Word: linearized
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...lecture the night before midterms. Scientific hypothesizing and experimentation fill the arduous first 30 minutes of the film, while poorly delivered banter between friends growing progressively more suspicious of one another fill the next half hour. The grand climax of the dizzying film is a fast-paced non-linear sequence of frames and voiceover trying to explain what has just bored the audience for the past hour...
...works. The print really is a method of art production all its own. The works made à partir de the paintings are not mere copies of them: derivation is what is possible. Not duplication, but dissemination. The Ingres is recast in a world of matrices, etched linear lines, solid, dashed or dotted, with a constant and deliberate geometrical pattern by which effects of depth and texture are achieved. The color of the paint may be lost, but something else is gained...
...contemporary art's most arresting time travelers. In a zippy new monograph on the artist to be published next week (Thames & Hudson; 112 pages), Justin Paton likens Swallow to a hobby-shop Proust. "There's a sense in which Ricky's career looks less and less like a linear progression from one object to the next," says the curator of contemporary art at New Zealand's Dunedin Public Art Gallery. "It's much more like some circle of time, because he's always monkeying with chronology in interesting ways...
...everyone that on this extremity of land, there is little room to escape. "What we've managed to do is to evacuate a lot of people into the path of a hurricane," said a Tampa official. Governor Jeb Bush conceded the limitations of technology: "God doesn't follow the linear directions of computer models...
They ground a plot that's full of logical inconsistencies and does not have quite enough completely compelling incidents to sustain its considerable length. But against these complaints you have to set the linear minimalism of its structure and its blessedly low-tech manner. This is a movie where the cops interrupt the action to pull over the cab for a minor infraction; where, best of all, LOW BATT starts flashing on the cell phone at a crucial moment. In other words, this is a movie that manages somehow to fuse ordinary reality and more or less believable fantasy...