I wonder what happened in 1921. It was out of control!
Distribution of colors in movie posters between 1914 and 2012
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#12In the associated blog post he says:
Methodology:
I downloaded ~ 35k thumbnailed-size images
(yay wget -- “The Social Network” inspired
me to not use curl)
Thanks.
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#13I am awe-struck with what people with a passion manage to get done "in a couple weeks" just for fun.
I can't imagine that I could have hired someone to do the same analysis, research, programming, scripting, graphics creation, and web site layout for anything less than tens of thousands of dollars. (Or is my intuition wrong about that?)
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#14I am awe-struck with what people with a passion manage to get done "in a couple weeks" just for fun. I can't imagine that I could have hired someone to do the same analysis, research, programming, scripting, graphics creation, and web site layout for anything less than tens of thousands of dollars. (Or is my intuition wrong about that?)
Well, a week is about $2500, so I guess it'd take around $5k.
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#15In the associated blog post he says: Methodology: I downloaded ~ 35k thumbnailed-size images (yay wget -- “The Social Network” inspired me to not use curl) Could some who's seen the film enlighten me on why wget is better than curl? Thanks.
I don't remember any discussion of wget vs. curl in the movie and couldn't find anything specific to the movie about that on Google; I'm guessing that the the OP just decided to use wget instead of curl because that was what they were using in the movie. (If I'm wrong, somebody please correct me.)
Here is a comparison of wget and curl that was posted on Hacker News a little over two years ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1241479
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#16I'm curious about the distribution of ink costs (by color) during the same timespan - just how close that correlation is.
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#17In the associated blog post he says: Methodology: I downloaded ~ 35k thumbnailed-size images (yay wget -- “The Social Network” inspired me to not use curl) Could some who's seen the film enlighten me on why wget is better than curl? Thanks.
I think this is mostly one line in which Mark Zuckerberg says something along the lines of "time for a little wget magic". Certainly not a major plot point.
Here's what I think is the relevant scene on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odOzMz-fOOw
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#18More red/yellow before, more blue/violet in recent history. Cool data set, but the question is "so what?".
Well, it's interesting to see that Teal and Orange filters are used just as prominently in promotional material as in the films themselves. It's a terrible trend and annoying as hell. See here for more: http://theabyssgazes.blogspot.com.au/2010/03/teal-and-orange...
I was looking out for the Teal/Orange effect and was interested to see that it started in posters way back in the 80s already, 20 years before digital film color grading.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, it's interesting to see that Teal and Orange filters are used just as prominently in promotional material as in the films themselves. It's a terrible trend and annoying as hell. See here for more: http://theabyssgazes.blogspot.com.au/2010/03/teal-and-orange...
I was looking out for the Teal/Orange effect and was interested to see that it started in posters way back in the 80s already, 20 years before digital film color grading.
That's an interesting observation. I wonder if that's a more general kind of lag that can be found with other effects, with things becoming feasible in still design work some years before the analogous thing becomes feasible in film/video.
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#20I'd be interested seeing someone (not fit enough in this topics to do it myself) applying color psychology and mapping it to the years / events / industry. Could explain the shift from warmer colors to more technical ones (just speculating)
Looks like "Peak Oil" back in 1977 made people feel blue or resulted in different chemicals being used in films. The blue band is much wider for that year all of a sudden.
Or it was Star Wars. ;-)