Jumpsuits & Teleporters
Whitney Dail was born in Alexandria, VA to a Naval aviator and an artist-entrepreneur, and was raised in Annapolis, MD. For five years, Whitney worked as a graphic designer in the comic book industry but returned to school in 2009 to pursue a better-suited Master's degree in Arts Administration. She is currently in the process of writing and researching her thesis on expanding art, science, and technology interactions in U.S. cultural institutions.
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Mars Science Laboratory: How Do You Get to Mars?
So you want to heave a couple billion dollars worth of robotic science...
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“From the belly of the peloton, I can identify the riders in front of me by how they sit on their bikes and the way they pedal. American Chris...”
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What he is talking about is to common sense: abandon the “grandeur and excelse ideas” that came with decades of blockbusters show, monumental...
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Orion Nebula
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Mod fashions from Elle, Mexico.
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lykke li // i know places (live on the moon)
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What day is today?
This is an image from a poster in a museum. Should we say things are in order now?
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95 posts tagged movies
The only thing you can’t have in this perfect world of total pleasure is your 30th birthday.
If you thought the art world was in uproar over Jeffrey Deitch’s appointment to new MOCA director, ask Hitler how he feels. My favorite part of this parody, aside from the Barry McGee mention, is this frame:
This is how I feel about the new NASA.
I just watched Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, which is one of three screenplays written by Roger Ebert. What a totally bizarre and non-sequitur film. The dialogue is pretty memorable (“You’re a moonchild,” and in response, “You’re a bitch.”). The cuts between scenes were jagged and quick, which made it even more absurd. All in all, the soundtrack completed the film. Which, by the way, I can’t wait to get my hands on a copy. What a fun movie! I went into without expectations and found it completely entertaining.
Roger Ebert reflects on the cult classic:
And the movie as a whole? I think of it as an essay on our generic expectations. It’s an anthology of stock situations, characters, dialogue, cliches and stereotypes, set to music and manipulated to work as exposition and satire at the same time; it’s cause and effect, a wind-up machine to generate emotions, pure movie without message. The strange thing about the movie is that it continues to play successfully to completely different audiences for different reasons. When Meyer and I were hired a few years later to work on an ill-fated Sex Pistols movie called “Who Killed Bambi?” we were both a little nonplussed, I think, to hear Johnny Rotten explain that he liked “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls” because it was so true to life.
Charles Aznavour - Tu t'laisses aller
Screencaps from Un femme est un femme (1961).
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Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out (1989)
Everybody knows the moon is made of cheese… —Wallace
School is back in session today where I resume my 12 hour days of full-time job + class after work + homework all night. The more education, the merrier. One of these days, I’ll stop being a student. At least it isn’t as bad as being Steven Shorter.
The liberal idea that, given enough education, these millions will grow into self-aware, creative human beings is nothing more than an exploded myth. It can never happen.Clip from Peter Watkins’ Privilege.
