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...Aria S.K. Laskin ’08 Magazine Chair...
...Typically, Altman's contribution to the omnibus film Aria focused not on the singers but on the operagoers. Everyone gets to be a prima donna, or a spear carrier, in Altman's daring democracy. Not many directors would think to open a film with an elegant eight-minute tracking shot that brings dozens of characters together and introduces a whodunit teaser. Altman did it, and so much more, with The Player. He continued his innovations with film form in Short Cuts and Ready to Wear and the 2001 Gosford Park. By then, as happens to most pioneering artists, experiment...
...arts board. Jordan A. Comins ’09 and Lukas Toth ’09 will head the design board. Adam M. Guren ’08 and Drew M. Trombly ’08 will lead the editorial board. M. Aidan Kelly ’08 and Aria S. K. Laskin ’08 will serve as chairs of Fifteen Minutes, The Crimson’s weekend magazine. Alexander E. Blank ’09 and Matthew S. Fasman ’08 will chair the information technology board. Alexandra C. Bell...
...Aidan Kelly '08 and Aria S. K. Laskin '08, magazine chairs...
...artists then used Discmans, videocams, and binaural sound equipment to create the accompanying “opera.”The arm of one of five record players lifts up, the megaphone announces the pieces, and the sound of clapping is heard.The needle touches down and a haunting aria escapes from one of the speakers—the viewer dives into the scene and the music and the play of the light reflecting off the spinning record and onto the ceiling. A disembodied voice like that of Jim Morrison in The Doors’s “Soft Parade?...