Happy Late Night, my Darling,
That was another excellent shot you posted this morning. I really like the placement of everything : band members in the lower corners, the singer emphasized by wide angle in the middle, and the lights mixing with the fog effects to create "clouds". It's a shot with a lot of impact, and the background is good too, with the open "doorway" behind the singer and the ceiling both featuring rectilinear patterns.
See, I notice everything. :)
Another thing I notice is that you are really developing an identifiable style with your concert photos; getting your own look, your own take on the concert setting. I see that you are on Instagram, so I just signed up to see your photos there, too.
Tonight I watched a movie called "Code Unknown" by an Austrian director named Michael Haneke. He has made some good films, most notably "White Ribbon" and "Cache", but "Code Unknown" was not one of them. You could more properly call it "Story Unknown". It purports to show the "interconnectedness of life" through social interaction, and it depicts the random everyday acts of a select group of people who unwittingly come in contact with one another.......but it isn't even as cohesive as I just described.
What it really is, is just another Bad Film. I could go on a Cinematic Tirade here, but I won't, haha.
Let's just say that I am tired of directors who think that you can just hang a bunch of slapdash, unrelated scenes and call it a movie.
A movie has to have some kind of story that ties together at the end. Even if it is a totally abstract story, or even if it is told in such a ridiculous way that it had to have been directed by Jean-Luc Godard.
A movie has to entertain. Even if it is a Poetic Movie filled with long, ultra-slow takes and runs 3 hours. "Andrei Rublev" is such a movie, but it entertains because it is thoughtful and it has a story, even though the story is fragmented and rambling, and obscure.
In the film I saw tonight, and in a lot of modern Art Cinema (see Von Trier), some directors think that Their Immense Genius is so overwhelming that all they've gotta do is put random scenes on screen and they've made a masterpiece.
Me? I don't think so, and I am striking out recently with the Von Trier debacle from the other night and tonight's Michael Haneke film. Both were very much not good. I think I've gotta institute a 30 minute rule, or maybe I'll be generous and make it 45 minutes. "If nothing remotely interesting is happening - or if there is no discernible plot - or if the director just plain sucks".....then I am gonna hit the Off Switch from now on.
I have always been averse to doing that, because I love movies so much. In the past, I have only ever turned off a few films, like "Tideland" by Terry Gilliam or "Cosmopolis" by David Cronenberg, two of The Absolute Worst Films Ever Made. But now I vow to hit the off switch more often, if only to save hours in my life, haha.
On the Good News Front, Hillary Clinton won 4 out of 5 states tonight, and is now within 200 or so delegates of securing the nomination. She will beat Trump - guaranteed - and thus we are gonna have our first Woman President in America, and it's going to be an exciting thing to watch......
I am also reading about the Gnostics (I might have mentioned them already), and how they deliberately challenged the New Testament with their own version, based on their opinions of "what it really meant".
In Dr. Joe's book, he describes something called Apostolic Succession, and it blows my mind. Remember that when you read about Christianity from me, it is always from my perspective that it was something mindblowing that happened - rather than from some folks interpretation that "you are gonna go to Hell if you don't believe every word in the Bible".
So what blows my mind about Apostolic Succession is this : The Story Of Christ happened, and was witnessed in real life by the twelve apostles. Several of them went on to travel and preach about what they had seen. The telling of this story affected enough people that a Church was born, and it grew. No Church in the history of mankind took off in this way, nor has lasted as long and had such influence.
And that is because of The Original Story, told by the twelve apostles, about what they had personally witnessed.
Stories tend to get altered or watered down, or changed by repeated tellings, and the Apostles knew this, and so they deliberately chose their successors from guys who were sworn to Tell The Original Story As It Actually Happened. Meanwhile, the Gnostics were trying to use Greek logic to disprove the story and alter it to a relatively human perspective, i.e. "the human mind created the idea of God".
But Apostolic Succession has been preserved to this day, much like American Indian oral tradition has been preserved, of their ancient tales, and in preserving the story of Christ strictly in this way, by choosing and hand picking the bishops who would succeed the Apostles 2000 years ago - and then on down the line to today - we are able to recieve the story undiluted. It seems like a fantasy to the secular, modern and science oriented person, to logic minded people.
But you can be a logical person and still understand, at your core, that unfathomable things have happened in this world. And the Story Of Christ was the ultimate of that. The Apostolic Succession was constructed to ensure that when one guy died, one Apostle at the beginning, that the next guy as his successor would tell the story exactly as his predecessor had, to ensure the Truth Of What Actually Took Place.
Those can be two different things, which is why I am such an adherant of Accurate Language.
There can be History.....that is One Thing, and it can be 100% accurate, or less so, depending on who wrote it, and how it was passed down, and if an agenda was in place, political or otherwise.
But then there is The Truth Of What Actually Happened. That is the Other Thing, and it can only be passed down in one way: By ensuring - via every necessary measure - that the passed-down account of what happened (the story) remains entirely unaltered.
That is what Apostolic Succession was all about, and has been all about to this day. The story of what was witnessed was so mind boggling that measures had to be taken to ensure it would always be told as it actually happened........
In order to perceive this, just imagine if you saw the same thing today.
You would tell it exactly as you saw it, because there would be no need to make anything up. And you would want the people you told it to, to report it in the exact same way, to maintain the truth.
That's all for tonight. I will see you in the morning, Sweet Baby. I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
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