I’m digesting the film tonight and later on during a stroll with morpheus. More on the film’s delicious casse toi to our glass bourgoiserie tomorrow, along with a discussion of that most overrated of all narrative and aesthetic tropes – catharsis, and what it really means in the inverse.
Archive for the ‘The Medium is the Message’ Category
Anti Hero, Ironic Catharsis
Posted in Cross Cultural, Metaphor and Metonym, The Medium is the Message, The Revisionist, The Subtext Labs, The Writer's Ward, Theory and Practice on November 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
More Branding
Posted in Cross Cultural, Every Picture Tells a Story, Exuberance is Beauty, Metaphor and Metonym, The Medium is the Message, The Revisionist, Theory and Practice on October 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Toward a New Montage
Posted in Cross Cultural, Exuberance is Beauty, Metaphor and Metonym, The Medium is the Message, The Seven Terraces, Theory and Practice on September 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The surrealists André Breton and Paul Éluard used to enter movie theaters at random and stay only a little while, until the plot became clear to them and the films’ images were drained of their power. In the Cineplex you can do the same thing all in one building. I did that one day this [...]
It Can Be This Simple
Posted in Cross Cultural, DSLR, Exuberance is Beauty, Metaphor and Metonym, The Medium is the Message, Theory and Practice on September 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Thanks to Jean-Sebastien Monzani. Posted by Såladin & Jim Swift.
Paradiso #1
Posted in Exuberance is Beauty, Nine Spheres, The Medium is the Message, The Revisionist, Theory and Practice on July 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In what sphere of heaven will we one day find Jimmy Page in our revised Danté? I say Sphere 7: Saturn, the contemplative. Posted by Såladin, Jim Swift and John Owen.
The Film within the Film within the Photo within the Book
Posted in 5D Mark II, DSLR, The Medium is the Message, Theory and Practice on July 21, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Get used to this sort of thing. Albert Brooks predicted it even better than Warhol. But don’t worry – someday in the future everyone will have their fifteen minutes of anonymity. See it here at Ozersky.tv. Posted by Såladin. Thanks to Jeff Larson.
The Writer’s Ward #1, Peter Pan and the Body Double
Posted in Every Picture Tells a Story, Exuberance is Beauty, Metaphor and Metonym, The Medium is the Message, The Writer's Ward, Theory and Practice, tagged Crocodile, Dickens, Nabokov, Narrative, Orpheum, Peter Pan, Theory, Wendy on July 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
An anthropomorphic canine, a flying boy, a wayward shadow, a one-armed pirate, swordplay, faeries, redskins, lost boys, mermaids – and still, I’ve saved the very best for last… A week ago the Los Angeles Conservancy showed the 1924 silent ‘Peter Pan’ at the beautifully restored Orpheum Theater as part of its ‘Last Remaining Seats’ program [...]
The Transmedium is the Transmessage
Posted in Cross Cultural, Exuberance is Beauty, Metaphor and Metonym, The Medium is the Message, Theory and Practice on June 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Jeff Gomez, blogging on Cosmic Streetcorner at Kidscreen.com sets out some solid guidelines for ‘transmedia’ storytelling (the scare quotes will drop away automatically when the term’s been used in 1,000 additional posts). Here’s an excerpt: “…transmedia properties aren’t hatched overnight and require long-term planning both on the content creation and media/product rollout sides. So how can [...]
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