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It's a velvet bag and inside are sparkly purple dice meant to be used to play D&D
What have I been thinking about this week? Mainly I have been wrapped up in The Adventure Zone. The Adventure Zone or TAZ for short is a D&D podcast by the McElory Brothers. Griffin McElory is the DM and he is supported by his two brothers and dad, Justin, Travis, and Clint, respectively. I have always loved their main comedy podcast and I started listening to TAZ a number of years ago but didn't stay caught up. Recently I picked up where I left off which is right at the end of the balance arc. I am blown away by the story and emotion. Also comedy, it's very funny. But also, Griffin is a great story teller. I really love the direction he takes things in. I love how inclusive all the of the characters feel. You can tell Griffin put a lot of time and consideration into this story. I wish I could share this with other people but it's a huge time commitment, long form podcast stuff. I am only 62 episodes in, and they are an hour, sometimes an hour and a half long. That's a crazy amount of time to spend actively listening to something. It's great if you do this and it works for you, but when I have something on, I have to be paying attention to it. I don't want to miss anything that is being said. It is very hard for me to have someone talking on in the background of what I am doing. I love doing that with music (because I can sing along too) but putting on an informative video or narrative story in the background? Not enjoyable. I like to sit and listen. The car really is perfect for this kind of thing. I think that's why its easy to solo listen to 60 hours of a podcast because of how often I am driving alone.
What else have I been thinking about? Artists who make miniatures for movies. This is a dying craft. I don't want to blame CGI entirely but that does factor into this. I am a fan of when these techniques are blended together. James Cameron says you should be utilizing multiple methods in single shots. A great time period for this is the 90's. When CGI was still too new to be efficient or affordable. You had a lot of movies that are making use of the more classic matte paintings, miniatures, puppetry, and the new tech CGI. Kind of like what Disney is doing with Star Wars now, some of the characters are puppets and then they go over those shots with digital editing to enhance the puppets. More rudimentary. Forgetting about CGI. My partner and I found a wonderful youtube channel called Sense of Scale. It was a feature length documentary, but that no longer seems to be available. Instead the director has uploaded many many more hours (14? or so?) of the interviews that are contained in the documentary. Interviews with crews that did miniatures/models on Huge blockbuster movies. Titanic, Star Wars, ect ect. I was seeing footage, photographs, and hearing stories that I had never heard before about films that I have dedicated countless hours researching and watching behind the scenes footage of. This youtube is a goldmine of information for people who love behind the scenes film documentaries.
Until next time,
Warezmoon