![]() Music is experienced over time, whereasĪrchitecture is grasped as a spatial whole Its spatial proportions of width to height - 1/2.7 - enhance its ![]() Notre Dame nave, the canonic view experienced as a whole. In an era when museums and other building types emerge as a suitable place for musical ornament, and when expressive shapes can be produced digitally, architecture could reach its supreme condition once again and become its own particular kind of music. Their shared concerns can be seen in ceremonial architecture from the ancient Brodgar Stone Circle to concert halls, in structures that heighten the senses and make one perceive more sharply and emotionally. Many qualities unite these two art forms − and quite a few make them different − but it is the former I find compelling today. Indeed architecture as ‘frozen music’ had a long history of tracking its sister, the parallel art of harmonic and rhythmic order. Pater’s aphorism became a good prediction of the zeitgeist and the goal for abstract art in 30 years as the painters in Paris and elsewhere pursued a kind of visual equivalent of musical themes, and Expressionist and Cubist architects followed suit. ‘All art’ Walter Pater famously observed in 1877, ‘constantly aspires towards the condition of music.’ Why the music envy? Because, the standard answer goes, in abstract music the form and content − or in its case the sound and sense − are one integrated thing. ![]() Now, through digital expression, architecture can attain new heights of creative supremacy As abstract art forms based on rhythm, proportion and harmony, architecture and music share a clear cultural lineage. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In order for that to have maximum impact, we have to first establish what is real in this world before we can break it. In “Polybius Dreams,” we’re blending the use of film making tools like mise en scène and cinematic lighting with psychedelic and suggestive illustration. Not that there aren’t comics out there that do this… That seems obvious, but when you consider unreality of people’s psychological states in horror tales, it can become something truly great. To that end, the real strength of the medium is the ability it has to convey the unreal and fantastic. Perhaps these stories are rare across all mediums, but comics is the art form I view as having the greatest capacity for storytelling, so it’s important to me to use the tools of comic art to its full potential. I like those comics a lot, but it’s rare that we see thoughtful, psychologically dense emotional horror stories. ![]() In comics, horror is often the ironic morality play popularized by “Tales From the Crypt” and classic EC comics, or over-the-top, transgressive gore fests. Horror has a wonderful capacity to take our deep rooted fears and package them in way that not only makes them more palatable, but can lead to new insight into why we feel certain ways about things. I devour it, and more, I love to intellectualize it. How do you approach horror in “Polybius Dreams” and what do you think is the most effective way to convey it in the medium? Continued belowīG: I’m a horror junky. There are so many different elements and factors that have to go right for horror to work especially in a comic book. There’s a lot to unpack there, and it’s probably worthy of a long conversation unto itself. It could just be because all the people growing up then are in the 30-40 year old range and like relive the things that fascinated them in their youth, but it might be something more about that. All the cultural touchstones of that era never really went out of style, and for whatever reason, they all seem to be really big at this point in time. Punk exploded, so did the VHS market, and of course, video games became a big deal. Looking at the 80’s, we had a boom in popular culture that we are still seeing the effects of. I remember riding my BMX bike to the arcade and using the rolled up quarters I collected on paper route to play hours of games. The culture has obviously boomed and evolved into a diverse network of gamers across the globe, but in the early days it was a local scene. I know you can play classic arcade games where they are available, but the bulk of video gaming has moved to console systems or PCs. I used to hang out in arcades a lot when I was growing up, but they’re just not around in the way they were back then. What makes the 80’s the perfect setting for this story? Does the culture/morals at the time play a big role in the story?īG: Well, for one, it’s about an arcade machine. The nostalgia and the culture around arcade machines in the 80’s seems like the obvious choice for a setting for this story. When I nailed down exactly how I wanted to approach the legend and what kind of design motif I wanted to employ to illustrate the effect the game has on its player, I knew I had something really powerful on my hands. I saw a lot of potential for a dramatization of the story that addressed the social aspects of gaming and growing up with that debate. I’ve also been fascinated by gaming history, and the debate we seem to revisit every few years about whether video games are harmful. I kept thinking about it, and very quickly realized that this story connects conspiracy theories to media studies and the study of social problems. It was late at night, I was a little drunk, and after reading about it and finding some of the home programmed interpretations of the game, I was freaked out. During class, we were talking a lot about the role that media has in society, the relationship people have to it, and the real or perceived threat that it presents. What interested you about this urban legend and so much so to create a story around it? How has it evolved in what is now “Polybius Dreams”?īenjamin Grisanti: I discovered it at a time where I was studying media in graduate school. As someone who sits on unsolved crime, no sleep, and conspiracy subreddits at their work office all day I was familiar with the idea of Polybius. ![]() ![]() ![]() *This product image is only for reference. 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Micro Projectors are the new craze for professional presentations. ![]() ![]() "I loathe the crass and careless tourism which is springing up in Chernobyl. Julie McDowall, an expert on nuclear war, visited Chernobyl in 2017 and was upset to find that many tourists were littering and that one "stalker" had recently died attempting to climb the Soviet-era radar the Duga in order to take a selfie. Aficionados of the game often go on tours to visit the places where they killed zombies online. The video game Stalker, in which players shoot zombies, has a scene set in Chernobyl. Last year, the area hosted its first rave. Some tourists, particularly rowdy groups of British men, have started traveling to Chernobyl for bachelor parties. So far, none of the risks seem to be keeping tourists from visiting the exclusion zone. Some information was already available on the organizer's website before the tour." "We spent about 30 minutes in a bus going through generic radiation safety instructions and rules about not sitting, putting your stuff on the ground during the tour, picking up items, illegal smuggling, mostly forbidden drone usage. The actual instructions were given on the tour," Mikkonen continued. "After booking tickets there was an email sent to me with a list of basic advice about dressing, eating, and so on. "There were many selections available, so I chose the top rated day tour." "I found the tour by looking at 'things to do in Ukraine' on TripAdvisor," Mikkonen told Newsweek. During his visit, Mikkonen says that he noticed on Trip Adviser that it was possible to travel to Chernobyl. Juho Mikkonen, a resident of nearby Finland, took a week off from work in April to travel to Ukraine. 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There are also suggestions that the word pinochle comes from bis (until) and Knöchel (knuckle) because originally the game ended when a player rapped their knuckles on the table. ![]() It may come from the French word binocle literally meaning "two eyes", or "eyeglasses" or "binoculars", and was a reference to the mythical notion that the German game of Binocle was invented with a special deck where the Queen of Spades and Jack of Diamonds were pictured in side profile with just one eye each. The word pinochle has several different potential derivations. A second alternative is that Pinochle actually developed from the Swiss and, later, South German game of Binocle or Binokel, which in turn is a descendant of Bezique. One is that it is a cousin of Binokel, with both games evolving from the game of Bezique. Pinochle is thought to have two possible origins. The standard game today is called "partnership auction pinochle". Each hand is played in three phases: bidding, melds, and tricks. It is thus considered part of a "trick-and-meld" category which also includes the game belote. It is derived from the card game bezique players score points by trick-taking and also by forming combinations of cards into melds. Pinochle ( English: / ˈ p iː n ʌ k əl/), also called pinocle or penuchle, is a trick-taking, Ace-Ten card game typically for two to four players and played with a 48-card deck. ![]() The queen of spades and the jack of diamonds are the "pinochle" meld of pinochle.Ĥ in partnerships or 3 individually variants exist for 2–6 or 8 playersĤ8 (double 24 card deck) or 80 (quadruple 20 card deck) ![]() ![]() ![]() Whatever your preferences, there's a timepiece for you. If you're looking for an alarm that has a small footprint so it doesn't take up much space on your nightstand, you've come to the right place. 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