From DV Realism to a Universal Recording Machine Introduction If Mike Figgis’s remarkable Timecode (2000) exemplifies the difficult search of digital cinema for its own unique aesthetics‚ it equally demonstrates how these emerging aesthetics borrow from cinema’s rich past‚ from other media‚ and from the conventions of computer software. The film splits the screen into the four quadrants to show us four different actions taking place at once. This is of course something that have been common
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the first fully axiomatic system for logic‚ which was complete in its treatment of propositional and first-order logic‚ and also represented the first treatment of higher-order logic. In the philosophy of mathematics‚ he was one of the most ardent proponents of logicism‚ the thesis that mathematical truths are logical
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recently regarding our industry is the idea that we now we have horsepower we need to create games‚ so innovations by hardware companies are not needed. I believe this argument is flawed in many ways. First‚ there are continued advancements in graphical realism in academia‚ in R&D labs‚ and in the film industry that have yet to be incorporated into our real-time pipelines. As developers adopt these new features‚ computational requirements of software will continue to increase. Second‚ and the more important
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Edwin Panofsky‚ “Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait‚” The Burlington Magazine 64 (1934): 117-127 Arnolfini Wedding Portrait Controversy Erwin Panofsky was a prominent art historian of the twentieth century. He also was one of the foremost proponents of iconography‚ and attributed symbolic meaning to the various elements of the Arnolfini scene. He attributed the scene to be a document of the marriage between Giovanni Arnolfini and his wife in 1434. Panofsky argues that there are symbols in the
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Snowstorm: steamboat off a harbour’s mouth – reveal how the human imaginative appreciation of the natural world is able to transcend physical limitations as well as the restrictions of technology and logic. Coleridge‚ in particular‚ was a true proponent of the Romantic tradition. He described the uniting of reason and feeling as ‘intellectual intuition’ and saw imagination as ‘the ultimate synthesising faculty‚ enabling humans to reconcile differences and opposites in a world of appearances.’ His
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Abstract Expressionism Art Movement History By: Sharmé Jackson Abstract Expressionism started in America as a post-World War II art movement. It was the first avant-garde art movement that arose from America. Never before in the history of art‚ the personality of an artist took such central stage and became both an inspiration and the subject of his/her own art. It is challenging to narrow down such multifaceted phenomenon as Abstract Expressionism‚ to distil the core of this intricate style
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The idea that democracies do not fight each other can be traced back to the writings of Immanuel Kant over two hundred years ago in essay ‘On Perpetual Peace’‚ however‚ only in the early 1980s and with the writings of Michael Doyle was the idea consolidated. According to Doyle and other advocates of the democratic peace theory‚ liberal democratic states have been able to maintain peaceful relations amongst themselves‚ but are prone to wage war against non-democratic regimes. In order to prove this
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Evaluation of microfinance and women empowerment: Case study on Grameen Bank in Northern Bangladesh Chapter One: Overview Where there is informal economy condition of developing countries‚ women face a comparative disadvantage. In the northern area of Bangladesh‚ economic conditions forced rural women to adopt microfinance (credit and savings) as one major strategy for self reliance. Women go through relatively much more hardship than men in countries that are striving towards economic growth
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The two rather radical conspiracy theories‚ the first states that although the government knew in advance about the attacks‚ it did not act to deter them and still let them get carried out. The second‚ as its name indicates‚ suggests that elements within the American government purposefully engineered and carried them out as part of an inside job. Both ‘letting it happen on purpose’ and ‘making it happen on purpose’ theories are divisive topic of debate which relies on the representation of democracy
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Through his art‚ Francisco Goya relayed his feelings toward the political unrest that plagued Spain during his lifetime. As an artist of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries‚ Goya lived through a time of political and social upheaval‚ especially throughout Europe. At the time‚ the ideas of the Enlightenment had captivated the minds of Spain’s most influential citizens and soon‚ that of Goya’s. Born in Fuendetodos‚ Spain‚ in 1746‚ Francisco Goya came from very humble beginnings. As the
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