Word: lightful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...photographs then move into a happier, more light-hearted section that reveal Norfleet's humor. "Toys" is a charming (well, as charming as beetles really can be) whimsical photograph of three insects flying kites. (The kites are also other insects, which suggests darker connotations to "having fun.") The tension throughout the book between terrestrial and aerial insects is successfully addressed in this photograph through the device of the kite's string, which acts as a unifying force between the sky and the sand...
...collection ends with a group of photographs that are more satirical than light-hearted or abrasive, as in "Real Estate," a photograph that depicts three insects hanging onto three separate branches stuck into three separate, walled-off areas of plots of land. In "Heroes," three insects stand atop white platforms of varying heights, their arms outstretched in a victory pose, while in "ship of fools," three insects look out into the distance from the bow of an oyster shell, while another tires to pull a drowning companion aboard...
...Norfleet is simultaneously poking fun at both the post-modernists and herself. But she is also creating a striking contrast between the fiery imagery of the sunset and her final piece, "Untitled," where Norfleet's insects appear embedded in a glacier, with only a few appendages exposed to the light...
Those of you with internet access probably have read the blurbs on the Internet Movie Database about Ewan McGregor making light saber-esque buzzing noises during his battle scenes and about Natalie Portman's having to redub all her lines in postproduction because the pitch of her voice had changed during shooting...
...amazing thing is that Lucas found an audience for his adolescent fantasies put to life, an audience bigger than any ever seen before by a movie studio. Suddenly, corporate mouths began to water. Lucas' space epic had brought to light a mass of consumers hitherto untouched (at least as a group) by American businesses: consumers who wanted to be treated like kids. Popular culture would never be the same...