Monthly Archives: November 2009

The Fulsome Mr. Fox

By anewnadir | Published: 27 November 2009
Wes Anderson’s trajectory into animated features is anything if not logical. It’s fitting that his first foray into animation would also see his first explicit invocation of “existentialism” (to my recollection). “What’s it mean to be a fox, or to be an opossum?” George Clooney plaintively asks in the first 15 minutes of his film. [...]
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By anewnadir | Published: 25 November 2009
Torch lighting ceremony from the 1992 Barcelona Olympiad.
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white sands

By anewnadir | Published: 19 November 2009
White sands desert. A giant volcanic basin that doesn’t connect with a river that flows to the ocean…water collects in playas and evaporates, making gypsum crystals. The crystals are turned into tiny granules of gypsum by perpetual winds of ~40 mph. 30 miles squared of gypsum dunes that move 30 feet every year swallowing everything [...]
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who’s to bear the blame?

By anewnadir | Published: 19 November 2009
I don’t suppose that the suspects arrested for a murder in the Bronx know about the epistemological quandaries raised by their game of “hot potato”. They did seem to know that Carvett Gentles should be the one who shoots the target, for the simple reason that he didn’t yet have a criminal record. (One imagines [...]
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