____________________[PRO] Turmoil in blogland: Six Apart Buys Livejournal

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Yet, at the broadest level, the culture of LiveJournal is distinct from the culture of the blogosphere, even if the actual practice is quite similar: to share that which is most meaningful to you with those who will be interested. -( Turmoil in blogland )

[PER] Beware the temperature of your mind

"Let me try this paradox on you: that with so much to see or notice (and noticing is the humane version of seeing - it is a camera with warmth; it is realising that "I am a camera" is a way of abandoning responsibility), the 'visual' does not have to be hammered into our consciousness.

"We can see life first and the nature of the shot second. To illustrate: do you see how often it is the shot (the fateful composition) that registers first in, say, Hitchcock, Kubrick and Lang, whereas it is the life or the light or the situation that impresses in Renoir, Ozu and Rossellini?

Do you see how far this is a model for the gap (of vivacity and doubt) between a computer-generated shot (always foreseen before it is seen) and a photographed, reactive shot - the kind that occurs whenever someone says, 'Oh, look, do you see that...'?

For what that kind of seeing amounts to... is that noting carries responsibility, attitude, history and context, whereas mere seeing (the mechanical thing) can be as warm or as cold as the mind working the camera.

And if that mind is intent on effacing itself before the superb 'truthfulness' of the camera, then beware of that mind. It is too cold for comfort." Come and see.

[PER] Tyranny of what is visual

"I mean that the cinema will gradually break free from the tyranny of what is visual, from the image for its own sake, from the immediate and concrete demands of the narrative, to become a means of writing just as flexible and subtle as written language." - Astruc, quoted in Come and see

[ART] Minotaur и другие картинки

Dan Sousa, Jake Mahaffy and Jeff Sias

 

[PER] potter puzzle

1. определите, сколько тут существ (включая всю нечистую силу)

2. воскликните "всем выйти из сумрака!" и добавьте к ним всех скрытых за колоннами

3. назовите всех по имени.

[PER] Портативный Компьютер Смерти

[PER] 100 000 одних волшебников

"Сто тысяч волшебников и колдуний со всего света съехались на этот чемпионат мира по квиддичу!"

Из-за как обычно второпях Главная Волшебная Ложа не влезла в кадр. Зато Чорная Метка Сами-Знаете-Кого уже вполне развевается над лесом.

Отдельный приз в студию тому, кто определит ловца со снитчем.

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