Freakers Ball, Tomorrow!

Ooooh Lordie…

http://www.raindancepresents.com/FB08/index.html

Already Eager for SantaCon

<– So I had this idea on the way in to work.

Pretty easy to make… and perfect for SantaCon… where spray bottles are the Santas’ hard liquor flask of choice. (Yes i am really fantasizing about a December pub crawl, right NOW)

And it even makes sense in this context. If i fill this spray enough of it in your mouth, it WILL cause ROTFLMAO… and the Santas are fond of chanting “HAW HAW HAW!” instead of “Ho Ho Ho!” =)

More info on SantaCon:
http://santarchy.com/

Dolly Zoom and Time Dialation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y48R6-iIYHs
http://www.mediacollege.com/video/shots/dolly-zoom.html

So i’ve noticed this technique used in many many movies… i figured it had a name but i didn’t think to look it up until today… You dolly the camera away from the subject while zooming in at the same time. The object of focus (usually a person who you want to portray experiencing something of impact) stays centered and around the same size while the background appears to stretch behind them. It’s usually accompanied by a sweeping sound effect or creepy violin strings…

I thought of it this morning on the way in to work because i was thinking of the concept of time dialation and 2012. Is time speeding up? And if so, why don’t we notice it? It seems like old people are always talking about how life goes by so quickly but high school felt like fucking forever. Maybe think of it like the dolly zoom effect… Time is dollying away from us while our brains are zooming in to balance it all out in our minds. And just like the creepy background-stretching effect is evidence of this motion, so is the feeling of the days slipping through our fingers… even though the clock seems to tick away at the same measured rate.

When i was a kid it used to feel like my meals were SO far apart… far enough, at least, for me to get hungry in the in-between time. These days, the clock hits 9:30pm and i feel like i JUST had lunch.

Makes you wonder….