Daily Archives: July 10, 2008

The Lingering, Unblinking Eye: Tracking Shot Basics From Two Film Students Who Seem to Know

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Put Your Head on Your Own Shoulder: A Modigliani Portrait of a Nude Woman Satisfied, for the Moment, with Herself Alone

Hair of body and head loose; a woman, not returning your gaze, draws into herself with eyes closed, self-contained. Cheek caresses shoulder. Her belly button is the scale of justice (and finds you wanting). Her thoughts go wherever they please.

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The Filmic Eye Meets The Victorian Eye: Tracking Shots and Sensuous Reading

Filmic tracking shots resemble the reading of a long sentence. Like reading a long sentence, a tracking shot requires the eye to follow an unbroken path, gathering bits of information along the way, and when it arrives at its end, it’s … Continue reading

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Onward Atheist Soldier?: Iraq Veteran Files Lawsuit Claiming There is a Climate of Discrimination Against Non-Christians in the Military

CNN has a story today about Army Spc. Jeremy Hall, a former Baptist, now atheist, who believes that there is a climate of discrimination against non-Christians in the military: Like many Christians, he said grace before dinner and read the … Continue reading

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The Significance of The “Gabriel Revelation” Tablet—Explained Through an Imaginary Dialogue Between Socrates and a Student

Student: Why, exactly, is the recently discovered “Gabriel Revelation” tablet supposedly so important to our understanding of Christian origins? If some people were already thinking, a generation before Jesus, about Isaiah 53 in messianic terms, why is this such a big … Continue reading

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Howard Roark Laughed—and So Did Gilgamesh: Nietzschean Creators v. Advice from the Herd

In William Blake’s “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell,” on plate 9, there is this aphorism: The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey. In other … Continue reading

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