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cgi on its own looks awful.
cgi used over a template or to touch up an existing object works well. cgi on its own doesn't feel tangible. gollum is the closest that they have come to real feeling, and he's still not perfect, he has that polished glow that artists are over eager to add to their work when making cgi.

Further, what will become of pyrotechnics, now that all the explosions are done with computers?  And what of extras?  Do you remember the massive casts of the old epic movies like Alexander, where hundreds of men  with all the panalopy of war marched across the fields?  No more, no more, you need perhaps five men, and a few costumes and props, and can then mix, match, copy and paste them across the screen so you can have thousands.


My thought:  Such cheap tricks should only be used by the underdogs, the independants.  The fellows without huge casts and productions studios and billion dollar budgets.  The rich folks can hire a gazillion extras.  We've got the system all upside down and backwards.  Technology, really.  Instead of making work easier on people, it lets bosses pile more work on them.  So they're even more  .

Art is subjective.

If you think a pile of rotting corpses looks pretty then it's art.

Oh, I don't know.  I've found many things artistic that I didn't think at all pretty.   Art is more than pretty.  I've also seen some pretty things that were...fairly un-artistic, though that is probobly a failure of my perception, and not of the things themselves.

Point is, even if I found the pile of rotting corpses ugly as hell, I think there's a chance I might still find it artistic.

Oh, I believe you. I mean, the story is good, but, yeah, cliches can be done well.  Maybe if he used Edmund Barton instead of Lincoln. Not only is it not an overused person, but it would have forced people to look him up, if they cared.

Yes!  So that instead of it being a tired reference to...whatever it was a reference to, it could have been an instrument of growth and knowledge!

And remember, that was written by "The Wisest Man In The World" according the both Jews and Christians. Though, I note his view does appear closely related to the view supposedly held by many Jews in the BC era. Depending on what you read and how you read it...

And despite being the "Wisest Man in the World", he married about 500 women.  Which in the end drove him mad.  I think him more clever than wise though, in marrying so many daughters of Pharoh's, chiefs, and Kings, Israel had peace...For his reign.

Regardless, isn't "All is vanity" nihilistic?  I read that Solomon's works represent the stages of a man's life, with Song of Songs representing the youthful...follies, Proverbs, the wisdom of maturity, and Ecclisiastes, the cynicism of old age.

If a thing is real for you, then that is enough. Don't let others bug you.

Mmmm....You could run into some trouble there.  Any belief outside of...reality leads to...problems.

For instance, take the fellow who believes with all his might that he can fly, and so jumps off his roof.  He of course, cannot fly, and thus faces the consequences of his actions.

Or take that delightfully crazy "Brain in a bottle" bit of philosophical quandry, where, in fact, nothing we know can really be know.  We have to take it on faith.  After all, were all of us colorblind, the one fellow who wasn't would be a madman, Red and Blue would be unknowable to us.  And inconsequential.  Bad analogy.  Goodbye.

PS
I feel that believing there is more to reality that what we percieve is key to any...spiritual religion.  Belief in more than the material.  Because, quite simply, trying to cram the heavens into your head will make it split.  So please, simply be content to slip your head into the Heavens.

What does this fellow    mean?

C'mon, LARP haters, surely even you think this is totally frikin' awesome!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkuUUvZLwMU