Savant Syndrome is an extremely rare occurrence, and one aspect of the condition can be a spectacular memory recall ability that appears to include elements of the innate, not easily explainable. The phenomenon defies traditional explanation since it falls more clearly in the grey zone of the paranormal or even supra-normal where the individual is [...]
The choreography was realized in 1973, before break dancing and rap.What do those men in black do in their spare time? Irony is De Funes , playing the role of Rabbi Jacob was a devout Roman Catholic in real life. Victor Pivert, a blustering, hate-mongering factory owner en route to his daughter’s wedding, unwittingly stumbles [...]
” To be more specific: the ‘potentially disturbing’ materials Rockwell offers to view are often sexual in nature, even perverse…Rockwell’s paintings, I’ ve found, are able to induce a kind of hysterical blindness in many viewers, who can’t or won’t see what is staring them in the face…In a sense my whole argument is summed [...]
A hyperactivity bordering on cartoon animation. Excessive bad faith.Spontaneous fits of anger , excitability, impatience and crankiness bordering on the absurd. French actor Louis de Funes was undoubtedly the French King of Comedy in the 60-70′s and created a cinematic personality that would resonate to the American screen in such variations as Archie Bunker and [...]
” Rockwell is not culturally or artistically naive. Above all, he does not portray a bland style of American innocence. Rather he is a canny diagnostician of innocence, which he exposes as a fiction based on various forms of denial and disavowal. Rockwell fills his apparently mayonnaise world with dark and disturbing details which he [...]
”Although there is nothing obviously salacious about his work, Norman Rockwell, the most widely known American illustrator from the twenties through the fifties, was a sort of patron saint of both the Boy and Girl Scouts….’That Dali is really Norman Rockwell’s twin brother kidnapped by Gypsies in babyhood’ ” ( Vladimir Nabokov in Pnin) [...]
Norman Rockwell style photograph from the Katrina hurricane disaster without the sentimentality. Tanisha Blevin, 5, holding 105 year old Nita Le Garde’s hand. Notice the look of determination of the two. Hard to say who is leading. This portrayal of the American narrative is not reassuring and far too common. The men with semi-automatic rifles [...]
Honda advert for Canada. The drab and repressive lighting is in nice counterpoint to the two actors, Jonathan Ellul and Chris Lightford. Both bring tremendous energy and poise to this commercial to hawk a plain-Jane car in Ontario. Ellul is simply over the top; almost John Belushi -esque. Unpredictable, volatile and clearly psycho.There are transfers [...]
The complexity of urban life. Its tensions and frustrations are an apt metaphor for the Rubik Cube.The solution to the puzzle, for the uninitiated could be termed a very delayed gratification in a world of instant rewards. It took a year for British mathematician David Singmaster to crack the code in 1978 and he was [...]
A determinism that follows a pattern both irrational and illogical to arrive at its end. Its not results oriented, its the journey that counts and accounts. The Honda commercial using the Rube Goldberg dynamic is like hundreds of small interrelated sculptures communicating among themselves to arrive at a finished production on the basis of consensus. [...]
