I’m looking for the “Chaste Subjects” reading on the blog and not seeing it. Am I being a moron? Is anyone else finding it?
Original post by jordan
This isn’t exactly directly related to anything discussed in class, but as it is something internet-related, I’m going to claim relevance. I was going through a long, unfruitful, and highly convoluted process to track down my ancestry (namely, which physical traits originated in which countries) involving Google Image Search and came across this site. Here’s an excerpt:
“Finding a Czech wife
Every day we meet men from various parts of the world who are looking for a wife, a women for life, in the countries of Eastern Europe. They are often tired and even disgusted by the manner the women in their home country behave. That is why they have begun to search their bride in Eastern Europe. We have many times heard quite unbelievable stories and experience of men, our customers, with women from Western Europe and the USA. Stories of how women in their countries are mostly after money, their […]
Original post by arynna
I’ve been perused Newsvine. The “Leaderboard” seemed to be a good place to see what other Newsviners like to read. One particular opinional, The Revolution Will Not Be Socialized — The Homogenization of Social Media by Killfile, caught my full attention.
Some see Web 2.0 socialization as nothing but a mindless faux pas, a metropolis for the masses to win their fifteen kilobytes of fame. Killfile makes a cogent argument for the case with a powerful clinch.
In seeking to be truly democratic, these networks relegate themselves to a perpetuity of side-line status, never serious or significant enough to eclipse edited, moderated, and regimented media for more than a fleeting moment.
This is precisely the reason why it is so important to develop a new system of online communication. In its present stage, the internet nearly in anarchy. Anything is utterable. One could even get away with libel in most situations. Don’t get me wrong, though; the nature of open online socialization allows […]
Original post by humanisticmystic
Alright, I’m promising myself this is the last video clip I’ll post. It’s just that when we were talking about the similarities between the arm-chopping scenes in Yojimbo and Star Wars, this clip is the first thing that popped into my head. It’s too funny not to post. Seriously. Watch it.
For those who like it, there is a whole slew of other ones like it here. Caution: this stuff is High-Octane Dork Fuel.
Original post by crain2mn
As I watched Yojimbo the other day, I couldn’t shake the feeling that I had seen its style of humor somewhere before. It wasn’t until I was driving home after class that it hit me: it’s the exact same style of humor as is in the movie Army of Darkness.
What’s interesting about this style of humor is that it is more than just scene after scene of severed limbs and pools of blood. Like most films, they both feature a core-group of characters that the viewer is supposed to care about. Were this not the case, there would be no one (save perhaps the protagonist) with whom the audience could really connect.
In both films, the ability to elicit a humorous response from the violence hinges on the director’s ability to convince the audience that those being killed are utterly devoid of value.
In Yojimbo this is accomplished by depicting […]
Original post by crain2mn
As I watched Yojimbo the other day, I couldn’t shake the feeling that I had seen its style of humor somewhere before. It wasn’t until I was driving home after class that it hit me: it’s the exact same style of humor as is in the movie Army of Darkness.
What’s interesting about this style of humor is that it is more than just scene after scene of severed limbs and pools of blood. Like most films, they both feature a core-group of characters that the viewer is supposed to care about. Were this not the case, there would be no one (save perhaps the protagonist) with whom the audience could really connect.
In both films, the ability to elicit a humorous response from the violence hinges on the director’s ability to convince the audience that those being killed are utterly devoid of value.
In Yojimbo this is accomplished by depicting […]
Original post by crain2mn
Once again, another webgem has surfaced. Newsvine is a completely user-controlled news website. It encompasses many of the characteristics of a self-efficiency that I am interested in studying, especially those of bound structure social networking. Newsvine works like a blog in that users create a profile and post an entry. In this case, entries are expected to function like news articles rather than personal logging. Right now what interests me most with regard to the class is the system used for developing reputation, which focuses on how many users “follow” one another rather than how users arbitrarily “rate” one another. Very interesting stuff.
 You can follow my Newsvine activity at http://mooreblogs.newsvine.com or you can subscribe to my RSS. Alongside this, I will be exploring Urbis as well. I already own an Urbis account, but it will be interesting to study the website under a new frame of thought.
Original post by humanisticmystic
Useless Body Parts
Which body parts are useless? Go look, it’s actually pretty entertaining… well to me it is.
Original post by Amanda
After today’s class I naturally ran back home and checked out IMDB for some references of film noir. I never really got anything too good, but then I got to thinking of current pop culture references to 50’s-detective-sherlock-holmesy type icons (whew!) and came to a sort of obvious conclusion:
Dr. Gregory House from House, MD.
Ok, before everyone logs away from this page hear me out:
He solves cases (ok…, medical ones), he has a crutch of a gimp leg (and a general sour demeanor because of it), and actually… the character is (according to creator David Shore) based off of Sherlock Holmes. Holmes, in turn, was actually (according to author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) based on a doctor he knew while studying medicine, a Dr. Bell, whose specialty was diagnosis, similar to Houses’. Couldn’t help but post that fun trivia, sorry if that made everyones head spin.
Anyway, here is short video (about […]
Original post by elizabethomas
Watching “Yojimbo” for the first time gave me the chance to witness, in my opinion, one of the finest actors of any generation; and for that I am grateful. This class forces us to strip down films, and analyze parts of it that wouldn’t normally be obvious to the average film buff. I have to say, that it was very difficult to do so for me, simply because I sat fixated on the acting of Toshiro Mifune. It’s funny how more often than not we are so inclined to dub a performance a “great acting performance.” However, after seeing Mifune’s portrayal of Sanjuro, other performances, which I once thought “great” seem average in comparison.   A simple facial expression by Mifune can convey so much emotion…(or a lack of emotion for that matter). I think that when Dr. Campbell said that by watching a movie without the sound, you can notice so much […]
Original post by ellie
