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Dark Water: Thoughts on Horror

I’m beginning to wonder if Dark Water is Hideo Nakata’s masterpiece. It drills down through the cosmic terror of The Ring to something far more intimate: The fear of abandonment. We see the child’s fear of abandonment not only in the repeated scenes of one being left after the close of school, but in the adult characters eyes as, by proxy, they’re forced to re-experience its gnawing toxicity. The water, the intrusion of darkness into the rainsoaked day, and the intrusion of water into the spaces and times it’s not meant to be in all mirror that forgotten feeling. The breaking of a child’s trust in the parent, which is also the child’s trust in the world, is a trauma that even adulthood can’t banish forever. Watching an imperfect single mother struggle to hold her own crumbling world together against that invading fear is heart-wrenching. All horror is psychological horror, crystalized in the moment of realizing one has been wrong. Dark Water is Nakata’s most emotionally draining film and that, I believe, may make it his finest horror film. Hell is being alone forever.

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We Heart Superman: Episode 107: He Reports, He Decides! Part II

The thrilling conclusion of We Heart Superman!

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“We Heart Superman: He Reports, He Decides! Part II” Written and directed by Troy Minkowsky. Featuring Mike Devine, Christian Sterling, Gina Robbins, Lindsay LeClair, Dan Miller, Melissa McCue, Debbie Chiang, and Arturo Meneses. Sound and technical support by James Force and Adam Stugatch. Original Music by Subpar Costar. Produced by Matt Rasmussen. Superman created by Joel Schuster and Jerry Seigel and property of DC Comics.

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Ignore Me Please

  • India: Many of the most beautiful women in the world. Young men sexually obsessed with their mothers and overweight middle-aged aunts.
  • Japan: Many of the most beautiful women in the world. Feelings of sexual inadequacy widespead enough to spawn the harem genre and a nationwide Lolita complex.
  • Brazil: Many of the most beautiful women in the world. Whole lot of fucking going on.

Score:

  • India: 0
  • Japan: 0
  • Brazil: 1
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360° Panorama: Brook, Union, Maine

This is a test of a tripod mount for my camera phone. I’d like to be able to shoot scenes with a nearer foreground. (Even at ranges of 50′ or more, and even steadying the phone against stationary objects, I’ve been having problems.) Right now, the phone is a bit too loose, and can only be panned, not tilted. The parallax differences between neighboring images is vastly improved though.

Stitched together in Hugin from 19 camera phone pictures.

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We Heart Superman: Episode 106: He Reports, He Decides! Part I

Can nothing stop the juggernaut of LEX NEWS?

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