Category: Art Theory
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From a short story on Jonah
Allow me to get a little Dostoevsky on you for a minute: The men, Jonah saw, were trapped too … unthinking, unable to understand, or ask, “Why do we kill each other? Why do we steal women from their villages? Why do we hate? Why do we not love? Why do we not use our…
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The truth-telling power of fairy-tale
(First of all, if you don’t know about Gobelins, consider this an introduction. Gobelins, reader, reader, Gobelins — a French animation school that’s putting out some of the most consistently beautiful and inspiring short films I’ve seen over the past few years.) Now, as to the film above — if I told you, in facts,…
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For want of a hero, 2012 box office revenue was lost
I recently heard it argued that movie attendance is down not only because of the economy, but because of the absence of admirable heroes in film. Then I saw Screen Rant’s story about how ticket sales are the lowest they’ve been since tracking started in 1993. The only saving graces for the box office, Screen…
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People Aren’t Products: a love letter to my millennial generation
If you’re a professional, your service is a product. Go ahead and sell that. You need to, in order to stay alive. But if you have ever looked at yourself in the mirror and asked, without irony, “What’s my personal brand?†then stop—you’re at the edge of a cliff. The cliff is too high for…