THE END? NOT REALLY, ANNOUNCEMENT TIME!

I’m putting this blog to sleep. It’s been a good 3 years, but I’ve had enough of this free-for-all format and I need a blog that - this is going to sound pretentious - suits my plans and vision for 2012 and onward. The layout is much more visual, finally allowing myself to blog in a purely screencap-driven way, when needed, yet make my writing pleasing to the eye the rest of the time. I will not write less, but my writing will be increasingly careful and concise - as you can already see with the few posts on there. This is a secondary blog so I can’t follow back and can’t activate replies - and I think I like it that way. If you want to talk, let’s talk by all means - you’ll know where to find me, I’m sure.

The pages at the top will be my attempt at historicizing my film consumption. Give it time, they will fill up quite quickly. 

I was going to wait until January 2012 to make the switch but I got impatient, started posting, got to a satisfying level of HTML experimenting - only me riffing on an available theme, nothing major - and some people already know about it so I felt like announcing this now.

Suggested are more than welcome as well! Let me know!

I have to say both bloggers nosex and branduponthebrain were quite inspirational, as far as film blogging format & looks are concerned.

Thank you angelica for the design & HTML tips.

Oh, the adress! Not awfully complicated: filmghoul.tumblr.com. I will most probably get my own domain name in the future -and install comments - so I’ll let you know then as well.

See you on the other side! I’m actually quite curious to see who follows me there! 

-Ariel

PS. I will also complete my “2011 in film” list on this blog so expect 2 final posts!

Also, something slightly different: reviews & thoughts might be added below the screencaps retroactively so I’d recommend checking back once in a while through the main page rather than the dashboard…I realise this is unpractical but it will happen!

PXL-2000 (aka Fisher-Price PixelVision) footage of Elina Löwensohn in Michael Almereyda’s Nadja (1994)

Fuck!! Was halfway through an elaborate review of this film when I accidentally hit a button, which closed my tab and lost my draft forever. Tumblr should seriously consider an auto-save…or I should probably write my reviews elsewhere and then paste them, because this has happened too often now. Instead of producing a subpar piece of writing - which, let’s face it, is bound to happen if I keep at it tonight - I will offer you this frame. Nadja was produced by David Lynch and some of it was shot using a toy camera. Stay tuned to find out what I thought of it.

…and what I’m all about. New blog theme is pretty slick too.

Who are these people? They’re not people, are they? Nobody reblogs so randomly and compulsively…Somebody care to explain? I’m getting annoyed by this spam.

*If you are a real person, I apologize. Please get an icon, though?*

Again, thank you so much guys! Keep on reading and watching films!!

And while we’re at it, you should follow these guys too! Click through!

I know it’s not Wednesday or whatever the day is but I know you want to!

Feel free to be creepy and browse the underbelly of my tumblr blogging.

Follow!!! Fuck Yeah President’s Choice! Hopefully, we get sponsored.

(Source: laurencephilomene)

This is just too good: Randall Munroe’s Map of Online Communities for 2010. Somebody needs to make a pirate film set in that universe, because “Sea of Memes” sounds like a freaking dangerous place to be.

“Ar! C’ptain! I can see 4chan on the horizon.”
“ABANDON SHIP!”

Troll Bay and Bieber Bay also sound like dangerous waters to be on. Gotta love how Tumblr is this little island just south of Deviantart. Kanye’s Isle of Sadness is so funny. So is Isle of Teenagers Who Just Discovered Macroeconomics, just south of Chatroulette island. Just look at it, it’s amazing. Seriously, I don’t care, I’m writing this pirate epic.