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Monthly Archives: October 2011
Robot Saw VIII
After watching Pica Towers by Marc Crastle and studio AKA, I foresee the plot twist to “Saw VII” being a robot Jigsaw. Everything about Crastle’s films exude horror sequence. He uses shadows, sounds, and colors to drop the audience into a … Continue reading
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Pica Torture Towers
Whatever you do, don’t follow the robot into Pica Towers! The three shorts featured on Studio aka’s site are anything but typical. If it weren’t for the robots, you would think they were part of a traditional horror story, but … Continue reading
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The Devil You Don’t Know…
The Pica Towers films were a great example of how short stories with little background and minimal scenery can still be scary. Many modern scary movies make the mistake of showing and telling you too much about the characters and … Continue reading
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Cute Robots Juxtaposed With Frightening Content
The immediate feeling I got from the audio in ‘hound of flesh’ was that something unpleasant was about to occur. The echoes of something going on far away made me uneasy about what was going to happen to the blind … Continue reading
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Robot Murders
After watching all three parts of the Pica Towers shorts I was a little confused by the stories I just watched. While they all start out as simple stories by the end of each there is a dark twist. All three … Continue reading
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Pica Towers
Robots torturing robots. Robot dogs stealing blind robot’s cane. Robots shooting robots. What the hell? That is the question I was asking from the time I visited the site to when I finished Pizza Sangre. What the hell! When I … Continue reading
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In the Shadows
I think one of the best techniques in film for creating a sense of foreboding is good use of shadows. The Pica Towers shorts really used shadow well to heighten the sense of unease throughout the shorts. In short films, there’s … Continue reading
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iPhone Interface Design
I think the iPhone interface design display works because it is more breadth than depth—people don’t want to dig too far to find the information they want. Also breadth helps with the “Where am I?” problem that other phones, or … Continue reading
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30 conversations on design
Tony Hawk First of all, really? Tony Hawk? Don’t get me wrong he is a pretty cool guy I just found him an interesting choice to talk about design. But then again I suppose he is involved in his merchandise … Continue reading
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forget the film, watch the titles
Opening credits and closing credits are very important to films and in my opinion can help or hurt the film. For example, I liked the movie Crash, and while I like the idea of the opening titles I am not … Continue reading
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