Techniques for Influencing Time

sus

Well-known member
One thing I've noticed is that, walking somewhere, the return journey is always much quicker than the journey there.
 

WashYourHands

Cat Malogen
@mixed_biscuits The boredom of the M1 is a lot like that. Drags like fuck one way, wizzes past the other.

A train journey with views can almost suspend time. Add a well put together drone mix and it gets even better. Can’t say that about driving or motorways.

A colleague is a bit of a horsey type, says riding does something temporally, the rhythm of the animal’s limbs and taking in vistas (not fence jumping). A flow state, essentially.
 

WashYourHands

Cat Malogen
so why does every 8-hour data entry shift seem longer than the last one, and why is walworth road longer every time i walk down it

Over-familiarity? Repetition of key strokes clock watching, plus you can’t really goof around? Creative data entry aka writing is surely the opposite then.
 

constant escape

winter withered, warm
Over-familiarity? Repetition of key strokes clock watching, plus you can’t really goof around? Creative data entry aka writing is surely the opposite then.
@woops yeah I think this direction too. Its like that familiar aspects of your world are being gradually magnified, taking up more of your bandwidth, but also letting you see them at a higher resolution. That street you mentioned probably carries way more psychic baggage than other streets, when you consider streets, no?

expert (adj.)
late 14c., "having had experience; skillful," from Old French expert, espert "experienced, practiced, skilled" and directly from Latin expertus (contracted from *experitus), "tried, proved, known by experience," past participle of experiri "to try, test," from ex "out of" (see ex-) + peritus "experienced, tested," from PIE *per-yo-, suffixed form of root *per- (3) "to try, risk." The adjective tends to be accented on the second syllable, the noun on the first. Related: Expertly; expertness.

Sort of like you automatically accumulate expertise by going over a territory again and again.
 

catalog

Well-known member
this may have been mentioned elsewhere, but i like the peckinpah technique of using slow motion for moments of violence/death. years ago i was very into him and read a bio on him, i think he was on a train in japan during the war and saw someone get shot and died and said the moment seemed to take an eternity, everything stopped. his early films don't use it much but by the time you get to pat garrett and wild bunch, it's everywhere, became something of a trademark for him
 

catalog

Well-known member
Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia is cool, i used to love that film, particularly the Oates performance and how grim it gets towards the end with the rotting head. I've not rewatched it for years.

The Getaway - bit boring/out of character.

Ride the high country, cross of iron, wild bunch, pat garrett - all dead good
 

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
I used to do a lot of data entry jobs and I discovered a way to make time pass faster was to challenge myself to do X number of process Y in an hour. When you're aiming to do that boring laborious thing 100 times in an hour that hour will go faster, you'll start wishing you had more time (I mean, not really, but it's a useful suspension of disbelief in the 'value' of what you're up to).
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
Cross of Iron was a random, late night C4 find. Have to find that again, cheers for the reminder.
That was on at the BFI several years ago and Craner and I made some kind of plan to go and see it - but there was confusion and we failed to meet up (or watch it)... that was the closest we ever came to meeting.
 

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Nowadays my working days fucking fly by because I've got a shit ton of work to do. That's the upside - but the downside is there's not enough hours to get everything done so I'm stressed as fuck.
 

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
On the subject of films making time run faster/slower, practically anyone who's seen Seven Samurai will remark on how it didn't seem like it was 3 hours long. Which I guess speaks to that 'flow state' effect of time flying when you're fully engaged.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
Isn't the quote (Monte Hellman I think) that the version edited down for Hollywood is in fact muuuuuch longer and more boring. Which seems relevant here.
 

catalog

Well-known member
On the subject of films making time run faster/slower, practically anyone who's seen Seven Samurai will remark on how it didn't seem like it was 3 hours long. Which I guess speaks to that 'flow state' effect of time flying when you're fully engaged.
kurasawa ofc uses the slow mo death as well - peckinpah mustve seen his films and nicked it from him?
 

woops

is not like other people
I used to do a lot of data entry jobs and I discovered a way to make time pass faster was to challenge myself to do X number of process Y in an hour. When you're aiming to do that boring laborious thing 100 times in an hour that hour will go faster, you'll start wishing you had more time (I mean, not really, but it's a useful suspension of disbelief in the 'value' of what you're up to).

sounds like capitulation to stockholm syndrome to me. learn to love your job and you'll never work a day in your life
 

version

Well-known member
this may have been mentioned elsewhere, but i like the peckinpah technique of using slow motion for moments of violence/death. years ago i was very into him and read a bio on him, i think he was on a train in japan during the war and saw someone get shot and died and said the moment seemed to take an eternity, everything stopped. his early films don't use it much but by the time you get to pat garrett and wild bunch, it's everywhere, became something of a trademark for him
 
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