Monthly Archives: November 2008

How SearchWiki distorts reality

From here.

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Twice a day

twice a day

Unfortunately the top and bottom have been cropped from this image, about 1-1.5cm’s each side. Long story. I don’t think it’s too disruptive in terms of what’s there, especially not at the top, but the weighting feels a little wrong at the bottom. I’m working on fixing and re-scanning it before it goes up in the works section, so here is a preview in the mean time.

Trying to build up layer upon layer of pattern, so that each cancels out the history and intricacy of the previous. On one level all you are left with is the geometry of the panels; on another a series of mini explosions and doodled obscenities. I’m not sure how well that is showing up, but if you click through to the original size image on Flickr you can get a better idea.

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Meh

Positive
meh
Comparative
not comparable
Superlative
none (absolute)
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(Don’t) Touch My Body

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Remakes: 3 corrupted films about corrupted morals

Remakes of films are like data corruption – full of unintended changes to the data in storage or transit. Three films about moral corruption are currently being remade or given a sequel. One, Oldboy, is about unwitting moral corruption; another, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, concerns a corrupted moral nihilist and the third, a quasi-sequel to Happiness by Todd Solondz, stars the corrupting and the corrupted in a tale of corrupt and broken morality.

Remakes are corrupted somewhere between the retrieval and transmission, introducing along the way unintended changes to the original. They are corrupted by stealth. Solondz, similar to a hacker, utilizes corruption as an end product and recognises it as an objective, using it intentionally at source rather than in transmission. This makes the sequel to Happiness the only one of the three to maintain any data integrity, and by doing so the only one to remain uncorrupted as a film, despite, should it be anything like its companion, being the most brutal portrayal of the morally corrupt.

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