Life in a Northern Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. B.M.A.T.C., and Etruscan typewriter erasers. Blogged by David Gorsline.
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The National Gallery's Sunday screening of F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens was complemented by live performance of a atmospheric score by the Silent Orchestra's Carlos Garza and Rich O'Meara. The music is by turns New Age-y, industrial, and bombastic. Most of the horror elements are too well-known and simplistic for today's audience, who chuckles when Count Orlok says, "Your wife has a lovely neck." But when the shadow of his claw passes over the body of Ellen and clutches at her heart, everyone in the room pays attention. posted: 7:43:04 PM |
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The most effective of the pieces by Dan Flavin in his retrospective at the National Gallery of Art are those that depend on massed effects, like the blue, daylight white, and red Untitled (1989), which consists of nearly 250 fluorescent tubes. Hot media, indeed. Or consider Greens Crossing Greens (to Piet Mondrian who lacked green) (1966), a three-dimensional flyover of toxic green light, paradoxically softened in this case by enclosing the tubes in hard plastic boxes. The Elsworth Kelly Color Panels for a Large Wall (1978) in the "Calder atrium" is a good palate-cleanser. posted: 7:35:04 PM |
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How to write bad SF (or bad prose or drama of any sort, for that matter): a guide to workshop jargon from Lewis Shiner and Bruce Sterling.
Brenda Starr dialogue: Long sections of talk with no physical
background or description of the characters. Such dialogue, detached from
the story's setting, tends to echo hollowly, as if suspended in mid-air.
Named for the American comic-strip in which dialogue balloons were often
seen emerging from the Manhattan skyline.
(Thanks to Netsurfer Digest.) posted: 5:28:27 PM |
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Bill Chance is moving house. Hmm, a lot of the bloggers I read have moved recently, and sometimes unexpectedly. Could I be next? posted: 1:27:47 PM |
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Laura McKenna needs a new way to get in and out of the city.
See, I wasn't prepared. I've never encountered a wacko in a cheap wig
before.
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