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I'm in for looking at Henry Cavill styled as a lumberjack for 2 hours, I don't need to know anything more about the movie than that.
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On 8/3/2022 at 6:52 PM, akg said:
I agree but I think part of it, for me, was that I wasn't as impressed with John as the judges were. His wins became super predictable, no matter what he made.
Yeah, his technique didn't really impress me much except in the first challenge and the enlarged object one, though I thought he was conceptually strong in the pairs challenge (did John C. contribute any conceptual input to that?) and the personal fears one. Most of his work struck me as rough and amateurish looking despite the amount of work he put into it.
If I were walking into his installation at the Corning Musuem unaware, I'd be looking around for a sign that unauthorized personnel should keep out while they were assembling the rest of it.
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Weren't their synonyms "alive" and "well"? At any rate they chose to depict it as "Little Otik" from the Czech fairy tale about a tree stump adopted as a substitute baby that begins eating everything in sight.
I thought the arrangement of the flames and peppers lent them a bit more complexity than their construction alone, and the piece was very pretty. But I can see the judges going for the more difficult, symbolic piece even if it wasn't as visually impressive. And Dan deserved to go home two challenges ago for that crap thimble, so I'm not going to mourn his string of peppers getting the axe.
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I'm joining the chorus on Minhi deserving a solo win. The olive was well-crafted and appealing, but it wasn't nearly as complex a piece of sculpture as the chess knight. When execution is almost flawless in two competing pieces (and design concept isn't an issue), the win should go to the one that involved greater difficulty.
Likewise, that thimble was just awful. While I wasn't thrilled by the die's execution, it was done in a fraction of the allowed time due to the breakage and was still clearly a depiction of the object it was based upon, not some random object salvaged from a junkyard.
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I really liked how supportive Kat and Nao were of each other. Really, everyone seemed to get along well, and there was no one to root against.
I agreed pretty well with all the winning selections this time around, but most of the other artists' work was good enough that I wouldn't have been outraged to see them win instead. Nao in particular struck me as a close second in the competitions she didn't win; the judges had some tough choices to make.
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Chris was like the living embodiment of that line from The Good Place: "I took the form of a 45-year-old white man for a reason. I can only fail up." SO glad to see the last of him.
Kat's piece was pretty simple in concept, but I did think her execution was nice. All the random drips of glass coming together to form a coherent whole was like a glassblowing version of pointillism.
Elliot's piece really deserved the win though. I loved that while it did have a small, stylized flame, it was mostly potential prompting viewers to imagine the much more extensive ignition once the candle flame burns down to the pool of oil.
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I have to step back and say that Chris' piece would have hit me a lot harder and seemed much more profound if it wasn't from someone I despise who's already milked a dead relative for sympathy. (What's next? A clear toilet sculpture with the goldfish he had to flush as a child visible inside?)
I still think Cat should have won. Hers was an intricate, multi-layered design that both spoke to her greatest challenge and taught others what seeing the world through her eyes is like.
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I believe that they cool the thin connection to the punty with water so that it hardens and breaks at that point when they knock on the rod.
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Yeah, on that front I think Nao, Cat, and Chris all fit the brief by giving us cautionary tales. I know that plastic-y looking fast food made me think twice about my next burger or pizza! (Though the fries had the opposite of the intended effect on me as well, ElectricBoogaloo.)
Elliot deserved his win, but I wouldn't have been upset if Mike had been chosen instead. Both pieces were beautiful and fully embodied the challenge.
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Also a latecomer thanks to the debut of the 4th season—I was completely unaware of this series and love it. Glassblowing is so neat!
I see we are unanimous in our outrage over Chris being kept rather than Jason. I wonder if this smug twatwaffle faced any professional or personal backlash over his appearances on the show? Just how big is he in the world of glassblowing?
Cat knocked it out of the park on this one, her angry vacuum cleaner had as much personality as a professional animator's cartoon character.
Brad's toon was also inspired and well-executed, if a clear second to Cat's imho.
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On 1/23/2021 at 1:05 PM, Door County Cherry said:
I'm glad that the person who left did so because of execution instead of breakage.
Brad did a good job of salvaging his piece. The finished product was one of my favorites.
I really liked Nao's piece, it was both beautiful and meaningful. Though I think Elliot's was the clear winner.
I was willing to see how Teigan's piece turned out—I think there's too much of a knee-jerk reaction against concepts that are cute or upbeat in the Art world. But her execution would have been bad for a college student just starting out.
Chris really showed his ass in being so proud of that unimpressive bit of work. The coffee rings idea was interesting, but there was no there there for the major element.
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Deborah was off-putting to me at first, but I found myself warming up to her as the series progressed. And I thought she always came up with interesting and creative ideas, even if her technical proficiency sometimes fell short of Janusz's and Alexander's. I was rooting for her to win over the last three episodes.
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I think that dark hand color could have been balanced out if Janusz had made the blanket base a bold red or blue to balance it out rather than white with thin traces of other colors, and introduced some folds/bulges rather than having it be flat.
Alexander's idea was nice in theory, but you'd have to spin the piece fast enough to get a flickering double image of the two sets of lungs for it to really work. Could make a nice installation piece as a sped up video rather than being physically present.
Deborah's really was the best response to the challenge. I wasn't bothered by the oversized gum—it's not as if real feet are transparent either, but no one complained about that.
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I agreed with the decision on this one, I felt that Deborah's and Patrick's piece had more artistic merit both in the symbolism and the technical skills involved in producing it.
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I think I liked Annette's heart more than Leah's footprint, but those were the two standouts for me. I'd be thrilled to have either fixture in my home.
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I thought Janusz's piece was very evocative and powerful, even if it was apparently simple (though I'm not sure that nesting one object inside another is actually that simple).
I did take an immediate liking to Katherine Gray—she reminds me of my best teachers in college, being knowledgable and up-front in her assessments, yet kind and encouraging. I bet being a student in her classes is awesome.
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Considering that said parties are for gay men, Trevor's already halfway there to being the entertainment.
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On 2/26/2024 at 4:34 PM, Mabinogia said:
So I'm not the only one? While I don't mind the concept of the basement ghosts, I can't forking stand Nancy. Whenever she or attic ghost are on I feel my interest wavering. This is one of very few shows I give my full attention to... until one of those two show up.
Definitely reserve a seat for me at that table. Nancy is just so viscerally unpleasant to watch and listen to. And I can't even find any narratively redeeming features for Stephanie. (I have developed a fondness for Flower, but she's the ghost I would miss the least out of the main 8, so I think Sheila Carrasco's maternity leave was a happy bit of synergy.)
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On 2/23/2024 at 5:58 PM, possibilities said:
I can imagine Sass spending time watching people sleep, and taking an interest in their lives. What else was he to do with his time? Trapped in the house, in particular, I can see him hovering around and maybe he even tried to touch a sleeping person and then found himself suddenly seeing his thoughts adopted the next day by whoever he was spending his time with.
Sas knew he had the power before there was a house there, when he and Thorfin were the only ghosts present. Presumably he found it out via proximity to fellow members of the Lenape, or European settlers who were in the area before Isaac's time.
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I suppose Angrboða could still be her mother like in the myths. Either as a jötunn Odin dallied with, or as an Asgardian wife prior to Frigga. In Norse mythology Odin had a lot of kids by a lot of mothers, though Hela wasn't one of them.
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To be fair, I don't think Marvel (or any other studio) worries about backlash from Nazis for not treating their culture with sensitivity and respect.
I too really enjoyed the episode—Kahhori was a very appealing character who got me interested in her story in a surprisingly short amount of time. And the dialogue being almost entirely in languages other than English was icing on the cake. I'd be more than fine with the series exploring the setting with original characters instead of existing MCU ones if this level of quality could be maintained.
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On 5/14/2019 at 10:10 AM, IvySpice said:
After last night, I had to know if the "three heroes" narrative was true or a Hollywood creation. Here's what I got:
1. Truth: The issue with the full tanks of water was real, and every source I found agreed that there really was a risk of a multi-megaton explosion dropping nuclear material all over Eastern Europe and basically ending Ukraine and Belarus, and the three guys really did go in to stop it. Steam is no joke. I had never heard this part of the story before.On 6/7/2019 at 10:37 AM, Miles said:Then the Forbes author complains about Chernobyl being compared to a nuclear bomb, when it was clear the comparison was just in terms of radiation output, not in terms of the blast. Also had they not stopped the fire, yes a good part of the continent would be uninhabitable.
The multi-megaton steam explosion sounded very off to me. I know volcanic explosions involving seawater can be that massive or more, but I don't see how a superheated steam explosion of thousands of tons of water could equal millions of tons of dynamite.
I get that the ecological impact could be just as severe because of the greater amount of radioactive material carried aloft by the steam and rained down for hundreds or thousands of kilometers. But I would expect the power plant to be pulverized, not completely disintegrated at the center of a kilometers-wide crater.
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Maybe boat maintenance is so expensive she can no longer afford her mortgage?
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I also like how instead of having Luke be oblivious to his crush on Nathan, he's fully aware and all-in. Plus, it was hilarious when he objected to backup Nathan being traded for him and started fanning the gangster faster.
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Season 4
in Blown Away
I think both the final three and the ultimate winner were the right choices on the part of the judges. So much creativity and skill were on display! In terms of the overall body of work I think Morgan had the advantage, and while her installation pieces might have lacked the impressive craftsmanship of Ryan T's I think they were (considered as a whole) more powerful conceptually.
I wish Ryan B., had gone earlier, like maybe even first, so I wouldn't have had to listen to him so much. Unlike Karen, his personality didn't seem to be balanced out by the actual glassblowing chops to back it up. Though I have to admit his kraken for the Dark Side challenge was as creepy as anything Morgan came up with, and arguably his best technical work.