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...Nemo, WALL-E) is the clear avatar of the Walt Disney style, stressing sympathetic characters and seamless storytelling. DreamWorks (the Shrek trilogy, Shark Tale) updates the dazzle and impudence of the Warner Bros. cartoon studio of the '30s, '40s and '50s - a faster pace, lots of sight gags and pop-culture allusions; its movies tend toward anarchy but land in vaudeville. DreamWorks is contemporary, Pixar timeless. Both work. (See the 100 best albums, movies, TV shows and novels of all time...
...pair of Lichtensteins, in the form of sneakers, walked past me in Harvard Square. Just like that. No warning, no explanation, just “Whaam!” “Pow!” “Pop!” and there it was: art and fashion (and the philosophical ponderings of the intersection between the two) thrust upon me by a pair of kicks. With the conference celebrating Andy Warhol’s legacy at the Sackler this past weekend and Barack Obama’s image superimposed on t-shirts and posters across campus, this...
...something in the water of the British Isles that anyone even half-familiar with rock music is aware of—many have suffered through haggis and gloomy weather for just a taste of it. The Beatles used it to make their afternoon tea and to found Brit Pop; U2 used it to water the roots of “The Joshua Tree” and make Irish rock relevant. Many others have come and gone since then and enjoyed their 15 minutes on the anti-oasis in the North Sea.Until recently, Scotland has had little to speak of save...
...course, makes no claim to be a serious and artistic venture like “Gears of War,” but this doesn’t change the fact that the song represents a low point in video game music, similar to the often intolerable, sugary-sweet pop that comprised the soundtracks to Sega’s “Sonic Adventure” games back in the late 90s and early...
...rise of guitar- and rhythm-based games was similarly hampered by awful music. “Elite Beat Agents,” a 2006 Nintendo DS game that involved tapping and dragging a stylus on the screen in rhythm with pop songs, had surprisingly addictive gameplay but suffered from both awful musical selections and the fact that only cover versions were used. (Trust me, “Sk8er Boi” was bad enough when just Avril was singing it.) The first “Guitar Hero” games were similarly plagued by their inability to use officially licensed...