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    Man Ray: 'Larmes de Verre', Glass Tears (1930-1932)

  • I am in love w the way pre 2000s films have that hazy feel to them. hd honestly kills the vibe

  • assiraphales

    I think that’s one of the reasons why “period” media that’s marketed off the Aesthetic sometimes bothers me.......like they get the music, the clothing, the cars......and yet it always feels like something is missing

    like,

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    or even compare the early x files to the reboot

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    something is just lost with the crispness

  • assiraphales

    someone in the tags said early spn vs new supernatural and tbh 100% yes !!

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    I never realized how much I missed the grainy undersaturated filing ...... “good lighting” and sharpness strike again

  • aphony-cree

    Seasons 1-3 were shot on 35mm film

    4-15 were all shot on digital cameras, a change that the network insisted on

  • thedustycrow

    Yeah the exact thing that changed is that all the old stuff was recorded on film and all the new stuff was recorded on digital media.

  • jmtorres

    i was going to say the film thing and the someone brought up supernatural and i was like "nah" and then @aphony-cree out here dropping that bomb.... in *2005,* to *2008?* there was a show shooting on film???? god you guys MOST shows went though this transition in the 90s how the fuck was SPN on FILM

  • aphony-cree

    In the 2000s dramatic shows had a good shot of convincing networks to let them use film. The network still had film cameras they’d bought and maybe hadn’t gotten enough use out of before the switch to digital. Most dramas can’t be shot entirely in the studio, they need to go on location, so it made sense to let them use the older cameras while the new expensive digital cameras stayed in the studio where they were safer

    Supernatural wanted the 35mm film aesthetic and hated when they were forced to switch to digital

  • satancheeto

    They just recently released a 4K version of Lord of the Rings and they’re so Crisp. None of those soft fantasy vibes

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  • moki-dokie

    one of my least favorite things about these 4k updates to films (especially ones that used actual film) is that they also go and try to do color correction. like there’s a REASON that some scenes are heavily blue saturated. that wasn’t purely an effect of using film, but also a choice during the editing process. color is just as important to a movie as anything else.

    it’s the exact reason why the matrix was shot with blue heavily filtered out to give that greenish-gray appearance, which added to the feel for a grungey dystopian machine-ruled future. The 4k version of it still has that there for the most part, but you can tell they did some color correction too and it throws off the entire vibe.

    not to mention 4k updates of older movies REALLY makes the CGI stand out in a bad way and often times reveals imperfections in makeup that they knew, at the time, wouldn’t be noticed once everything was edited and it hit the big screens.

  • sewickedthread

    There's something a theatrical costumer told me about, the 10 foot rule. As long as the costume can pass muster from 10 feet away, it's good enough. Too sharp attention ruins the illusion.

  • is anyone else on this hill or is it just me and sisyphus and kate bush?

  • le-sansnom

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  • A variety of possible fur patterns for Dutch and English rabbits respectively from William E. Castle’s Contributions to the genetics of the domestic rabbit (1932).

    Full text here.

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    Hiroshi Senju (Japanese, b.1958)

    Waterfall series -  2023

  • dailyrothko

    Mark Rothko, Untitled,1963

    Oil on canvas, 68 9/10th × 50 inches

    © 1998 by Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko

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