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...Real Girl, which begins as a standard indie study of the sympathetic oddball, soon reveals itself as a gentle comedy of community. Prodded by the town doctor (Patricia Clarkson), Gus and his pregnant wife Karin (Emily Mortimer) figure out that for Lars, Bianca is not a sex object but a love object--an outlet for the tenderness he has never been able to express and that his indulgent friends are thrilled to see bloom. Most movies celebrate the journey to another place. Lars pursues the counterargument--that most of us are defined by our past; we are where...
Maybe it's not so hard to connect Eliasson at 17-contorting his reflection into a kinetic art object-with Eliasson at 40, producing works that require you to jump in and take part in them, to see but also to do. That's the secret of one of the most captivating pieces in the big Eliasson retrospective, organized by Madeleine Grynsztejn, now at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). Beauty consists of a curtain of mist penetrated by a spotlight to produce a floating rainbow wall. The beckoning illusion looks slightly different to each viewer depending...
...surprising, giving their authoritarian nature that antismoking reformers might object to children seeing images of heavy-smoking leaders like Winston Churchill or Franklin Roosevelt, but would have no qualms about youngsters being exposed to photos of tobacco-hating Adolf Hitler...
...computer that runs the Lucky Camera saves those rare, perfect images and discards the rest. And because a single 1?20-second exposure of a faint celestial object is almost invisible, the computer combines the good images electronically, ultimately producing a usable...
...concept behind the detector, which is known, cutely, as the Lucky Camera, is very simple: the earth's roiling atmosphere acts as a distorting lens, which changes moment by moment as pockets of warmer or cooler air constantly pass in front of a given object. That's why stars twinkle and why ground-based telescopes can be only so sharp. The stars twinkle for the Lucky Camera too. But it snaps 20 images every second, and every so often one of those images, purely by chance, will be taken through a calm patch of sky--much as a broken clock...