Category: Art, Entertainment, Sports & Music
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To the unfolding soap opera of the Generals and their paramours (From Gawker): Paging Oliver Stone. On second thoughts, not enough battlefield scenes. Maybe we should get Baz Luhrmann to turn this into a Moulin Rouge-like spectacle.
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Came across this article in the NYT about "art genome mapping." The idea is to create a massive data base of art through the ages which supposedly can analyze your artistic inclinations and direct you to works of art you may enjoy. Amazon has done this for years with books and Netflix does it with films and Pandora with music. Most…
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Promoting a film and a family member here. I haven't seen the movie and don't know whether I will be able to unless it is released on DVD. It is being shown in the Indy film circuit in India, Canada and the US. My interest in it is that my niece, my sister's daughter, Saba Joshi plays…
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Once again, I can do no better than post links to a few interesting stories I came across. A terrible political "documentary" by a delusional desi. Can a doctor do this? Apparently yes, according to the AMA's guidelines. Not exactly a Marathon Man. This was bound to happen sooner or later – it is after all, an…
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This is a short post to share a surprising discovery today while reading a Bengali essay by a Belgian Catholic priest (he may be French - I am not wholly certain but definitely a French speaker who reads and writes fluent Bengali; things are getting mixed up already). Haven't played a game of cards for a long time except the…
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There was a song dedicated to the victims of the 7/7 attack in London, cut out of the NBC's footage that was shown yesterday, instead replaced with a vapid interview of Michael Phelps. Click here to read the article and view the footage (sorry, no embedded link is available) Might the cut have been in…
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Comments on Dean's original article on Steve Elkins' film The Reach of Resonance are now closed. I am publishing the Northwest Film Forum link here. Check out Dean's quote.
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The head of the Saint, the angels, the religious symbolism, and the landscape elements were for the benefactor who footed the bill, and for the priest-inspectors who looked for anything unholy or not according to the rules of religious art. The rest, the strange body form, was for the artist.
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I am in Fort Worth for a couple of days. I took this picture of downtown Fort Worth reflected on the glass facade of a building. I was wondering why I took the photo this morning from the balcony of my hotel room directly across the street while enjoying a cup of coffee. I normally don't take photos unless I…
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On July 7, 2005, one day after Londoners received word that the city would host the 2012 Olympics, terrorist bombs tore through the public transit system, killing 56 people. To prevent a repeat attack and protect the roughly 25,000 athletes, family members, coaches, and officials attending (along with roughly 700,000 spectators), spending on security has…
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Does the latest music album sound more than perfect to your ears, as it dribbles or blasts out of the earbuds of your music player? Not a note out of place, no little rough edges that would make you squirm? There's a reason for that in this world of hyperdigitization. Auto-tuning is the trick. Steve…
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Instrument maker Keith Hill responded to Elatia's query related to Prasad's recent post on violin sounds. It failed to appear in the comments section (TypePad!). I am publishing Hill's opinion as an independent post. Elatia, This is the third time I have read about this interesting experiment, from three different sources. The first thing I would say is that I have yet…
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