Wed 3 Sep 2008
Mister Glasses
Wednesday, Sep 3rd, 2008 at 9:49 amCategories: Architecture; Movies; Mirth
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Sat 22 Mar 2008
Gelly Play Ball
Saturday, Mar 22nd, 2008 at 5:49 pmCategories: Pets; Movies; Cats
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Mon 18 Feb 2008
Flashing the Evil Color
Monday, Feb 18th, 2008 at 3:06 pmCategories: Movies; Weapons; Light
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“There’s one wavelength that gets everybody … the evil color.”
The Department of Homeland Security is funding the creation an LED flashlight that uses powerful flashes of light to temporarily blind, disorient and incapacitate people.
… The tool could be scaled up to make a light bazooka that could subdue a crowd, but the company [Intelligent Optical Systems] is focusing on miniaturizing the device to make it resemble a traditional D-cell Maglite. Right now the prototype is a non-svelte 15 inches by 4 inches wide.
But first the company’s chief scientist Vladimir Rubtsov wants to discover more powerful patterns and colors, which he’ll get this fall with tests on volunteers at Penn State University’s Institute for Nonlethal Defense Technology.
“There’s one wavelength that gets everybody,” [Bob] Lieberman said …. “Vlad calls it the evil color.”
- Wired: Homeland Security Funds LED Light Saber.
An evil wavelength is only the beginning. Next step, evil patterns — for example, certain rates of flashing light can trigger epileptic seizures in susceptible people. (Perhaps similarly, shamans use drumming at certain rates to facilitate altered states, e.g. journeys to the spirit world.) I suppose that a variety of mental states — confusion, hypnosis — might be triggered via magical flashing patterns.
I’m reminded of Michael Crichton’s LOOKER … I remember the movie as B-material (I haven’t read the book), but it did have a plausible veneer of science, psychological research into flashing lights and hypnotic states, and a cool light-flash pistol.
Sun 21 Oct 2007
Art andReligion
Sunday, Oct 21st, 2007 at 7:20 pmCategories: Movies; Arts; Religion; Del Toro, Guillermo
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Thought for today:
When you have the intuition that there is something which is there, but out of the reach of your physical world, art and religion are the only means to get to it.
- Guillermo Del Toro: link
Tue 16 Oct 2007
THX 1138
Tuesday, Oct 16th, 2007 at 9:42 amCategories: Movies; Work
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Thought for today:
Work hard; increase production; prevent accidents, and be happy.
- THX 1138: Link.
Sat 11 Aug 2007
Ask A Ninja: The Ultimate Movie Pitch
Saturday, Aug 11th, 2007 at 3:44 pmCategories: Movies; Mirth
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Fri 16 Mar 2007
Baudrillard Decodes The Matrix
Friday, Mar 16th, 2007 at 11:42 amCategories: Movies
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Jean Baudrillard, interview by Le Nouvel Observateur –
… the real nuisance in this movie [The Matrix] is that the brand-new problem of the simulation is mistaken with the very classic problem of the illusion, already mentionned by Plato. Here lies the mistake.
[Jean Baudrillard: empyree.org]
Thanks, EB.
Thu 7 Sep 2006
Blacula: Dracula’s Soul Brother
Thursday, Sep 7th, 2006 at 6:54 pmCategories: Movies; Race
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“Rising From the Echoing Corridors of Hell, An Awesome Being of the Supernatural - With Satanic Power of Sheer Dread. Chained Forever to a Slavery More Vile Than Any Before Endured …”
Ron @ The Corsair has generously posted the trailer.
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This one’s for EB, because — and I quote — “One man’s blacksploitation is another man’s meat!”
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Wed 22 Mar 2006
V for Vacuity
Wednesday, Mar 22nd, 2006 at 8:26 amCategories: Movies
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I went, I saw, I sighed. V for Vendetta does not deliver the goods. Wired Magazine puts it nicely:
“Hollywood, with its congenital fear of alienating anyone, manages to dilute the comic book’s radical, complex vision. What’s left is a fuzzy, pandering film. What are its lessons? Totalitarianism is bad. People power is good. Unless you aren’t quite sure where to stand on the whole Hitler-Nazi-Holocaust thing, Vendetta is unlikely to evolve your worldview.”
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