White Noise Reviewed by: Martin Gray Architect Jonathan Rivers is proving unable to rebuild his life after his novelist second wife Anna disappears. He mopes, he neglects his weekend son Mike, he moves into a truly soulless apartment (typical architect). He hangs on to the hope that her story isn't ove...
The phrase film noir was first coined in 1946 by a group of French critics to describe the emerging movement of mainly black and white Hollywood films with dark, pessimistic themes and signature motifs such as alienated antiheroes, rain slicked streets, dark shadows and seductive femme fatales.Borrowing heavily from the hard-boiled but literary detective novels of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, film noir attracted some of cinema’s greatest craftsmen including Orson Welles, Howard Hawk...
The Sycamore Tree is the 'symbol of life' ? Investigate that. -zas Jun 2022 a white leather sofa (poetry) See all of a white leather sofa, no other writeups in this node. (poetry) by lostcauser (2 hr) Rep: 5 ( +5 / -0 ) (Rep Graph) (+) Thu Jun 09 2022 at 17:42:45 he walks away sits down on the sofa the white leather sofa I never wanted to buy I go outside and I don’t slam the door I stand in the yard under the sycamore the symbol of life he was a senior and I was a sophomore...
2022.05.20 - 05.22 @ C-LAB - Taiwan Sound Lab Due to their opposing characteristics, light and dark have been employed throughout the history of filmmaking to create shadow and visual effects. However, the visual characteristics of "black" often make us "blind" to it. From a re-exploration of the development of filmmaking techniques, there is ubiquitous use of black in film production and screening, from the effects of metallic silver grains to the evolution of formal film la...
The cult of Black and white Cinematic Symbolism (Part 27)…How Louisiana’s "Dads On Duty" are dismissing myths of the absentee Black father, superstitions surrounding "triple sixes", debunking "The Batman", and what the movies "Swan Song", "A Journal for Jordan", and the 'Pixar' flick "Soul" ALL have in common."The white race is absolutely disagreeable to get along with in peace. No other people on the face of the earth have been able to get along with white people since white people have been...
Keum Suk Gendry-Kim (The Waiting) and Alexander Chee (How to Write An Autobiographical Novel) spoke to one another as part of D+Q Live, a fall event series by the graphic novel publisher Drawn & Quarterly. The driving force behind November’s conversation was Gendry-Kim’s second English-language release, The Waiting, of which Chee has written: How can black and white drawings do this, you might ask. But maybe only black and white drawings can do this—Gendry-Kim offers us here a glimpse ...
Dongshan and Sengmi, two Zen students who were later to become accomplished masters, were walking on pilgrimage, and a white rabbit suddenly darted across their path. Sengmi said, "How swift."Dongshan asked him how so.Sengmi said, "Just like a commoner becoming a high minister."Dongshan retorted, "How can such a venerable person as you speak like that?"When Sengmi asked for Dongshan’s understanding, he said, "After generations of nobility, temporarily fallen into poverty."The differing viewpo...
Like many, I’ve been completely sucked into Mike White’s dark satire, The White Lotus on HBO. In the penultimate episode of the first season, "The Lotus-Eaters," the hotel manager of the Hawaiian resort, Armond, recites four lines of part of Tennyson’s poem, "The Lotos-eaters." Here is the part in full: Hateful is the dark-blue sky, Vaulted o’er the dark-blue sea. Death is the end of life; ah, why Should life all labour be? Let us alone. Time driveth onward fast, And in a little whi...
Phileas Fogg and Passepartout become a frog and a monkey in a modest French-Belgian animation that’s hard to hate onGiven there are so, so many film adaptations of Jules Verne’s infinitely malleable 19th-century adventure story, you might wonder why the French-Belgium production team behind this latest iteration felt the need to add yet another one to the pile. Well, it’s obvious, isn’t it? There’s never been an animated version where the lead characters are played by a frog and a monkey, and...
Louise Beavers (left) and Fredi Washington in Imitation of Life, 1934 (Everett Collection) Emily Bernard, a Scholar contributing editor, is an essayist and the author of three books, most recently Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine, and editor of two others. Her essays have been reprinted in The Best American Essays and The Best Creative Nonfiction. This excerpt comes from her upcoming book, Unfinished Women: Eight Lives, in which sh...
Skip to main content CultureWhy Are My Fellow Whites Still So Awful at Naming Children?Ensley? Kashton? Kairo? KAYCE?! Drew Magary on the terrible baby-naming epidemic of 2018. By Drew MagaryMay 17, 2018Photo Illustration by Alicia Tatone You don’t need me to tell you that white people are feeling overly emboldened these days. It’s 2018 and the whites are out here being whiter than ever: watching Young Sheldon, calling the cops on black people for ordering cake pops, listening to Florida Geo...
Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Snowball (thing) See all of Snowball, there are 9 more in this node. (thing) by Capo Fri Dec 07 2001 at 7:41:25 A pig in George Orwell's book Animal Farm. The more respectable of the two likely leaders, (the other being Napoleon,) it was his honesty and trust that was his downfall in the end. He introduced the system of government on the farm and was the intellectual force behind the Battle of the Cowshed, and also the windmill. H...
Jabberwocky Thrust Maxwell Grant CHAPTER I "OH MY ears and whiskers, how late it's getting!" the White Rabbit said as he hurried down the long hallway. Alice watched him with a puzzled frown on her young, lovely face. From where she was standing she could see the White Knight out in the center of the big room. The White Knight moved his horse-shaped helmet a bit. The Duchess, holding a piglet under her arm, stomped down the center of the room. The man dressed in newspapers walked towa...
Who is Piet Mondrian? Squares, straight lines...and dance moves! Explore the abstract art of Piet Mondrian Piet Mondrian is a Dutch artist best known for his abstract paintings. Art that is abstract does not show things that are recognisable such as people, objects or landscapes. Instead artists use colours, shapes and textures to achieve...
