Going by reputation, one would imagine Terrence Malick to be an imposing, almost mythic figure – the J.D. Salinger, Thomas Pynchon, or Bill Watterson of cinema – an artist whose personal reclusiveness and daunting legacy have, in tandem, produced a legend and folklore among cineastes and artists around the world. As the 72-year-old filmmaker sidled calmly into the Princeton Garden Theater last Friday evening – balding, grey-haired, dressed in a beige-white suit and keenly observed by an audience of dozens of fans and locals, as well as his wife, Alexandra Wallace – it was hard not to let such lofty expectations instantly disintegrate.
Malick proves incredibly humble and soft-spoken – the embodiment of southern etiquette and decorum. Hearing him speak – only when prompted, slightly stammering, and frequently in the form of intimate personal anecdotes – the reason for his legendary aversion to the public eye is both entirely clear and beautifully simple: he is a shy man,...
Malick proves incredibly humble and soft-spoken – the embodiment of southern etiquette and decorum. Hearing him speak – only when prompted, slightly stammering, and frequently in the form of intimate personal anecdotes – the reason for his legendary aversion to the public eye is both entirely clear and beautifully simple: he is a shy man,...
- 10/25/2016
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
★★☆☆☆ How important is the internet to you? Is it a cathartic escapism from the confines of reality or just somewhere you can watch an inexhaustible supply of porn? In the past few years it has come to fruition that western civilisations are vastly ignorant over the repercussions of their online activities. What's more, the influence the web has charred into its present users doesn't even muster a murmur of its potential over forthcoming generations. In UK cinemas this week, director Beeban Kidron's InRealLife (2013) reports on this new breed of web-dependency by following disturbing accounts from internet-addicted teens.
What we're presented with in InRealLife is an ambiguous collection of horror stories that showcase the frailty of the human condition in the hands of corporate computer companies. Far removed from her previous Bridget Jones sequel feature filmmaking, Kidron's sustained journalistic approach collates an unabridged cache of industry professionals, commentators and users.
What we're presented with in InRealLife is an ambiguous collection of horror stories that showcase the frailty of the human condition in the hands of corporate computer companies. Far removed from her previous Bridget Jones sequel feature filmmaking, Kidron's sustained journalistic approach collates an unabridged cache of industry professionals, commentators and users.
- 9/18/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Tags: CatfishMTVPop TheoryIMDbgender
Because of their “negative buoyancy” caused by their big fat, flat, bony heads, catfish are bottom feeders and bottom dwellers. The modern appropriation of the term in online parlance, according to the Urban Dictionary, is used to refer to a scheming romancer: a “catfish is someone who pretends to be someone they're not using Facebook or other social media to create false identities, particularly to pursue deceptive online romances.”
A bottom dweller can only successfully feed off those who, let’s just say, dwell at the bottom.
This irony, however, is lost on the Brothers Schulman in their 2010 documentary Catfish as well as their eponymous MTV spin-off series which premiered earlier this fall. A half-dozen episodes in, this show feels like a combination of the faux-thriller Scary Movie series (coincidentally one of the Schulman’s co-directed the third installment of Paranormal Activity), plus the trashiness of Jerry Springer,...
Because of their “negative buoyancy” caused by their big fat, flat, bony heads, catfish are bottom feeders and bottom dwellers. The modern appropriation of the term in online parlance, according to the Urban Dictionary, is used to refer to a scheming romancer: a “catfish is someone who pretends to be someone they're not using Facebook or other social media to create false identities, particularly to pursue deceptive online romances.”
A bottom dweller can only successfully feed off those who, let’s just say, dwell at the bottom.
This irony, however, is lost on the Brothers Schulman in their 2010 documentary Catfish as well as their eponymous MTV spin-off series which premiered earlier this fall. A half-dozen episodes in, this show feels like a combination of the faux-thriller Scary Movie series (coincidentally one of the Schulman’s co-directed the third installment of Paranormal Activity), plus the trashiness of Jerry Springer,...
- 12/31/2012
- by MBHauteWriter
- AfterEllen.com
Nintendo kicked off the 2012 E3 Expo Sunday evening, in what will likely be the first of many presentations of its new console, the Wii U. The rollout began with a video presentation by president, Satoru Iwata, shown on the Wii U Facebook page.
Like a year ago, Nintendo focused on the Wii U Controller as opposed to unveiling actual game play and the “unique gaming experiences” they’ve been promising for over a year. Iwata ensured that games and playable demos will be shown later in the week. Nintendo’s All-Access Presentation is on June 5 at 9am Pt /12Pm Et and their Software Showcase is on June 6 at 6pm Pt/ 9Pm Et.
Now, back to the coveted Wii U Controller – the finalized model was unveiled and compared to last year’s prototype.
The rolling thumb pad was ditched and instead an analog stick was put in its place. Ergonomic sculpting...
Like a year ago, Nintendo focused on the Wii U Controller as opposed to unveiling actual game play and the “unique gaming experiences” they’ve been promising for over a year. Iwata ensured that games and playable demos will be shown later in the week. Nintendo’s All-Access Presentation is on June 5 at 9am Pt /12Pm Et and their Software Showcase is on June 6 at 6pm Pt/ 9Pm Et.
Now, back to the coveted Wii U Controller – the finalized model was unveiled and compared to last year’s prototype.
The rolling thumb pad was ditched and instead an analog stick was put in its place. Ergonomic sculpting...
- 6/4/2012
- by Ernie Estrella
- BuzzFocus.com
The Nintendo generation wants to bond with their children on their old digital stomping grounds. "On the menu of things to do with your kid, it's not the best choice," says MIT Professor and Alone Together author Sherry Turkle.
Playing catch in the backyard with Dad is so 20th century. What do a baseball and mitt have on reenacting Harry Potter's epic battles in 3-D, chasing Elmo through an enchanted forest, or coordinating a 20-man raid with an international cabal of one's peers? The scrawny Nintendo generation that was picked last for dodge ball is now grown up with children of their own, and they want to bond with their little Marios and Zeldas on their old digital stomping grounds.
The multi-billion-dollar video game industry has thrown its considerable weight into the emerging parent video game market, with stalwart brands like Sesame Street leading the way. "Here's an opportunity for...
Playing catch in the backyard with Dad is so 20th century. What do a baseball and mitt have on reenacting Harry Potter's epic battles in 3-D, chasing Elmo through an enchanted forest, or coordinating a 20-man raid with an international cabal of one's peers? The scrawny Nintendo generation that was picked last for dodge ball is now grown up with children of their own, and they want to bond with their little Marios and Zeldas on their old digital stomping grounds.
The multi-billion-dollar video game industry has thrown its considerable weight into the emerging parent video game market, with stalwart brands like Sesame Street leading the way. "Here's an opportunity for...
- 6/14/2011
- by Gregory Ferenstein
- Fast Company
Anthony Weiner may insist his marriage to Huma Abedin will survive, but why did he risk it all for affairs with women he never met? Jessica Bennett offers nine scientific theories for why men cheat online.
The flirtations began three years ago-long before Anthony Weiner's marriage. But they continued after his wedding, making their way onto Twitter, Facebook, and presumably, elsewhere. There was the woman in Seattle who alleged she'd never met the man; a Jewish gal who reportedly told Weiner she gave a mean, ahem, oral service; and, allegedly, a Vegas blackjack dealer. Late Monday, we learned of a fourth source of Weiner's wandering joystick: a 26-year-old Texas single mom who says her relationship with the congressman began in April, culminating with "hundreds of messages," photos, and an interview with ABC News. "I asked him to take a picture and write 'me' on it so I would know [it was him]," the woman said.
The flirtations began three years ago-long before Anthony Weiner's marriage. But they continued after his wedding, making their way onto Twitter, Facebook, and presumably, elsewhere. There was the woman in Seattle who alleged she'd never met the man; a Jewish gal who reportedly told Weiner she gave a mean, ahem, oral service; and, allegedly, a Vegas blackjack dealer. Late Monday, we learned of a fourth source of Weiner's wandering joystick: a 26-year-old Texas single mom who says her relationship with the congressman began in April, culminating with "hundreds of messages," photos, and an interview with ABC News. "I asked him to take a picture and write 'me' on it so I would know [it was him]," the woman said.
- 6/7/2011
- by Jessica Bennett
- The Daily Beast
Frequent Twitter users have shorter relationships than people who don't use the social-networking site, OkCupid, the online dating site and Daily Beast partner, found in a survey. Jessica Bennett on why thinking in 140-character bursts is shrinking our love lives. Plus, 10 charts about sex.
In an age where 140-character tweets have replaced talking on the telephone, where job and work and social life are multitasked between 19 open browsers, the idea that our attention spans are shrinking has become pretty well accepted. Last year, two Northwestern professors documented how the 15-second TV spot had come to replace lengthier, more in-depth (and by in-depth we mean 30-second) advertisements-an effort to match attention spans of the majority of viewers. Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows, has described how modern technology has pushed so many distractions on us that it's possible we'll never have our attention spans return. "It used to be that the...
In an age where 140-character tweets have replaced talking on the telephone, where job and work and social life are multitasked between 19 open browsers, the idea that our attention spans are shrinking has become pretty well accepted. Last year, two Northwestern professors documented how the 15-second TV spot had come to replace lengthier, more in-depth (and by in-depth we mean 30-second) advertisements-an effort to match attention spans of the majority of viewers. Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows, has described how modern technology has pushed so many distractions on us that it's possible we'll never have our attention spans return. "It used to be that the...
- 4/19/2011
- by Jessica Bennett
- The Daily Beast
Jason Freeman of Farmer Direct is a passionate agricultural innovator who is making big waves with a small group of humble Canadian family farmers.
Jason Freeman's organic farmer's coop, Farmer Direct, is a tiny Canadian 63-member group, but that hasn't stopped him from doing big things. Together with Equal Exchange and others, he helped cofound North America's leading Fair Trade group, the Domestic Fair Trade Association, and now Farmer Direct is gearing up to launch one of the first farmer-owned, certified organic, Fair Trade, non-genetically modified product lines in North America.
Freeman, 41, is a self-proclaimed "city boy" from Vancouver who initially took an interest in organic farming after realizing that his McDonald's eating habits were making him sick. He adopted a completely organic lifestyle at age 25 and has been involved with farmers and farmers' groups ever since.
Fair Trade is a term often associated with developing countries, but it...
Jason Freeman's organic farmer's coop, Farmer Direct, is a tiny Canadian 63-member group, but that hasn't stopped him from doing big things. Together with Equal Exchange and others, he helped cofound North America's leading Fair Trade group, the Domestic Fair Trade Association, and now Farmer Direct is gearing up to launch one of the first farmer-owned, certified organic, Fair Trade, non-genetically modified product lines in North America.
Freeman, 41, is a self-proclaimed "city boy" from Vancouver who initially took an interest in organic farming after realizing that his McDonald's eating habits were making him sick. He adopted a completely organic lifestyle at age 25 and has been involved with farmers and farmers' groups ever since.
Fair Trade is a term often associated with developing countries, but it...
- 2/16/2011
- by Jenara Nerenberg
- Fast Company
Welcome to No Fact Zone’s weekly roundup of cultural references on The Colbert Report. From Darcy to Danger Mouse, String Theory to Shakespeare, we’ve got the keys to this week’s obscure, oddball, and occasionally obscene cultural shout-outs (hey!)
Nǐ hǎo Zoners! What a week! It’s been a little chilly here in the south, luckily I have a homemade Coma Cozy to keep me warm and sedentary – although it does make typing a little difficult. All of the guests this week were great, but I especially enjoyed Cornel West. He and Stephen have great rapport, and he gave us some great things to think about. The cultural references were also irreverent. In fact, I was going to put in a reference to Ben Wa balls until I was reminded that this is a family friendly blog. So the Black Swan bit is out too. Tell me Zoners,...
Nǐ hǎo Zoners! What a week! It’s been a little chilly here in the south, luckily I have a homemade Coma Cozy to keep me warm and sedentary – although it does make typing a little difficult. All of the guests this week were great, but I especially enjoyed Cornel West. He and Stephen have great rapport, and he gave us some great things to think about. The cultural references were also irreverent. In fact, I was going to put in a reference to Ben Wa balls until I was reminded that this is a family friendly blog. So the Black Swan bit is out too. Tell me Zoners,...
- 1/24/2011
- by Toad
- No Fact Zone
Episode Number: 7009 (January 17, 2011)
Guests: Sherry Turkle
Segments: Martin Luther King Jr. Day Sales, The Word – Run for Your Life, Art Stephen Up Challenge – Wade Hampton
Videos: Monday, January 17, 2011
I’ve been doing episode guides for so long that it’s virtually impossible for me not to type while I watch the show. So I threw in a few of the quotes that really made me laugh tonight. The takes on sales slogans for Mlk day sales made me seriously laugh. Having the legislators who are anti-gun control support the amendment to have a “safety zone” around legislators seemed like the height of hypocrisy to me. The reaction of the audience to Wade Hampton’s art of “Um … okay?” seemed to be the reaction of the day, but after he explained the picture, it was a bit cooler. I do like the concept of featuring a different portrait every week. I...
Guests: Sherry Turkle
Segments: Martin Luther King Jr. Day Sales, The Word – Run for Your Life, Art Stephen Up Challenge – Wade Hampton
Videos: Monday, January 17, 2011
I’ve been doing episode guides for so long that it’s virtually impossible for me not to type while I watch the show. So I threw in a few of the quotes that really made me laugh tonight. The takes on sales slogans for Mlk day sales made me seriously laugh. Having the legislators who are anti-gun control support the amendment to have a “safety zone” around legislators seemed like the height of hypocrisy to me. The reaction of the audience to Wade Hampton’s art of “Um … okay?” seemed to be the reaction of the day, but after he explained the picture, it was a bit cooler. I do like the concept of featuring a different portrait every week. I...
- 1/18/2011
- by DB
- No Fact Zone
Hello, Zoners! Welcome to a new week of wonderfulness.There’s a lot of politics coming to the ‘Colbert Report’, wth Cornel West, Ron Reagan, and Chris Matthews all slated to visit; Ms. Turkle will bring science, psychology, and technology to the mix and she is the sole guest never to have previously appeared on either The Daily Show or the Report. I had fun looking back at the old videos, and I hope you will too.
January 17th: Sherry Turkle
How does our online communication affect the way we relate to each other in real life? Are today’s youngsters losing the ability to deal with each other face to face? How can living in a cyberworld help and harm us? Those are just a few of the questions tacked by eminent sociologist and author Sherry Turkle. Turkle, the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT,...
January 17th: Sherry Turkle
How does our online communication affect the way we relate to each other in real life? Are today’s youngsters losing the ability to deal with each other face to face? How can living in a cyberworld help and harm us? Those are just a few of the questions tacked by eminent sociologist and author Sherry Turkle. Turkle, the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT,...
- 1/18/2011
- by Karenatasha
- No Fact Zone
I'd like to thank all of you who said nice things on Thursday when I told the story of my broken pinkie and thank even more those of you who offered me pain killers. Really, it doesn't hurt that badly most of the time. If I don't think about it. Or move that side of my left hand. Anyway, what's important is that after all the excitement of the Golden Globes I am back to tell you about what boring, ordinary TV you can watch alone with no one to live chat with. I have such an awesome job. Here's your Monday night TV:
8:00 Pm: "Antiques Roadshow" on PBS
"The Bachelor" on ABC
"The Bad Girls Club" on Oxygen
"Chuck" on NBC
"Enough Already with Peter Walsh" on Own
"House" on Fox
"How I Met Your Mother" on CBS. Hopefully this episode won't emotionally destroy you.
"Pretty Little Liars...
8:00 Pm: "Antiques Roadshow" on PBS
"The Bachelor" on ABC
"The Bad Girls Club" on Oxygen
"Chuck" on NBC
"Enough Already with Peter Walsh" on Own
"House" on Fox
"How I Met Your Mother" on CBS. Hopefully this episode won't emotionally destroy you.
"Pretty Little Liars...
- 1/18/2011
- by Intern Rusty
Here's "Extra's" roundup of talk show guests for the week of Jan. 17 - 21, including Seth Rogen on "Ellen" and Betty White stopping by "The View." Natalie Portman stays up late for "Conan," and Cameron Diaz checks-in at the "Lopez Tonight."
Daytime
"The Ellen DeGeneres Show"
Mon 1/17: Seth Rogen, Deena Nicole Cortese, Bruno Mars
Tues 1/18: Jennifer Lopez, Matt Bomer
Wed 1/19: Natalie Portman, Eric Ross
Thurs 1/20: Amy Poehler
Fri 1/21: Dr. Drew Pinsky...
Daytime
"The Ellen DeGeneres Show"
Mon 1/17: Seth Rogen, Deena Nicole Cortese, Bruno Mars
Tues 1/18: Jennifer Lopez, Matt Bomer
Wed 1/19: Natalie Portman, Eric Ross
Thurs 1/20: Amy Poehler
Fri 1/21: Dr. Drew Pinsky...
- 1/16/2011
- Extra
In her new book, an MIT professor shares her ambivalence about the overuses of technology, which, she writes, "proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies."
Sherry Turkle, has been an ethnographer of our technological world for three decades, hosted all the while at one of its epicenters: MIT. A professor of the social studies of science and technology there, she also heads up its Initiative on Technology and Self. Her new book, Alone Together, completes a trilogy of investigations into the ways humans interact with technology. It can be, at times, a grim read. Fast Company spoke recently with Turkle about connecting, solitude, and how that compulsion to always have your BlackBerry on might actually be hurting your company's bottom line.
I didn't realize MIT hired Luddites.
Well, I'm no Luddite. I think this book is not the book of a Luddite. This is the book of someone deeply appreciative of technology,...
Sherry Turkle, has been an ethnographer of our technological world for three decades, hosted all the while at one of its epicenters: MIT. A professor of the social studies of science and technology there, she also heads up its Initiative on Technology and Self. Her new book, Alone Together, completes a trilogy of investigations into the ways humans interact with technology. It can be, at times, a grim read. Fast Company spoke recently with Turkle about connecting, solitude, and how that compulsion to always have your BlackBerry on might actually be hurting your company's bottom line.
I didn't realize MIT hired Luddites.
Well, I'm no Luddite. I think this book is not the book of a Luddite. This is the book of someone deeply appreciative of technology,...
- 1/13/2011
- by David Zax
- Fast Company
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