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[Top Ten Tuesday] – #46 – Top Ten Landscapes That Need A Visual Time-lapse

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Top Ten Tuesday is an original weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish. I thought this would be a fun way to share a condensed version of potential rambles and thoughts that I have.

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This Week’s Theme:
Top Ten Landscapes That
Need A Visual Time-lapse

Initial Thoughts:

(Good ol’ freebies letting me take creative reign.)

World building gives body and context to the wtf-ness that happens in a story, and sometimes, they feel like characters themselves. The purpose of this theme was to consider landscapes that I wouldn’t mind visualizing its pre-storyline development to the actual happenings in the narratives (i.e. protagonists and their tomfoolery through haphazard wrecking of buildings for narrative effect). Think of this topic as an aerial 3D time-lapse of the construction-and-deconstruction of a focus setting and how the setting had to have begun somewhere.

If I’m making no sense at all: just imagine the Game of Thrones opening sequence and how kingdoms evolve throughout the series. Or…here is an example of a time-lapse.

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Now take the above and change it into an aerial shot, then set it back nth years to the start of civilization in ABC Novel and watch the innovation turn nothingness into something.

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[Top Ten Tuesday] – #45 – Top Ten 2014 Releases I Didn’t Get To Read

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Top Ten Tuesday is an original weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish. I thought this would be a fun way to share a condensed version of potential rambles and thoughts that I have.

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This Week’s Theme:
Top Ten 2014 Releases I
Didn’t Get To Reading

Initial Thoughts:

These releases aren’t ordered by regret or anything (though I do feel bad for hyping some of them to myself during the year.) I think I should go all full disclosure on the 3-4 ARCs I didn’t even get to reviewing. lolololol I’m good at this reading thing.

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[Alternatives] – Movies – Coherence

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Alternatives is the tagline feature for other forms of entertainment outside of discussing literature. These posts may encompass television, movies, games, and music with a randomized flavour of the moment approach to each post.

Alternatives
Movies – Coherence (2013)

Genre: Science-fiction, Thriller, Drama
Duration: 89 Minutes
Directed/Written By: James Ward Byrkit

On the night of an astronomical anomaly, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events. Part cerebral sci-fi and part relationship drama, COHERENCE is a tightly focused, intimately shot film whose tension intensely ratchets up as its numerous complex mysteries unfold.

coherence_xlgCoherence is as coherent as someone attempting to convince you that coherence is spelled with a –rent. (Okay that doesn’t make any sense at all but I’m running with it.)

Coherence is a solid, in-your-face, handheld recorded (well…not quite, but it looks like it), claustrophobic and dialogue-improvised film that gave me mental and physical chills. I’m not going dissect this film because it’s a viewing best experienced without prior inclinations. I’ll just say that I elicited, “what the [expletive]?” on numerous occasions and perhaps I have an affinity for swearing more when enjoyment increases—or perhaps not—but my swear jar sure is pleased. But I’ll try to spur some interest anyways while making some half-baked commentary.

Continue reading below at your own discretion.

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