Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mescaline, a just-milder-than-acid hallucinogen which is usually sold in the form of a blue pill. Visual senses become distorted with mescaline, facial muscles contract easily, and the user feels "really confident," often feeling that "everything's funny...
Half the fun of Star Wars comes from taking in all those special effects. Although the technology never approaches the rarefied levels of visual fireworks achieved in 2001: A Space Odyssey, special photographic effects supervisor John Dykstra has pieced together an impressive collection of robots, futuristic weaponry and space age interior sets that will keep the eye titillated while the intellectual faculties take five. The spellbinding dogfight and final assault on the Empire's central nervous system that wind up Star Wars are particularly noteworthy for the way that Lucas so easily integrates the gimmickry into the climax...
Most of the other presidents feel the rules are unnecessary because their film societies are not in direct competition with the Cambridge theaters. Martha Richardson of the Harvard Audio-Visual department also remarked that when people want a professional showing, they go to a professional theater and not a dining hall...
...paintings are about the upper extreme of recognizability - the point at which a high frequency of visual information almost drowns one's reading of a face as a face - Close's preliminary drawings are about the lower extreme...
Computer analysis of photographs might press the inquiry further, but Close is restrained by his desire to make drawings rather than diagrams. The ink-drawn squares, each with its precise ration of diagonal shading, give one a visual effect that belongs to the same family - though not the same order of majestic intensity - as Seurat's chalk drawings; the spots of pastel in the stud ies for Linda are distributed with a dogged aesthetic zeal that recalls Signac...