Bacon - Nuff' Said...

ellimayhem on Christian Guys on Immodesty, Lust, and the Violence of Women’s Bodies: "they must be vigilant and obey these rules in order to protect guys from the power of all bodies"

2010-07-28T11:29:14.478926-07:00-0700

This makes me want to wear a bright red tank top with the words "FUCK YOU" embroidered across my jiggling breasts.

ellimayhem on Filmmaking / Shot Design / Cinematography / Film Look

2010-07-26T20:54:47.094401-07:00-0700

Nice tutorial series! Definitely will share this with my students in my production design workshop.

ellimayhem on All women should aspire for hourglass size 14 figures, claims new equalities minister

2010-07-26T19:40:00.499617-07:00-0700

I read it wrong. I stand corrected. However, I note that though the origin is different, the one sided standard is the same. Sometimes the worst treatment of women is at the hands of other women.

ellimayhem on 5 Stupid, Unfair and Sexist Things Expected of Men

2010-07-26T19:38:09.227833-07:00-0700

Sexism against both genders is a complex and intricately woven tapestry. There are rows and rows of stitching beneath it, but she has pulled on some interesting threads here to start with. It's a massive thing to unravel it all.

ellimayhem on Oh, free at last :-)

2010-07-26T10:20:24.829281-07:00-0700

It's good to help people who do the same for you, but it's important to walk away from those who make it clear they are only using you and never return the favor. Good job standing up for yourself.

ellimayhem on All women should aspire for hourglass size 14 figures, claims new equalities minister

2010-07-26T10:03:12.520322-07:00-0700

Funny how it's only women he expects to have standardized identical bodies. I bet he considers the differences in men's forms to be normal variation.

ellimayhem on All women should aspire for hourglass size 14 figures, claims new equalities minister

2010-07-26T09:57:07.800474-07:00-0700

It's a shame I can only upvote your comment once.

(self.happy) I finally closed on my new house today! It's MINE ALL MINE! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:53:47 -0700

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ellimayhem on TL;DR I'm soon to be 21, I'm unattractive, I've never dated (they go together), I feel so much pressure to start a life, but I'm stuck at home while my family tells me I'm inadequate.

2010-07-19T10:45:28.353472-07:00-0700

>On a sidenote, no one ever said you had to be attracted to fat girls, but god, must you be outwardly horrible? He was an absolute stranger. He had no idea that I had managed to lose 33 pounds so far, and he didn't care. I just don't understand why that is acceptable. It's not fucking acceptable, and these people are assholes, and uglier by far than anyone's looks are capable of being. The best response to them is a hearty "fuck off, asshole."

ellimayhem on Why does TwoX have so many submissions lately that seem to be about making women feel bad for being women, or asking them to explain themselves?

2010-07-16T13:40:14.051022-07:00-0700

Seriously? In the past two weeks or so the whole 2xC subreddit seems to have undergone a nauseating Stepford transformation. I'm somewhere between appalled and fighting the urge toward mockery.

ellimayhem on Real Men of Genius

2010-07-16T10:03:06.892083-07:00-0700

Men of Real Genius: http://imgur.com/URIGc.png

ellimayhem on "A Knife of Her Own" accepted into the Atlanta Underground Film Festival! happy dance

2010-07-16T09:57:00.061195-07:00-0700

Prior post with link to view online here: http://www.reddit.com/r/Filmmakers/comments/clsr5/a_knife_of_her_own_experimental_horror_written/

"A Knife of Her Own" accepted into the Atlanta Underground Film Festival! happy dance

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:55:59 -0700

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ellimayhem on Friends with kids. Why it seems they have no time for you.

2010-07-15T08:10:27.371804-07:00-0700

If that's how you feel about raising kids, the solution is BIRTH CONTROL. Jebus Haploid Monte Cristo, people who have no intention of *raising* and *caring for* their offspring - stop littering the planet, foster system, and retirement communities with them!

ellimayhem on Friends with kids. Why it seems they have no time for you.

2010-07-15T08:01:15.171996-07:00-0700

I never ate any humble pie, though I did have some nice ice cream after my surgical sterilization. edit: She can have a nice big helping, though, for assuming because I'm female I would automatically end up breeding.

ellimayhem on Friends with kids. Why it seems they have no time for you.

2010-07-15T07:58:48.779356-07:00-0700

I want absolutely nothing to do with kids. Damn straight I'm not being in the same room with them. For my real friends who don't expect me to change my feelings about kids just because they went and had one, I generally make a point of planning a parent night out every so often for them to get a nice break from the brain-tumor-inducing tedium of life as a parent. All they have to do is find a sitter, show up, and enjoy forgetting about parenting for one night. It's a good way to stay in touch and do something nice for my overwhelmed friends who need a break - but unlike interacting with the screaming poop machines it's a nice thing I am happy to volunteer for. I've had a number of friends really appreciate having a nice little break like that.

ellimayhem on Politicians in Pakistan have been left red-faced after an investigation found dozens of MPs have fake university degrees. The chief minister of Balochistan Province, Nawab Muhammad Aslam Raisani, told the press: "A degree is a degree, whether it is fake or genuine."

2010-07-14T11:52:30.325798-07:00-0700

Probably more answer than you're looking for but very interesting: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/collegeinc/view/

ellimayhem on This Is What Dolphins Look Like In Norway... [PIC]

2010-07-10T22:45:40.191976-07:00-0700

Not to be confused with Sea Monkeys.

ellimayhem on iPhone 5 Preview

2010-07-06T17:12:08.458379-07:00-0700

Version 6 will feature a laser death ray. And *hover*.

ellimayhem on I could use some advice :(

2010-07-05T11:57:00.344038-07:00-0700

Taking good care of yourself is a worthy endeavor, but use caution in regards to dieting. 95 - 98% of people who lose a significant amount of weight by dieting gain it all back and then some within 3 years of weight loss, 70% of those ending up heavier than they started within the first year. It's easy to yo-yo your way up several dress sizes. You can avoid this by focusing on developing a healthy lifestyle, including eating how you eat and how you exercise, that are not a short term boot camp for yourself but a permanent way of living. There is a great book called "Health at Any Size" that has lots of good advice in it. You might lose weight more slowly this way, and you might never be supermodel-skinny, but you'll be healthy active and most importantly this will be stable rather than a battle you keep waging over and over. Also, if you haven't watched the Joy Nash videos on YouTube, they might help you feel better about yourself and your weight, which in turn can help you in focusing on health as more than a number on a scale. Just don't be like my friends who deprive themselves of everything they like until they hit a certain number, then gain it all back pigging out on all the stuff they would be better off just being moderate about consuming on a more consistent basis. I found that once I refocused my goal on becoming healthy in the long term as a lifestyle, the weight loss happened as a side effect of this larger focus, more slowly but with stability.

ellimayhem on 7 year relationship maybe ending? Need help standing up for myself.

2010-07-04T11:43:08.154919-07:00-0700

There is a lot of good advice here already, but I have another thought to add. You don't have to be mad or stay mad to break up with him. Come at this from a place of logic and mentally healthy behavior, not a place of anger. All you need to do is realize *this is not working* and that you both need to move on and grow and develop as individuals and not keep inflicting your issues on each other. You don't have to be mad at him, you don't have to hate him, and if he tries to create drama out of it let it lie cold on the floor, don't pick it up and feed it. All you need to do is decide to stop doing something that is making you unhappy to turn your focus to getting to a healthier mental place where you don't feel like a doormat.

ellimayhem on A Knife of Her Own; experimental horror; Written and directed by Russell Holbrook; Editing and Visual Effects by Elli Mayhem; Original Score by Embersreich

2010-07-03T22:46:46.209718-07:00-0700

I had nothing to do with this until post-production; I was handed 6 pages of vague script and 2 DV tapes shot on a camcorder. But I'm a sucker for melting baby heads. All the color work, grain, vfx compositing and editing are my contributions. I strove to make the best art I could of it. The edit included edit/remix/overlaying of the original score recorded by my dear friends Yates and Carey's band Embersreich. I hope our unusual little piece bears worthwhile merit.

A Knife of Her Own; experimental horror; Written and directed by Russell Holbrook; Editing and Visual Effects by Elli Mayhem; Original Score by Embersreich

Sat, 03 Jul 2010 21:59:44 -0700

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ellimayhem on 9 Directions to Never Give Actors

2010-07-03T21:42:04.339578-07:00-0700

Interesting and some good points, but not all are true in all situations, and it would have been a more useful piece if it also addressed what you SHOULD say in these scenarios. Neither directing nor acting is my primary area but I've done and studied both, so I have a few thoughts to add I hope will be helpful to others. * Withholding info can in the right circumstances be more effective, usually when dealing with reactions that tend to feel contrived without a genuine motivator. Example 1: Hitchcock did not reveal to Tippi Hedrin until the day of shooting the attic scene that she would be lying on the floor with a dozen live birds tethered to her and being flung at her. Example 2: In filming the hotel room scene with Laura Dern in Wild At Heart, Willem Dafoe intentionally freaked her shit by taking a real piss in the set's fake toilet while filming. Hedrin's terror and Dern's panic are made palpable because they're real; their performance is enhanced by a genuine reaction. It's important to avoid harming the actor in the process though - Hedrin had to be hospitalized for a week after shooting the above scene. * Specific action and expression direction such as discouraged here is vital when directing mocap or for interaction with an animated CGI character. VFX *is* my primary area and directing VFX is as different from narrative film/video directing as it is from stage directing, and different rules apply. Be precise with eyeline guides, give greenscreen actors something real to their interaction where you can (see the VFX featurette on Pan's Labyrinth, the girls facial response with the real puppet vs the marker, see also the Sin City Rodriguez flick school, the shooting of multiple scenes between two characters where the actors were never in the same room at the same time.) Direct the action (choreography - action - location of movement relative to where animated character will be) and the expression (facial and body language/stance/reactions) to follow the timing and flow. IME actors thinking about the scene and trying to interact with an imaginary character tend to overdo their expressions and gestures, but if they have a looser outline of the action and are focused on following direction to make certain gestures and expressions, like choreography, the resulting interaction with the animated character is looser, freer, feels less contrived, more real and in the moment. This is the opposite of the article's recommendation, but it's a different type of directing, and acting. * He cautions against one dimensionality when talking about judgement, but insists actors, and indeed people, can feel only one emotion at one time. Well, yeah, if you want... a one dimensional character! Has he no familiarity with the word "ambivalent" nor its non-physics definition? Most of the greatest characters on page, stage or screen are fueled my multiple and conflicting emotions. Hatred driven by fear. Fear driven by love. Love driven by revenge. Revenge driven by grief. Grief driven by guilt. Characters are driven by their complex emotional chain reactions, gathered from experience. What directors SHOULD be asking actors is "Why?"; ask of them to examine the character's internal clockwork: Why does s/he react to X with Y? Why does s/he want a specific result from their actions? Why does s/he succeed or fail? Ask actors questions that get them to delve into the forces that are behind the behavior. By discussing these the director can guide the preformance making sure it comes from a place that works with the whole of the narrative. * Make no mistake, "production value" is important. Even good acting cannot overcome bad production values. A bad movie cannot be made good with production quality, but a good movie can easily be ruined by the lack thereof. Be sure you consider: Color, Locations, set dressing, lighting (hint: create light sources in the environment for contrast), compositing, costuming, hair, makeup, physical effects... all of these provide visual cues about the character, scene and story. No matter the media, supporting the audience's connection with the story and characters through these visual elements provides a scaffold for the actor's immersion in the scene and makes all the difference between the film's impression as mediocre or exceptional. * Michael Caine has published a book on acting for film, as opposed to the stage. Useful for actors and directors alike. URL: http://www.amazon.com/Michael-Caine-Applause-Revised-Expanded/dp/1557832773/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1278217957&sr=1-1 Long ass coment, hell yes. I hope others make long ass comments with their ideas and experiences too. This article makes a good springboard for a very meaningful exchange on directing actors.

ellimayhem on Anyone know anything about doing live visuals for shows?

2010-06-23T22:03:17.130738-07:00-0700

I've done a good bit of it for live shows, DJ's and even theatrical stuff. I'm an animator, compositor and video artist so most of the time I've been using it as a platform to exhibit my original work. I have a very simple setup; macbook pro hooked into a decent home theater projector using ARKAOS. This program lets you assign a different clip to each key and mix the visuals live, but doesn't just run a playlist. So my approach may not be right for you as it's my central focus, not a supporting element. That said, here is a great site for you: http://createdigitalmotion.com/

Bacon - Nuff' Said...

ellimayhem on Christian Guys on Immodesty, Lust, and the Violence of Women’s Bodies: "they must be vigilant and obey these rules in order to protect guys from the power of all bodies"

ellimayhem on Filmmaking / Shot Design / Cinematography / Film Look

ellimayhem on All women should aspire for hourglass size 14 figures, claims new equalities minister

ellimayhem on 5 Stupid, Unfair and Sexist Things Expected of Men

ellimayhem on Oh, free at last :-)

ellimayhem on All women should aspire for hourglass size 14 figures, claims new equalities minister

ellimayhem on All women should aspire for hourglass size 14 figures, claims new equalities minister

(self.happy) I finally closed on my new house today! It's MINE ALL MINE! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!

ellimayhem on TL;DR I'm soon to be 21, I'm unattractive, I've never dated (they go together), I feel so much pressure to start a life, but I'm stuck at home while my family tells me I'm inadequate.

ellimayhem on Why does TwoX have so many submissions lately that seem to be about making women feel bad for being women, or asking them to explain themselves?

ellimayhem on Real Men of Genius

ellimayhem on "A Knife of Her Own" accepted into the Atlanta Underground Film Festival! *happy dance*

"A Knife of Her Own" accepted into the Atlanta Underground Film Festival! *happy dance*

ellimayhem on Friends with kids. Why it seems they have no time for you.

ellimayhem on Friends with kids. Why it seems they have no time for you.

ellimayhem on Friends with kids. Why it seems they have no time for you.

ellimayhem on Politicians in Pakistan have been left red-faced after an investigation found dozens of MPs have fake university degrees. The chief minister of Balochistan Province, Nawab Muhammad Aslam Raisani, told the press: "A degree is a degree, whether it is fake or genuine."

ellimayhem on This Is What Dolphins Look Like In Norway... [PIC]

ellimayhem on iPhone 5 Preview

ellimayhem on I could use some advice :(

ellimayhem on 7 year relationship maybe ending? Need help standing up for myself.

ellimayhem on A Knife of Her Own; experimental horror; Written and directed by Russell Holbrook; Editing and Visual Effects by Elli Mayhem; Original Score by Embersreich

A Knife of Her Own; experimental horror; Written and directed by Russell Holbrook; Editing and Visual Effects by Elli Mayhem; Original Score by Embersreich

ellimayhem on 9 Directions to Never Give Actors

ellimayhem on Anyone know anything about doing live visuals for shows?

ellimayhem on "A Knife of Her Own" accepted into the Atlanta Underground Film Festival! happy dance

"A Knife of Her Own" accepted into the Atlanta Underground Film Festival! happy dance