Word: blur
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...more frames. This allows the filmmaker to hold and manipulate one frame for as long as he wishes. With the addition of a spinning shutter before and between the projectors, there is a constant flicker that reveals an unclear image in the middle of a strobe-light blur. For the 2005 movie “Krypton is Doomed,” the final film screened, Jacobs explained that the Nervous Magic Lantern and a 3x3 inch photograph of a painting were his only tools in creating the 34-minute film. Although there was no computer-processing, the image on-screen...
...music. “Circus” is the quintessential Britney CD, but trashier. There are the driving dance singles “Womanizer” and “Circus,” schmaltzy ballads “Out from Under” and “Blur,” and even a reflection on her continuing war with the paparazzi in “Kill the Lights.” Above her predictable rhythms and enhanced voice, it’s Britney’s oversexed lyrics that define the CD. “Circus?...
...what might in another context be dismissed as no more than backwoods ignorance is transformed into a vast and palpable moral crime. I'm not certain that Schlink's novel or this film makes that connection explicit. Both have obligations to melodramatic plotting and characterization that to a degree blur the inherent point of the exercise. In the end, Hanna's defense of her crime - she allowed most of her prisoners to die in a fire in a church (hard to imagine a more obvious choice of crime scene) - comes down to, well, yes, what Hannah Arendt called the banality...
...ability to appreciate complexity and duality. I mean, what more could a bunch of Black, Latino, and gay DJs hope for but that—a normalization of what was normal for them. It is this optimism—and the belief that the brightest future would see a blurring of the dividing line between intricacy and accessibility—that separates this disco from main stage Disco. Perhaps as a result of this hopefulness, many abandoned these ideals for a shot at visibility and acceptance–even if it meant stripping tunes of both layers and intentionality...
Cutler, Jessica • engagement of to man whose initial encounter with "is sort of a blur" because "I was so wasted...