With this open framework, the “Dickson Experimental Sound Film” features cinema’s first queer images, regardless of original intent. It’s a beautiful coincidence that they were captured in 1895, the very same year that Oscar Wilde was put on trial and imprisoned for gross indecency. That t...
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And that makes a great excuse to present a photo-shoot from my visit. This focuses on the “mammal floor” below the entrance- the upper floor(s?) are still being completed and will have the birds, non-avian tetrapods, fish, etc. But the UMZC is strong in mammals and so it is na...
Entropy is an extensive quantity; that is, it is proportional to the quantity of matter in a system; thus 100 g of metallic copper has twice the entropy of 50 g at the same temperature. This makes sense because the larger piece of copper contains twice as many quantized energy levels able...
Runway has set up an annualAI film festivalthat showcasesexperimental moviesmade with a range of AI tools. This year’s festival has a $60,000 prize pot, and the 10 best films will be screened in New York and Los Angeles. It’s no surprise that top studios are taking notice. Movie ...
Directing the best American film of 2024 that’s also the uber-rare piece of experimental art to screen in multiplexes and––you know where this is headed––massive box-office bomb would typically spell the end of a director’s career. It’s to his fortune and ours alike that Robert ...
Baz Luhrmann’s film adaptation ofThe Great Gatsbybrings the exuberant party scenes to life. (image: Warner Bros.) 2. Viewpoint narrative If descriptive narrative immerses the reader in the story’s world, viewpoint narrative immerses them in a character’s mind. The purpose of this narrative...
he makes clear that any tax levied upon and/or measured by the exercise of a basic right- such as the right to life, liberty, the ownership of property, working, or engaging in trade– is a capitation. Indeed, capitations are alternately known as (and get their name from) “head taxes...
Using a 3 (type of influencer: original, celebrity, journalist) × 2 (message context: policy-based, social modeling) experimental design on waste sorting, our findings indicate significant variations in influencer effectiveness based on their origin of fame. However, our study also suggests that ...