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Much of Cloverfield's visceral force comes from its use of handheld cameras. By the time Blair Witch was made, unstabilized amateur footage was already visual shorthand for disaster, the vernacular of the apocalypse?think of the Zapruder film or the footage of Rodney King being beaten. And that was long before Sept. 11 and YouTube. Grainy, unstabilized footage gives us a sense that what we're watching is real?that the hand brake is off, that we won't be protected by the bland, safe conventions of a studio movie. "I felt like there...
...street. It becomes sort of clear that this is some kind of monster movie, but hot damn, they tease us like teasing is going out of style. We don’t even get hints or silhouettes of the thing causing all the carnage. It’s just handheld shots from people who are as confused as we are, but in significantly more danger than we are. “Whatever it is, it’s winning,” a soldier barks out. Well, whatever it is, it’s giving me a fear-boner. Which...
...private investors are also jockeying for a piece of the action. "There's definitely a feeding frenzy going on," says Haresco. "Venture capitalists are tripping over themselves looking for consumer products in this area." Last month, for example, Therative, the San Francisco-based maker of ThermaClear, a battery-powered, handheld antiacne device ($150, with a $20 replaceable tip), announced it had secured $14 million in venture-capital funding. "It's amazing what people are willing to spend to do the whole vanity thing," says Mark Foley, managing director of RWI Ventures, one of Therative's investors. Another enticing reason...
...honoring graduates as varied as Robert S. McNamara, the former Secretary of Defense, and Orin C. Smith, the president and CEO of Starbucks Coffee Co. Zobel was one of five Business School graduates to receive the award this year. The other four were Donna L. Dubinsky, who helped pioneer handheld computers; A. Malachi Mixon III ’62, who heads the world’s leading maker of home medical equipment; Sir Martin S. Sorrell, a leading advertising executive; and Hansjörg Wyss, chairman of a global medical device company...
...Arun Sarin implored his colleagues to improve cellular networks' ability to provide rapid and easy Internet access, otherwise a new wireless technology called WiMAX could take over. WiMAX doesn't require phone handsets or cellular networks. It can deliver fast Net connections over long distances directly to computers or handheld devices. "If we don't build our broadband networks we will have this opportunity taken away from us," Sarin warned...