Tapping human potential

The other day I had to put something away in the laundry room and it struck me. It's beautiful. Our laundry room is a bad extension put on by former owners-- a cheap wood wall and a couple of windows with a brick floor. Now it's home to our washer/dryer and an unknown number of black widow spiders. But in a movie set way it really is beautiful with exposed pipes, peeling paint, a bare light bulb on the too-low ceiling, and minty green paint. So it might end up in the movie somewhere, maybe in the bird scene.

Still thinking about stillness. In David Lynch's Rabbits, nothing much happens. But the fact that there are people (er, rabbits) there creates a tension: something COULD happen. Harakiri is another example. A lot of the movie is just two guys talking and a bunch of samurais watching. But the stillness becomes activated by the potential for characters to act. The difference between Rabits and Harakiri is that in Rabbits, our expectations are confounded whereas in Harakiri, our expectations are fulfilled in a climactic brawl.