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Did one more repeat on the sock. Thinking out loud, that's three repeats since the turn for the heel, of an eight-row pattern. (I was supposed to have seven before the turn and it turns out I only have six, but that's actually okay because my legs are short. See Embossed Leaves re: this point, although this one would have fit okay if it were longer -- it just probably looks better as it is. Anyway.) When the pattern was sixteen rows, it called for seven and a half repeats (so, for me, six and a half) from the cast-on before beginning the toe -- three and a half (two and a half) on the leg and four on the foot. Four repeats of a sixteen-row pattern is eight repeats of an eight-row pattern, on the same size needles, yes? [looks at foot] Probably. And I've done three -- so before, when I said I was within five repeats of the toe, that was my usual failure to estimate how many rows it will take to cover my foot. I'm sure I'll get better with practice.
Second thing: I had the end of Indiana Jones on a few minutes ago, and I'll tell you what, high on my list of favorite moments ever is at the very end of "Last Crusade" when they're riding out of the canyon and toward the sunset, and Marcus says he knows the way and rides off and starts to fall about incomptently? And Indy and Henry have a sighing sort of moment, and then Indy follows Marcus, and as Henry and Sallah are catching up, Indy is reaching out to help steady Marcus in his saddle. Tomorrow I'll see if I can get a screencap. I just love that. It's tiny little moments of real character illumination like that one that just please me so, so, so much. (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ellen_fremedon says I have a particular eye for stage business, which may be true, but I really believe everything is a deliberate choice made by someone, and I can tell you from experience that it's groovy when someone notices little deliberate choices like that. In college I was the music director on our production of Cabaret, and I had the girl playing Fraulein Whatshername do a tiny thing at the end of I believe the second verse of "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" -- her voice was kind of piercing anyway, but I said listen, flip a very small switch there, and go from as sweet as you can to a little twist of a knife, willya?, and people noticed, and I was incredibly chuffed.) Another example: in Attack of the Clones, when the Jedi are fighting the droids and being pressed all together and it looks like they're being overcome and then the droids are called off, there's a bit where the camera cuts back to the Jedi as the dust is clearing and they're all still wary and looking around and their lightsabers are up and so on, but Obi-Wan Kenobi is down on one knee checking the pulse of a fallen comrade. And that's because Ewan McGregor is a professional, is all I'm saying.
Okay, maybe three things, the third being, I like wine. :-D G'night!
Second thing: I had the end of Indiana Jones on a few minutes ago, and I'll tell you what, high on my list of favorite moments ever is at the very end of "Last Crusade" when they're riding out of the canyon and toward the sunset, and Marcus says he knows the way and rides off and starts to fall about incomptently? And Indy and Henry have a sighing sort of moment, and then Indy follows Marcus, and as Henry and Sallah are catching up, Indy is reaching out to help steady Marcus in his saddle. Tomorrow I'll see if I can get a screencap. I just love that. It's tiny little moments of real character illumination like that one that just please me so, so, so much. (
ellen_fremedon says I have a particular eye for stage business, which may be true, but I really believe everything is a deliberate choice made by someone, and I can tell you from experience that it's groovy when someone notices little deliberate choices like that. In college I was the music director on our production of Cabaret, and I had the girl playing Fraulein Whatshername do a tiny thing at the end of I believe the second verse of "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" -- her voice was kind of piercing anyway, but I said listen, flip a very small switch there, and go from as sweet as you can to a little twist of a knife, willya?, and people noticed, and I was incredibly chuffed.) Another example: in Attack of the Clones, when the Jedi are fighting the droids and being pressed all together and it looks like they're being overcome and then the droids are called off, there's a bit where the camera cuts back to the Jedi as the dust is clearing and they're all still wary and looking around and their lightsabers are up and so on, but Obi-Wan Kenobi is down on one knee checking the pulse of a fallen comrade. And that's because Ewan McGregor is a professional, is all I'm saying.Okay, maybe three things, the third being, I like wine. :-D G'night!