how interesting.

here's a little insight into how house of cards is shot.

Almost every single frame of this show is composed to place a pale blue object in the foreground with a pale yellow light in the background. Now, sometimes the foreground object is more black than blue, sometimes the background veers toward a sickly green, sometimes they're outside and the background is necessarily blue or black sky, but once you begin noticing this particular habit of the House of Cards color pallete, it is hard to unsee. (via)

here's a podcast interview with the show's cinematographer.

on a related note, here's a list of ten films matthew weiner made required viewing for the cast & crew of mad men. jicydak, there's a big mad men exhibition opening march 14 at the museum of the moving image (shoutout flim).

bring back etti-cat!

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awesome lady alert!

she is the only black lady to ever hold her specialized position.

In 2004 she was cross-commissioned into the USAF, a fairly rare occurrence in itself, and joined the elite U-2 Dragon Lady spy plane program. Within a year she had passed the incredibly challenging U-2 conversion syllabus and was soon flying combat missions around the globe. She has since gone on to get her Masters Degree in aeronautical science, she became the commander of the U-2 test detachment at Plant 42, served at NORAD, is now the 9th Reconnaissance Wing Inspector General and was recently selected for promotion to the rank of full Colonel. (via)