Word: visual
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Info passes you by and its hard to keep upwith things. I had been interested in [visual andenvironmental studies], but then I found out youhad to take a course first year. By that time itwas too late and I would have been a year behind.Advising just isn't very good," he says...
Matthew Ross claims he chose Harvard mainly out of "adolescent confusion" but found a reason to stay when he joined the Visual and Environmental Studies department. Ross adds that even beyond VES classes, Harvard is instructive to a filmmaker in that "you have to put up with a lot of crap at Harvard. I think in a lot of ways it's a really challenging school emotionally and socially." Ross has paid his dues and his reward, a senior film "Here Comes Your Man," named after a Pixies song, chronicles the end of a relationship. In order to finish...
...often neglected side of Harvard's world of undercover observation is non-visual apprehension: what we don't see may be the most interesting action. Literally, that is. Harvard's architects seem to have had a special bias towards the connecting fire door; great for fires, but also an amazing audio window into the lives of neighbors...
...wait for the school bus at the beginning of most episodes. The sign, one of those iconic warnings to drivers that children are at play, shows a little girl and boy running hand in hand. This is the kind of vernacular image that Parker and Stone, like so many visual artists, love to use, and here it quietly sounds the notes of childhood and danger, two subjects at the heart of South Park. Just ask Kenny...
...this overwhelming visual imagery cloud the musical promise of the songs Unwound chose to play from their Kill Rock Stars arsenal. At first, the music suffered from its surface awkwardness and appeared to have no direction, no substance, no reason. But Unwound wouldn't let you leave the room without closing up the gaps in the musical context. A dissonant run-on melody may have dragged out interminably and lost your attention or the grinding repetitiveness of a discordant thrash tune could have sent your mind a flitter, but Unwound always successfully brought the listener back into their sonically disturbing...