (CE is 95 now and made it that far without a trace of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry, AFAIK).
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[Wizard of Whatever]

Do they really make that many Westerns these days? I vaguely recall The Pinkertons having realistically gloomy interiors for that era, but the scenes were probably still brighter than what a lamp and few candles would provide (granting even those being in use).

The spaghetti Westerns shamed Hollywood by introducing weathered, dirty clothing and grimy looking faces that the latter had once abhorred in favor of freshly produced garments, daily bathed bodies, and salon hairdos and styles. But not sure the Italians also encroached on the heresy of eliminating the blinding studio arc lights or not. Been a while since I watched a baby-faced Eastwood in the course of hubby's fascination with those flicks. (CE is 95 now and made it that far without a trace of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry, AFAIK).
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Actually they are nighttime or inside scenes in many works. A lot of action scenes with very low lighting. Things like these.

 

[Sarkus]

Yet still no actual examples, so we're left guessing as to what you're complaining about.

 

[Pinball1970]

Yet still no actual examples, so we're left guessing as to what you're complaining about.

We are probably trapped within the prison of our own minds. I wish we were all free like WOW.

 

[Wizard of Whatever]

We are probably trapped within the prison of our own minds. I wish we were all free like WOW.

Hopefully, the whole human race will be and then go on to a new reality..

 

[Sarkus]

Hopefully, the whole human race will be and then go on to a new reality..

Don't let us stop you, bro! And, please, close the door on the way out. Although given this subject of this thread, I'm assuming the lights are already switched off.

 

[Killjoy]

Hopefully, the whole human race will be and then go on to a new reality..

There is no "new reality".
The "human mind" is our worst enemy and an evolutionary dead end.
The deceased merely become dust.

 

[foghorn]

Hopefully, the whole human race will be and then go on to a new reality..

That hoped for new reality for you, being a web forum where people hang on your every profound utterance.
Meanwhile, your real reality has you stuck here trying very hard to be deep and wise.
Carry on, you have nowhere esle to go but this forum.

 

[Wizard of Whatever]

There is no "new reality".
The "human mind" is our worst enemy and an evolutionary dead end.
The deceased merely become dust.

Who said anything about the mind. You can transcend the mind, wake up, evolve, die in this physical universe, and exist for ever.

 

[Pinball1970]

You can transcend the mind

Dare I ask how? (He asked him knowingly)

 

[Killjoy]

Who said anything about the mind. You can transcend the mind, wake up, evolve, die in this physical universe, and exist for ever.

There's the catch.
You think you can transcend the mind, because it's primary function is to deceive you.
It's doing it all day, every day.
It even does so when you sleep, by filling your head with seemingly cryptic weirdness which you then attempt to assign meaning to, when it's just the system rebooting.

 

[Wizard of Whatever]

There's the catch.
You think you can transcend the mind, because it's primary function is to deceive you.
It's doing it all day, every day.
It even does so when you sleep, by filling your head with seemingly cryptic weirdness which you then attempt to assign meaning to, when it's just the system rebooting.

No it's because I have. I can still use parts of its' function but it doesn't rule, The only way it actually affects me deleteriously is it functions as a jailer to prevent me from leaving the body permanently before physical death.

There is enough cryptic weirdness in waking experience that dreams are a drop in the bucket.

 

[Wizard of Whatever]

Dare I ask how? (He asked him knowingly)

Drugs, Tantra, music and dance, Tibetan yoga, ceremonial magic, Gurdjieffian techniques of self-observation and self remembering etc.

 

[Killjoy]

No it's because I have. I can still use parts of its' function but it doesn't rule, The only way it actually affects me deleteriously is it functions as a jailer to prevent me from leaving the body permanently before physical death.

It's telling you that you transcended it, isn't it ?
Because the mind is inherently delusional.

Like the Cheshire Cat said - We're all mad here...

There is enough cryptic weirdness in waking experience that dreams are a drop in the bucket.

Boy, howdy - you got that right.

Drugs, Tantra, music and dance, Tibetan yoga, ceremonial magic, Gurdjieffian techniques of self-observation and self remembering etc.

This strikes me as more the equivalent of giving a vehicle motor a tune up & adding mods like a nitrous oxide bottle than transcendence.
The Gurdjieffian business sounds interesting, though. I'd never heard of it. Just might give it a go, as there seems to be nothing to lose from attempting to "tweak the system".

 

[Wizard of Whatever]

It's telling you that you transcended it, isn't it ?
Because the mind is inherently delusional.

Like the Cheshire Cat said - We're all mad here...


Boy, howdy - you got that right.


This strikes me as more the equivalent of giving a vehicle motor a tune up & adding mods like a nitrous oxide bottle than transcendence.
The Gurdjieffian business sounds interesting, though. I'd never heard of it. Just might give it a go, as there seems to be nothing to lose from attempting to "tweak the system"

Actually, it is real. But you must wake up first before you can use these to evolve. The mind is afraid of being usurped from its' rulership, so it uses all tricks to avoid it.