Exploring the deeper side of Netflix tonight in a study of the alleyways between the thoroughfares.
Room 237: Kubrick's The Shining provokes reaction. "237" is nine viewpoints that go wildly off the mark, depending on your level of involvement in the dubious concepts of conspiracy theory. However, a fascinating time digging deeply into the movie: it's color aspects, it's symbology - and, at the end, despite my disagreement of some of the assessment, you learn to appreciate The Shining again. Whatever Kubrick had in mind, we can definitely agree he made deep rooted choices in making it one of the best horror movies of all time.
Plagiarism in 2013: Ruth Graham proposes why did 2013 become the year of word theft? The good news is that, in the writing community, it is, after millennia, still frowned upon. It is property, it is the poet's. Don't do it.
Caesar Must Die: A documentary that pits the context of Shakespeare within an Italian prison, the incarcerated troupe in their portrayal of Julius Caesar. These men and the play they enact are a sight to see: they emote in a way that few actors otherwise can.
Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters: with the overabundance of cameras in the world today - there is a dullness to the art. If everyone can take the same picture, since the phone or the camera takes much of the guesswork out, then what do we have left? Crewdson, on the other hand, infuses much into each shot. I hate to use the word 'stylized', because it elevates beyond that, since the thematic tones that he strikes are decidedly not sleek. They are a hyper-realization of a moment that is struck within him - the light and colors of some memory that you understand lives within him.
Mystery of a Masterpiece (NOVA): what is compelling in this piece is not the framework of the story that NOVA puts forth, it's the underpinning that Leonardo Da Vinci could possibly thrill us several centuries after we believed we've seen all of his works. Could this portrait be his? The signs outlined in the documentary point to a high degree of confidence it very well could.
Science as a cult of instrumentation: Philip Ball, of Aeon, argues the vacuous ideas of science feeding upon each other instead of expanding our conceptual basis of what to do next.
"Beauty" a Short Video by Rino Stefano Tagliafierro - a work that elevates the flaccid genre of online video repositories.
B E A U T Y - dir. Rino Stefano Tagliafierro from Rino Stefano Tagliafierro on Vimeo.
General Orders No 9: a visual dream of Georgia, USA. A stream of consciousness that looks under, around, its impact as a state.
Mark Twain and the West: Lapham's Quarterly surmises Twain's The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County as a humorous aside of post-Civil War, albeit with a larger lesson on a reflection of that age.
Indie Game: a lucid (as you'll find many articles written on it as well) look at the state of independent games today. The frustration of coders who put their all and a year or two, into a title to see that they just didn't get enough from it. A sad state of affairs for those that would like to see art in a genre that is dominated by war, space or undead titles.
Chuck Woolery sings, possibly high:
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