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...comprised of two projectors with identical film strips shown out of sync by one or 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...
...paints landscapes and houses, the outside and inside of the world where man lives. Across these carefully recorded scenes, he shows the track, the flicker, the expression of life, even if the living object has long since departed-the print of a heron on the sand, the feeling that a crow flew by, the sea shells lined up in an empty room on a woman's whim. Millions are touched by these intimations, faint but intense; they are touched in their sense of mortality, and they count Andrew Wyeth an incomparable painter...
...teaching the New York Times how to present photography on the Internet as early as 1994. He views digital photography as a natural evolution of the form, paralleling the evolution of science itself, using cloning and DNA manipulation as examples of how, "Cause and effect, even life and death, flicker nostalgically in the rearview mirror that is now the twentieth century...
...Poisonings:This one has a flicker of hope about it, since poison-control centers around the world field millions of calls per day and resolve most poisonings over the phone. Still, a lot of lives are lost - 45,000 per year, or 123 per day. Medicines both prescription and over-the-counter, household products, pesticides and the paraffin burned in some stoves and lamps are the biggest killers. Not surprisingly, kids under 1 year old - particularly those in low- and middle-income countries - are at the greatest risk. It's no surprise either that the most effective fixes include simply...
...Anacostia Senior High School in Washington. He was determined to go to college, and he figured that knowing Word was a prerequisite. But on a good day, only six of the school's 14 computers worked. He never knew which ones until he sat down and searched for a flicker of life on the screen. "It was like Russian roulette," says Rhodes, a tall young man with an older man's steady gaze. If he picked the wrong computer, the teacher would give him a handout. He would spend the rest of the period learning to use Microsoft Word with...