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Thursday, April 24, 2003 |
Leonardo da Vinci: "Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen." [Ottmar Liebert]
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Bright Lights Film Journal. Bright Lights Film Journal is a popular-academic hybrid of movie analysis, history, and commentary, looking at classic and commercial, independent, exploitation, and international film from a wide range of vantage points from the æsthetic to the political. A prime area of focus is on the connection between capitalist society and the images that reflect, support, or subvert it—movies as propaganda. [cinema minima]
Another article of interest on Antonin Artaud, the ideas of the Cinema of Cruelty, the Theatre of Cruelty, and his famous book The Theatre and Its Double.
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It is always a fun excursion back in time to see t .... It is always a fun excursion back in time to see the future from the perspective of 1940s and 1950s science fiction writers. We were to have had flying cars, robots to do our housework and a 5-day weekend by now. More interesting, however, is this gem, to which we were directed by Agnes, a McLuhan Program associate:
This article by Dr. Vannevar Bush, then Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, that appeared in The Atlantic Monthly in July 1945, is considered a classic in Library and Information Science circles. It is remarkably forward-looking and closely predicts the coming of Steve Mann's Eyetap device, (including a version of the "vicarious soliloquy,") speech to text devices, optical recording devices like CD, and even a personal version of the world wide web, implemented as a desktop, with "slanting translucent screens, on which material can be projected for convenient reading."
The article also describes our whole notion of modern computer running business applications, and even outlines a primitive-by-our-standards point of sale transaction recording cum inventory management system.
The ironically named Dr. Bush's closing comment is quite apropos for Bush-the-Younger to contemplate:
"The applications of science have built man a well-supplied house, and are teaching him to live healthily therein. They have enabled him to throw masses of people against one another with cruel weapons. They may yet allow him truly to encompass the great record and to grow in the wisdom of race experience. He may perish in conflict before he learns to wield that record for his true good. Yet, in the application of science to the needs and desires of man, it would seem to be a singularly unfortunate stage at which to terminate the process, or to lose hope as to the outcome."
Discuss document.write("(" + ct_21_c83n + ")"); [What is The Message?]
1:06:53 PM
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Gianluca, one of our McLuhan Fellows, sends this i .... Gianluca, one of our McLuhan Fellows, sends this item along:
I've seen this in a newspaper and I tought it was nice to share, at the Leonardo da Vinci museum they have built his project for Long distance communication for the first time. It is a system of copper pipes with amplification on the path. It was invented to connect towers of a castle. In the article there was also this quote from his Codice Atlantico, written in the year 1500:
«Parleransi li omini di remotissimi paesi l[base ']uno all[base ']altro e risponderansi e parleransi e toccheransi e abbracceransi li omini, stanti dall[base ']uno all[base ']altro emisperio, e [in]tenderansi i loro linguaggi».
Is in ancient italian and translated it sounds more or less like this:
"They will talk, men from superfar countries, the one to the other, and they will answer to each other, and they will touch and hug each man, located in the one and the other hemisphere, and they will understand their languages."
Amazingly, this long distance communications infrastructure was conceived by Leonardo only 50 or 70 years after the invention of the printed page
Discuss document.write("(" + ct_21_WQwP + ")"); [What is The Message?]
1:05:58 PM
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Futurist Fears End of Innovation. Author Howard Rheingold warns that the freedom for technologists to innovate is under attack from governments and corporate interests. He tells programmers and developers to protect their interests in the political process. Leander Kahney reports from Santa Clara, California. [Wired News]
12:56:19 PM
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An interesting website from the University of Illinois Department of Journalism. Have they uncovered the decades old secret source that lead to the impeachment of Richard Nixon? How many more years before journalist Bob Woodward reveals the source? It's all way - back history to me. I was born in 1971 and have no memories of R. M. Nixon.
"a project to unmask the Watergate source" [Daypop Top 40]
It does remind me about last year's eBook PDF from John Dean, "Unmasking Deep Throat." It was published on the 30th anniversary of the break-in of the Democratic Party offices in Washington D.C.
I also recall reading in Wired this past year about a sound engineer who is trying to reconstruct the audio tape evidence that was erased by Nixon, or his administration. Best of luck! I'll be amazed if anything comes out.
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