Puzzles

Puzzles Episode 1Telemachus Buck Mulligan looks for a face cloth to clean his razor and not finding one in his pocket exclaims: Scutter!(See Gabler's corrected text Ulysses - Line 66, page 4) The explanations I've seen denote . The word is actually an expletive, and is a more polite expression for excrement.I'm melting, he said, as the candle remarked when ... (L333, page 10) seems to be an unfinished joke. It seems the joke remains unknown. Some references relate the comment to Icarus an...

Marooned

Regarding the film Marooned In "Marooned," there is a subplot involving the astronauts’ communication with their families from space. The astronauts are allowed to have brief communication sessions with their wives via a video link, which becomes a source of emotional support and comfort for both the astronauts and their loved ones during the crisis. However, there is some obfuscation surrounding the communication link due to the severity of the situation and the desire to minimize public pan...

Contagious visual blandness of Netflix

Last week I saw M3GAN, the new horror-comedy starring Allison Williams and a robot-doll in a blond wig. I liked it enough. The doll character is genuinely well-done—a seemingly hard-to-nail mix of creepy and campy—but I walked out of the theater with a vaguely empty feeling. I couldn’t quite place it until I started talking with my friends about where the movie was set, and I realized I had no idea. One answer is somewhere in Silicon Valley, given its bald critique of big tech. It didn’t actu...

Contagious visual blandness of Netflix

Last week I saw M3GAN, the new horror-comedy starring Allison Williams and a robot-doll in a blond wig. I liked it enough. The doll character is genuinely well-done—a seemingly hard-to-nail mix of creepy and campy—but I walked out of the theater with a vaguely empty feeling. I couldn’t quite place it until I started talking with my friends about where the movie was set, and I realized I had no idea. One answer is somewhere in Silicon Valley, given its bald critique of big tech. It didn’t actu...

The Importance of Coloring and Authentic Self-Expression

Crayola Crayons Color Drawing Set, about 1960. The Strong, Rochester, New York. In 1900, Binney & Smith ventured into the school supply business. The company created handy multicolored non-toxic wax sticks in black, brown, orange, violet, blue, green, red, and yellow. Alice Binney combined the French words for "chalk" and "oily" (craie and olea) to make "Crayola." The crayons hit the market in 1903 and kids snapped them up. Over the years, appealing new colors tracked fashi...

Hue and cry, or the mystery of red gold

https://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/_/oupblog/~https://blog.oup.com/2022/10/hue-and-cry-or-the-mystery-of-red-gold/As a student, I read Homer in English and ran into the phrase wine-colored sea. At that time, I did not know that in Old English, waves were sometimes called brown and only wondered what kind of wine the Ancient Greeks drank. No one in my surroundings could enlighten me. Since that time, I have read many articles and books on the history of color perception and in 2014 even reviewe...

Summary of some interesting entries from the online dictionary of Symbols from University of Michigan

Sulfur as hellSourceURL: http://websites.umich.edu/~umfandsf/symbolismproject/symbolism.html/S/sulfur.html Sulfur According to Christian legend, sulfur is associated with HELL and the Devil (Cooper, 1978), and is often referred to as brimstone. Up one level Back to document index ShadowSourceURL: http://websites.umich.edu/~umfandsf/symbolismproject/symbolism.html/S/shadow.html ShadowWith light, the shadow is the Chinese yin and yang; shadows are often identified with a person...

Symbolism in Visual Images

Symbolism in Visual Images When one chooses to cross the boundary between visual symbolism (pictures), and textual symbolism, there are a few factors that should be noted. As the old adage goes "a picture is worth a thousand words." Visual symbolism can be complex, because often times there much more going on in the image than in, say, a given paragraph. Issues of size, perspective, location, and shading all play roles in the message a viewer derives from an image. Color is a major part of ...

A Neon-Soaked City

Ridley Scott’s film adaptation of Blade Runner came out in 1982. It’s since become the blueprint for high-tech, neon-soaked dystopia and cyberpunk aesthetics: cities emblazoned with colourful billboards and 24-hour artificial light. Six years prior to its release, Canadian photographer Greg Girard (b. 1955) arrived in Tokyo. "Blade Runner-esque" had yet to enter the lexicon, and he was soon entranced by this modern, futuristic city. Girard quickly turned his lens on the city’s people and glow...

Big Red Horses

Man o’ WarSeabiscuitSeabiscuit FilmEarhartSecretariatPhar LapBelmontMister Ed & Pol PotLBJ: SnippyBig RedMLPHeckP.S. DIY Hair CutThere are a handful of horses in history that have dominated news headlines for long stretches of time.Seabiscuit, Secretariat, and Man O’War are the tops on most lists of greatest race horses.However, much like the obsessions afforded to sports stars it’s not that we are dealing with a super creature born for some reason far greater than their peers, but instea...

Frank Bowling on color, the sublime, and painting paradox

For six decades, Frank Bowling has experimented with how personal and political memory can be sustained within the constraints of late-modernist abstraction. A solo exhibition, "Penumbral Light," is on view at Hauser & Wirth in Zurich through August 20, and a major survey, "Frank Bowling’s Americas," will open at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in October. Below, the Guyana-born, London-based artist discusses his abstraction as an encounter with something simultaneously familiar and unex...

Self Portrait in Green

Anyone approaching Marie Ndiaye’s Self Portrait in Green (translated by Jordan Stump in 2014 and now released in the UK by Influx Press) expecting straight-forward autobiography will be, at the very least, disconcerted – a not uncommon occurrence when it comes to her writing in general. While the slim volume clearly draws on her own life with references to friends and family, its content is deliberately restricted and, at times, surreal, as if she intends to draw on only one aspect of herself...

Spot-on or not - an analysis of Seurat's colour theory

Spot-on or not? : an analysis of Seurat's colour theory Abstract An analysis of mid- to late-nineteenth century scientific colour theories sets the stage for the introduction of the artistic style of French painter Georges Seurat. His traditional beaux-arts training, extraordinary skills as a draughtsman, and keen interest in the then existing science theories on colour combined in his person to create a new approach called Divisionism, (also called Pointillisme, pointillism, and melange ...

Poignant Photo Series Uses the Color Blue to Explore Depression

Home / Photography Melancholic Photo Series Uses the Color Blue To Capture Experiences With Depression By Margherita Cole on May 1, 2022 ...

Color Symbolism in The Bible and Color Meanings

Color Symbolism and Color Meaning in The Bible The colors are arranged alphabetically and each color is seperated into 1-4 categories: Direct Meaningdemonstrates the plain use of the color in a passage.Opposite Meaningdescribes the color use when it contradicts the Direct Meaning.Color Symbolismderives a symbolic meaning from the color's use throughout Scripture.Associated Symbolsdefine symbolic meanings of objects in the same verse as the color. This study only references v...

Why the Color Red Carries so Much Weight in Film and Literature

Not long into Act Two of Macbeth, husband and wife become obsessed with color. Lady Macbeth, who examines her hands with the tireless diligence of an obsessive-compulsive, is seen scrubbing away for up to 15 minutes at a time. Her husband is less convinced by the merits of washing. "No," he laments, "my hand will rather the multitudinous seas in incarnadine, making the green one red." This stubborn and potentially oceanic stain is, of course, blood, which originally belonged to the King of Fi...

Narcissus Flower Meaning Symbolism & Facts | Interflora

Clip source: Narcissus Flower Meaning Symbolism & Narcissus: Ultimate Flower Guide(commonly known as the Daffodil) - Meaning, Symbolism, Varieties and Care Tips. On this page you'll find everything you need to know about the narcissus - commonly known as the daffodil. Packed with meaning, symbolism, myth, legend and superstition, there's a lot to learn about these beautiful springtime flowers. THE MEANING OF NARCISSUSDaffodils are some of the first flowers we see in springtime and are a...

Odysseus: A Man of Many Faces

Aug 17, 20205 minOdysseus: A Man of Many FacesUpdated: Dec 24, 2020From the beginning the Greeks’ poetry was intended to be sung or recited. The subject was myth—part legend, part folktale, part religious speculation and partly based on the shadowy memory of an era before the Greek adoption of writing circa seventh or eighth century BCE. People in Homer's day had no access to the sort of historical records on which we today depend, especially regarding the period when Agamemnon supposedly led...

Prophetic Mazzaroth of Adam

Van Gogh’s Bed

Van Gogh’s Bed By Jane Flanders is orange, like Cinderella’s coach, like the sun when he looked it straight in the eye. is narrow, he sleeps alone, tossing between two pillows, while it carried him bumpily to the ball. is clumsy, but friendly. A peasant built the frame; and old wife beat the mattress till it rose like meringue. is empty, morning light pours in like wine, melody, fragrance, the memory of happiness. Summary of Van Gogh’s Bed The popularity of "Van...

Minium and cinnabar

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Minium (definition) See all of Minium, no other writeups in this node. (definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 1:12:14 Min"i*um [L. minium, an Iberian word, the Romans getting all their cinnabar from Spain; cf. Basque armine�xa0;.] Chem. A heavy, brilliant red pigment, consisting of an oxide of lead, Pb3O4, obtained by exposing lead or massicot to a gentle and continued heat in the air. It is used as a cement, as a paint, a...

Engineered Bacteria Produce a Rainbow of Colors

Researchers have modified a common bacterium to spit out an entire rainbow of dyes for food, clothing, cosmetics, and more. The proof-of-concept research also detailed the natural production of two colors—green and navy blue—for the first time.Some dyes can be produced naturally from plants. Indigo, for example, is extracted from leaves of species in the genus Indigofera. But the task is labor-intensive, with variable results. Synthetic alternatives can involve toxic precursors and by-product...

Pink Man Story

Pink Man Story is a complete retrospective of Manit Sriwanichpoom’s long-running Pink Man (พิ้งค์แมน) series, photographs featuring the incongruous figure of Sompong Tawee in a bright pink suit, a symbol of consumerism and superficiality. A small exhibition of Pink Man photos was due to be held at BACC earlier this year, though it was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. For the group exhibition History and Memory (ประวัติศาสตร์ และ ความทรงจำ), Manit created Horror in ...

Review: Life Is Strange: True Colors Makes It Too Easy to See the Game’s Flaws

Alex Chen, the protagonist of Life Is Strange: True Colors, describes her hidden superpower as a curse. And over the course of five chapters that hold the series’s traditional decision-making and character-building at bay, players may feel as if this leaden game is itself cursed. Alex’s power of empathy—as opposed to the first Life Is Strange’s time manipulation gimmick and the sequel’s focus on telekinesis—serves a singular passive purpose across the campaign as she interacts with puzzles an...

Caldecott Medal Contender: Breaking Waves: Winslow Homer Paints the Sea

by Sam JulianoEsteemed author Robert Burleigh and legendary artist Wendell Minor have previously gone aquatic in their non-fiction collaboration Trapped! A Whale’s Rescue.  The arresting work includes oceanic tapestries by Minor combining the visceral aspects of whale movement in the open sea with sublime compositions that convey the breathtaking aquamarine beauty of the sea.  The pair’s most famous partnership to date is the magnificent Edward Hopper Paints His World, based on the iconic art...