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Mistimed Magic - Technical mastery cant fix poor thinking.
We've all seen this, a stunningly rendered movie monster fills the screen, that shot cuts to the next where the actor stumbles back.... and it feels at total odds with the scene in which its placed, the cables on which you suspended you disbelief snap. In all honesty I could write this post on any from a huge list of films released in the last decade, but in this instance our case study be Jurassic World: Rebirth. (Partly because I've seen it recently), pertinently due to the
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Standing ovations for simple jokes - How outsized praise distorts outside perception.
We see this with regularity in the art world, some piece is held up, elevated by the oligarchs price or institutions praise, and we all scratch our heads wondering why? The artwork may not be bad, it may even be pleasant, but so can a 30cent pack of instant noodles, yet we aren't looking to pay fine dining prices for that or award them a Michelin star. This artwork and its sale/award then inevitably makes the papers, it becomes the soft story at the end of serious nightly new
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The collective is greater than the corporation - Artists against the machine
There are billions of dollars, euros, and pounds all being spent to tell you something, to sell you something, to set your expectations one way and raise your hackles the other. The GDP of a small nation is swung at you to ensure you buy another variant of an album by the latest variation of a manufactured pop star. A group of titans stands atop us, demanding ever more of our space, and that we pay a subscription for the privilege of what little we have left. So what differen
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