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Film student, television expert. Filmmaker, photographer, writer. Competent human being.
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This quarter has been a long and arduous journey. Apparently it’s hard to be an editor-in-chief of something??? Who knew.
Anyway, the articles are coming together, the cover photo is in the works, the money is rolling in like tumbleweeds, and I have been wishing on every star, eyelash, and birthday cake that we can pull this off.
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The first blog post from my editorial reign at Eyecandy is up! It’s about Community. I am proud. It was a long day.
Of course, the truth is that women like Dunham — and ones even less pretty and more imperfect — get laid with very little effort, every single day. This flies in the face of what we’re taught about female attractiveness, but it’s true. So when you add to this the fact that a great many American women are culturally brought up to understand that our relationships with other women are always going to have an undercurrent of competition — how do we compete with Lena Dunham, who refuses to play? There are no RULES to this game. And so we get angry.
The Audacity of Lena Dunham, And Her Admirable Commitment To Making Us Look At Her Naked | xojane
It’s always dope when someone smart takes the time to write more than 500 thoughtful words.
(via drinkyourjuice)
This made me so much more excited about film criticism as one of the things I do. It’s smart and insightful and I wish I had written it.
Romances in the form of dime-store novels and cheesy Hollywood blockbusters are popular because consumers know what to expect: 150 pages or two hours of romantic tension, a few surmountable obstacles, and eventually the deeply satisfying closure that comes with a Disney-style happy ending…But the truth fo the matter is that television is not cut out for romance in the way that movies and books are. Romance is an appealing genre largely because of its promised closure, and the television format functions primarily by denying closure between episodes.
Can’t Touch This: Romance, Television, and Postponing Satisfaction by Zoe Toffaleti
Eyecandy Film Journal, Spring 2012
Copycat, a short film I made in fall of 2012 for Film 171F: Autobiographical Film Workshop.
The assignment was to make a film about ourselves without showing ourselves. I chose to try to convey something about myself by looking at various elements of my identity and trying to trace the pieces of my personality back to their respectives sources. (My mom, my dad, my friends, the Tumblr community.)
After I had isolated and analyzed major elements of my identity, I used a combination of split screens and semi-opaque overlays to blend the images back together again in a way that felt cohesive and gave an overall impression of my personality.
