sarah zedig! 🍉🐐 @sarahzedig@shrike.club

revisiting bits of godfeels and i've gotta say this is my absolute Favorite kind of scene to write. here's a robot who for the last 3000 words has seemed like a personality-less shell for gathering information for administrative purposes. then suddenly it's a mortal person who was just being professional. i love doing this. i love introducing throwaway gag characters and then refusing to throw them away

don't forget to see john wick 4 at your local AMC theater and ask for their exclusive popcorn tub and collectible coins!

americaaaaaaa!

there's a girl in the window

NEW VIDEO: life & death in pussen boots last wish

a video review of a movie i kinda liked

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd71e3kbQbs

i hate using my roku tv's wretched minimalist remote, and i'll literally die before i use my phone instead. sometimes i fantasize about the remote my old vcr/dvd player had. kill the hulu button by god and make it easier for me to ever find the subtitle controls. give me a button that advances frame forward/backward at adjustable intervals, or even buttons to open specific functionality menus instead of one single button to open all possible menus that you must clumsily navigate blind

ghost on the train

wrote up the full context for this nonsense on tumblr

https://www.tumblr.com/hms-no-fun/712701159078526976/do-you-die-when-you-get-into-a-teleporter

i like taking the train :)

got my twin peaks books organized :3c

hey nissan just gave me a four hour long ad in the form of a chillwave music compilation. what the fuck

i feel like modern digital cinematography on the whole is really terrified of high-contrast images. which i'd at least understand if they were worried about banding in the darkest darks on hdr tvs, but they shoot in dark rooms and make even the lightest lights look like shadows!

images feel so much DYNAMIC when you're willing to make a choice to be contrasty on both ends. i don't even know if this is what i would call a final grade, but it's got some gas imo.

here's another before/after example. coloring this shoot i'm drawn to excessive saturation, maybe it's the fact that this is a video lens meant for 16mm film. there's so many glass elements coated in so many chemicals you'd be NUTS not to lean into it!

we fetishize camera resolution and lens sharpness and using post-processing to achieve a vintage look, as if you can't get something infinitely more authentic by just using a shitty lens and embracing the necessity of imperfection in art

what's fun about working with a blackmagic camera is there's just SO much information crammed into these ugly flat color profile images. look at what the above looks like before color correction!

for a lot of this gasworks footage i've been leaning really hard into almost surreal levels of saturation. i think it emphasizes all the best qualities of this lens. the second image is a more realistic color grade and it just isn't as chewy to me! i don't use vintage lenses for their verisimilitude

hooohghh i love texture

also everyone's hot on chromatic aberration these days but they use plugins and they go straight for red-blue. bitch i use a 70s tv lens and i lean into that green-pink aberration!

images!!!

i caught a moment that i can only describe as miraculous. incidentally in this shot this person and their dog were walking up this hill completely alone, i started with a much wider shot and then saw them right as they were about to crest it and zoomed in. of all the footage i got yesterday this one's probably the most magical, the most fundamentally *cinematic* image

running from democracy

i don't think i've ever lived somewhere as consistently beautiful as seattle. come the revolution, we'll put this beauty back in the hands of people who will actually treasure it

cinema is obscurity