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20 Ex Machina: Are Homo Sapiens Failing the Turing Test? A Dialogue with Alex Garland
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Read More »An Unexpected, High-Frame-Rate Journey into the Jacksonian Tolkienverse (a review of Hobbit 2)
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Read More »Mirror Worlds Shimmering from our Video Screens
I find myself deeply affected by the content and lifecycle of some of these great series, series on the level of Six Feet Under, The Sopranos, The Wire and Game of Thrones. Although not all examples are so exalted, the television series is one of the greatest story forms ever created, and, especially thanks to the pioneering efforts of HBO, and the technological innovations that have made HD content accessible to most of us, this powerful art form has become incredibly potent. The great television series are as much a cultural pinnacle of our time as Gothic cathedrals were of some earlier centuries. For some, they are too much stained with the technology and nowness of the present era, rather than the patina of antiquity, and a bias against the whole dimension of television keeps certain disdainful snobs from the awed recognition that they are witnessing the rapid evolution of some of the greatest cultural products ever created by our species.
Read More »Oblivion and the Need for Sci-Fi and Fantasy Movies to Take a Chill Pill Once in a While
Are You an Invisible?
A sometimes surreal exploration of Grant Morrison’s graphic novel masterpiece THE INVISIBLES asks the reader to consider whether they might be an Invisible---an empowered and transforming mutant.
Read More »Paul Atreides—a Somewhat Unappreciated Kwisatz Haderach and Personification of the Singularity Archetype
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Read More »I Paint by Thijme Termaat (a brief review)
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Read More »American Cyclopath
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Read More »A Spiraling, Eye-Encrusted Overview of the Art of Alex Grey (and some related topics, and a response from Alex)
This overview of the artwork of Alex Grey (also published as a multi-part series on Reality Sandwich) looks at problems the art world has with spiritually themed art, Alex’s transforming relationship to darkness and shadow material, what his art says about sexuality, and the public roles Alex plays versus his studio work.
Read More »The Hobbit—An Unexpectedly Good High Frame Rate Journey through Middle Earth
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Read More »Lincoln (the movie) and the Value of Talismanic Personalities
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Read More »Cloud Atlas, a Brilliant Wachoskian Cartography of the Spiritual Dimension
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