Thursday, March 3, 2011

Unexplained Cinema

Just a quick bit of self-promotion: If you were one of the utterly select, unique, creative, imaginative and all-around awesome people who followed Unexplained Cinema, formerly on Blogger, you may have noticed I shut down operations over there and moved it to tumblr where it works a hell of a lot better. Most of those who did follow showed up after Film Comment wrote it up last year (along with Cinema Styles) so I certainly didn't want to abandon it but Blogger just wasn't working for what I wanted to do there.


Tumblr allows a wider variety of links, including stand-alone audio links, as well as picture sets that scroll through the frames like a slideshow and since picture sets was the main staple of Unexplained Cinema, it made sense to make the move. Another advantage of tumblr is that there are no comments. Since Unexplained Cinema was all about the posted screengrab speaking for itself, comments seemed superfluous. Instead, if you're a member of tumblr, you can favorite a post or reblog it, whichever you desire.

Keep in mind, it's starting over from scratch so there's only around 20 or so posts to look at right now but more go up every day. Thanks, in advance, for stopping by.

6 comments:

Ed Howard said...

I'm glad it's starting up again, Greg, but I have to disagree about the lack of comments being an advantage. A screenshot can be the trigger for a good discussion just as well as a blog post. I know the Internet seems to be moving a little away from the blog/comment thread format towards things like Twitter/Tumblr/Facebook, but I, for one, don't think that's entirely a good thing.

But that's a sidetrack. Looking forward to checking out the reborn Unexplained Cinema anyway!

Greg said...

Ed, everything you say is completely true so maybe I should redefine that for myself. I think what I really mean to say is that with discussions here and elsewhere, I probably didn't need nor want discussion there.

Also, I want to have more fun with it and, maybe because of Film Comment, I was feeling like I had to be more serious and heady. Tumblr makes it easier, a lot easier, to post on the spur of the moment when I have a pic, rather than the lengthier formatting hoops of Blogger.

Ed Howard said...

Well I can certainly understand that, you have enough to deal with I'm sure, and responding to comments can take up a good chunk of time.

The new site already looks like lots of fun, and I'm digging the slideshows.

Greg said...

Thanks, Ed!

larry aydlette said...

What's with all the captions? Seems like you're starting to explain things at Unexplained Cinema.

Greg said...

I refuse to explain why I use the captions. Mwahahahaaa!