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Πικ εν ρολ: 10+1 ταινίες για να χορτάσεις μπάσκετ

Μπορεί η σειρά The Last Dance να σου θύμισε τις τελευταίες εβδομάδες τι σημαίνει φανταστικό μπάσκετ, υπάρχουν όμως και αρκετές ταινίες που ασχολούνται με αυτό. Οκ, δεν έχουν όλες πρωταγωνιστή τον Michael Jordan, έχουν όμως τη σπυριάρα (aka πορτοκαλί θεά). Αν έπαιζες/παίζεις μπάσκετ θα έχεις δει ήδη κάποια απ' αυτές (αν όχι όλες). Αν δεν έπαιζες, όπως η γράφουσα, δεν πειράζει. Εδώ θα βρεις ταινίες διάφορων ειδών (κωμωδίες, ντοκιμαντέρ, μικρού μήκους κ.α.) για να έρθεις σε επαφή με τον κόσμο του μπάσκετ. Εσύ το μόνο που έχεις να κάνεις είναι ν' αράξεις στον καναπέ/στο πάτωμα/στον πάγκο της κουζίνας/όπου βολεύεσαι, να διαλέξεις ταινία, και να πατήσεις το play. Και αν σου βρίσκεται και καμιά μπάλα εύκαιρη, μην ντρέπεσαι, πάρ' την αγκαλιά.

1. Hoosiers (1986)

Ένας προπονητής με προβληματικό παρελθόν αναλαμβάνει, μαζί με τον μέθυσο βοηθό του, την ομάδα μπάσκετ ενός σχολείου στην Ιντιάνα και την οδηγεί στον τελικό του πρωταθλήματος. Το Hoosiers είναι από εκείνες τις ταινίες μπάσκετ, και όχι μόνο, που τους έτυχε μια ατυχής μετάφραση. Πάθος για το μπάσκετ, λέει, σοβαρά τώρα; Αγνόησε τον ελληνικό τίτλο και δώσε της μια ευκαιρία, πλιζ. Θα δεις έναν α-πί-στευ-το Gene Hackman, έναν Dennis -χικ- Hopper υποψήφιο για Όσκαρ Β' Ανδρικού Ρόλου, και μπάσκετ βγαλμένο απ' τα 50s. Βάλε και την υποψήφια για Όσκαρ μουσική του Jerry Goldsmith και δεν είναι τυχαίο που το NFR (National Film Registry) των ΗΠΑ το συμπεριλαμβάνει στις ταινίες που χαρακτηρίζονται ως "πολιτιστικά, ιστορικά ή αισθητικά σημαντικές".

Πηγή εικόνας: vulture.com

2. Semi-Pro (2008)

Πραγματικά, αξίζουν συγχαρητήρια σε όποιον σκέφτηκε ότι η ταιριαστή απόδοση του Semi-Pro στα ελληνικά είναι Άσχετ-ball. Φήμες λένε ότι ο Σεφερλής κλαίει ακόμα στο ντους επειδή δεν σκέφτηκε ο ίδιος αυτό το λογοπαίγνιο. Αν δεν σε έπεισε ο τίτλος, να σου πούμε ότι παίζει ο Will Ferrell. Και ο Woody Harrelson, τον οποίο -spoiler alert- θα συναντήσουμε ξανά. Ο Ferrell, λοιπόν, είναι ο Jackie Moon, ιδιοκτήτης/προπονητής/παίχτης (ένας σύγχρονος da Vinci, δηλαδή) μιας όχι και τόσο επιτυχημένης ομάδας μπάσκετ που αγωνίζεται στο ερασιτεχνικό πρωτάθλημα, τους Flint Tropics. Όταν μαθαίνει ότι το NBA θα απορροφήσει 4 ομάδες, κάνει τα πάντα ώστε οι Tropics να είναι μία απ' αυτές. Αρκεί ένας μέτριο σενάριο και ο "Love Me Sexy" Ferrell για κάνουν το Semi-Pro μία από τις πιο απολαυστικές ταινίες μπάσκετ; ΝΑΙ.

Πηγή εικόνας: nytimes.com

3. Teen Wolf (1985)

Ο Michael J. Fox (αυτός του Back to the Future, ναι) είναι ένας 17χρονος που παίζει μπάσκετ στην αποτυχημένη ομάδα μπάσκετ (το βλέπετε ότι υπάρχει ένα pattern, έτσι;) ενός σχολείου μιας μικρής πόλης της Νεμπράσκα. Σε κάποια φάση ανακαλύπτει ότι είναι λυκάνθρωπος και αποφασίζει να χρησιμοποιήσει τις δυνάμεις του για να γίνει σούπερ ντούπερ παίχτης. Τόσο σουρεάλ που κάνει τον Jordan να σκίζει τη μπλούζα του.

Πηγή εικόνας: mcsweenys.net

4. Thunderstruck (2012)

Παίζει ο Kevin Durant. Τον εαυτό του. Δεν ξέρω αν θες κάτι άλλο. Καλά, άντε να πούμε και δυο λόγια για το στόρι. Ένας μικρός, ο Brian, παίρνει τις μπασκετικές ικανότητες του KD. Αποτέλεσμα: ο μικρός γίνεται σταρ του μπάσκετ, ο KD δεν σουτάρει (με επιτυχία) ούτε από το μισό μέτρο. Ψιλομάπα η ταινία, αλλά ο Durant δήλωσε ότι αυτό που τον δυσκόλεψε πραγματικά ήταν το να χάνει σουτ. Ε, αυτό δεν είναι κάτι που αξίζει να το δεις;

Πηγή εικόνας: amazon.com

5. White Men Can't Jump (1992)

Ίσως η πιο γνωστή ταινία μπάσκετ μετά το...θα το διαβάσεις παρακάτω (αν και μάλλον έχεις ήδη καταλάβει σε ποια ταινία αναφερόμαστε). Δυο απατεωνίσκοι, ο Sidney (Wesley Snipes) και ο Billy (Woody Harrelson) ενώνουν τις δυνάμεις τους, εκμεταλλευόμενοι το στερεότυπο του λευκού που δεν παίζει να είναι καλύτερος στο μπάσκετ από μαύρους αντιπάλους, για να βγάλουν χρήματα βάζοντας κόσμο να ποντάρει. Ο Woody κάτι σκαμπάζει από μπάσκετ, ο Wesley όχι (αν και φαίνεται ότι κάτι ξέρει-μπράβο στον σκηνοθέτη), αλλά δεν θα δεις την ταινία -μόνο- για το μπάσκετ. Η χημεία τους είναι απίστευτη, οι ατάκες έρχονται η μία μετά την άλλη, ο ρυθμός είναι ξέφρενος και το γέλιο εγγυημένο. Και το τελευταίο το χρειαζόμαστε λίγο παραπάνω πλέον, όχι;

Πηγή εικόνας: thedissolve.com

6. Glory Road (2006)

Η ταινία αφηγείται την ιστορία του Don Haskins, του προπονητή που οδήγησε το 1966 την πρώτη αποκλειστικά μαύρη -αρχική-πεντάδα του κολεγιακού μπάσκετ στον τίτλο. Κινηματογραφικό μπάσκετ, πολύ καλή ερμηνεία από τον Josh Lucas, συγκινητικό και καλογραμμένο στόρι. Γενικά, ταινία που πρέπει να τη δεις. Χθες.

Πηγή εικόνας: neverendingseason.com

7. He Got Game (1998)

Ο Spike Lee είναι ένας από τους 10 αγαπημένους σκηνοθέτες της γραφούσας, οπότε δεν θα μπορούσε να λείπει αυτή η ταινία απ' τη λίστα. Άσε που έχει και Ray Allen και Denzel Washington (οι άντρες θα πουν σίγουρα ΚΑΙ Milla Jovovich), οπότε... Ο Ray Allen, που λες, υποδύεται έναν νεαρό αθλητή (Jesus Shuttlesworth) ο οποίος καλείται να πάρει σημαντικές αποφάσεις για το επαγγελματικό μέλλον του. Ταυτόχρονα, κρίνεται και το μέλλον του κατάδικου πατέρα του, ο οποίος έχει αποφυλακιστεί προσωρινά με τον όρο να πείσει τον γιο του να στελεχώσει την ομάδα μπάσκετ του Κυβερνήτη της Νέας Υόρκης. Όχι η πρώτη ταινία του Spike Lee που σου έρχεται στο μυαλό, αλλά, εκτός από μεγάλα ονόματα, έχει και ωραίο σάουντρακ. Και μας δείχνει μια -άσχημη-πλευρά του αθλητισμού: το πώς διάφοροι προπονητές και παράγοντες εκμεταλλεύονται τους νέους ταλαντούχους παίκτες για να βγάλουν οι ίδιοι χρήματα. Να μια ταινία που θέλει να προβληματίσει τον θεατή.

Πηγή εικόνας: hollywoodreporter.com

8. Space Jam (1996)

Λίστα με ταινίες μπάσκετ που ΔΕΝ περιλαμβάνει το Space Jam, ΔΕΝ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΛΙΣΤΑ. Πείτε με αφοριστική, είναι απλά η αλήθεια. Looney Tunes, Michael Jordan, Bill Murray, εξωγήινοι, εξωπραγματικό μπάσκετ. Και όταν λέμε εξωπραγματικό, ούτε ο MJ δεν το είχε φανταστεί. Αποκλείεται να μην το έχεις δει έχεις δει αυτό το τιτανοτεράστιο έπος ΜΟΝΟ μία φορά.

Πηγή εικόνας: fringearts.com

9. Once Brothers (2010)

Οι ταινίες μπάσκετ δεν είναι μόνο διαστημικά καλάθια και τρελές καταστάσεις. Είναι και τα ντοκιμαντέρ. Όπως τούτη εδώ η συμπαραγωγή των ESPN και NBA Entertainment που ασχολείται με δύο σπουδαίους αθλητές: τον Drazen Petrovic και τον Vlade Divac. Οι δύο φίλοι έφτασαν την ομάδα της Γιουγκοσλαβίας πολύ ψηλά, με αποτέλεσμα να πάρουν το εισιτήριο για το μαγικό κόσμο του NBA. Όμως, η διάλυση της Σοβιετικής Ένωσης το 1991 βρήκε τους δύο παίχτες να αγωνίζονται -σε εθνικό επίπεδο- με δύο αντίπαλες ομάδες: τον μεν Petrovic με την Κροατία, τον δε Divac με τη Σερβία. Όσο έπαιζαν στο NBA δεν αντάλλαζαν ούτε λέξη μέχρι και τον θάνατο του Petrovic το 1993. Συγκινητικό ντοκιμαντέρ που δείχνει πώς διαλύθηκε η φιλία αυτών των δύο τεράστιων προσωπικοτήτων και εξετάζει αν ο Divac ξεπέρασε τον χαμό του άλλοτε φίλου του.

Πηγή εικόνας: apiedecancha.es

10. Hoop Dreams (1994)

Το ντοκιμαντέρ δείχνει την προσπάθεια δύο μαύρων πιτσιρικάδων απ' το Σικάγο να γίνουν πετυχημένοι αθλητές στο κολεγιακό πρωτάθλημα με απώτερο στόχο να αγωνιστούν στο NBA. Εδώ θα δεις ρεαλιστικό μπάσκετ, απ' αυτό που σε ψήνει να πιάσεις τη μπάλα και να πα�� στο πιο κοντινό γήπεδο asap. Η ταινία ήταν μάλιστα υποψήφια για Όσκαρ Καλύτερου Μοντάζ αποδεικνύοντας πως υπάρχουν και τεχνικά καλές ταινίες μπάσκετ εκεί έξω.

Πηγή εικόνας: criterion.com

10+1. Dear Basketball (2017)

Πιθανώς να δυσκολεύεσαι ακόμα να αποδεχθείς ότι πρέπει να μιλάμε σε παρελθοντικό χρόνο για τον Kobe Brant. Ποι@ να περίμενε ότι 3 χρόνια μετά απ' αυτή την ταινία κινούμενων σχεδίων μικρού μήκους ο Black Mamba δεν θα ήταν μαζί μας. Η ταινία είναι βασισμένη στο γράμμα που έγραψε ο Kobe τον Νοέμβριο του 2015, ανακοινώνοντας την απόσυρσή του από την ενεργό δράση. Κέρδισε, μάλιστα, το Όσκαρ Καλύτερης Ταινίας Κινουμένων Σχεδίων Μικρού Μήκους το 2017 και ο Kobe έγινε ο πρώτος επαγγελματίας αθλητής που κερδίζει Όσκαρ.

Πηγή εικόνας: variety.com Δεν ξέρω αν σε πείσαμε να δεις κάποια από τις παραπάνω ταινίες, το μόνο σίγουρο είναι ότι θα σε κάνουν να γελάσεις, να κλάψεις, να πωρωθείς, να νευριάσεις. Όπως και το ίδιο το μπάσκετ, δηλαδή. Read the full article

#κινηματογράφος #ντοκιμαντέρ #ταινίαμικρούμήκους #ταινίεςμπάσκετ

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exhibitionclub · 5 years

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23 November 2019

Tony Cokes, “If UR Reading This It’s 2 Late: Vol 1,” Goldsmiths CCA and Jeremy Deller, “Putin’s Happy,” Hannah Barry Gallery. Part 1.

“If UR Reading This It’s 2 Late: Vol. 1″, the first UK solo exhibition of US artist Tony Cokes, takes its title from a 2015 music album by the North-American rapper Drake. Popular music is a key element and preoccupation in the work of Cokes, always intertwined with political questions --in many cases directly related to a racialised subject-- and cultural theory that evidence the artist work in and engagement with academia. However, the engagement with these matters in the work is done in a non-straightforward manner, resulting in works with a certain degree of complexity, but also ambiguity, that through the use of music, rhythm and text establish an affective relationship with the viewer.

From a formal point of view, Cokes artworks are relatively simple: the majority of his output presented at Goldsmiths consists of screens (sometimes projections, sometimes old cathode-ray tube TV monitors) where text on a flat colour or abstract background is animated as a discourse is presented following certain rhythms, whilst at the same time loud popular music (rock, electronica, techno, electro-pop) blasts through speakers or headphones --sometimes directly connected to the text presented, as in Evil 16 (Torture.Musik) (2009-2011) with fragments of tracks of popular music used by US (and UK) troops to torture detainees in Iraq in the work ; and sometimes not.

Two works have been specially commissioned by the Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art with the occasion of this exhibition, The Morrissey Problem (2019) and Testament A (MF FKA K-P x KE RIP) (2019). The Morrissey Problem presents the thoughts of Joshua Surtees, a black British Morrissey fan, adapted from a piece published earlier this year in the newspaper the Guardian, expressing his concern and disappointment about the singer’s open and public embrace of far right ideas.

Stills from The Queen is Dead, Fragment 2 (2019), a work by Cokes on the political reverberations and legacy of Aretha Franklin. It is made of fragments from a selections of articles on the late singer, and it is presented accompanied of some of her music. At the moment of my visit, this was a techno remix of one of her songs, and the text on the screen spoke of Franklyn’s support of the Black Panther activist and philosopher Angela Davis.

The second piece commissioned by Goldsmiths, Testament A (MF FKA K-P x KE RIP) (2019) verses on Mark Fisher, the late philosopher and lecturer at Goldsmiths College’s Visual Cultures department. The text used as the base for this work is not one of the many pieces of writing by Fisher, but part of the contents of the first memorial lecture in his honour, delivered by his friend and colleague Kodwo Eshun in January 2018, one year after Fisher’s death. The lecture is an intellectual eulogy and a testament to the power and potential of Fisher’s ideas. You can watch it here. Cokes deploys the thoughtful and precise words of Eshun in a way that he replicates the extraordinary rhythm and cadence of that specific speech, making the viewer slowly absorb the clarity and carefulness with which the words were articulated and the power of the message delivered.

Cokes engages with Fisher as well through the choice of music accompanying the text animation in yellow and pink. One track he employs is the song ‘Ghosts’, by the British 1980s new-wave band Japan. A verse of this song gave title to one of Fisher’s books, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures (2014). In the chapter with the same title, Fisher reflects on the electronic music of Goldie, Japan’s singer David Sylvian and Tricky using this song as a connector between the three artists. Fisher creates a genealogy of art pop and a picture of the electronic music (and the culture) of the beginning of the 21st century, exposing at its core the very British preoccupation of class.

Extra materials:

An interview with Tony Cokes on Artforum, regarding this exhibition.

Kodwo Eshun and Tony Cokes in conversation about this exhibition on 28 September 2019.

Tony Cokes’ Testament A (MF FKA K-P x KE RIP) as a visual essay on Frieze magazine (April 2019), with a text by Pablo Larios, senior editor at Frieze.

Mark Fisher’s series of lectures at DOCH, School of Dance and Circus, Stockholm University of the Arts, in May 2011.

I think that it can be interesting to re-read Fredric Jameson’s “Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism” (1984) in light of Tony Cokes’ work, but also as a key reference for Mark Fisher’s thought.

#contemporary art #exhibitionclub #video art #tony cokes #goldsmithscca #goldsmiths college university of london #visual cultures #mark fisher #morrissey #black art #discourse #art #london #exhibitions in london

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spamzineglasgow · 6 years

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SPAM Digest #1 (Sept 2018)

A quick list of the editors’ current favourite critical essays, post-internet think pieces, and literature reviews that have influenced the way we think about contemporary poetics, technology and storytelling.

‘Human Sacrifice’, by Alexandra Molotkow, Real Life Mag

A brief moral genealogy of reality TV spectatorship sketched through the short life of The Anna Nicole Show (2002-2004); Moloktow reflects on the hatred of the talentless and contempt for the desperate as a ultimate re-inscription of class dynamics; on the erotic appeal of the fallen beauty; on how the lines between compassion and cruelty come blurred, when those between life and entertainment seem to be disappearing.

‘Reality television remade spectatorship in the likeness of a relationship: You loved your favorite contestants like friends and hated your least favorite like enemies — the thrill of a reality villain was the permission to hate a “real” person and not just a character in fiction.’

‘What many of us are looking for, at least sometimes, is a quick hit of relatability, the ambient sense that other people exist. This isn’t necessarily bad. It cuts to the chase of what we so often ask of art, and people are just as interesting as anything they might produce — a personality itself can be read as a work of art, producing the same range of joys and intriguing discomforts. But real and imagined people demand different moral configurations, and observing a life as theater can create a narrative riptide on reality.’

D.B

‘Andrew Pekler charts imagined sounds on interactive atlas, Phantom Islands’, by Scott Wilson, Fact Mag

It was actually an ex-navy friend who recommended this article to me, and the nautical vibes seemed appropriate, given our current SPAM theme is CRUISE LINER. Wilson’s article glosses a recent project by Berlin-based sound artist Andrew Pekler: an ‘interactive online map called Phantom Islands, which combines the histories of islands that were once found on nautical maps with speculative sounds from each of the 27 locations’. These ‘Phantom Islands’, as Pekler puts it, were charted through history by ocean explorers, but their actual existence ‘has never been ultimately verified’.

For anyone intrigued by ethnomusicology (soundscapes are here selected with an ethnographer’s ear and knowledge of island history), object-oriented ‘art’ (one could argue Pekler’s project enacts a form of tuning to nonhuman scales, scapes and ontologies) or simply wanting to play around with a synesthetically satisfying map, Phantom Islands is definitely worth your time.

There’s something seductive and ultimately metamodern about this project: its oscillation between fact and fiction; a New Aesthetic, intermedial playfulness and sincere commitment to probing the strange aporia of these places. A sort of sonic psychocartography, combining the analogue ‘hardware’ of the map with the interactive, ‘soft’ subtleties of scroll, click, veer and zoom. It recalls childhood afternoons consumed by the thalassic, open-world vistas of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (2002), where every cel-shaded island was mapped out on a gridded ‘Great Sea’, sparkling with unique music, sidequests, enemies and secret items. Browsing The Wind Waker’s world, or (in Cruise Mode), the clean white grids of Pekler’s map, you find yourself phasing in and out of the mirage-like isles of geologic and mythical history. I’m made nostalgic for the days when the internet was envisioned as a sort of frontier, this sprawling terrain to be ‘surfed’.

As well as pleasure, there’s a profound melancholy to the project: it doesn’t steer us towards the dramatic sublime but rather encourages an introspective, ‘slow’ experience of personal discovery, a glide over several haecceities. Maybe it’s because, as Malachy Tallack puts it in his 2016 book The Undiscovered Islands, ‘Islands [...] are perfect metaphors for other worlds and afterlives. They are separate and yet connected; they are distant and yet tangible. The sea of death is cluttered with imaginary islands’. I’ve never thought of webpages or online archives as islands until now, but something about that sense of myth or fiction pervading the ‘real’ of the present is oddly comforting. The narrative vignettes and sound clips which accompany the islands of Pekler’s map give the reassurance of presence, even in the space of speculation, in the lack of evidential presence. If, as Tallack puts it, ‘invention’ arises from our desire to fill a ‘terrifying’ absence, then ‘sometimes that desire gives us back the absences we sought to fill’. It seems to me he could be describing a phenomenology of the open internet, the para-reality of endless text and images still sloshing and jostling against the smooth interface of Web 2.0. The haunted archives of yesteryear, preserved on some ad-riddled, lost domain. The splintered archipelagos of our virtual identities, the desiring production of feedback loops.

As a form of ‘interactive’ geography, Phantom Islands reminds us that our conceptions of ‘world’, Other or ipseity itself are bound to slippage, the ambient addictions of browsing a set of imagined striations. Best to enjoy that, while we (physically) still can.

The Phantom Islands project: http://andrewpekler.com/phantom-islands/

M.S.

‘Funks of Ambivalence: On Flarf’, by Andrew Epstein, LA Review of Books

Flarf’s controversy is no secret within the poetry world. What started as protest poetry, in the manner of pirate radio - a way of ‘hacking’ the internet by mining and reassembling its linguistic fragments - soon sank in a cesspool of suspicion about plagiarism, appropriation and writerly privilege. Well, not exactly ‘sank’, because sank implies a kind of closure, when actually flarf still floats around - the poetic plastic that won’t quite biodegrade, even in these times of lyric revival.

Having recently published, Attention Equals Life: The Pursuit of the Everyday in Contemporary Poetry and Culture (2016), Epstein is well-versed in tracing how poetic form variously attempts to render, illumine or escape the experiential debris of daily life. Here reviewing a recent anthology, published by Edge Books in 2017 (Flarf: An Anthology of Flarf), Epstein maps out the emergence of flarf in the context of both the poetry establishment and the internet’s structural history, honing in on the use of search engines and data trawling as modes of playful aesthetic resistance. He quotes Gary Sullivan (a founding flarfer), who describes ‘flarf’ as both a neologism for ‘a kind of corrosive, cute, or cloying, awfulness’ and verb, meaning ‘to bring out the inherent awfulness, etc., of some pre-existing text’.

A good review perhaps brings something extra to the text it feeds on, and Epstein succeeds in supplementing Flarf: An Anthology of Flarf’s lack in the critical department. As Epstein puts it, the anthology is ‘completely devoid of scholarly apparatus’. What might be ‘more a bid for canonization, an enshrinement of a now-defunct avant-garde’ nevertheless requires a bit of aesthetic and political contextualisation, which Epstein’s piece usefully gestures towards. As post-internet poets, self-identified or otherwise, we’re all guilty of getting a little too flarfy at times, fooling around with discursive detritus online. It’s commentary like Epstein’s that sets all this appropriation in its necessary social contexts - from gender to race, ethnicity, class and sexuality.

Epstein’s upshot is that the ‘antics’ of flarf retain the potential for cultural resistance, but that flarf should not be considered solely in a dematerialised junkspace of recycled ‘play’. Rather, we should be reading flarf alongside certain contemporary poets (Epstein names a few), who digest its playful ‘tactics’ for a more substantial sociopolitical aesthetics, and what’s more acknowledge the extent to which flarf has become the condition of all information dissemination, both online and IRL. As he puts it, paraphrasing Man Ray’s chiastic assessment of Dada’s survival: ‘Flarf cannot live in America. All America is Flarf, and will not tolerate a rival’. In an era of reality-breakdown and disorientating news dissemination, conducted over the famously elliptical medium of Twitter, presided upon by the US President himself, this seems about right.

M.S.

‘The Irrelevant and the Contemporary’ by DannyPenny, The New Enquiry

‘Post-Internet Poetry Comes of Age’, by Kenneth Goldsmith, The New Yorker

So why is post-internet poetry #trending?

Over the past few years, the art world has been throwing around the term “post-Internet” to describe the practices of artists who use the Web as the basis for their work but don’t make a big deal about it. For these artists, unlike those of previous generations, the Web is just another medium, like painting or sculpture. We’re beginning to see a similar turn in poetry.

Is it fair to say that successful post-internet poems should not merely “update confessional poetry for the age of mass surveillance"? That Poems that want to mirror or deconstruct the experience of living on the internet need a poetics that address that experience on a structural and material rather than semantic level? What is the result of such poetry? Poems that are "boring to be around"? Or poems that are at once organic and mechanical, personal and, in a sense, objective? Why is it that a mining, massaging, and reworking of found online texts into something personal appears to be fuelling some of the more adventurous poetry being written today? See what Kenneth Goldsmith and Danny Penny have to say.

M.P.

#SPAM Digest #Max Parnell #Denise Bonetti #Maria Sledmere #post-internet #poetry #flarf #maps #geography #surveillance #trending #Real Life Mag

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expatimes · 4 years

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Lebanese couple nabbed in gold theft

KUWAIT CITY, Jan 20 : A Lebanese couple, believed to be in their 30s, has been arrested and held at the Salhiya Police Station for allegedly attempting to steal 28 grams of gold believed to be worth 500 dinars, reports Al-Anba daily. The arrest came after the Syrian goldsmith filed a complaint at the police station accusing the couple of stealing the gold necklace. Meanwhile, the Jahra police have arrested three Indians for beating their compatriot and stealing 230 dinars from him when they were under the infl uence of alcohol due to personal disputes, reports Al-Rai daily.

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The Stand: Inside the Show’s Changes to Nick, Tom, and Ralph

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This article contains spoilers for episode 3 of The Stand.

After spending much of episodes 1 and 2 with important characters such as Stu Redman (James Marsden), Frannie Goldsmith (Odessa Young), Harold Lauder (Owen Teague) and Larry Underwood (Jovan Adepo), the new miniseries version of Stephen King’s The Stand brings in or fills out the backgrounds of several more key personnel in episode 3, titled “Blank Pages.”

This episode (written by Jill Killington and Owen King, son of Stephen) of the nine-part CBS All Access limited series introduces the characters of Nick Andros (Brazilian actor Henry Zaga from The New Mutants), Ray Brentner (Irene Bedard) and Tom Cullen (Brad William Henke), all of whom play a major role in King’s tale — and all of whom have received a fairly significant overhaul for the new adaptation.

In King’s book and the 1994 miniseries, Ray is Ralph Brentner, a physically imposing yet good-natured 45-year-old farmer from Oklahoma and a key leader of the Boulder Free Zone. In the new show, Ray is of Native American origin, smaller in stature yet tough and scrappy, and one of the closest people to Boulder spiritual leader Mother Abigail (Whoopi Goldberg). Brentner is also one of the four who head to Las Vegas for the title confrontation against Randall Flagg (Alexander Skarsgard), alongside Stu, Larry, and Glen Bateman (Greg Kinnear).

Nick, one of Boulder’s leaders and also extremely close to Mother Abigail, is both deaf and mute, possibly as a result of a car accident his parents got in when his mother was pregnant with him. Born in Nebraska and long orphaned when we meet him in the book, Nick (played by Rob Lowe in 1994) is a drifter who gets by doing odd jobs. In the new show, Nick is also deaf and mute and on his own, but is a refugee from South America who was brought to the United States as a child by his mother.

Asked if changing the characters’ backgrounds (rock star Larry Underwood is white in the book for example, and Black in the new series) was simply a matter of refreshing the characters for a more diverse era, showrunner Benjamin Cavell tells Den of Geek, “That was certainly part of it, in terms of making the main set of characters, however many there are, not all white guys and Frannie.”

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Cavell adds, “It was important and felt like it made our story feel both more universal and also, frankly, more rooted in 2019 or 2020. Our cast felt like it just had to look more like the America of 2019 and 2020. King had said that if he were doing it himself, and writing it now, that he would have done that too. It was just a clear upgrade to do that.”

Another character given a somewhat major reinvention in a different manner is Tom Cullen, the developmentally disabled man who meets up and becomes fast friends with Nick on the way to find Mother Abigail in the aftermath of the Captain Trips pandemic.

In both the book and the 1994 miniseries (where he is portrayed by Bill Fingerbakke), Tom is around 40 years old and a gentle giant, a simple man-child somewhat out of step with how we view and interact with the developmentally disabled today (in the book, first published in 1978, he is described as “retarded” in both derogatory and non-derogatory contexts).

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The Tom Cullen of the new series is explicitly middle-aged and is now seen through a more modern lens. “Tom, I suppose, was the one that seemed to me to need the most updating in terms of the characterization from the book,” explains Cavell. “I’ve always thought of Tom as sort of Lennie from Of Mice and Men, just transposed into the King universe — the old idea of a child trapped in an adult body.

“But in my experience of developmentally disabled adults, that doesn’t exist,” he adds. “I mean, not in the way I understand it, of a child trapped in an adult body, implying a child’s lack of self-awareness. The developmentally disabled adults that I’ve known are not in the dark about whether they’re developmentally disabled, or whether they have differences from most people around them.”

Cavell continues, “One of the things that was really important to me, and to all of us, and certainly to Brad William Henke, was to give Tom the dignity that comes with making him a full-fledged adult human being. One of the things we found was that speech he gives, in which he is telling whoever he meets about his deficits, and his abilities, and what he can do, and laying it all out — it just felt like that was the kind of thing that a grown man who is living a life that Tom Cullen is, would need to have as a way to navigate the world.”

Henke was the only actor offered the role, with Cavell adding that the former professional football player brought his own experience of knowing players who have suffered accumulated head trauma from the game into his research for the part.

“There is the suggestion in the book, and certainly also in our show, that at least part of what’s going on with Tom is the result of head trauma,” says Cavell. “He mentioned something in the book about getting hit on the head when he was a kid, and we mention that in the show. So it was very important to Brad to do right by that portrayal. We talked a lot about it, and he actually showed me a part of a documentary about a guy who he had played with, maybe in college, who’s pretty ravaged by some of the effects of CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a brain disease associated with repeated head trauma).”

There is another subtle but important change in Tom’s narrative later in the show, which Cavell mentions but we won’t discuss here (it comes in a future episode). But regarding both that and Tom Cullen’s overall transformation, Cavell notes, “I’m proud of all the ways in which it feels like we updated that character and his story.”

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We’ll have more from Cavell next week after the premiere of episode 4, “The House of the Dead,” including a pivotal decision regarding material from King’s 1990 uncut edition of the book.

New episodes of The Stand premiere every Thursday on CBS All Access.

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Πικ εν ρολ: 10+1 ταινίες για να χορτάσεις μπάσκετ

1. Hoosiers (1986)

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10. Hoop Dreams (1994)

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HUSTLERS CONTEST!

Inspired by the provocative true story about a crew of former strip club employees who turn the tables on their greedy Wall Street clients, HUSTLERS arrives on Digital November 26, 2019 and on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray TM, DVD and On Demand December 10, 2019 from STXfilms and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Dazzling critics and audiences alike, the “fiercely funny” (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone) drama follows a band of business-savvy strippers as they unite to seek revenge in what critics are hailing as “one of the year’s best films” (Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly). Inspired by journalist Jessica Pressler’s 2015 viral New York Magazine article “The Hustlers at Scores,” HUSTLERS is filled with wildly entertaining and empowering moments from beginning to end and takes audiences behind the scenes of this inspiring real life con. “A true movie for our era” (Alison Cohen Rosa, Vanity Fair), the bold and gritty narrative is led by Constance Wu (Crazy Rich Asians) and Jennifer Lopez (The Boy Next Door) and features an all-star supporting cast including Julia Stiles (Jason Bourne), Keke Palmer (“Berlin Station”), Lili Reinhart (“Riverdale”), Grammy Award® winner Cardi B, Billboard chart-topper Lizzo, Mette Towley (Cats), Madeline Brewer (“The Handmaid’s Tale"), Trace Lysette (“Transparent”), Mercedes Ruehl (“Power”) and Wai Ching Ho (“Fresh Off the Boat”). HUSTLERS is and written and directed by Lorene Scafaria (Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist), and produced by Jessica Elbaum (Booksmart), Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas (Second Act), Lopez (Second Act), Benny Medina (The Boy Next Door), Will Ferrell (Vice) and Adam McKay (Vice). HUSTLERS follows Destiny (Wu) a young stripper struggling to make ends meet. That is, until she meets Ramona (Lopez), the club’s savvy top earner, who shows her the way toward making big bucks. But when the 2008 economic collapse hits their Wall Street clientele hard, Destiny and Ramona concoct a plan with their fellow strippers to turn the tables on these greedy power players. It’s a wild, modern-day Robin Hood tale that critics are hailing as “enormously entertaining” (Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post).

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History of Video Games - The First Video Game Ever Made?

As an avid retro-gamer, for quite a long time I've been particularly interested in the history of video games. To be more specific, a subject that I am very passionate about is "Which was the first video game ever made?"... So, I started an exhaustive investigation on this subject (and making this article the first one in a series of articles that will cover in detail all video gaming history).

The question was: Which was the first video game ever made?

The answer: Well, as a lot of things in life, there is no easy answer to that question. It depends on your own definition of the term "video game". For example: When you talk about "the first video game", do you mean the first video game that was commercially-made, or the first console game, or maybe the first digitally programmed game? Because of this, I made a list of 4-5 video games that in one way or another were the beginners of the video gaming industry. You will notice that the first video games were not created with the idea of getting any profit from them (back in those decades there was no Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Sega, Atari, or any other video game company around). In fact, the sole idea of a "video game" or an electronic device which was only made for "playing games and having fun" was above the imagination of over 99% of the population back in those days. But thanks to this small group of geniuses who walked the first steps into the video gaming revolution, we are able to enjoy many hours of fun and entertainment today (keeping aside the creation of millions of jobs during the past 4 or 5 decades). Without further ado, here I present the "first video game nominees":

1940s: Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device

This is considered (with official documentation) as the first electronic game device ever made. It was created by Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann. The game was assembled in the 1940s and submitted for an US Patent in January 1947. The patent was granted December 1948, which also makes it the first electronic game device to ever receive a patent (US Patent 2,455,992). As described in the patent, it was an analog circuit device with an array of knobs used to move a dot that appeared in the cathode ray tube display. This game was inspired by how missiles appeared in WWII radars, and the object of the game was simply controlling a "missile" in order to hit a target. In the 1940s it was extremely difficult (for not saying impossible) to show graphics in a Cathode Ray Tube display. Because of this, only the actual "missile" appeared on the display. The target and any other graphics were showed on screen overlays manually placed on the display screen. It's been said by many that Atari's famous video game "Missile Command" was created after this gaming device.

1951: NIMROD

NIMROD was the name of a digital computer device from the 50s decade. The creators of this computer were the engineers of an UK-based company under the name Ferranti, with the idea of displaying the device at the 1951 Festival of Britain (and later it was also showed in Berlin).

NIM is a two-player numerical game of strategy, which is believed to come originally from the ancient China. The rules of NIM are easy: There are a certain number of groups (or "heaps"), and each group contains a certain number of objects (a common starting array of NIM is 3 heaps containing 3, 4, and 5 objects respectively). Each player take turns removing objects from the heaps, but all removed objects must be from a single heap and at least one object is removed. The player to take the last object from the last heap loses, however there is a variation of the game where the player to take the last object of the last heap wins.

NIMROD used a lights panel as a display and was planned and made with the unique purpose of playing the game of NIM, which makes it the first digital computer device to be specifically created for playing a game (however the main idea was showing and illustrating how a digital computer works, rather than to entertain and have fun with it). Because it doesn't have "raster video equipment" as a display (a TV set, monitor, etc.) it is not considered by many people as a real "video game" (an electronic game, yes... a video game, no...). But once again, it really depends on your point of view when you talk about a "video game".

1952: OXO ("Noughts and Crosses")

This was a digital version of "Tic-Tac-Toe", created for an EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator) computer. It was designed by Alexander S. Douglas from the University of Cambridge, and one more time it was not made for entertainment, it was part of his PhD Thesis on "Interactions between human and computer".

The rules of the game are those of a regular Tic-Tac-Toe game, player against the computer (no 2-player option was available). The input method was a rotary dial (like the ones in old telephones). The output was showed in a 35x16-pixel cathode-ray tube display. This game was never very popular because the EDSAC computer was only available at the University of Cambridge, so there was no way to install it and play it anywhere else (until many years later when an EDSAC emulator was created available, and by that time many other excellent video games where available as well...).

1958: Tennis for Two

"Tennis for Two" was created by William Higinbotham, a physicist working at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. This game was made as a way of entertainment, so laboratory visitors had something funny to do during their wait on "visitors day" (finally!... a video game that was created "just for fun"...) . The game was pretty well designed for its era: the ball behavior was modified by several factors like gravity, wind velocity, position and angle of contact, etc.; you had to avoid the net as in real tennis, and many other things. The video game hardware included two "joysticks" (two controllers with a rotational knob and a push button each) connected to an analog console, and an oscilloscope as a display.

"Tennis for Two" is considered by many the first video game ever created. But once again, many others differ from that idea stating that "it was a computer game, not a video game" or "the output display was an oscilloscope, not a "raster" video display... so it does not qualify as a video game". But well... you can't please everyone...

It is also rumored that "Tennis for Two" was the inspiration for Atari's mega hit "Pong", but this rumor has always been strongly denied... for obvious reasons.

1961: Spacewar!

"Spacewar!" video game was created by Stephen Russell, with the help of J. Martin Graetz, Peter Samson, Alan Kotok, Wayne Witanen and Dan Edwards from MIT. By the 1960s, MIT was "the right choice" if you wanted to do computer research and development. So this half a dozen of innovative guys took advantage of a brand-new computer was ordered and expected to arrive campus very soon (a DEC PDP-1) and started thinking about what kind of hardware testing programs would be made. When they found out that a "Precision CRT Display" would be installed to the system, they instantly decided that "some sort of visual/interactive game" would be the demonstration software of choice for the PDP-1. And after some discussion, it was soon decided to be a space battle game or something similar. After this decision, all other ideas came out pretty quick: like rules of the game, designing concepts, programming ideas, and so forth.

So after about 200 man/hours of work, the first version of the game was at last ready to be tested. The game consisted of two spaceships (affectively named by players "pencil" and "wedge") shooting missiles at each other with a star in the middle of the display (which "pulls" both spaceships because of its gravitational force). A set of control switches was used to control each spaceship (for rotation, speed, missiles, and "hyperspace"). Each spaceship have a limited amount of fuel and weapons, and the hyperspace option was like a "panic button", in case there is no other way out (it could either "save you or break you").

The computer game was an instant success between MIT students and programmers, and soon they started making their own changes to the game program (like real star charts for background, star/no star option, background disable option, angular momentum option, among others). The game code was ported to many other computer platforms (since the game required a video display, a hard to find option in 1960s systems, it was mostly ported to newer/cheaper DEC systems like the PDP-10 and PDP-11).

Spacewar! is not only considered by many as the first "real" video game (since this game does have a video display), but it also have been proved to be the true predecessor of the original arcade game, as well as being the inspiration of many other video games, consoles, and even video gaming companies (can you say "Atari"?...). But that's another story, arcade games as well as console video games were written in a different page of the history of video games (so stay tuned for future articles on these subjects).

So here they are, the "First Video Game" nominees. Which one do you think is the first video game ever made?... If you ask me, I think all these games were revolutionary for its era, and should be credited as a whole as the beginners of the video gaming revolution. Instead of looking for which one was the first video game, what is really important is that they were created, period. As the creator of "Spacewar!", Stephen Rusell, once said: "If I hadn't done it, someone would have done something equally exciting or even better in the next six months. I just happened to get there first".

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How to Wear Glasses With Style

Glasses don’t just improve how you see. If you wear them the right way, they can also improve how you look. The perfect glasses can complement your wardrobe and speak about your personality and sense of style.

Before we discuss how to wear glasses with style, let’s try to have a clearer idea of how they started.

The History

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Many people think that Benjamin Franklin invented glasses. The truth, however, is that the idea has been around for years before he made bifocal lenses.

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In the 18th century, there were scientists tinkering with the idea of tinting corrective lenses in an attempt to help people see better. It wasn’t until 1929 that Foster Grant, a comb manufacturer, took advantage of a brand new technology known as “injection molding” and started to mass produce sunglasses. They were sold on the Boardwalk at Atlantic City.

Unfortunately, the trend wasn’t a hit right away. During the World War II, Ray-Ban, known then by their parent company Bausch and Lomb, invented the now wildly-popular aviator sunglasses.

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How Can Glasses Compliment Your Look?

To get started, you need to find glasses that will compliment the shape of your face. The trick is to find frames that are slightly wider than your face.

Look for frames that mimic or highlight your brow line. For round face, look for strong angles to create contrast. If you have an oval face, look for features that are bold but will compliment the rest of your facial features.

If you have a square face, oval-shaped frames are great in making your features softer. Look for glasses with wider frames if your face is heart-shaped. This will balance out your features.

Hollywood Has Been Creating Icons Out Of Glasses For Decades

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Back in 1961, Audrey Hepburn donned a pair of Oliver Goldsmith Manhattan sunglasses. There was one company that signed a contract with a Hollywood studio in 1982 that propelled those glasses to decades-long fame and fortune: Bausch and Lomb.

Before that contract, the company had sold a measly 18,000 units. After that, their sales went from 360,000 in the first year to 1.5 million just a few years later. Some of their “biggest hits” included:

In 1971, Clint Eastwood played Harry Callahan in Dirty Harry, donning an iconic pair of Ray-Ban 4089 Balloramas.

In 1983, Tom Cruise played Joel Goodman while wearing a pair of Ray-Ban original Wayfarers

In 1986, Tom Cruise played Maverick in Top Gun, popularizing the Ray-Ban 3025 Aviators.

In 1986, Matthew Broderick played Ferris Bueller in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, rocking a pair of Ray-Ban Classic Clubmasters.

In 1992, Denzel Washington played Malcolm X, donning a pair of Ray-Ban RX-5154 Clubmasters.

In 1997, Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones played Agents J and K in Men In Black, popularizing the Ray-Ban Predator 2 style

It’s not just Ray-Bans that have become popular in Hollywood films but that 1982 deal has certainly paid off in spades. If you’re looking to add Hollywood style to your choice in eyewear, learn more about iconic frames in Hollywood from this infographic!

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focal point (n.) the point at which rays or waves meet after reflection or refraction, or the point from which diverging rays or waves appear to proceed.

psychoanalysis (n.) a therapeutic method of treating mental disorders by investigating the interaction of conscious and unconscious elements in the mind and bringing repressed fears and conflicts into the conscious mind.

Mesoamerica the central region of America, from central Mexico to Nicaragua, especially as a region of ancient civilizations and Aboriginal cultures before the arrival of the Spanish settlers.

Etruscan (adj.) of ancient Etruria, especially its pre-Roman civilization and physical remains.

kouros (n.) the modern term given to a type of free-standing ancient Greek sculpture of the Archaic period depicting nude male youths. In Ancient Greek kouros means "youth, boy, especially of noble rank." (Korai [plural of kore] are the youthful female equivalent of kouros statues.) [source]

kore (n.) the modern term given to a type of free-standing ancient Greek sculpture of the Archaic period depicting nude female youths. (Kouroi [plural of kouros] are the youthful male equivalent of kore statues.) [source]

Gaul an ancient region of Europe, corresponding to modern France, Belgium, the south Netherlands, southwest Germany, and north Italy. The area was settled by groups of Celts, who had begun migration across the Rhine in 900 BC, spreading further south beyond the Alps from 400 BC. The area south of the Alps was conquered in 222 BC by the Romans, who called it Cisalpine Gaul. The area north of the Alps, known to the Romans as Transalpine Gaul, was taken by Julius Caesar between 58 and 51 BC. Within Transalpine Gaul the southern province became known as Gallia Narbonesis.

goldsmith (n.) a worker in gold, a manufacturer of gold articles.

baptistery (n.) the part of a church used for baptism.

curator (n.) an employee of a museum, art gallery, etc., responsible for the collections.

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• A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. – Laozi • A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent (which I cannot deny myself to be without being impious) will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart • A traveler without knowledge is a bird without wings. – Saadi • A wise man travels to discover himself. – James Russell Lowell • A wise traveler never despises his own country. – William Hazlitt • All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. – Martin Buber • All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveller learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time. – Paul Fussell • All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. – Samuel Johnson • And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end. – Pico Iyer • And, obviously as a, as one who likes to travel around myself a lot, I think the Earth is a beautiful place. And, I’m looking forward to some new perspectives. – Duane G. Carey • As a dreamer of dreams and a travelin’ man, I have chalked up many a mile. Read dozens of books about heroes and crooks, and I learned much from both of their styles. – Jimmy Buffett • As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own. – Margaret Mead

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Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim’s time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort. – Aldous Huxley • Go at least once a year to a place you’ve never been before. – Dalai Lama • Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness. – Ray Bradbury • He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest. – Hernando Cortes • He travels the fastest who travels alone. – Rudyard Kipling • He who will travel far spares his steed. – Jean Racine • I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. – Mark Twain • I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. – Hilaire Belloc • I know all we’re doing is travelling without moving. Speed freak faster than a speedin’ bullet, slow down. If I don’t, I might just lose it, locked up. You’ve got me honey, locked up under heavy brakin’, yeah. 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Schulz • In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge. – Samuel Johnson • In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure – George Eliot • It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. – William Hazlitt • Let your memory be your travel bag. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn • Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations. – Oliver Goldsmith • Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. – Benjamin Disraeli Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry. – Jack Kerouac • Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole. – William S. Burroughs My home is in Heaven. I’m just traveling through this world. – Billy Graham • Never trust anything you read in a travel article. – Dave Barry • No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. – Lin Yutang • NOT I – NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself. – Walt Whitman • Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life – Michael Palin • Once the travel bug bites, there is no known antidote. – Michael Palin • Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. 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Chesterton • The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time. – Paul Fussell • The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one’s self to be acquainted with it. – Lord Chesterfield • There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. – Robert Louis Stevenson • There is a part of me that still wants to go out and grab a backpack and unplug – not take a cellphone or even a camera and just get out there and experience the world and travel. I have yet to do that, but someday I hope. – Emilio Estevez • They say travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind. – Gilbert K. Chesterton • Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live. – Hans Christian Andersen • To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted. – Bill Bryson • To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. – Robert Louis Stevenson • To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. – Aldous Huxley • To travel is to live. – Hans Christian Andersen • To travel is to take a journey into yourself. – Danny Kaye • Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations. – Elizabeth Drew • Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going. – Paul Theroux • Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs. – Susan Sontag • Travel brings power and love back into your life. – Rumi • Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection. – Lawrence Durrell • Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. 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Revisiting The 1994 Miniseries of Stephen King’s The Stand

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This article contains spoilers for the 1994 miniseries The Stand and likely the 2020 series by extension.

The Stand is considered by many, to this day, to be one of Stephen King’s three or four finest novels. It is certainly among his most beloved by longtime readers, because of its sheer size (more than 800 pages when originally published in 1978, more than 1,000 in the unexpurgated version released in 1990) and the scope and breadth of its storytelling. A hybrid of horror, apocalyptic sci-fi and epic fantasy (King has said he explicitly wanted to create a sort of modern day The Lord of the Rings), it’s an eerie, surreal tale of the fall of civilization and the battle for the souls of those left alive in the aftermath.

A motion picture adaptation was first announced on the back cover of the paperback version of the book (with George A. Romero directing), but to many, a miniseries seemed like the only way to adapt The Stand due to its sheer size. King was against the idea for a long time, famously saying, “You can’t have the end of the world brought to you by Charmin toilet tissue.” But King’s thinking eventually changed, and in 1992 ABC — which had scored a tremendous hit with a two-part, four-hour adaptation of King’s It two years earlier — gave The Stand the green light.

King, an executive producer on the project, wanted Mick Garris to direct it after the two had hit it off on the set of Sleepwalkers, a movie based on an original King screenplay. Unlike It and a second ABC/King miniseries, 1993’s The Tommyknockers — both of which had been four hours — The Stand was developed as a four-night, eight-hour event, containing a little over six hours of content after commercials. Budgeted at $26 million, featuring more than 125 speaking parts, and shot over six months in Utah, Las Vegas and other locations, The Stand premiered on ABC from May 8 – 11, 1994.

The Stand begins with the spread of a military-created bioweapon that becomes known as the superflu or Captain Trips after it escapes from a high-security lab. The flu’s 99% mortality rate ensures that human civilization is all but wiped out, although the remaining 1% is completely immune for reasons unexplained.

As the survivors in the U.S. struggle to stay alive in a post-apocalyptic wasteland filled with tens of millions of rotting corpses, they are plagued by mysterious dreams that draw them to one of two places. Some head for Boulder, Colorado, where it seems as if decent, “good” people are gathering around an elderly Black woman named Mother Abigail who claims to speak for God, while others of a less kind bent congregate in Las Vegas under the rule of Randall Flagg, a “dark man” with supernatural powers who is a powerful demon in human form.

As the two groups assemble, it becomes clear that a confrontation is shaping up, with four of the Boulder Free Zone’s leaders — and four of our main characters — eventually heading to Las Vegas where they will make their “stand” against Flagg.

Even with six hours to fill, King and Garris had to do quite a bit of condensing to fit The Stand into its format. Nevertheless, just about all the major plot points and characters from the book make it into the miniseries, even if some don’t quite get the development they deserve. Yet the show moves along at a decent if unhurried pace, giving one time to invest in the story and the characters enough to care about what happens and who survives (many don’t).

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The cast is a grab-bag of faces from both the big and small screen. Gary Sinise — months away from his breakout role in Forrest Gump — is absolutely perfect as Stu Redman, the Texas blue collar everyman who is among the first to make contact with the superflu and walk away unscathed. Also quite effective are Rob Lowe as the saintly deaf mute Nick Andros, who becomes one of the leaders of the Free Zone, Ray Walston as the sarcastic sociology professor Glen Bateman, and Bill Fagerbakke as the sweet, intellectually disabled Tom Cullen.

Less impressive but improving over the course of the six hours is Adam Storke as the self-centered rock musician Larry Underwood. Larry is a crucial character in The Stand: it’s his ability to evolve from a selfish narcissist to a leader willing to sacrifice himself that is key to the triumph of good over evil. Storke has his moments and Larry does blossom in the latter stages of the story, but he doesn’t pull off the character’s transformation as effectively as one might have hoped.

More compelling are Laura San Giacomo as Nadine Cross (a character who, in the show, is a hybrid of the book’s Nadine and Larry’s doomed traveling companion Rita Blakemoor) and Corin Nemec as Harold Lauder. The former has promised herself to Flagg, while the latter is an incel on steroids; together they plot a terrorist attack to kill the Free Zone’s leaders before skipping town for Vegas. They too are doomed, but their collision course with each other and their fate is decidedly repulsive.

Of the major “good” characters, it’s sad to say that Molly Ringwald just doesn’t pull her weight as Frannie Goldsmith, the pregnant young woman who is the object of Harold’s desire but whom ultimately falls in love with Stu. Ringwald comes across as naïve and whiny, and her acting here is a pale shadow of her glory years in movies like Sixteen Candles and Pretty in Pink. More effective, excellent in fact, is Miguel Ferrer as Lloyd Henreid, the small-time crook and killer who becomes the take-charge right hand man to Flagg in Las Vegas, and an over-the-top Matt Frewer as the Trashcan Man, a pyromaniac who Flagg entrusts with finding weapons left out in the Nevada desert by the government.

Which brings us to Flagg and his opposite, Mother Abigail. Flagg, a recurring embodiment of evil and treachery in many King novels and stories, was reportedly the hardest role to cast. Although King and Garris initially wanted a Hollywood star, they went with the lesser known Jamey Sheridan, who brings a kind of manic glee to the role even if his heavy metal wig is questionable. Ruby Dee was practically born to play Mother Abigail (she even told Fangoria magazine that “her whole life had been research” for the part), and while the character as originally written suffers from King’s tendency to create “magical Negros” for his stories, Dee still brings poignancy and dignity to the role.

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If we’ve spent a lot of time on the casting, that’s because The Stand really does live or die — and in this case it’s the former — on the strength of the characters and their relationships. Even if some of the acting is more on a typical TV level (or even below), Garris and King and their cast succeed in making you care about what happens to these people as they first survive the plague and then summon the fortitude to not just restart civilization but face an ultimate evil before they can barely catch a breath.

But Garris brings plenty of other effective touches to the show, starting with the panoramic vistas that he shoots to emphasize just how empty the world has become. The show does have an epic sweep to a lot of it, even with the restrictions of TV back in 1994, and W.G. Snuffy Walden’s (who is best known for scoring The West Wing) spare, evocative score goes a long way toward setting the melancholic yet ominous tone that Garris evokes through most of The Stand’s six hours.

There are also some truly memorable setpieces, starting with the opening tracking shot of corpses strewn all over the underground military lab to the tune of Blue Oyster Cult’s “(Don’t Fear) the Reaper.” Stu’s harrowing escape from the lab in which he is kept is pretty terrifying stuff for 1990s television, and while we wish Larry’s walk through a Lincoln Tunnel stuffed with dead cars and bodies lasted a bit longer, it still packs somewhat of a punch. Although Mother Abigail’s home is clearly a set on a soundstage, the moment in which she looks back at it as she leaves for Boulder, knowing she’ll never see it again, is quietly moving, as is the moment when Larry, Glen and Ralph Brentner (Peter Van Norden) have to leave an injured Stu behind on their long walk to Vegas.

The climax, the “stand” of the title, is problematic, but that’s possibly because it’s always been a hotly debated moment in the novel as well. Stu, Larry, Glen and Ralph are instructed by a dying Mother Abigail to walk to Vegas and confront Flagg. As we mentioned, only Larry, Glen and Ralph make it; Glen is shot to death by Lloyd Henreid in his cell, while Larry and Ralph are to be publicly executed by dismemberment, in front of the entire population of Vegas, on Flagg’s orders.

Just as the execution is getting underway, a radiation-sick Trashcan Man returns from the desert with a nuclear weapon in tow. With the men of the Free Zone having shown their worth to God by facing Flagg with courage and offering to give their lives to defeat him, the Almighty takes over from there. He turns a little ball of electricity that Flagg used to fry a traitor in the crowd into a manifestation of “the hand of God,” detonating the bomb and wiping out Flagg, his minions, and our selfless heroes.

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While many have criticized this scene in both the book and miniseries as a “deus ex machina” climax, it actually makes sense: the Free Zone heroes can only do much themselves against an immortal, powerful being like Flagg. They can weaken him, but they can’t quite destroy him. Once they’ve proven themselves, however, by standing up to Flagg and his unknowable evil with faith and courage, God finishes the job. The problem is that in the book, Larry and Ralph interpret the thing in the sky as the “hand of God.” In the miniseries, Garris made it look like an actual hand.

That adds a layer of cheesiness to what is otherwise a strong climax, as does having Mother Abigail’s disembodied, cooing head float above the crib of Frannie’s baby in the hospital during the closing moments, looking like a cutout picture of Ruby Dee’s face slapped on the glass window of the nursery. It’s effective and emotional to have the show close on a shot of the baby, sleeping peacefully and virus-free and metaphorically carrying the future on her tiny back, but the Abigail phantom almost ruins it.

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For all its faults — its dated view of the American populace (even with 99% percent of the world wiped out, there are far too few people of color among the survivors), its creaky fashions, its occasionally cut-rate visual effects and its uneven acting — The Stand still holds up pretty decently. Sinise and the stronger actors do much of the heavy lifting, the story and stakes are clearly laid out, and the viewer becomes involved in the characters and their struggle. Now more than 25 years later, The Stand is being adapted again by Josh Boone (The New Mutants) and Benjamin Cavell (King’s son Owen is also a producer and writer on the project). The 10-part miniseries will debut Thursday (December 17) on CBS All Access, and in addition to a different structure for the story, the series will feature a brand new ending written by Stephen King himself. In the meantime, the original 1994 version still has heart, plenty of it, and for King and Mick Garris, it was evidently a labor of love. It may be far from perfect, but one could say it stands on its own two feet.

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