notes.husk.org. archive page 2 of 25.tagged reblog.

“ Aren’t Oscarbatory films like The Artist, Hugo, and Midnight in Paris the high brow equivalent of the Transformers, easing the viewer into the same warm nostalgia bath, just with the particulars adjusted to reflect a different audience’s adolescent fixations? Might they even be even more meretricious because they rely on the borrowed auras from the canonical works/figures they reference (Méliès rather than Mégatron) to activate feelings of barely-earned recognition, which somehow invokes in the audience the false spirit of learning, or at very least, the smug satisfaction of the pub trivia warrior? ”

Todd Serencha, via perpetua.

I think this might be a more forceful statement of what I was nudging towards. (I’ve seen all three - but none of the Transformers films - and enjoyed them all, but I still take his point. They just happen to be catering to my tastes.)

Also, I have to remember “Oscarbatory” for next year.

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new-aesthetic:

Is this the structure of New York City? (by Eric Fischer)

Tendrils.

2012-01-19

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patampopcorn:

Stacking mugs showing Richard Rogers’ architectural drawing of Lloyd’s London (2011).

The single mug is £14.95. The stacking mugs appear not to be for sale any more.

(via less-ismore)

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new-aesthetic:

(re):media by Krista Wortendyke, 2009.

“Although most of us have never experienced war, we are surrounded by its imagery. (Re): media is an exploration of the way imagery and information from movies, videogames, newspapers, and the Internet come together to form our perception of war. Having never experienced war first-hand I am forced to put my faith in mediated expressions of the thing itself. By combining the imagery I pillage from all these sources, there is a possibility that what I am creating is more real than the individual images themselves. Explosions are war’s most universal and most spectacular signifiers. We are never falling short of this imagery. I have made use of these magnetizing images to show not only how the lines between fiction and non-fiction blur, but also to show how a mediated experience can become indecipherable from a real experience.” - Krista Wortendyke.

Via the always-excellent TRIANGULATION BLOG.