I'm an outsider but looking in, I can't begin to fathom how influential Hertzfeldt is to American culture. Like, Adult Swim, the beginnings of Flash animation- all of these huge cultural movements influential in their own right, helmed by a handful of creatives who picked up what he was putting down
Don't disagree there, I guess I'm thinking in terms of someone who clearly studied The Craft Of Filmmaking REALLY HARD to tell personally meaningful and semi abstract stories, but the tone is very different, yeah
If you want to be reminded, there's an option you can check in the settings, it automatically reminds you to use one ! I find it very useful. But yeah, Mastodon is cool for the edit option. Really ugly but practical
I saw his new short film and also Beautiful Day in a theatre this past year. Gorgeous film and gorgeous artist. I also appreciate you Jeremy, you're a good internet guy. I'm drunk and also sad about David Lynch sorry for the sentimentality.
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I think we gotta put peele up there too