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Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

Inkheart

I saw a preview the other day for an upcoming movie (to be released in March) called “Inkheart” with Brendan Fraser. The central premise of the movie revolves around a single father who has the ability to “magically” bring stories to life by reading them aloud.
Yahoo:
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809787394/info
IMDB:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0494238/plotsummary
~Jenna P.

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Thursday, December 20th, 2007

Singing Typewriters

Bless Brandon for posting about Helvetica and the Fionn Regan song. The lyrics, pasted below, are astonishing for the way they conflate female sexality and the typewriter. And note the sly allusion to the alphabet: “I draw a line from A to B”
Fionn Regan
° The Underwood Typewriter °
The roots go deep below ground
I […]

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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

Helvetica

I just finished watching the Helvetica documentary we talked about in class, and it was pretty fascinating.  Here are a couple of things I found interesting:
1.  Helvetica comes from the Latin word for Switzerland (the neutrality reflected in the font), and it came out in response to the poor designs of the 1950s, i.e. the […]

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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

OBAMARAMA VS THE CLINTONIANS

Somehow this op-ed piece comparing O&C touches on practically every pattern we examined except teeth, dragons, and vampires — and I wouldn’t be surprised if those show up in a subsequent op-ed piece. BTW, some of the oldest artifacts from ancient cultures before the advent of writing technology are “dice.” They were used for […]

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Monday, December 17th, 2007

Oedipus Nip/Tuckus

If you don’t watch Nip/Tuck regularly you are missing out on a show that has its hand firmly on the pulse of the cultural unconscious. As we move from the analog to the digital, in much the same way as we when we moved from scribal culture to print, the body makes a come […]

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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

Ancient Japanese Proverb (Joke)

~Jenna P.

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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

OOPS, SHE DID IT AGAIN: GIMMIE MORE VIRGIN MARY

Ok, so here’s the scoop. BS (Britney Spears) is in the early stages of being cast as the Virgin Mary in a film. This makes perfect, albeit bizaare, sense to me in terms of the way things are moving under the surace of this culture. Forget immaculate conception, it’s a miracle just to associate […]

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Thursday, December 6th, 2007

magic comes through the ear…

Hey guys,
 http://www.pianomagic.com/google.asp
So i’ve resolved to take piano lessons. It’s something that I have always wanted to do. I got the name of a woman through a friend, and although this is not her site, I found it while looking for her since she teaches the same way.
 I have never played a musical insturment although it […]

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