Graig Uhlin

Associate Professor of Screen Studies, Oklahoma State University. Yes, I am the "Graig Uhlin" mentioned in "Cinema Studies" papers.

[Friendly Neighborhood Butlerian @TheOneButlerian]

Yup. Outsourcing your control and decision making to a Slop Slot Machine is why AI doesn’t make sense in the Arts. Whatever it spits out, you can’t explain why you “chose” that detail, because you didn’t choose anything.

[Graig Uhlin @graigu]

RIP Edgar Morin.

[Matthew Belloni @MattBelloni]

Netflix dominoes are falling, David Fincher is now getting the “Greta deal” (the first deal) and will debut Cliff Booth movie in IMAX theaters globally over Thanksgiving and then on Netflix for Christmas. AMC facilitating this despite the short window.

[IndieWire @IndieWire]

‘Lord of the Flies’ Channels the Magic of Trees — and Also ‘Lone Survivor’ https://t.co/bNMRARWT1V

[The Hollywood Reporter @THR]

YouTube Will Let Creators Use AI to Insert Themselves Into Other People's Videos https://t.co/RmyfPow7fA

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.

Her name is Audrey van der Meer.

She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth.

The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time.

Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen.

Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task.

When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once.

The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected.

When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely.

Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG.

Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events.

The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem.

Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next.

Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve.

Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews.

Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad.

Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page.

A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched.

The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall.

The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down.

The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page.

That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it.

Two studies. Two countries. Same answer.

Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast.

Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth.

You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick.

The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew.

Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

[All Things Movies @ThatMoviePage]

HOOK is considered one of his lesser works and some outright hate it but it has shot blocking and lighting that look incredible.

[Vashi Nedomansky, ACE @vashikoo]

LAST YEAR AT MARINEBAD (1961)
Only the people cast shadows onto the ground in this surreal shot. Production Designer Jacques Saulnier reveals the secret simple solution to how he did it.

[Modern History @modernhistory]

This short film has won more than 100 awards worldwide.

[Jason Smith - 上官杰文 @ShangguanJiewen]

This isn't in the trial phase.

The entire China International Consumer Products Expo in Hainan, recently, used only these materials for signage, food containers, and more.

This is getting scaled for mass use.

[Bilge Ebiri @BilgeEbiri]

New Romain Gavras music video. I would watch this movie. https://t.co/SDLics6hhs

[sam. @suddenxfear]

marlon brando and montgomery clift having fun in home video, late 40s

[Lusca Fusca @luscafusca150]

Por volta de 2013 a cidade de Chengdu tem adicionado trepadeiras em seus viadutos para conter ilhas de calor e o difícil trabalho de tornar essa infraestrutura mais agradável.

[Alex F 🇵🇸 @alexcfields]

ahem

[Graig Uhlin @graigu]

Wow.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Long unofficially banned from appearing on state TV, incoming Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar appears on a channel to which he was previously not allowed only to announce an end of "North Korean" style Orban media monopoly.

[Graig Uhlin @graigu]

Hahahaha.

[Pop Base @PopBase]

‘The White Lotus’ Season 4 will be set during the Cannes Film Festival.

[non aesthetic things @PicturesFoIder]

A clear, well-articulated argument against a new data center in Ohio... worth watching

[Mal Ahern @malahern]

If you’re in a funded graduate program in the humanities, then reading IS your job. Graduate students in coursework should be spending no more than 20 hours a week on teaching because they NEED to spend 20 hours on reading

[Robert Daniels @812filmreviews]

It was a pleasure speaking with @allyson_nadia about her incisive new book LABOR OF LOVE: BLACK PERFORMANCE AND THE KISS THAT CHANGED FILM—a work I find to be equally revealing and thrilling.

Our conversation via @LAReviewofBooks.

https://t.co/U0TwXoOdci

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Throwback to David Fincher trying to film Alien 3 with a real dog in costume (1992)