expelling sparks with wind-tossed tumble
I watched Shopgirl last night at the new Drexel Gateway theater on campus. With all the lukewarm to nonflattering reviews of the movie, I didn't expect much and was therefore pleasantly surprised with how good it was. Interestingly, while I was sitting in the theater waiting for the previews to begin, I was musing about how leading men in movies always seem to have the most generic professions possible. Even if he isn't the protagonist, a male main character in movies generally works as a lawyer, a doctor, or something in high finance. Obviously most people do not hold these postitions. Why must movies never choose specific details? I suppose they want everyone to identify with the characters as strongly as possible...
This got me to thinking, it would be interesting to me to have a mathematician portrayed in film incidentally. That is, his role in the movie has nothing whatsoever to do with his doing math, it just happens to be his job while the business of the movie gets on. I wondered how it would be portrayed, or at least how it could be done. Then, if you can believe it, Steve Martin plays a mathematician exactly as I had imagined in the movie I'm waiting to see. Even better, he's a logician!
Last night I downloaded a digital video capture of an Elliott Smith concert in 2002. With only an acoustic guitar...
Off running, and reading the new version on Yared's paper this afternoon.
This got me to thinking, it would be interesting to me to have a mathematician portrayed in film incidentally. That is, his role in the movie has nothing whatsoever to do with his doing math, it just happens to be his job while the business of the movie gets on. I wondered how it would be portrayed, or at least how it could be done. Then, if you can believe it, Steve Martin plays a mathematician exactly as I had imagined in the movie I'm waiting to see. Even better, he's a logician!
Last night I downloaded a digital video capture of an Elliott Smith concert in 2002. With only an acoustic guitar...
Off running, and reading the new version on Yared's paper this afternoon.
posted by Landon at 1:02 PM
1 Comments:
I think "The Singularity" is a technophilic masturbatory fantasy.
It reminds me of a time when someone once tried to convince me that something must exist because "it just made too much sense for it not to." Unfortunately for him, reality is not a function of his understanding of it and like all ontological proofs, it didn't hold water.
Ditto the Singularity. Mix a rudimentary understanding of computers with an imagination not limited by facts and you get this mess.
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