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...nuance in "character capture"; they don't look quite real. But the effects scenes look realer, more integrated into the visual fabric, because they meet the traced-over live-action elements halfway. It all suggests that this kind of a moviemaking is more than a stunt. By imagining the distant past so vividly, Zemeckis and his team prove that character capture has a future...
...think you know where you come from, think again. At least that was the message behind an event at Winthrop House last night in which two House residents discussed the results of genetic testing that traced their roots to distant, and in one case unexpected, corners of the globe. Pedro Jorge Gomes Castelo-Branco, a Winthrop House tutor of Portuguese descent, and House Master Mandana Sassanfar, whose family is from Iran, presented the result of the tests as part of a race and diversity event that focused on the “interconnectedness of the human population...
Like almost all extrasolar planets, the new world is too small and distant to be spotted by telescope. Instead, it was discovered by measuring the tiny wobbles its gravity imposes on the motion of its parent star...
...Schulz’s comics, one that moves beyond the series of lovable Christmas specials and its simple philosophy that “Happiness is a warm puppy.” Michaelis exposes the self-deprecation beneath the existentialist doubts in the comics, examining Schulz’s distant relationship with his mother, the series of women with whom he unsuccessfully fell in love, his Christian faith, and his desire to be liked by everyone despite his awkward shyness. This leads to Michaelis’ thoughtful thesis on the reasons behind the success of “Peanuts?...
...both sensual and hopeful. The toffees have a placebo effect, changing the material candy into a more intangible and lasting connection between the viewer and González-Torres.The second name in parentheses, “Landscape,” conjures an understanding of a landscape as endless and distant. Yet the mini-landscape is clearly a bounded quantity of candies, one that I was apprehensive to deplete. Viewers only feel comfortable taking pieces from the exhibition when they have faith that the candy will be replaced. When the candy is eaten, a triangular relationship of dependency forms between the curator...