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sophia_sol) wrote2025-01-16 03:55 pm
sophia_sol) wrote2025-01-16 03:55 pm
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4 things: making movies, photography, writing fic with oc's, red heads on woodpeckers
one
Listening to the going rogue podcast has made me more aware of just what it is that various behind the scenes people are doing in the making of a movie, and frankly it just makes me more astonished than ever that anyone does manage to create any actually good and cohesive movies. By their nature, movies are the work of many hands, and they all have to be working together on the same creative vision, and that is so hard...especially when it all has to be done within constraints of things like budget and top-down studio decision-making and everyone's schedules. And yet brilliantly good movies DO exist! Amazing!
two
I need to get out more with my camera again. Just hasn't happened much of late for a variety of reasons! But photography is fun.
three
did u know: it's fun to invent background OCs for fic, actually
fill the world with a sense that there are real people all over the place living their own lives, separate from our heroes and with their own priorities!
I love to read it. I love to write it!
four
Recently I tried to look into whether there are known reasons that many woodpecker species have red on their heads. And I found one study that suggests that a nicely bright bit of red colouration on a woodpecker head is a way to show off for potential mates that you're good breeding material. Birds with brighter red are associated with having better body condition, and producing larger egg clutches, according to one study. They also have smaller territories, which might mean they're able to claim higher quality territory.
Very intriguing results! But this study was just looking at one species of woodpecker, and it's the only info I could find on the topic. Overall it's not a well studied phenomenon, unfortunately!
Listening to the going rogue podcast has made me more aware of just what it is that various behind the scenes people are doing in the making of a movie, and frankly it just makes me more astonished than ever that anyone does manage to create any actually good and cohesive movies. By their nature, movies are the work of many hands, and they all have to be working together on the same creative vision, and that is so hard...especially when it all has to be done within constraints of things like budget and top-down studio decision-making and everyone's schedules. And yet brilliantly good movies DO exist! Amazing!
two
I need to get out more with my camera again. Just hasn't happened much of late for a variety of reasons! But photography is fun.
three
did u know: it's fun to invent background OCs for fic, actually
fill the world with a sense that there are real people all over the place living their own lives, separate from our heroes and with their own priorities!
I love to read it. I love to write it!
four
Recently I tried to look into whether there are known reasons that many woodpecker species have red on their heads. And I found one study that suggests that a nicely bright bit of red colouration on a woodpecker head is a way to show off for potential mates that you're good breeding material. Birds with brighter red are associated with having better body condition, and producing larger egg clutches, according to one study. They also have smaller territories, which might mean they're able to claim higher quality territory.
Very intriguing results! But this study was just looking at one species of woodpecker, and it's the only info I could find on the topic. Overall it's not a well studied phenomenon, unfortunately!
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