It makes users feel as if they are part of a different reality, enhancing their interaction with the environment through technology, creating a deep sense of presence and engagement. Types of Immersive Technologies Immersive experience is usually defined as the immersion in certain, artificially ...
(midrange); the greatest lovers of life – thebon vivants– could say anything that makes music fun to listen to. Those deliberating quietly in the corner, including myself and probably many of my colleagues, would champion the most transparent-sounding system – that is, the one that ...
Ghosts are lurking everywhere in Insidious: behind half-closed doors, in the static of a baby monitor, and worse, in the people you love. Wan's comeback film marked a return to indie horror, after his two post-Saw studio films flopped. Determined to challenge his reputation as a guru of...
It’s a pretty faithful, middle-of-the-road adaptation, but the extra dash of Disney magic makes it a Christmas Carol worth watching. 5. The Year Without A Santa Claus (1974) Rankin/Bass 5. The Year Without A Santa Claus (1974) With many of the Rankin/Bass movies featuring Santa ...
On Christmas Day in 1914, British and German troops emerged from the trenches of World War I as weeks of bad weather cleared and called a truce. It was spontaneous and not approved by any higher-ups, but many soldiers on both sides ended up taking part. Soccer games were played between ...
Listening to records that can arouse such intense emotional memory is a risky business, but it is perhaps that deeply affecting quality that makes music great. more Oct 17, 2009 Jacob Brunner AEM003 Weyes Bluhd Weyes Bluhd is good enough to inspire elaborate suicidal fantasies. That may ...
We think of photography as pictures. And it is. But I think of photography as ideas. And do the pictures sustain your ideas or are they just good pictures? I want to have an experience in the world that is a deepening experience, that makes me feel alive and awake and conscious. —Jo...
One year after their stages went dark, live music workers from across the country talk about what makes their spaces so important and how you can help them.
This entire project is about asking a certain group of people to each, subjectively, weigh what they believe are the “greatest films”. There are no set of criteria for what makes a film one of the “Greatest.” I assume everyone who is polled is asking themselves these questions, and ...
Gen Zers: a VCR was like an analog DVR. You used it to manually record shows off broadcast TV to watch later on a VHS tape. Programming them to do so required a Ph.D. from MIT, so doing so afforded us elder millennials a chance to hear dads drop a bouquet of four-letter words....