Thanks, y'all! I don't what it is about the bookstores specifically that screw me up--I just get involved in them like I never did at my other part-time retail gigs (the Avenue, Blockbuster), so I stress over something that is just for extra cash in my pocket.
And the managers there have told me I'm good at the register, and not just at card sales but at chatting with the customers and giving them a good final experience before they leave the store.
I love that part of the job, schmoozing with them, sometimes commenting on their purchases--I freaked out an elderly gentleman today by telling him his book on Operation Barbossa look fascinating ("You know about Barbossa?" "Yeah, I love the History Channel, especially all the failed attempts to conquer Russia. What were Hitler and Napoleon thinking?")--recommending other books and/or movies (a lady was buying a mythology book for her 10-y.o. son, and I suggested Clash of the Titans for him, which she had completely forgotten about), and just getting them to smile.
Krav Maga isn't making Bruce Lee movies. What I meant by visually hard was expressing a concept through either a one-sheet or a short commercial. I'm not saying that small guys aren't tough, just that advertising demands expressing complex concepts through single images.
What I meant by visually hard was expressing a concept through either a one-sheet or a short commercial.
Did you click on the link to the ad? The woman in it is smaller than I am, and the guy is my size. But I'm not looking at it with a customer's eye.
I didn't think the commercial was good, honestly. It looked like the same kind of quick cutting that makes Matt Damon look like an expert fighter. In theory I would agree with you -- if the commercial convincingly shows a smaller person kicking another person's ass, then it's a good ad. But this ad looks like camera tricks, and a one-sheet might look like an advertisement for self-defense lessons.
It looked like the same kind of quick cutting that makes Matt Damon look like an expert fighter.
I have to say Damon moves pretty well in the first Bourne movie. The choreography sells it more than the editing.
But if you're saying a smaller figure is dominated in a single image then I would argue that it really depends on the composition of the shot and how well the actor/model sells it.
Could be either. The guy their going with does MMA, but he's also former Special Forces for the IDF. So I don't know.
Well at least I don't feel like such a dolt for being confused. I'll tivo it.
As for coming to class, I'd like to try it again, and my stretch teacher is off in Prague for two months shooting a movie. So my dance card is open.
I didn't think the commercial was good, honestly. It looked like the same kind of quick cutting that makes Matt Damon look like an expert fighter.
That's a damned shame. The woman's a newly minted brown belt and very talented--crisp and athletic. The guy's a third degree black belt, and he's just magical--he's the blue mohawked guy of a few posts more behind.
I still think that if the core message is "look how effective this is" they should use more realistically sized people, even maybe small. For "look how cool this is" then maybe the big guys. I think they're crossing ther messages too often.
Huh. Very simple, almost obvious idea for water conservation.
Oh! My friend Kelly just got that. She did all these renovations that made the 1/2 bath on the first floor smaller, so it was ideal for space conservation as well. I haven't tried it out yet but it should be hooked up next time I'm there.
Also, I watched 4 hours of Miss America Reality Check and now that the finale is on, I could watch it. But after all of this, "remake the pageant" bullshit, they winner is someone who looks JUST LIKE last year's winner.
I found the most surprising thing about this year's competition to be that Trace Ayala was a judge. What was the criteria for picking judges thiss year?
Actually, that was second most surprising thing. The first was that I freaking watched for the first time since I was 10. Damn you, TLC, and your reality crack!
Huh. I have no idea who Trace Ayala and google didn't even help me clarify. I'm still mad that one of the people who was spotlit on Reality Check didn't even come close to winning. IRKS ME.
