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quirkiness = symmetry
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April 2011
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March 2011
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“To be soaked in materialism, to directly and indirectly champion it, has also...”
– Joel Johnson, 1 Million Workers. 90 Million iPhones. 17 Suicides. Who’s to Blame? in this month’s Wired. A great read.
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Persona and the Physicality of Emotion in Cinema
Persona is widely considered to be one of the greatest works of art ever made in cinema, and it is clear to see why. Bergman, who wrote, produced, and directed the film, said of the film that he, “had gone as far as I could go. And that in these two instances when working in total freedom, I touched wordless secrets that only the cinema can discover.” The film aims to explore human emotions...
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La Jetée and the Transition from Static to Dynamic...
La Jetée is a film that is technically minimalist yet thematically rich: nothing more then a series of still images in photomontage form with a lone narrator, lasting only 28 minutes. However, La Jetée is an extreme case where the technicalities form a symbiotic relationship with the theme of memory, the photomontage serving as an allegory for the frozen moments that makes up human memory.
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February 2011
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“You’ve made the right choice. Believe me, today is a good day for you....”
– 8 1/2
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Godard, Coutard, and Cinematography
When first watching Breathless and Pierrot le Fou, I honestly felt like I knew nothing about cinema or storytelling whatsoever. It’s not hard to understand the thematic existentialism that seems to be present in every line of dialogue (or the rare occasion where it’s contradictory) but technically these films are like nothing I’d ever seen. I think any film enthusiast will tell you...
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January 2011
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“… and the truth is, i think all animation is really painful and tedious...”
– Don Hertzfeldt via Reddit Q&A
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December 2010
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“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us...”
– Ira Glass (via hyperallergic)
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November 2010
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Watchtechnologically awesome, narratively unique!
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August 2010
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Charles Eames’ conceptual diagram of the design...
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Charles Eames’ conceptual diagram of the design process, displayed at the 1969 exhibition “What Is Design” at the Musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris. Pinched from Gloria Koenig’s excellent (and bargainous) book, Eames. Designers should be made to stare at this for ten minutes each morning. Conviction and enthusiasm: that’s what we should all be aiming for.
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