More ranting...

I tried to post a couple of days ago with a whole thing about ...okay, I am not sure what the heck it was about, but isn't that the point of blogging?

Anyway, I went to post the damn thing and I got the internet equivalent of "Blogger is not in right now, please try again later, click...dial tone..." and so it is lost, the post that could have been my best post ever, the one that would have made you laugh and cry, the one that would have made you reconsider everything you knew about life and the perceptions of reality...ah, wtf, I should change rant subjects. This one even bores me.

I just cannot get off the schneid with my arcade project. I am trying to write in html this time, especially because I wanna use interesting backgrounds (pictures, montages, etc. from the Kaufman films), but I am running into a pragmatic problem - everytime I try to capture an image from the film I cannot; I have tried using ScreenPrint, tried my dig camera, and a few other ways. Man, Hollywood is freaky about the use of images, even from a marginally successful arthouse film from (almost) ten years ago.

This brings me to the ethical/legal dilemma: do I use any images for which I do not own the copyright? If not, I am in trouble, because I don't have the first clue how to get images that relate to Kaufman and his scripts without using ones that belong to someone else. I could always draw 'em, I suppose.

So, as much as I love to write using images, I may have to figure out how to create images using text, which is sad, because I have a "spectacular" image of a woman in a low cut red dress with Malkovich's head on it (from the scene at 1:09:41 when Malkovich enters the portal into his own head and when he arrives, everyone is Malkovich and all they can say is "Malkovich"), and it demonstrates the play with gender and subject position in the film.

Ugh. Again. If it weren't for ranting, I might never have anything to say.