Angelina Jolie
Joe Mullins, a forensic artist, has created an interesting visualization of the future.
See how some of your favorite stars may look like in 2020. 10 more images after the break...
Monday, September 19, 2011
Hollywood Celebrities may look like in 10 years
Joe Mullins, a forensic artist, has created an interesting visualization of the future.
See how some of your favorite stars may look like in 2020. 10 more images after the break...
15 Memorials of 9/11 Across America
Los Angeles
Memorial Name: LAX “Recovering Equilibrium”
Memorial Name: LAX “Recovering Equilibrium”
“Recovering Equilibrium” was funded by Los Angeles World Airports, which oversees airports in the city, at a cost $75,000. LAX was the destination for three of the four planes involved in the tragedy.
The 15–foot-diameter, rotating mirror floats above a concrete basin filled with water, where virtues such as forgiveness are inscribed in different languages, representing collective American citizenry. On the lower ring, there are American concepts, such as “Sea to Shining Sea” and “American Dream.” The plate is made reflective because designers BJ Krivanek and Joel Breaux want visitors to be able to identify with the victims and their characters. 14 more after the break...
The 15–foot-diameter, rotating mirror floats above a concrete basin filled with water, where virtues such as forgiveness are inscribed in different languages, representing collective American citizenry. On the lower ring, there are American concepts, such as “Sea to Shining Sea” and “American Dream.” The plate is made reflective because designers BJ Krivanek and Joel Breaux want visitors to be able to identify with the victims and their characters. 14 more after the break...
Strolling Down Memory of Afghanistan
Strolling Down Memory Lane 23 Pictures Of Afghanistan In The Past, On a recent trip to Afghanistan, British Defense Secretary Liam Fox drew fire for calling it "a broken 13th-century country." The most common objection was not that he was wrong, but that he was overly blunt. He's hardly the first Westerner to label Afghanistan as medieval. Former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince...22 more images after the break...
Top 10 Ways to Show Confidence With Body Language
They say a picture is worth a thousand words; now picture yourself, approaching a woman or a prospective client, walking into a board meeting or a party. How do you look? What message do you communicate the moment you walk into a room? What are your eyes, hands and shoulders saying? What information can people gather about you before you ever say a word? Never thought about it? You should. And you can start by perusing our top 10 tips to show confidence with body language.
People read your body language, often via instinct and without thinking. It’s because our poses and postures are a great source of information. They reflect our mood and our confidence level. We stand and walk a certain way when we’re confident and another way when we’re nervous. In a glance, most people can discern if we’re apprehensive or outgoing, relaxed or aggressive. With a little practice, we can learn the tips to show confidence through body language so that we always appear confident, capable and ready. Top 10 Ways to Show Confidence With Body Language...after the break...
Postmodern Reinterpretations of Fairy Tales: How Applying New Methods Generates New Meanings
Postmodern Reinterpretations of Fairy Tales: How Applying New Methods Generates New Meanings
edited by Anna Kérchy was another under the radar release from earlier this year.Description from the publisher:
These essays analyze the intersection of fairy tale, fantasy and reality in postmodern artistic texts. The editor underscores the transformation of both the reader-writer relationship and epistemological and ontological considerations by new technologies and emerging subgenres. This book contains 12 color plates and ten black and white photographs.
Reviews
“…the volume includes essays that present exploratory discussions of modern-day reinventions of the fairy tale and fantasy from a variety of perspectives that draw on emergent critical discourses…” - Prof. Dr. Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère
“The editor’s introduction and organization of the volume exhibit a strong grasp of how important it is to relate generic, technological, political, and narrative dynamics with one another…”-Prof. Cristina Bacchilega, University of Hawaii
“…this range of objects and of topics makes the volume genuinely timely, genuinely impressive and genuinely worthwhile.”-Prof. Stephen Benson, University of East Anglia
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Foreword by Prof. Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère
Preface by Anna Kérchy
SECTION 1: NEW MEDIA LITERACY
Hyperread, New Literacy, E-text
Cyber-Salons, Participatory Culture
Production Design
Critical Dance Studies
SECTION 2: EMERGING GENRES
Urban Fantasy
Steampunk
Forensic Crime Fantasy
Intermedial Text/Image. Graphic Narrative
Guro-Kawaii (Grotesque-Cute) Manga/Art
SECTION 3: REWRITING MYTH
The Interaction of Literature and Criticism. Feminist Imagination, Challenging the Canon
Anti-Fairy Tale, Revisiting Blue Beard
Critical Musicology. Revisiting Beauty and the Beast
Cult Fairy-Tale Romance. Revisiting the Animal-Groom Tale
Metamorphic Pornographic Fantasy. Revisiting Shakespeare
SECTION 4: RE-IMAGINING THE BODY
Body-Theatrical Performance
Feminist Body-Studies
Cyborg Body
Re-fashioning Embodiments
SECTION 5: CREATING FICTIONAL REALITIES
Ludic Simulations in the Virtual Reality of Computer Games
Virtual FairyLands in Trans/Post-humanist Science Fiction
Inventing a Fictitious Fairy Tale
Between Psychopathology and Fantasy
SECTION 6: NARRATOLOGICAL NOVELTIES
Transmedial Narratology, Representations of Race and Gender
Neo-Surrealism, Feminist Stylistics
Affective Narratology and the Emotional Politics of Reading
Corporeal Narratology
Sunday, September 18, 2011
New Featurette for ABC's "Once Upon a Time"
ABC has released a behind-the-scenes featurette for the upcoming "Once Upon a Time" series. We're just a little bit over a month away from the premiere.
And here it is:
And here it is:
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