Nice. The Earth is 6,000 years old and she’s gunning to turn your state into a toxic waste dump for some cash.
Nice. The Earth is 6,000 years old and she’s gunning to turn your state into a toxic waste dump for some cash.
From his review of Transformers II
“Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” is a horrible experience of unbearable length, briefly punctuated by three or four amusing moments. One of these involves a dog-like robot humping the leg of the heroine. Such are the meager joys. If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get a kid to start banging pots and pans together. Then close your eyes and use your imagination.
The plot is incomprehensible. The dialog of the Autobots, Deceptibots and Otherbots is meaningless word flap. Their accents are Brooklyese, British and hip-hop, as befits a race from the distant stars. Their appearance looks like junkyard throw-up. They are dumb as a rock. They share the film with human characters who are much more interesting, and that is very faint praise indeed.
Two art historians at MoMA and FIT have created a new online art institute – smART History.
Unsatisfied with dusty art history textbooks and the password-protected, one-way content from online resources – they’ve put their considerable talents, know-how, and insights into creating a multimedia “web-book” journey through the history of Western Art. And they make it freely available.
Their site features over 150 podcasts, 220 images, and links to world-class museums like the Louvre. Their podcasts discuss specific artists, themes, and historical movements. The conversations are spontaneous and they’re not afraid to disagree with each other or art history.
It’s thin from 1960 onwards…but it sounds like they will continue to add more work, more contributors, and even expand beyond Western Art.
Nice.
I’m fascinated. I’m horrified. And I really, really don’t like opera at all now.
And yes, you do have to watch the whole thing. Because it doesn’t even begin to reach it’s height of zen bizarro until the 2:14 mark.