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Esoteric Interpretations of the Qur’an: The Foundations of Shia Ismaili Ta’wil – Ismaili Gnosis
Ismaili Gnosis Esoteric Interpretations of the Qur’an: The Foundations of Shia Ismaili Ta’wil Posted on December 28, 2015 by Ismaili Gnosis The discourse of the Qur’an-e-Sharif, rich in parable and allegory, metaphor and symbol, has been an inexhaustible well-spring of inspiration, lending itself to a wide spe...
The Royal Lineage Of Jesus, Descendant Of Cleopatra
The simplistic story of the life of Jesus, as it is presented in the New Testament accounts, is well known. He was supposedly a poor carpenter born in a stable, a disadvantaged child who rose to become a great leader and teacher. However, there is more than enough evidence within the Gospels and Talmud to demonstrate that Jesus’ family were actually wealthy, educated and influential characters within Judaean society. But since these texts have obviously been manipulated and amended, one mus...
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Chapter XYears passed. The seasons came and went, the short animal lives fled by. A time came when there was no one who remembered the old days before the Rebellion, except Clover, Benjamin, Moses the raven, and a number of the pigs.Muriel was dead; Bluebell, Jessie, and Pincher were dead. Jones too was dead–he had died in an inebriates’ home in another part of the country. Snowball was forgotten. Boxer was forgotten, except by the few who had known him. Clover was an old stout mare now, stif...
The Naked Truth
The Naked Truth How the names of 6,816 complexion products can reveal bias in beauty The N a k e d T r u t h How the names of 6,816 complexion products can reveal bias in beauty First Place. Lead Role. Number One. When things are arranged in a sequence, we have a mild obsession with being the "first." You want the blue ribbon. To be on the first page of search r...
How the Black Barbershop Became the Heart of Pixar’s ‘Soul’
Thanks to the insightful writing of "Soul" co-director Kemp Powers (who also wrote the Oscar-nominated "One Night in Miami"), the barbershop scene is the most important moment in Pixar’s first Black-led feature. It introduces the community that the barbershop provides, and serves as the turning point for jazz pianist Joe (Jamie Foxx) to discover his true purpose in life. "Joe is a Black man in New York, and part of your time you go through what I call ‘authentic Black spaces,’ where you’re...
The B Side of War: An Interview with Agustín Fernández Mallo
Agustín Fernández Mallo. Photo: Aina Lorente Solivellas. By "injecting the novel with a large dose of Robert Smithson, and Situationism, and Dadaism, and poetry, and science, and appropriation (collage and quotes and cut-and-paste), and technology (often anachronistic), and images (almost always pixelated), and comic books," as Jorge Carrión has written, and perhaps above all because he simply presented compelling new possibilities for the form, Agustín Fernández Mallo is considered to ...
What Is Method Writing? – Jack Grapes
Film Courage: What is method writing? Jack Grapes, Artist, Writer, Author, Instructor: Oh, you’re starting off with a hard question. Well, I’m an actor. Method acting is a big school of acting that Marlon Brando and people like that studied under (Marlyn Monroe) and so forth. I studied method acting and it stresses an authentic response to what your work is. You’re not acting with gestures, you’re being true, you’re being natural. I was teaching writing in which I thought I wanted writers ...
How Mark Twain Documented the Dawn of the Tourist Age
Samuel Clemens, better known by his pen name, Mark Twain, in 1869 wrote Innocents Abroad, the seminal text for anyone interested in the study of tourism. Of all Twain’s published works, it was Innocents Abroad that gained the most popularity during his lifetime: it sold 100,000 copies, and 70,000 in the first year alone. Today we generally remember Twain for his novels, but his contemporaries were in fact far more interested in his travel books. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, for example, sold...
Akira Kurosawa: The life of the Japanese maestro
Akira Kurosawa’s name is instantly recognisable for fans of world cinema. Often cited as one of the most influential filmmakers of all time by critics as well as audiences, Kurosawa’s illustrious career spanned almost 60 years, during which he produced seminal masterpieces like Rashomon and Seven Samurai, among several others. On the 111th anniversary of his birth, we revisit the life and work of Akira Kurosawa as a tribute to one of the most extraordinary talents to have worked with the cine...
A Summary and Analysis of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels
Gulliver’s Travels, first published in 1726 and written by Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), has been called one of the first novels in English, one of the greatest satires in all of literature, and even a children’s classic (though any edition for younger readers is usually quite heavily abridged). How should we respond to this wonderfully inventive novel? Is it even a ‘novel’ in the sense we’d usually understand that term? Before we launch into an analysis of Gulliver’s Travels and consider...
'District 9' sequel 'is coming' says writer and director Neill Blomkamp
Writer and director Neill Blomkamp has said that a sequel to his directorial debut, the epic, gritty sci-fi "District 9," is on its way. He revealed that he writing partners Terri Tatchell — who co-wrote the movie — and Sharlto Copley, who starred in it, are in the process of writing the screenplay for "District 10." "District 10 screenplay also being written by @sharlto (Sharlto Copley) @territachell (Terri Tatchell) and I. Its [sic] coming…" Blomkamp...
Sphinx
RIC J: Did you come before or after Sphinx Mario? S: I am time, the master of time, the past and the future, I am all and nothing, I am the question and the answer. RIC J: How to make love to a Sphinx? Is there a specific technique? S: First you have to close your eyes, then let the sphinx do it. RIC J: How do you protect yourself from thunder, storms and heatwaves?S: Nothing can reach me except a golden lightning bolt. RIC J: Your favourite shade of lipstick.S: Red like the blood o...
The colour - color - purple
Purple is a colour replete with imperial and spiritual associations. Certain Roman emperors famously reserved the use of purple clothing for themselves. It was also expensive: Diocletian’s Edict of Maximum Prices issued in the year 301 set the limit on a pound of purple wool at 50,000 denarii, the same value as a pound of gold. Books, too, written on purple were high-status objects. According to one account, Constantine the Great (r. 306-337) received a gift of poetry written in gold and silv...
‘Final Space’ Review: It’s Time to Catch Up on One of TV’s Animated Sci-Fi Treasures
The cosmos is vast and unpredictable, so it’s no surprise that "Final Space" has been able to find a steady stream of humans, aliens, robots, and all-powerful metaphysical behemoths to fill out its roster. Plenty of them have multiplied, some have taken different forms. Regardless of how they’ve manifested, they all contribute to the idea that this series slides comfortably right alongside plenty of its other peers in the animated sci-fi subgenre. Now entering Season 3, "Final Space" has mana...
Online Lecture – Thai Cinema and Censorship, March 19
After a campaign by the film community protesting against the arbitrary censorship of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Syndromes and a Century, a rating system was introduced to Thai cinemas for the first time in 2008. But that long-overdue change didn’t save Thai films from being censored, largely for political reasons. Matthew Hunt is the author of the book Thai Cinema Uncensored which includes interviews with ten directors whose films have been cut or banned. In this online lecture, he will ...
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U aa M 1 john 1:1-4 [the word of life] Written by Leslie Rowe Owner/writer at Greatwords.net. Penn State alum. Religious views: for. Political vi...
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Arthur C. Clarke, the Godfather of sci-fi and the man behind ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’
English science fiction writer, inventor and explorer Sir Arthur C. Clarke is widely regarded as one of the most influential writers of his time, one who contributed to the formation of the sci-fi genre as we know it. His innovative imagination and searing intellectual force have changed our perception of the universe forever. Although his most popular contribution is probably Stanley Kubrick’s cinematic masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey, Clarke’s entire body of work is a fascinating collecti...
While autofiction asserts a kind of apolitical license, the bar for ethical fiction keeps getting higher and higher
"EVERYBODY BEHAVES BADLY," says Hemingway’s Jake Barnes. "Give them the proper chance." Why read novels about people behaving badly? Can a novel about bad people do readers good? These questions about the real-world effects of fictional characters — not just their "reality effects" — have come to the fore in recent years with the ascendancy of autofiction, on the one hand, and the persistence of the stoutly character-driven novel , on the other: the kind where characters, and, by e...
Nitrate Homages to Barbara Hammer
The series Ways of Seeing with Barbara Hammer starts on MUBI on March 8, 2021 in many countries. Best known for unabashedly erotic and trailblazing portrayals of lesbian sexuality, the pioneering queer experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer passed away in 2019 of ovarian cancer, leaving behind an extraordinary, generous legacy of love. There’s the annual Barbara Hammer Lesbian Experimental Filmmaking Grant, the profuse and expansive filmic representations of queer love and l...
‘God Is A Bullet’: Jamie Foxx, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Maika Moore, January Jones To Star In Cult-Killing Revenge Thriller Directed By Nick Cassavetes
‘God Is A Bullet’: Jamie Foxx, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Maika Moore, January Jones To Star In Cult-Killing Revenge Thriller Directed By Nick Cassavetes "Mandy," "Midsommar," and Quentin Tarantino‘s Oscar-winning "Once Upon A Time In Hollywood" have seemingly helped to usher in a new wave of films about cults and subsequent revenge to the modern mainstream, and director Nick Cassavetes is jumping aboard the train too. Deadline has word that Cassavetes ("John Q") ...
An Introduction to Iconographic Analysis in Art History
What is iconography? And how do you use the iconographic method to analyze art? By Dr. Lauren Kilroy-EwbankAssistant Professor of Art HistoryPepperdine University How to Do an Iconographic Analysis Take a look at the image below. Who is this? What symbols do you notice that help to identify the subject? You’ll notice that this is a drawing of a human figure dressed in a tight-fitting bodice of red and yellow; blue briefs with white stars; and tall, red boots....
Turning eBay Antiques into High-Fashion Belt Buckles
When Jason Ross, a designer and founder of the accessories label Artemas Quibble, was commissioned to design a belt for a magazine shoot styled by George Cortina, he started by looking on eBay. Ross knew it was for a GQ cover shoot, but not that it was for the October 2019 issue that would feature Brad Pitt — he only finds out his belts have made it when the issues come out. Cortina’s team only told him what was on the shoot’s moodboards: something 1950s, maybe military-inspired, with a vinta...