Familiar experiences pass more quickly - that's why the return trip seems faster than the trip out.
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
@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?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.
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.
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.Cross of Iron was a random, late night C4 find. Have to find that again, cheers for the reminder.
kurasawa ofc uses the slow mo death as well - peckinpah mustve seen his films and nicked it from him?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.
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).
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