EAI Podcast 22 - Oscars – Overlords – Youtube – Car Sitters

[robbstar]

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Hello and welcome to Everything’s an illusion podcast, once again I am joined by the bearded master of scifi Greg Andrew where we tackle the lowest paid Holywood workers taking class action against the giants of the industry. We then look at the Oscars #oscarssowhite and the controlling elite behind the curtain. Then we look at the puppet masters and shadowy overlords and ask why if they have so much power to they lurk in the shadows? We then take a stroll through Youtube University the best FREE education a human can get, from here we move to the fantastic Scottish Meteor recently captured on dash cam and finally we look at the The Martian and ask where did the potatoes come from??

So sit back and relax as we question everything.

[BfaetheCP]

To be fair i think im killing it in this one.

So get listening folks..

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[robbstar]

Modest Aye :)

[Masato]

I listened yesterday, was great

Once again its fuckin bizarre how many ideas we seem to see the same ways.

I especially liked BfaetheCP's idea about how many 'counter-culture' figures eventually all get cozy with the elites.

Also like how robbstar goes all hardcore CT sometimes, its almost always just what I am thinking lol


Coincidentally, I also watched the Martian recently (which is rare because I don't really watch movies much). Actually I watched it in the corner of my screen while working, maybe not the same experience... but same diff

I can appreciate how people would think it was an enjoyable film, but personally just saw it as one big fucking advertisement/propaganda for NASA.

You guys are on the mark about Oscars being a propaganda tool imo. Different themes are pushed through that have direct relevance to real events and issues of public opinion a few years later, this can be seen over and over. Just think of the POWER of influence these films have! HOW MANY PEOPLE will see them, and go away with the same images and EMOTIONAL CONNECTIONS embedded into their realities. They think NASA they think Matt fucking Damon, etc. A lot of MARS attention lately, will be interesting to see where it's going. I saw a good vid a while ago about how the official story of the Mars Rover etc does not stand up to scrutiny and makes no sense in a bunch of ways, was really interesting

It is my somewhat shaky theory that NASA is and always has been completely full of shit; they try to pass themselves off as some boy-scout, non-military, non-political neutral entity, that is open and transparent, would never lie, that their staff are the greatest humans on earth, and that they are way fuckin smarter and capable than they likely are (or, the other way; they keep us thinking they are dumb while tech is actually way ahead) for the sheer good of mankind.
This movie pumped all these things and more.

Great show, keep it going please

[Masato]

PS: Fuck the Oscars, and Fuck DiCaprio's worthless/paid rhetoric about Climate Change too

You remember he was a guest speaker at the UN over the same shit, right?
Maybe that's another debate though, lol

[Masato]

Oh yeah, also cool talk in there about the $$$$$$$$$$$ being made on these films, and the crap pay they feed to the talent and people who make them happen (VFX)

I have a few friends in the VFX industry and there was a big fuss not too long ago I think after the Life of Pi, where the VFX community voiced about their shitty pay. The studio that did the Life of Pi fucking went bankrupt or something lol, those guys work 20-hour shifts for shit wages.

I have really come to abhor the BIG-budget films

I also hate how they all get free advertising by the fact that mainstream media considers it 'News' and thus plasters it everywhere... while indy filmmakers can hardly get a shoutout on TV or front cover if they're lucky and would mean so much.

[BfaetheCP]

Totally agree with you on the exploitation of the vfx industry.

I think that studio heads and the big desicion makers in hollywood see these up an comers and their home made 10 minute short that they spend there lifes earning on and every waking minute to create a great looking professional short with all cool fx and stuff and when they come in and say make that again excpet bigger and better but when budgets come back they are like "fucking hell, how come it cost so much to replicate what someone did in their basement." they just want to exploit these crafts and they have no clue

[robbstar]

You can't beat going all CT – Its where the heart is :)

NASA - Yeah – Big push for Mars at the minute – China are dominating in the space race at the moment – yet the world probably still thinks NASA is the top dog. Crazy the USA at their peak were awesome but now they buy in the rocket engines from Russia. Definitely a big propaganda push to make the western populace believe NASA are still the top dog in space, when we all know its FUCKING ALIEN MIND VAMPIRES!!

China - On a serious note the Chinese are kicking it in space at the moment. Saying that they should focus on their people, to many common day Chinese folk getting fucked over their. Saying that I just read China have made the biggest leaps in renewable energy and should be fully clean by 2025!! WOW.

VFX - Totally agree and I had my Green facebook profile for a month a while back in support. Their is a really great documentary that shows how the movie industry works but put simply. Directors, actors, physical locations etc are looked at as real and are budgeted for within an inch of their life. However VFX isn't seen as real and is rarely given the dedication to its planning that is required. For instance A director, 1st AD , DOP etc etc will all be on set to see the physical stuff, ready to change a shot , redirect, rework a shot etc to fulfil the vision , because time is money !!. The opposite is sadly true of the VFX which is now most of the fucking film! No director visits the VFX studio , no 1st ad , DOP or producer. So the artists work to the brief , and the they send it on and it is returned with a list of changes, and this goes on and on. The main problem comes from the way the funds are allocated. In the physical, sets , actors,etc on location it is all budgeted for, minute by minute . We are here for 4 days, it cost $$$ x amount and boom it gets done. But the VFX teams are forced to bid for the contract, some are so shit (money wise ) that they are forced to move to new counties to grab grants etc. SO when they are remaking the sea or the tiger for the 30th time because some ass hat should have been in the studio making real decision but doesn't see it as important (I think simply because they don't understand what the VFX team actually do ), then those 30 times artist hours come out of the original tender , the tender that they need to fulfil at the price they tendered for. Hence why they go bust . Definitely needs to change but, it wont because the artists are low paid and as movies become more VFX they will need more of them and the big wigs wont the price to be driven down.

[Edge Guerrero]

PS: Fuck the Oscars, and Fuck DiCaprio's worthless/paid rhetoric about Climate Change too

You remember he was a guest speaker at the UN over the same shit, right?
Maybe that's another debate though, lol

- DiCaprio is a good actor thought.
Unlike some other oscars winners.

They should give Sly a oscar by awesomeness even his lesser know movies in the 80`s were good.
But that bunch of weirdos just give that statue to bad movies.