I have some gripes with humans.
(1) I went to my local grocery store, looking for ginger beer. There was this brand that I hadn't heard of before, River City. It was kind of expensive. On the label, it said "Made from the finest ingredients", and "made in small batches". Normally, I would pick it up and look at the ingredients, but I try to not handle groceries unnecessarily these days. Plus, I know what to expect. It's expensive craft ginger beer, made from the finest ingredients right?
Actually, no. It is fake ginger beer. It has no ginger in it, and it is not fermented. It is just sugar, carbonated water, sodium benzoate, and mystery flavor. Ok, so maybe it has the finest sodium benzoate? Was it really made in small batches? Really, what are you allowed to say on your labels these days? Should I go out and bottle tap water with corn syrup mixed in it, and label it craft ginger beer from the finest ingredients? I can put, "best ginger beer in the world", "voted number 1", "made one bottle at a time, to perfection". Is that OK? Why does this company still exist? Do people buy their fake product and come back for more? Will my scheme to sell sugar water work too?
Stop buying this stuff already people!
(2) Orange and teal tinted movies. The theory is that skin tones are orange-ish, and explosions are oranage-ish, and other stuff is blue, and orange and teal are contrasting colors, and what not, so boosting the orange and teal will make stuff "pop", or whatever. It became popular, it seems, at first in Michael Bay movies, like Transformers.
http://theabyssgazes.blogspot.com/2010/03/teal-and-orange-hollywood-please-stop.html
It seems like it's always the worst written/directed movies, relying on CGI and flashy and explodey stuff, that have the most extreme orange/teal color grading.
So it was actually the new Godzilla vs King Kong trailer that triggered me. The color grading is so bad, I can barely stand to watch the trailer. At this point, it seems like the creativity in these films goes little further than, "lets have lots of shots with blue and orange in it", "lots of explosions and water and stuff", "we can make the movie poster half orange and half blue, with Godzilla right in the middle", "Orange and teal stuff in every shot in the trailer." This is the work of geniuses!
Am I missing something? Is there some dark psychology they are using on us or something? Do we see orange and teal, and it makes us want to see the movie?
Will movies eventually just be a few hours of hypnotic orange and teal swirls?
(3) Can we all stop asking each other how we are doing every time we communicate with one another, or make a transaction? Does anyone ever say "bad"? Does the person at a cash register want to be asked back how they are doing 500 times in one day? And, nicely say, "good", even when they're having a terrible day? Can't we just say "hi"?
Have you put it into practice to any large exten?
Not a complaint as much as 'Hey, I am retired!".
