8/18/2023 0 Comments Pastel yellow aestheticThe opening shot, therefore, combines no less than five features: a head-on camera angle, tableau shot, symmetrical (centred) framing, a top (birds-eye) view and a still camera. The film opens with a static symmetrical tableau shot of a library book (called The Royal Tenenbaums) which is filmed from overhead (a birds-eye view), with the camera pointing directly down on the library counter. These tableau images are further strengthened by a static camera and by centred framing (the characters are positioned in the middle of the frame), which add symmetry and stillness to these shots.Īnderson creates different combinations of these tableaus. Here the camera takes the place of the mirror, which means that these characters look directly into the camera. The characters are all introduced while looking into mirrors. Take the sequence where Anderson introduces us to his “cast of characters (22 years later)” (as the title card reads). Such images are immediately recognisable because they create a striking composition and a dramatic effect. This film is notable for its consistent use of tableau shots, where characters are formally arranged in the same plane facing the viewer. His typical combination of stylistic traits first emerged in his third feature film, The Royal Tenenbaums (2001). montage sequence with a soundtrack (especially rock or quirky instrumental music)īut to imitate Wes Anderson, you need to combine these ingredients in the right quantities.still camera or foregrounded camera movement.symmetrical framing (including centred framing).Numerous film scholars have identified the major features (ingredients) of Anderson’s style. When baking a cake, simply listing a few ingredients isn’t enough, the correct quantity of each is needed. Thinking of Anderson’s aesthetic in terms of a combination of features makes his style analogous to a recipe. The Wes Anderson style these media-savvy users are attempting to recreate is an elusive aesthetic that only emerges from a specific combination of features. But what we see with the current slew of pastiches is that they aren’t all successful. With a new film on the way, Asteroid City, social media is now sure to be flooded with more attempts at Anderson mimicry. This was started by Ava Williams, who posted a video of a train journey on TikTok with the line “You better not be acting like you’re in a Wes Anderson film when I get there”. In recent months, a new trend has sprung up on social media where people are romanticising the everyday in the style of Anderson’s films. For instance, a Milanese metro train is Andersonian in its symmetrical design, pastel blue walls and bright yellow handrails. The Instagram page Accidentally Wes Anderson, which was founded in 2017, became incredibly popular for its photographs of real-life places that coincidentally fit the aesthetics of a Wes Anderson film. This visual-led approach to cinema has spawned many fans who seek out the Anderson look everywhere in life. This approach began for Anderson the moment he had Margot (Gwyneth Paltrow) step off the Green Line bus in his third film The Royal Tenenbaums (2001). Wes Anderson’s films can often be boiled down to a single striking image. High mental healthcare costs are pushing Indian families into poverty.‘I’m a small man but my music is huge’: Wasifuddin Dagar on the AR Rahman plagiarism row.‘Everyone is frightened’: Muslims in Uttarakhand’s Purola recount a campaign to hound them out.Kathmandu mayor threatens to ban Hindi films because of claim about Sita in ‘Adipurush’.Indore police officer shunted out for baton charging Bajrang Dal members.‘Extraction 2’ review: Forget the plot and gape at the action.Arrested, acquitted: Jigna Vora recounts her trauma after being accused in journalist J Dey’s murder.How former Chief Election Commissioner TN Seshan began changing the way elections are held in India.As China insists it will name the next Dalai Lama, what’s at stake for Tibetan Buddhism?.Transformation of the goddess and clay: Naveen Kishore’s photos capture hues of conflict.Watch: Huge swarm of bees takes over Times Square in New York City before being rescued by beekeeper. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘Adipurush’ review: Visual effects overwhelm Ramayana adaptation.
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Cover the pot and bring the water to a boil. ![]() Place a steamer basket or insert in a large pot and add just enough water that it does not hit the bottom of the basket. To steam asparagus, wash the spears and snap off the woody bottoms. Then steamed asparagus graduates from bland to captivating. Unless you have a wonderful sauce or dressing at the ready to drizzle on it right after your stalks leave the steamer pot. Steaming is the easiest way to cook asparagus, but also the blandest. ![]() Once cooked, it can be eaten hot, cold or at room temperature. Asparagus is best when it is cooked just enough so that it still has some resistance when you bite it and its green hue hits a vivid peak. Overcooked asparagus is almost criminal, but raw asparagus isn't right either. It would be fair to say I consume enough asparagus every year to get sick of it, but it's more truthful to say that I never do. We eat asparagus almost every night for a month or so, until the perennial plants shoot up to more than 5 feet tall, and by late June, fill out to become a pretty, feathery hedgerow that I love except for one reason: it blocks the view of the rest of the garden. This is how I know that the local asparagus harvest is here. Every day, more spears break ground, and the ones that sprouted earlier are getting taller. The southern view from our dining room hits straight onto our asparagus bed, and right now, it's a hotbed of growth. 8/17/2023 0 Comments Pixie red frost![]()
Second, Hercules’s most famous adventure is his twelve labours. As it stands, the moral of the film is, “Your father will love you more if you’re a success.” He’d be acting selflessly for the sake of righteousness. He wouldn’t be striving to be a hero just to impress his almighty father. Had Hercules been one of the hundreds of Zeus’s progeny, he would see the futility in his endeavors. Disney disavows every one of Hercules’s stepsiblings, insisting he was Zeus’s only child. To put it gently, he romanced a number of women, both goddess and human. ![]() Elements that radically alter the story’s connection to Greek mythology, affecting the film for the worse.įirst, Zeus has a reputation in Greek Mythology as an insatiable philanderer. There are four dramatic alterations of the Hercules/Heracles/Herakles myth that cannot be ignored. Since this story is set in Greece, he should rightfully be called “Heracles” or “Herakles.”īut we must address some important changes. There’s not even time to explain how “Hercules” is the characters name in Roman mythology. There’s no time to mention how Pegasus was born not from puffy clouds, but from the blood of the slain Medusa. There’s no time to point out how there were nine Muses, not five. There’s no time to bring up how the Fates have been conflated with the Graeae. There’s no time to discuss how Philoctetes isn’t supposed to be a satyr. Everything is different, and we don’t have time to talk about every little detail. To say Disney altered the Hercules myth is an understatement. One with no resemblance to the original myth except for character names and a setting on the Aegean. ![]() If you’ve been given implicit permission to change one aspect, what stops you from changing two? If two are acceptable, why can’t you change four? If you’re changing four things, why not change eight? Pretty soon you’ve created an entirely unique story. Adapting a Greek myth accurately would result in a hard R-rating, minimum.Įvery adaptation sanitizes things. Humans and immortals are subjected to cruelty, devastation, scorn, bodily violation, and fates worse than death. They only make sequels on rare occasions, and it would be presumptuous (and fiscally risky) to anticipate a sequel before the first script is written.Ī primary issue is, Greek mythology, despite its immortal appeal, is not suitable for children. Hercules would need to contain anything an audience would ever want from a movie based on Greek mythology.ĭisney Animation doesn’t make franchises Disney Animation is the franchise. Now they were telling one story from Greek mythology, a library larger than any yet covered. They couldn’t recycle the same characters.ĭisney made one movie about Arthurian legend. Disney couldn’t keep revisiting the same setting. The only question is, which one? They couldn’t make multiple films about Greek myths. It stands to reason Disney would, sooner or later, choose to adapt a story from Greek mythology. Their characters, creatures, and legends live immortally. The epic works of Homer, Sophocles, Euripides, Hesiod, and others have survived thousands of years. ![]() In the world of storytelling, there’s no greater success than the works of Greek mythology. 8/17/2023 0 Comments Kiwix files list![]() They also tend to treat users as consumers and encourage that mindset. On the other hand, most ecosystems are closed or proprietary, making software development pretty expensive. It has also allowed for new kinds of softwares and features. In general, I have mixed feelings about the smartphone/tablet ecosystem: On the one hand, it has done a lot to make computers and internet access more affordable to people. How has this changed the landscape and the way you view of offline access? How do you see these devices impacting the future of educational resources? Smartphones have transformed the way people can access the internet, and recently you started building packaged apps for Wikimed. ![]() For the past 10 years, and now more than ever, they have joined and done what needed to be done so that free knowledge is available to all. I think in particular about these people who travel, often in really precarious conditions, from school to school to install Wikipedia offline.Īnother really dominant feeling I have is my gratefulness to the volunteers who make the project so lively. I don’t know if I have a “best surprise ever” to tell… but I’m often impressed by the ingenuity and the resilience of our users. What’s been the biggest surprise for you over the years? Our next Big Dream, therefore, is to consolidate our solutions and be more efficient in bringing them to people who really need it. But there still are too many folks out there who don’t know about the technology or can’t access it. Ten years ago, the dream was to create a technology to bring Wikipedia to people without Internet access. Our budget, while still ridiculously low, has also increased and allows us to pay for services that are sorely needed to grow in scale. We now have a small and very motivated team of volunteers with a huge array of skills. On the Kiwix side, the technology has changed a lot and the project has become a lot stronger. That’s not something we’d expected, and it forces us to constantly rethink offline access. At the same time, Internet censorship has increased. Around us, a lot more people now have broadband access, but 4 billion remain unconnected. What can you do now that wasn’t possible when you started Kiwix?Įngelhart: A lot has changed, indeed. You can also read the other interviews in this series, including a chat with Jeremy Schwartz of World Possible.Īnne Gomez: A lot has changed in a decade. Anne and Emmanuel chatted about how video and smart phones are changing the offline landscape-and where Kiwix plans to go from here. In addition to Wikimedia content, Kiwix now contains TED talks, the Stack Exchange websites, all of Project Gutenberg, and many YouTube educational channels. zim files, as has other free content, such as Wikisource, Wiktionary and Wikivoyage.” Since Kiwix was released in 2007, dozens of languages of Wikipedia have been made available as. zim file that can be read by the special Kiwix browser. Īs we noted in a 2014 profile of Kiwix, the software “ uses all of Wikipedia’s content through the Parsoid wiki parser to package articles into an open source. Still, it’s perhaps best known for its distribution of entire copies of Wikipedia in areas of low bandwidth, like Cuba. In the eleven years since being invented, a number of organizations have utilized it, including World Possible and Internet in a Box. In her first conversation for the Wikimedia Blog, Anne chats with Emmanuel Engelhart (aka “Kelson”), a developer who works on Kiwix, an open source software which allows users to download web content for offline reading. Over the coming months, Anne will be interviewing people who work to remove access barriers for people across the world. One of her areas of interest is offline access, as she works with the New Readers team to improve the way people who have limited or infrequent access to the Internet can access free and open knowledge. Senior Program Manager Anne Gomez leads the New Readers initiative, where she works on ways to better understand barriers that prevent people around the world from accessing information online. 8/17/2023 0 Comments Automotive repair invoiceData is inaccurate and needs to be audited and cleaned up.Do you know what you have in stock right now? Will the parts be the same price if you have to order them? 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If you leave an item off an invoice and you try to collect it later, most customers will balk and may refuse to pay. If your contact list isn’t in order, sending out invoices or sending invoices to collections can become a mess. Whether you’re working with a new customer or one of your regulars, taking down information by hand and then typing it into a spreadsheet introduces the risk of misspelling names and emails or writing down the wrong information. Customer setup misses crucial contact info or gets duplicated.Signs that your team is struggling to keep up with invoices: If you aren’t using a single, comprehensive system, there’s a good chance details will be incorrectly copied or left out. The same holds true if you’re using multiple software programs to juggle records at your shop to put together information for invoices. Paper means lots of copies, transposition of information, and a high probability of making mistakes. 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