From our recent correspondence: Many thanks for sending this on to me! What a great thing, all told: not just the amazing inventor/builder, the instrument itself and the musical and mathematical and instrument-playing and -building knowledge that went into thinking up and building the instrument, all clearly explained, but the video with fine sound at http://vimeo.com/11290879 [...]
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Dreaming It Up
Posted in metaphysics, music on June 17, 2010 |
The Seventh Seal
Posted in films, metaphysics on June 16, 2007 |
The Seventh Seal. Ingmar Bergman, dir., Max von Sydow, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Bibi Andersson. No special effects, no color, no car chases, no shoot-em-ups, seen through subtitles, but one of the richest and deepest emotional ranges I’ve experienced in film. The very austerity of style helps charge the atmosphere. The movie is filled with ironies of [...]
A Matter of Death and Life
Posted in films, metaphysics on June 15, 2007 |
The Fountain. Suppose someone said to you that you have to figure out how to make a movie about life, death, and rebirth, and all that that means. You have to make it without being corny and overblown, and it has to have a script that can be acted and effects that can be created. [...]
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