MICHAEL MALIWANAG

“I think our purpose as filmmakers or as storytellers or whatever you’re going to call us is to say that at this particular point with this relationship, with this social structure, in this political climate, this is the best film I could do. I think that’s all we can do. Then we’re not exploitative, we’re not the Spielbergs or the whatever. Then it becomes extremely personal, for better or worse. So don’t get confused by digital or non-digital or money or not—just do the best fucking film you can with your abilities at that time. I mean, why else do we make films when we could have gone into real estate?”

Christopher Doyle
Born May 2, 1952

fuckyeahdirectors:

“Create your own visual style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.” - Orson Welles

The Shawshank Redemption

Dir: Frank Darabont

DP: Roger Deakins

Super 35mm

The camera movement in Shawshank Redemption is incredible. So is the lighting. And the acting. The story is really fantastic as well. Along with the production design. Boy, is it a phenomenal movie.

I am a golden god

An Analog Collective

Canon 60D 50mm f1.4 ISO 320 

Paul Thomas Anderson & a 65mm Camera filming The Master

To all the production assistants/lock down P.A.’s/art P.A.’s, 2nd ADs/2nd 2nd ADs, 1st ACs/2nd ACs/Loaders/Camera Interns, Boom Ops, Sound Mixers, Art Directors, Set Decorators, grips, electricians, crafty, script supervisors, location managers and to the rest of the below the line crew members: Thank you. Your work may sometimes go unappreciated and without you films wouldn’t be made. I appreciate you all and I am honored to go to work with you all every day. I enjoy the camraderie of film sets and again, your work is truly appreciated.

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suicideblonde:

Today would have been Mr Rogers’ 84th birthday.  Thanks for showing me how to rock a cardigan and always been a kind neighbor.  

true story:

one time some dudes stole mr. rogers’s car, and it got into the news, like you’d expect

the next day the car was back where he’d left it with a note that said “we’re so sorry, we never would’ve taken it if we’d known it was yours”

I like to think they recognized this as a sign from god and turned their lives around

another true story: mr. rogers lobbied in favor of vcrs back when the tv and movie industries were against them, because he wanted families to be able to record shows and watch them together

he was always, always thinking about children, letting them know it’s okay to be sad or scared or mad and how to deal with it, letting them know there’s at least one person in the world who loves them just the way they are

and no matter who you were, no matter why you crossed his path, he wanted to know about your life and understand you and be your friend

I believe he is a for-real saint and I wish I could be more like him but it’s okay, I know he loves me just the way I am

Another true story: one time he received a letter from a blind girl who mentioned that she gets nervous sometimes that he’d forget to feed the fish.  From that moment on, he made some comment outloud about how he was feeding the fish so she and any other blind viewers would know that he hadn’t forgotten. 

Always reblog Mr. Rogers.

i’m actually crying you don’t understand

I know Rule #1 of Tumblr is to always reblog the photo of the creator but I think it’s time for rule 1.2: Always reblog Mr. Rogers.

bigmeowski:

Emile Hirsch and Sean Penn filming for Into the Wild (2007)

atomstargazer:

Life of Scientist Who Changed the World’s View

Carl Sagan

“I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.”- Carl Sagan

Stephen Hawking

“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don’t just give up.” -Stephen Hawking

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Like no other science, astrophysics cross-pollinates the expertise of chemists, biologists, geologists and physicists, all to discover the past, present, and future of the cosmos—and our humble place within it.” -Neil deGrasse Tyson

 Albert Einstein

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe.” -Albert Einstein

Niels Bohr

“Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.” - Niels Bohr

Richard Feynman

“Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?”- Richard Feynman

Marie Curie

“In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.” -Marie Curie

Rosalind Franklin

 “You look at science (or at least talk of it) as some sort of demoralising invention of man, something apart from real life, and which must be cautiously guarded and kept separate from everyday existence. But science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated. Science, for me, gives a partial explanation for life. In so far as it goes, it is based on fact, experience and experiment.” -Rosalind Franklin

Nikola Tesla

“I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.”-Nikola Tesla.

Thomas Edison

“I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun. I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” -Thomas Edison

By his own approximation, Bob assassinated Jesse James over 800 times. He suspected no one in history had ever so often or so publicly recapitulated an act of betrayal.

You’re very welcome! I hope sometime in the future that the ‘aspiring’ drops and you’ll be just a cinematographer!

jetpacksunrise:

Comics are a visual medium, but often cartoonists will rely on dialogue for their jokes. Calvin and Hobbes sometimes featured entirely wordless strips which were just as funny and poignant, and let Bill Watterson’s wonderfully expressive art take center-stage.

Hahahaha Yes!

Beautiful