Aditya Bidikar

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Thomas Flight on Cinematography

I quite enjoy Thomas Flight’s video essays on cinema. This is a good one focusing on cinematography, and what makes for good cinematography – he narrows it down to four factors: 1. Light 2. Composition 3. Movement 4. Beauty It’s interesting stuff, and provides a fair few touchstones for

True Detective Season 1

I started watching Lanterns recently, and it is about as adequate as you’d expect one of these things to be at this point. The era of superhero movies/tv doing anything interesting is over, at least for a little bit, and while experiencing this methadone hit,[1] I figured

Making Rumours

I’ve been reading Making Rumours, a book about the recording of Fleetwood Mac’s classic album Rumours written by sound engineer/producer Ken Caillat. I read a lot of process books – I just finished reading a book about the making of Ken Russell’s The Devils, anticipating its re-

Firmware

I occasionally read old “tech for laypeople” books for fun. They’re of course, outdated in terms of the technology they’re speaking of, but they’re often prescient on its philosophical and social repercussions, and sometimes even correct in a way we’ve lost sight of. The one I’

Betteridge’s Law of Headlines

Via Marcin Wichary’s blog, a TIL (today I learned): Betteridge’s law of headlines is an adage that states: “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.” It is based on the assumption that if the publishers were confident that the answer

Radio Garden

My recent favourite music subscription isn’t to a platform – it’s to an app called Radio Garden, which doesn’t host any music of its own, but is a collection of live radio stations from all over the world. Most of these are online stations, but there’s a

Absences

I feel like I owe some kind of explanation for my recent absence from this blog and from social media. And since I’m not going to be talking about this on social media, I should talk about it here. So, let’s start from the small stuff and work

Done, Not Done

Let’s get the big news out of the way: In Your Skin #4 – the final issue of my mini-series with artist Som, publisher Image Comics and production house Tiny Onion – was published on 29th July, which means the whole story is published and out there. We’re now

Newses and Newses

Short one this time, mainly with a bunch of news and stuff for you folks to do if you so feel. First, The Fables of Erlking Wood, the acclaimed original graphic novel by Juni Ba and myself, is back on Kickstarter for a crispy new softcover edition. If you’ve