Word: flatted
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...what we once called the "small screen" is fading away. We'll have tiny screens and giant screens: online devices and ever cheaper flat-screen video walls. To me, lush cinematic shows like Big Love and Mad Men need a big canvas; for others, it's football that demands the real estate. Some shows are more interchangeable. I was not surprised to find that MTV's The Hills, with its sleek visuals and forgettable dialogue, is perfectly suited to the bauble-like screen of the iPhone...
Until then, try spending Valentine's Day mounting your flat screen on the wall. It can't hurt...
...challenges of telling stories in video games is that the entire medium is subject to technological upgrades on a regular basis. Mastering it requires surfing a learning curve that is steep and, so far, infinite. With the previous generation of hardware, for example, characters' faces were too flat to sustain real closeups, and there just wasn't enough horsepower to support a lot of Stoppardian banter. "We simply couldn't stream in much dialogue, 'cause it was so hard to stream the world in on PlayStation 2," Houser explains, "whereas now we can have the characters constantly talking...
...film based solely on its aesthetic qualities. Jacobs explained this focus on his vision, citing 20th century artists such as Picasso and Warhol as part of his inspiration. The 8mm used in “Window” flattens the screen and makes the image look like a grainy, flat canvas. He believes this piece emulates the medium of painting.“This film is supposed to be like an abstract impressionist painting,” Jacobs said. “Yet, it doesn’t superficially imitate it.” Another inspiration is his wife...
...comfortable and mundane in a relationship but comes off as a little monotonous, and the self-congratulation of “He Wasn’t There,” despite the song’s inspired beginning reminiscent of an old Billie Holiday record, feels a little flat. Still, Allen’s bittersweet lyrics echo long after the record has finished playing, and it’s a challenge to forget her infectious melodies. Don’t be fooled by her darling demeanor; in “It’s Not Me, It?...