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10 technologies that have changed the way we live ... pretty interesting list...and of course i think they got the NUMBAH ONE right...i'm surprised where PC's rank tho, i woulda thought they'd be 1 & 2 or at least ranked together..... 1. The Internet. This one seems like a no-brainer, but the Net's unique strength is that no two people will agree on why it's so important. The world's largest and most unruly library, it's also a global news channel, social club, research archive, shopping service, town hall, and multimedia kiosk. Add to that the most affordable mass medium ever, and a curse to anyone with a secret to keep. Three-fifths of Americans now use the Net, but it remains to be seen whether the connections to one another will transform us, or prove that we'll never change. 4. Personal computers. Before IBM recast the desktop computer from hobbyist's gadget to office automation tool in 1983 — followed by Apple's people-friendly Macintosh a year later — a "minicomputer" was the size of a washing machine and required a special air-conditioned room. But the trained technicians who operated the old mainframes already knew computers were cool: They could use them to play games, keep diaries, and trade messages with friends across the country, while still looking busy. Today, thanks to the PC, we all look busy. |
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I would say this one is pretty important.. "3. Digital media. "The camera doesn't lie" went a saying not heard much since the release of Photoshop 1.0 in 1990. Digitized audio, pictures, movies, and text let even an amateur edit reality 'or conjure it from scratch' with a keyboard and a mouse. A singer's bad notes, a model's blemishes, or an overcast sky in a movie scene can be fixed as easily as a spelling error. Just as important, digital media can be copied over and over nearly for free, stored permanently without fading, and sent around the world in seconds. It rightly worries the movie and music industries, but how do you put the genie back in the bottle if there's no bottle anymore?" I mean, you can twist and distort history any way you want now, these days.. pretty sensational and scary at the same time. |
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the fact that it's so immediate is amazing as well. i dunno if you saw a few weeks ago 'AS IT HAPPENED' some lawyer was shot point blank (thankfully not fatally) by a disgruntled man outside of court...it was the scariest thing i'd ever seen, and fascinating at the same time. it didn't seem REAL....and it was being filmed by all these different TV stations....woah! |
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Fame sure is fickle. One day you're posing for the cover of Vanity Fair, and the next you're auditioning for an Olsen twins movie. The Hollywood landscape is littered with would-be superstars who rode the zeitgeist straight into obscurity. With that in mind, it wasn't easy choosing our list of today's biggest stars. Candidates needed a shelf-life more like a Twinkie than a carton of milk, and had to have name recognition with both grade-schoolers and grandmas. Some of our faves failed to make the cut (sorry Denzel, Cameron, and Reese — there's always next year). So, without further adieu, because Lord knows their careers aren't getting any fresher, here are our picks for the Top 10 Celebrities in America... uuuuughghg look who's number one....NOT!!! freaking idiot media!!!! 1. Britney Spears, 21 She's played tonsil-hockey with Madonna and posed nearly nekkid on major magazines. By now it's pretty darn obvious Britney Spears is not that innocent. Adios, knee socks and pigtails; hello, leather and lots of skin. Brit's girl-on-girl kiss was just the latest stage in her transformation from Justin Timberlake's virginal girlfriend to a worldly, sensual woman of 21. With her all-American looks (blond hair, blue eyes, and her perky, uh, personality), the former Mouseketeer needn't worry her pipes aren't the strongest. Britney's ability to adapt to her public's desires has helped her defy critics who thought she'd be just another flash in the pop-tartlet pan. |
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but the point is that it can all be digitally altered - that is the power of modern CGI etc. that is what is truely scary. anything nasty can easily (well, relatively easily) be edited out - but just as easily, replaced by something or someone else. seeing as a big part of our sense of reality is based on memory and in some way the recording of history, this is tampering with reality in some way. :s |
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imagine what peepz like Mao, Stalin, Mosillini, Franco and Hitler woulda done with that.....it is VERY scary! |
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The 10 most influential popular music albums since Elvis 1) The Beatles, "Rubber Soul." Runner-up: The Beatles, "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." The Beatles are the only artists here who get to be their own runner-up. Really, how can you take seriously any "influential" list that does not contain them? They are just about the biggest thing ever to happen to popular entertainment since Elvis and possibly since the invention of the phonograph. The only question is which album. One could argue for "Meet the Beatles," the album that turned the British Invasion into a conquest. "A Hard Day's Night" went a long way toward inventing the modern "media phenomenon." "Revolver" and "Rubber Soul" are two sides of a single record, and "Pepper" is the record that launched a million art-rock experiments, most of them failed. I picked "Rubber Soul" because I think it represents the perfect marriage of inspiration, originality and craft. It helped launch much of what makes rock music great: brains, melody and motion with no compromise in any direction. i'm a Nirvana fan but putting them AHEAD of the Clash....ummmm i dunno about that |
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well, Stalin did a lot of that already. there's a great book about it, showing the original pictures and the altered ones. Michael Nyman wrote a musical piece based on this book. but you are right - they could do anything they want these days, yes. |
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hey thanks for the link...i'm looking it up now....wasn't there a movie made about Stalin's projectionist....??? i seem to remember it..... i'm famil with Michael Nyman - The Piano is a favourite of mine....both the Soundtrack and the movie! |
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Screen classics: A critic's take on the top 10 American movies..... i've seen 8 of the top 10 this being my fav from the list "Citizen Kane" (1941). Orson Welles' barely disguised treatment of the life of newspaperman William Randolph Hearst is a tragedy about a man who almost literally gains the whole world and loses his soul. Welles tells the story with such wit and bravado that the movie's serious intentions don't really announce themselves until it's half over. This is, almost despite its ambitions, a very funny movie, filled with withering, still-potent commentary on the state of American journalism. (Welles' followup film, "The Magnificent Ambersons," is nearly its equal.) i'm surprised Thin Red Line is at the top.....interesting choice. i liked the movie but i don't consider it one of the TOP TEN |
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mm. I would put "nosferatu" above "sunrise".. |
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yipes.....thats one of the one i haven't seen....i guess i should get busy! i don't think "nosferatu" was MERICAN dude so it doesn't count....ehehhe J/K! |
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Dis LINK is for the pink man NACHO! which are you most famil with mon? 10 homes most of us can only dream about .... thank goodness for THIS HOUSE, good things came outta this place 3. Thoreau's cabin, Concord, Mass. From the ridiculous to the sublime: In the spring of 1845, Henry David Thoreau built a one-room cabin overlooking Walden Pond, on a wooded plot of land given to him by his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson. Total budget: $28. He lived in the house for just two years, but thanks to Walden, the book Thoreau wrote about his time there, the cabin has ever since kept an unwavering hold on the more frugal and self-reliant parts of the American psyche; its spiritual heirs are everything from the Mini Cooper to Northern California Zen centers to Real Simple magazine. this is prolly the house i MOST WANNA SEE in person *hint hint travis* 5. Kaufmann House, Bear Run, Penn. Known as Fallingwater, the weekend house that Frank Lloyd Wright designed for a Pittsburgh department store magnate and his family in the 1930s was voted "Building of the 20th Century" by the American Institute of Architects. It overflows with Wright's architectural genius, as well as his legendary chutzpah. Take the cantilevered concrete wings that hang dramatically over the creek running through the property. They give the house its famous horizontal thrust and sense of innovative flair, but they've also had to be reinforced in various ways over the years. As was often the case with Wright, imagination raced well ahead of practicality. Still, most architecture critics would happily give up a limb to call this place home. |
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HA! haven't got it on dvd yet either, nooo... OH! I should send you my dvd-list! when you're buying expressionistic German films from the twenties anyway, please look into "".. beautifully shot and very scary.. |
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man.. those stills are almost as beautiful as the film itself.. |
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holy smokes i could totally see the first one as my DESKTOP....absolutely beautiful!!! love the plot summary - A man named Francis relates a story about his best friend Alan and his fiancée Jane. Alan takes him to a fair where they meet Dr. Caligari, who exhibits a somnambulist, Cesare, that can predict the future. When Alan asks how long he has to live, Cesare says he has until dawn. The prophecy comes to pass, as Alan is murdered, and Cesare is a prime suspect. Cesare creeps into Jane's bedroom and abducts her, running from the townspeople and finally dying of exhaustion. Meanwhile, the police discover a dummy in Cesare's cabinet, while Caligari flees. Francis tracks Caligari to a mental asylum. He is the director! Or is he? what EXACTLY is a SOMNAMBULIST?!??! do you have your DVD list compiled?!?!??! i'm mailing you my FRESH list...you've GOT MAIL |
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a sleepwalker, if I remember correctly. I'll have a look now. :) |
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LIST SENT.!!!. |
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i just checked dictionary.com som·nam·bu·lism ( P ) Pronunciation Key (sm-nmby-lzm) n. See sleepwalking. thats a COOL word. i like learning new words! don't forget to forward me YOUR DVD list!!! danke |
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thanks got it..... NEVER HEARD o this.. 06/Blind Date - Theo van Gogh i wanna see this i love A Christmas Carol!!! Blackadder's Christmas Carol - Rowan Atkinson i love this first cohen movie - Blood Simple Still wanna see this - Breaking The Waves this good, i coulda gotten it for $5 bucks but the rating said it was bosch! they are REMAKING this - Dawn of the Dead ...have you heard....ehheheh my FAV woody flick! - Hannah and Her Sisters Soylent Green - it's PEOPLE!!! ehhehe i'm SO glad you compiled the list, now it will be easy for you to keep up. i'll have more comments on some movies i'm curious about via email....seems i need to see something from PETER GREENWAY.......that name stuck out there......ehheheh |
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EDIT The Brood - this good, i coulda gotten it for $5 bucks but the rating said it was bosch! |
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I actually started making the list because of you. but now it's also a nice reminder of how much money I blow away on film.. Theo van Gogh is a Dutch filmer.. I have no idea whether you would like his stuff.. if your going for any Dutch director, try something by Alex van Warmerdam - I only have "Abel", seeing as that's his only film that has been produced on dvd. :( Hannah and her Sisters is very good, yes. on of my favourites too. Crimes and Misdemeanours is very good too - they call this films "Woody's novels". The Brood - I liked it. but then I like Cronenberg. I think he has interesting ideas that he follows through in a very direct and methodical manner. have you seen "Last Night" by Don McKellar? I mention this because McKellar has played in ExistenZ and Cronenberg also acts in "Last Night".. :) |
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hahaha...i know i'm was SO GLAD there wasn't anything on sale this week, cos i spend more on DVD's than CD's these days.... next week Escape From New York (Special 2 Disc version) come out....eeeek!!! i must have it!!! i thought it was THE theo van gogh!!! hahaha....i was like he made a movie or what....i wasn't sure what it was. heehehehe i like cronenberg too, if i see it that cheap again i'll pick it up. i've not seen last night...i have seen ExistenZ, which i thought was kinda ridiculous...if you must know...it was an interesting concept. i'm glad you made a list, it's also a nice way to see what you have.....once you start it...tis easy to keep up. nanight lil Q....i have a lot to do before i go outta town!! check your MAIL in about 10 mins....thanks for pointing out that movie...i'm gonna SEE it with travis this weekend!!!! along with this MIDNIGHT MOVIE....sounds fun check it out at your leisure! http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0058606/ (link making skillz are caput! ehhehehe) |
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glad to see on the movies list that Citizen Kane isn't number one... it always bugs me how there are certain movies and albums which are ALWAYS the number one on these types of lists... it's almost like critics just look through other lits and see that a movie like Citizen Kane is number one everywhere else, and so they put it number one on theirs... it's nice to see a critic actually do it a little differently... |
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theu couldn't have said Nosferatu, cause the list is "american films"... and while Sunrise was made in America... Nosferatu was not... Murnau is one of the best directors of all time... Nosferatu is the shit |
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THE THIN RED LINE? |
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who decides these top 10's anyway? besides im sure its the "average person".. which id love to think iam totally not, so i will not pay attention to such lists. as they are complete bullshit and meaningless. |
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were you surprised as well? it was a good movie but TOP 10? i don't agree Reflex....if you click on the link it tells ya who's opinion it is...various critic's etc.....it's not the average Joe...i doubt the average JOE has seen many of these movies.....they aren't exactly on video shelves |
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Just got my copies of Peter Greenway's '26 Bathrooms' and 'Death In The Seine' :thumbsup: |
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were you prompted there by a mention of peter green in another thread by any chance? |
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absolutely. yes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . dobbin i think we just had a moment |
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ooooh i feel all funny like :) |
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