Raza Syed is a screenwriter. He resides in Los Angeles. He can also be found at highindustrial.Tumblr (3.0; @lowindustrial)http://low.highindustrial.com/<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyukf9P6ez1qzqap2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://low.highindustrial.com/post/17007596844http://low.highindustrial.com/post/17007596844Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:33:09 -0800“If it’s a popcorn movie, it needs a lot of corn.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/magazine/george-lucas-red-tails.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all" title="George Lucas Is Ready to Roll the Credits - NYTimes.com">George Lucas</a>, getting in touch with his inner George Lucas.</em>http://low.highindustrial.com/post/16111556197http://low.highindustrial.com/post/16111556197Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:37:00 -0800<p>The scene in <i>Alien³</i> where Ripley tells the xenomorph, “You’ve been in my life so long, I can’t remember anything else,” is infinity times more romantic than <i>Jerry Maguire</i>’s “You had me at hello.”</p>http://low.highindustrial.com/post/15857993261http://low.highindustrial.com/post/15857993261Sat, 14 Jan 2012 17:19:17 -0800nineties popcorn eschatologyC: Bieber looks like Shane from Weeds.<br /> R: He also looks like Shane from The L Word.http://low.highindustrial.com/post/15522994014http://low.highindustrial.com/post/15522994014Sun, 08 Jan 2012 12:11:07 -0800C: I think the gay autistic guy at work has been hitting on me.<br /> R: So it's raining rain men?<br /> C: Why don't you go tell the internet that.http://low.highindustrial.com/post/15478496460http://low.highindustrial.com/post/15478496460Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:21:17 -0800<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwzsruvGZk1qzqap2o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><b>Los Angeles,</b> you painted hussy. [thanks, m]</p>http://low.highindustrial.com/post/14998204977http://low.highindustrial.com/post/14998204977Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:17:22 -0800magic hour<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwfnnigtqS1qzqap2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>There’s a bikini waxing</strong> scene in this movie that makes Steve Carell’s depilation in <em>The 40-Year-Old Virgin</em> look like a baby panda sneeze.</p>http://low.highindustrial.com/post/14440863664http://low.highindustrial.com/post/14440863664Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:11:42 -0800<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw85pgcvap1qzqap2o1_500.gif"/><br/><br/>http://low.highindustrial.com/post/14246193312http://low.highindustrial.com/post/14246193312Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:00:52 -0800<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/_TBd-UCwVAY?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p><b>A good ad</b> can be unabashedly choreographed, unapologetically on-the-nose, and leave the viewer happy, even grateful, that somebody pushed his buttons.</p>http://low.highindustrial.com/post/13492792820http://low.highindustrial.com/post/13492792820Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:28:47 -0800it's time<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luz3wtW4X61qzqap2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>It’s almost out of my system.</strong></p>http://low.highindustrial.com/post/13071691540http://low.highindustrial.com/post/13071691540Sun, 20 Nov 2011 11:10:05 -0800<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lus0hx6up91qzqap2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Wait, what?</strong></p>http://low.highindustrial.com/post/12898887893http://low.highindustrial.com/post/12898887893Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:13:09 -0800<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luqfrjFu761qzqap2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>If you smashed</strong> a flower pot over my head and asked amnesiac me to guess which one of these wicked queens is from Tarsem Singh’s take on Snow White, I would answer incorrectly.</p>http://low.highindustrial.com/post/12864944598http://low.highindustrial.com/post/12864944598Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:47:43 -0800uh, so, is 'mirror, mirror' tarsem's 'hugo cabret'?<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lu2p15746h1qzqap2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><em><strong>The Eyes of Hammy Faye.</strong></em></p>http://low.highindustrial.com/post/12277195121http://low.highindustrial.com/post/12277195121Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:05:29 -0700J: I don't know what to get an eleven-year-old for his birthday. Do boys still play with toys at that age?<br /> R: They play video games. They like iPads, laptops—things that are flat. They like flat stuff.<br /> J: His mom just emailed me back that he likes money.<br /> R: There you go. Money's flat.http://low.highindustrial.com/post/12174524848http://low.highindustrial.com/post/12174524848Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:11:00 -0700<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltupjupU521qzqap2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Liftoff of Soyuz flight VS01.</strong></p> <blockquote> <p>Soyuz lifted off for the first time from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on 21 October 2011, carrying the first two <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(satellite_navigation)">Galileo In-Orbit Validation</a> satellites.</p> </blockquote> <p>Here’s the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/esa_events/sets/72157627767903603/">entire set</a>.</p>http://low.highindustrial.com/post/12093504501http://low.highindustrial.com/post/12093504501Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:35:54 -0700<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltl4jjJmFL1qzqap2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Space Activity Suit</strong></p> <blockquote> <p>Since the 1960s, NASA has also investigated spacesuits that utilize mechanical pressure rather than pressurized gas to protect an astronaut. Such a “space activity suit” is essentially an allover skin-tight leotard, which would be very lightweight and provide far less impediments to motion than traditional spacesuits. As well, a small tear in the suit would only affect the area exposed by the hole rather than cause a potentially deadly decompression event. The only area of the suit that would need to be pressurized is the astronaut’s helmet.</p> </blockquote> <p><em>(Photograph by Douglas Sonders)</em></p>http://low.highindustrial.com/post/11872684618http://low.highindustrial.com/post/11872684618Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:23:00 -0700<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltjw4phZlR1qzqap2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>At the intersection</strong> of serendipity and propinquity resides biography.</p>http://low.highindustrial.com/post/11851305049http://low.highindustrial.com/post/11851305049Sun, 23 Oct 2011 20:24:24 -0700<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltdrtzQeoj1qzqap2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Detail from</strong> <em>Pale Memory</em>, a new painting by <a href="http://www.jeremygeddesart.com/paintings.html">Jeremy Geddes</a>.</p>http://low.highindustrial.com/post/11702508419http://low.highindustrial.com/post/11702508419Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:05:00 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lt5k4o5yTM1qzqap2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Things to appreciate about this Abilify ad:</strong></p> <ul><li>The leering <a href="http://oddisgood.com/pages/cd-clippy.html">Microsoft Clippy</a> eyes on the bathrobe.</li> <li>The <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Critic">Critic</a></em>-esque character design of the mother.</li> <li>I say <em>mother</em> because the artwork screams “Hey, sport! Mom’s been locked in the bathroom crying, what, <i>since you were born (give or take six weeks)?</i> Why dontcha slip this under the door and nuke yourself a Pop-Tart, chief.”</li> </ul>http://low.highindustrial.com/post/11518235536http://low.highindustrial.com/post/11518235536Sun, 16 Oct 2011 09:42:02 -0700<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsrihksB091qzqap2o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><b>“When there’s ’ardly no day</b> nor ’ardly no night, there’s things ’alf in shadow and ’alfway in light.”</p>http://low.highindustrial.com/post/11192959782http://low.highindustrial.com/post/11192959782Sat, 08 Oct 2011 12:36:55 -0700