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#174 July 1, 2013
Marie writes: The Westward Coast is currently experiencing a heat wave and I have no ac. That said, and despite information technology currently being 80F inside my flat, at least the humidity is low. Although not so low, that I don't have a fan on my desk-bound and big glass of ice tea at the set up. My flat thankfully faces Due east and thus enjoys the shade after the lord's day has crossed the mid-point overhead. And albeit perverse in its irony, it's because it has been so hot lately that I've been in the mood to watch the post-obit film again and which I highly recommend to anyone with taste and a discerning eye.
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#159 March thirteen, 2013
Marie writes: Did you know that if you wear your contact lenses besides much and too long during the cold, winters months - and with the windows closed and the rut cranked-upwardly, that you tin can develop an annoying heart condition? Because you lot can. Ahem. And then for the fourth dimension being, I'll be spending less time staring at my monitor and more time resting my eyes. The Newsletter will still arrive every bit usual each week, just it won't be as huge. That said, it will contain a few extra goodies to make up for it, by manner of curious finds. And speaking of finding stuff...."On Th, March seven, 2013, SpaceX's Grasshopper doubled its highest leap to date to rise 24 stories or fourscore.1 meters (262.8 anxiety), hovering for approximately 34 seconds and landing safely using closed loop thrust vector and throttle command. Grasshopper touched down with its nearly accurate precision thus far on the centermost role of the launch pad. At touchdown, the thrust to weight ratio of the vehicle was greater than one, proving a primal landing algorithm for Falcon nine. The test was completed at SpaceX's rocket development facility in McGregor, Texas." - by Neatorama
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Marie writes: Not besides long ago, Monaco'south Oceanographic Museum held an exhibition combining contemporary art and science, in the shape of a huge installation past renowned Franco-Chinese creative person Huang Yong Ping, in addition to a selection of films, interviews and a ballet of Aurelia jellyfish.The sculpture was inspired by the sea, and reflects upon maritime catastrophes caused by Man. Huang Yong Ping chose the name "Wu Zei"because it represents far more just a behemothic octopus. Past naming his installation "Wu Zei," Huang added ambivalence to the work. 'Wu Zei' is Chinese for cuttlefish, just the ideogram 'Wu' is also the colour black - while 'Zei' conveys the idea of spoiling, corrupting or betraying. Huang Yong Ping was playing with the double meaning of marine ink and black tide, and likewise on abuse and renewal. By drawing attention to the dangers facing the Mediterranean, the exhibition aimed to amaze the public, while raising their awareness and encouraging them to take action to protect the sea.
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#150 Jan 9, 2013
Marie writes: Behold the amazing Fine art of Greg Brotherton and the sculptures he builds from found and re-purposed objects - while clearly channeling his inner Tim Burton. (Click to enlarge.)
"With a consuming drive to build things that frequently escalate in complexity as they take shape, Greg's work is compulsive. Working with hammer-formed steel and re-purposed objects, his themes tend to exist mythological in nature, revealed through a dystopian view of popular culture." - Official website
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#131 August 29, 2012
Marie writes: It's that time of the yr again! The Toronto International Picture show Festival is fix to run September half dozen - 16, 2012. Tickets selection began August 23rd. Single tickets on sale Sept ii, 2012. For more info visit TIFF'south website.
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Prometheus: Alien origins:The skeleton beneath the exoskeleton
The visceral bear upon that Ridley Scott'due south "Alien" had in 1979 can never quite be recaptured, partly because so many movies accept adapted elements of its premise, design and effects over the terminal iii decades -- from John Carpenter'southward remake of "The Matter" (1982) to David Cronenberg's remake of "The Fly" (1986) to "Species" (1998) and "Splice" (2009). No picture show had ever looked like this. And it withal works tremendously -- simply let me tell you, in 1979 a major studio science-fiction/horror pic that hinted darkly of interspecies rape and impregnation was unspeakably agonizing. (Information technology got under my skin and has stayed there. Nosotros have a symbiotic human relationship, this burrowing film parasite and I. Nosotros nourish each other. I don't think Ridley Scott has even come close to birthing as subversive and compelling a creation since.)
The thing is, the filmmakers really took out the grisly details involving just what that H.R. Giger " xenomorph" did to and with man bodies (the sequels got more than graphic), only in some ways that fabricated the horror all the more unsettling. Yous knew, but you lot didn't know. Information technology wasn't explicitly articulated. Dallas (Tom Skerrit) just disappears from the picture show. The deleted "cocoon" scene (with the haunting moan, "Kill me...") appeared later on a LaserDisc version of the film, and then was incorporated into the 2003 theatrical re-release for the first time. The deleted footage:
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#116 May 23, 2012
Marie writes: I've never seen this done before - and what an original thought! Gwen Murphy is an artist who breathes new life into old shoes, transforming them from way accessories into intriguing works of fine art. Thanks go to lodge member Cheryl Knott for telling me about this. (Click to enlarge.)
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#112 Apr 25, 2012
Marie writes: I recently heard from an ex-coworker named Athena aka the production managing director on an animated series I'd painted digital backgrounds for. She sent me some great photos she'd constitute on various sites. More than few made me smile and thus inspired, I thought I'd share them with social club members. I've added captions for fun but if you tin can come with something better, feel free to submit your wit by way of posted comment. Note: I don't know who the photographers are; doesn't say. (Click pics to enlarge.)
"I want a peanut for every photo you took of me..."
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#107 March 21, 2012
Marie writes: I received the following from intrepid lodge member Sandy Kahn and my eyes widened at the sight of information technology. Information technology's non every day you lot detect a treasure trove of lost Hollywood jewelry!
Grace Kelly is wearing "Joseff of Hollywood"chandelier earrings in the picture show "High Society" (1965)(click image to enlarge.)
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Watching (and listening to) Fincher'due south Girl
"The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" has been a 2005 book (the first part of the tardily Stieg Larsson's "Millennium Trilogy," translated into English language in 2008), a 2009 Swedish-language feature film past Danish director Niels Arden Oplev, and a 2011 English-language Hollywood flick. In 2012 it will also become a DC graphic novel, but my feeling while watching the new motion-picture show was that the material had reached its embodiment equally A David Fincher Film.
I haven't read the novels (I've paged through some of "Dragon Tattoo" in English), just fifty-fifty fans I've talked to don't make any claims for Larsson equally a bully author (albeit in translation), and the Swedish motion-picture show version struck me as little more than a straightforward work of accommodation: "OK, we're going to take this story and put it on the screen." It did that, but except for the presence of Noomi Rapace every bit the titular Lisbeth Salander I didn't find it very exciting to lookout.
So, I wasn't especially looking forward to seeing some other version of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo." I was only curious considering of Fincher, whose "Fight Gild," "Zodiac" and "The Social Network" I recall very highly of. I saw the Fincher movie The Way It Was Meant To Exist Seen™ (in Sony 4K Digital Video projection!) and, I admit, I was literally rocking out in my rocking theater seat from the first riffs of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross's biting comprehend of Led Zeppelin'due south "Immigrant Vocal" -- an icy boom of frigid air over a deep black credits sequence in which our Daughter Lisbeth endlessly shape-changes into various forms and substances -- all of them integral to who she is. ("Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! We come from the land of the ice and snow, from the midnight lord's day where the hot springs flow..." Too on-the-nose? Possibly. But the squall of sound practically rips open the screen.)
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#95 December 28, 2011
Marie writes: some of y'all may call up reading almost the Capilano Suspension Bridge in North Vancouver, British Columbia Canada. (Click to overstate.)
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#85 October 19, 2011
Lesson for the day: How to have fun while wasting time... Marie writes: welcome to DRAW A STICK Man, a delightful Flash-based site prompting viewers to depict a elementary stick figure which and so comes to life! Ie: the program animates it. You lot're given instructions virtually what to depict and when, which your dude uses to interact with objects onscreen. Thanks go to club member Sandy Kahn who heard near information technology from her pal Lauren, in Portland Oregon.Note: hither's a screen-cap of what I drew; I've named him Pumpkin Head.
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