MISCELLANEOUS

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MICHAEL JACKSON TO COME!!!

a few days ago I watched a bunch of Travis Scott videos on youtube. well not a bunch, more like two or three. but I took a bunch of screenshots. His Fortnite astronomical event must have been so expensive to make, let's take a look at the shots I got.

For the record, this is what my desktop looks like...often. Not proud, just honest.

Maybe I'm technically a screenshot hoarder...Sometimes I go through the things I've "taken a picture of" and I'm like, "um...why, Maya? this? this? you needed to save this? for you don't know why...okay, hun...."

But you just never know. YOU REALLY CAN JUST NEVER KNOW WHEN YOU'LL NEED THAT ABSOLUTELY PERFECT, MIMETIC SCREENSHOT OF AN ACTRESS IN A REALLY STRANGE PHARMACY COMMERCIAL. THE SET DESIGN IS TERRIBLE, HER COSTUME IS OUTDATED AND THE CHILD SHE IS WITH WAS SO YOUNG AND I WISH THE COMMERCIAL WAS JUST ABOUT THAT. JUST ABOUT HER BEING A 45+ YEAR OLD MOM WITH LIKE A 6-YEAR-OLD SON. that commercial would have nothing to sell, though. it would just be an ad for women over 45+ with young kids. representational politics? identity politics? reproductive rights? idk but i have a screenshot from the commercial...if you're curious.

Also some out of pocket Youtube screenshots...mostly a lot of out of pocket shit. Where to buy a pocket these days...?

Hm.

This is the Travis Scott Fortnite astronomical event I was telling you about.

This screenshot is from like the end of the middle of the video, so there was a lot of slower-paced graphics that built up to this. I'm trying to find those now, but you already know what my desktop looks like.

Also...I got really lazy with these videos and just took screenshots OF THE WHOLE SCREEN...and the video player was on Mini SO

I GOTTA CROP THA SHITS BEFORE THEY MAKE IT INTO ANY SEMBLANCE OF A FOLDER AIGHT.

patience, patience, love.

//the shits have been cropped and "foldered":

i mean how expensive was this? had to be very, right?

shiii...moments like these i actually kinda crave gross wealth...

just so i could manufacture the dankest of visuals (astronomical concert events)

for the record:

i don't know how i feel about these visuals...

not gonna call 'em dank. sorry.

sort of half-baked imo...

feels like Kanye's Takashi Murakami phase...

spit out...

into Fortnite.

Yeah it's just like if the Graduation album cover had a concert, but Travis Scott showed up to play instead of Kanye, lol.

~~yeah i mean it's aight~~

they were like let's bring:

Coachella

Burning Man

Fyre Fest

to the muh-fuckin moon (zoom)

or where ever the heck they is...

ooooo like here's Travis' vision of inter-galactic Burning Man

(can't set a hologram aflame? don't sweat it, just start burning exercise equipment, guy!)

but hats off to our FX team for slaying this lil dance break

oooooo

ooooooooooooooo

when i look at this picture? i hear:

"dreams"

- kid cudi

no tea, some shade, kid cudi but imma need to hear bout somethin other than these fucked ass dreams u been havin' for like 12 years now

and the choir sang, "melatoniiiiin"

get some melatonin, baby

yucks, don't wanna come for cudi's MIND, but i do wanna come for his verse

stale, imo.

SHOTS SHOTS SHOTS SHOTS SHOTS SH-SH-SH-SHOTS SHOTS SHOTS

EVRYBODAY!

more screenshots

i LOVE the "hellscapes" in this Fornite Event! GOOD GOD!

Also this one is just too good, idk who choreographed it, but

To me, looks like the bruh in the foreground of the frame is trying to help land this weird aircraft in the distance...

and yucks abound for me

2020. in. a. nutshell.

girl look at that terrain.

peep the weather conditions. is this a deleted scene from Flight (2012)?!?! is that a CGI Denzel? soooo many...questions.

and i don't want them answered.

okay so. HAD to include the underwater scenes, DUH!

mostly 'cause my girl, Emi, recently told me how difficult it is to CGI water...

water and fire: the most fickle of liquids to render realistically in post

which makes sense when explained to me, but is still such an intriguing problem to me.

so apparently it's really hard to make water (CGI water) look like an actual clear liquid...early attempts look like silicone samples-- still super cool to look at, imo, but definitely not mimetic water, oh no.

also i watched a YouTube video on post-production "water" innovations

because another big problem in rendering water in post production is, funnily enough, scaling water up.

making a vast body of water move realistically

disperse

ebb

flow

rage

...

is apparently really hard to do.

which makes sense when I think about the nature of computers and the nature of...well nature.

I mean you look at a wave swell in real life and...can you pinpoint the epicenter of the energy that created said wave?

Like a point...a point or two...just a central data point to build the wave up around? No right.

And when you see a wave hit a rock, and all that nice sea foam sprays everywhere...does that spray seem uniform to you? not really...but it is consistent...in that water, upon crashing on shore, creates mist

and tinier water droplets

etc.

so then how do you program fake waves to always disperse when they crash on the shore...

but make sure they disperse in a unique, yet similar, way each time?

write the algorithm.

jk, not a test!

(people have already figured it out)

//also i just like the light quality of these underwater moments from //Fortnite Event lol;

Gonna end the Fortnite Astronomical Event here, with this light beam.

Love light beams.

They feature heavily in my work.

(zoom)

Here's screenshots of Travis not from his Fortnite thing:

this is one of my favorite images.

of all time.

i think about it

ofTen.

amen.

Hard to believe this shit was all for a music video. These shots is paintings if you ask me...sheesh!

WHY WOULD I NAME THIS AMENART?

mmm 'cause i love art!

i prefer to pronounce it as "ort" but...

it (art) (ort) makes me:

mad

sad

glad

confused

feel

joyous

incredulous

spontaneous

(in)sane

ew do i go into the whole, "i didn't pick this!" shtick?

nah, you got it

So, I really love these signs that this dude Stanley Marsh made:

Um. They just make me laugh. I love to see humor in art. More yucks, puh-lease!

But. I'm sad to say. Man, I'm always so torn by this

conversation...it's a classic duel between my sun

and my moon. But Stanley Marsh led a very sordid.

sordid. personal life. According to court documents

and his wikipedia page.

And given culture today, I'm kind of like...

Hmm, you know is it appropriate for me to say

aloud that I like this man's art,

AND I disagree with how he

chose to lead his life.

In essence, I wanna separate

the artist from his art.

That's what happens anyway...I think, at least. Yeah, we meet the persona of some really acclaimed individuals, but I bet every partner beside said persona has quite a few petty gripes about said artist they would love to tell the mass of adoring fangirlies. And maybe those gripes really aren't that petty. Maybe the way creative industries excuse and romanticize asocial mannerisms should be talked about more...yeah. Maybe the snarky way that director or actor spoke to that interviewer...is just how they talk? They think that kind of a thing is "cute" or "just them being them" and it's also how they talk to their partner. Their girlfriend, boyfriend, mom, maybe even their kid? I mean.

I think, even when you like the performer as a "person", you should ignore those feelings when watching them at work. Just look at the performance, forget the performer's personal life tab on wikipedia. Fuck the filmography. Think of the role, and think of how the actor came to the role; is it a symbiotic relationship between role and performer? Did the performer's presence benefit the role, or detract?

I fucking hate Tom Cruise, but he served his role well in A Few Good Men. Not gonna deny that, I see no point in it. I think it's fine to put the two thoughts next to each other and just chill. That's just my opinion.

I'm appalled by what I read on Stanley Marsh's personal life tab on wikipedia. And I think he served road signs exceptionally well. I think he took a well known "ready-made" and used his free-time (privilege, wealth, yada, yada, oil money) to just...fuck around and make funny signs. And some of them are really. truly. profound. in my mind's eye.

But my appreciation for his road signs does nothing to ease the knot in my stomach when I think of his personal life tab. I'm glad I read his wikipedia page, though. I tend to lean on the side of it's better to know. So, I'm glad I know, and I'm glad I found out on my own. In my own time. My private revelation affording me the space I needed to really think about what I had read. And i need that time because rarely are my knee-jerk reactions cogent enough to be formatted into a call-to-action instagram story.

Sometimes I just see something and I think: oh. oh god. oh fuck.

gotta say...i have a CRUSH on david byrne.

okay so.

we all know David Byrne, right?

Yeah...

so like crush is the wrong word because I feel like it's too Judy Blume to be accurate enough to describe my affection towards

THAT MAN.

OHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGOD THAT MAN

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWW EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPP!!!

have u heard him yelp? have u seen him move?! you would think he has sciatica concerns the way he moves, but it's actually intentional i think and i love it and oh my god oh my god oh my god have u listened to what he's saying when he sings oh no oh no oh noooooo it's just TOO GOOD

okay. i'm sorry. i'm passionate.

and my venus is in pisces

DOH! i didn't wanna SAAAYYY THAT!! but it's gonna become apparent at some time or another... if it hasn't already become painfully obvious, ugh!

you don't understand. how GREAT my urge is...

to just TYPE OUT

a bunch of that man's lyrics

nooooo shut up. you don't.

sorry you just. don't.

OOO NA NA NA NAAAA

NA NA NA NA NU-NA NAAA

NA NA NA NAAAAA

NA NA NA NA NU-NA NAAA

OOOO OH OH OH

OH OH

HOOOOOO

I'M LIVIN IN THE FUTURE!

I FEEL WONDERFUL!

I'M TIPPIN' OVER BACKWARDS!

I'M SO AMBITIOUS!

I'M LOOKING BACK I'M

RUNNING A RACE AND YOU'RE THE BOOK I READ SO!

THE BOOK I READ BY TALKING HEADS IS MAYBE THE MOST IMPORTANT SONG IN THE WORLD TO ME.

MAYBE.

ALSO...Pulled Up...Radio Head...

OH SHIT OH NO

RADIO HEAD BREAK:

TRANSMITTER!

OHHH PICKIN' UP SOMETHING GOOOOD

HEY! RADIO HEAAADDDD

THE SOUND

OF A BRAND NEW WOOOOORRRLD

HEY!

YOU AND I HAVE NO SECRETS

NOW BABY,

LEMME READ YOUR MI-HIIIIND!

I HEAR EVERYTHING YOU'RE THINkIN'

YOU CAN TELL ME

WHAT YOU FI-HIIIND

aa-HUUUUU

TRANSMITTER!

OHHH!

and so on

maybe this is where i quickly mention...

that if i ever see Chris Frantz or Terry Weymouth...

it's on site.

whatcha gonna do when ya get outta jail?

i'm gonna have some fun!

what do you consider fun?

beating terry up!

do-do-do-do do

i hate chriiis

don't forget it

it's not just terryyy

there is no grey

and there is no sorry

i'm gonna hurt you

for talkin' shiiiit

do-do do do do do

hahahahhahahahaahaa

I am SUCH. a taurus. wow it's problematic. I don't even know David Byrne, but my affinity for his work alone is enough for me to want to square up whenever i hear some shit bein' slung Davie's way okay?

Chris really said the lyrics make "no sense"

OH REALLY? REALLY

"we went insane when we took cocaine"...that's what you're known for Terry and Chris...don't hate. you're also known for Fantasy by Mariah Carey which is...a whole roast in and of itself ok! I rest my case.

Here's some concert movie screenshots lol

from Stop Making Sense 198...4? I believe?