JB - Jeder Baum - Every tree
See translation of Jeder Baum It means I’m German ‘every tree’. Interesting to me as a possible reference to or intertext with James Bond and the other jb inquiries of mine. -zas 6 Dec 2021
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New study proves unexpected social ability in cats - Science & Health - Haaretz.com
Up Next Three Years Late, Israelis Finally Hear the Truth About Trump A housecat speaking with his eyes and mouth. Ailurophiles have always known they do this. Credit: Seattle Cat Photo / Shutterstock New Study Proves Unsuspected...
Wonder-making and philosophical wonder in Hero of Alexandria - ScienceDirect
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Christopher Nolan and the theme of religion within his films
As one of contemporary cinema’s leading voices, director Christopher Nolan is a filmmaker known for taking audiences to wild, spectacular places using stories glazed with religious and existential influence. With a sparkling filmography including the likes of Inception, The Dark Knight, Interstellar and Tenet, Nolan has established himself as a pop culture favourite capable of showing audiences a spectacular brand of cinema that few other directors can achieve. His most recent film, Tenet, wa...
f-stop
Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 f-stop (idea) See all of f-stop, there is 1 more in this node. (idea) by bitter_engineer Thu Apr 06 2000 at 17:33:17 In a camera, the f-stop number is the ratio of the length of the lens to the diameter of the aperture. Higher f-stop numbers give you a greater depth of field. At the extreme end, a pinhole camera will give you almost total depth of field. On your fancier cameras with zoom lenses, the hyperbolae on the barrel of t...
The Drugs Used by the Ancient Greeks and Romans
Many of us living in the parts of the world where marijuana has recently been legalized may regard ourselves as partaking of a highly modern pleasure. And given the ever-increasing sophistication of the growing and processing techniques that underlie what has become a formidable cannabis industry, perhaps, on some level, we are. But as intellectually avid enthusiasts of psychoactive substances won’t hesitate to tell you, their use stretches farther back in time than history itself. "For as lo...
The Curious Symbolism of Autumn in Literature and Myth
Autumn is at once symbolic of plenty, ripening, harvest, and abundance; and, at the same time, a symbol of decay, decline, old age, and even death, with associations of things being past their prime. To understand this we need to look at how writers have depicted autumn in poetry and other literature. In classical Greek mythology, the goddess of autumn was Carpo, who was part of the Horae or Hours, three goddesses who were the offspring of Zeus and Aphrodite and represented the three se...
Shotgun slugs are often
Source: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-point-of-having-shotgun-slugs-as-opposed-to-bullets Shotgun slugs are often completely pointless. No, really. See this? No point. It’s round. Ba-dum-tsch! Thank you, thank you. I’m here all week. In all seriousness, the purpose of shotgun slugs is to make big damn holes in things at ranges longer than where a bunch of smaller projectiles can be reasonably expected to stay clumped together to make a similar big damn hole. If you fire a load of ...
27 hidden references and clever jokes in 'Hercules' you probably missed as a kid
Disney's "Hercules" (1997) is a beloved animated retelling of the classic Hellenic myth, but even die-hard fans may not have caught all these hidden gems. The film is full of references to Hellenic mythology, including the tale of the Titans and the divine guests at Zeus and Hera's party. There are also jokes related to more recent cultural phenomena, like "Buns of Bronze" and the Marilyn Monroe constellation. Did you catch them all? Insider did! One of the ...
CGSA 2022 CfP and theme announcement!
View this email in your browser Version française ci-dessous. Call for Papers — Canadian Game Studies Association/L’Association Canadienne d'Études des Jeux (CGSA/ACÉJ) 2022 Annual Conference The 2022 Canadian Game Studies Association (CGSA/ACÉJ) annual conference will be held May 31 to June 4 through a virtual format. This virtual format will build on lessons from the 2021 conference and combine pre-recorded paper and panel presentations with synchronous Q&A discussion ...
The Simpsons - Everything2.com
Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 The Simpsons (thing) by Teiresias Tue Feb 27 2001 at 13:43:25 The Simpsons is a cartoon series dreamt up by Life in Hell creator, Matt Groening, apparently whilst sitting in the foyer of an office block when he had 15 minutes to kill before meeting his future co-worker James L. Brooks. The show itself centres around the lives of the eponymous family, Homer , Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, as well as a whole host of other ch...
Growing Up - Sex in the Sixties by Peter Doggett review - Evening Standard
The sexual revolution of the sixties was not one single thing. For gay men, for example, it represented greater tolerance to homosexuality, through the 1967 Sexual Offences Act. This legalised sex between consenting male adults over the age of 21. For many women, the picture was positive but far from perfect. The pill — available to married women in Britain from 1961, and unmarried women from 1967 — detached sex from procreation. This made it possible for women to have sex without the fear of...
Melvyn Minnaar: Bacchus, Barthes and the Bible - winemag - Wine Magazine
It was a Bacchus-inspired moment. Revival of spirit was in the air, spring-like in our garden of delights, and the wine had been poured around the cheerful table of friends. The heady subject: "What is wine today?"The question had oozed out of discussions about prices, prizes, preferences and philosophies about why we love wine. Why we constantly talk about it, whether in purple prose as judges, or simply communicating with one another the enjoyment experience. We are drinkers and thinkers – ...
The Human Chameleon - Zelig, Nietzsche and the Banality of Evil
Clip source: The Human Chameleon: < The Human Chameleon: Zelig, Nietzsche and the Banality of EvilAbstractThis article revisits the case of Woody Allen’s mockumentary Zelig (1983) via Friedrich Nietzsche’s diagnostic of mimicry in The Gay Science. It argues that the case of the "human chameleon" remains contemporary for both philosophical and political reasons. On the philosophical side, I argue that the case of Zelig challenges an autonomous conception of the subject based on rational self...
Haunted by the Other: Levinas, Derrida and the Persecutory Phantom | Film-Philosophy
Haunted by the Other: Levinas, Derrida and the Persecutory Phantom Abstract In this article, I explore what I call the persecutory trope – which underscores the alterity of the phantom and its relentless haunting and spectral oppression of the protagonists – in recent American ghost films, connecting it to the ethical thought of the continental philosophers, Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida. Films like The Ring (Gore Verbinski, 2002), The ...
Sisyphean Unproductivity in Narrative Film | Film-Philosophy
Sisyphean Unproductivity in Narrative Film Abstract This article examines the relationship between labour, productivity and film. The purpose of this intervention is to suggest that narrative film can show us the unproductive tendencies that humans carry within them but that cannot always make themselves known. These leisurely desires erupt as musicality, ecstasy, and the undoing of the self when we carry out the repetitive gestures of work. T...
Top 10 Robots in Pop Culture History - Analytics Insight
Technology was never able to keep up with storytellers’ imaginations, and every medium’s history is littered with fantastically designed robots of different forms, sizes, and purposes. This interest is understandable. The robot notion is so broad that it allows for an infinite variety of designs and concepts. Perhaps more intriguing is the fact that robots are frequently employed, paradoxically, to cut through to a bigger truth about humans. Others, on the other hand, just feed our primo...
Steven Shapin - Opposite of a Secret
He who would keep a secret must keep it a secret that he hath a secret to keep.Sir Humphrey ApplebyWhat is the opposite of a secret? It can’t be something that everybody knows, since there’s nothing that’s known to everyone and all secrets are known to somebody. A secret is a bit of knowledge that certain people know and certain others are intended not to know. Information doesn’t want to be free – as Stewart Brand put it in the 1980s – but it does often require a lot of effort to select the...
Peculiar Shocks
My cover design for Body Shocks, the body-horror story collection edited by Ellen Datlow, appeared here back in March. Now that the book is out from Tachyon I can show some of the interior design. In the earlier post I mentioned cover drafts that featured anatomical illustrations, none of which worked as well as the eyeball collage that became the final cover. The rejected pieces were better suited to the interior which combines engraved illustrations with the kind of sans-serif typography yo...
Check out the original 1851 reviews of Moby-Dick. ‹ Literary Hub
Check out the original 1851 reviews of Moby-Dick. By Book Marks October 18, 2021, 3:11pm On the occasion of its 170th publication anniversary, here are the very first reviews of Herman Melville’s leviathan-sized opus of obsession, revenge, and meticulously detailed whaling practices. * "To convey an adequate idea of a book of such various merits as that which the author of Typee and Omoo has here placed before the reading public, is impossible i...
Film Realism and Narrative Identity | SpringerLink
Film Realism and Narrative IdentityChapterAbstractIn order for film to provide useful insights into the nature of existential-ism, the movies discussed must be reliably realistic. This may be asking too much of films that are fictional narratives, however. Whether it is or not depends heavily on what you think ‘realism’ means; ‘real’ and its derivates are terribly vague and given to quite disparate uses. The concept is nevertheless widely used in film analysis, and in the previous chapter I h...
The Death of the Editor: Wes Anderson's "The French Dispatch"
There is a moment, deep within the maze of Wes Anderson’s latest film, when art takes on the power to set a prisoner free. We are in France, in the time of de Gaulle (or someone like him). At the police station in the town of Ennui-sur-Blasé, Roebuck Wright (Jeffrey Wright) has been in a holding cell called the Chicken Coop for some days. An anonymous American, still in the eveningwear from the clandestine gay bar where he was picked up, his only contact is a number on the polite rejection le...