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Before they had Photoshop…

15 Saturday Dec 2012

Posted by Kat in An Aside, Creative inspirations

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headless portraits, Victorian portraiture

I saw this on BoingBoing a few days back and found it really rather charming. It’s a series of trick “headless” photographs from the Victorian era. I just loved the way the grim seriousness of the portraiture of the time (all the serious sitters) is undercut by the playfulness of the headless compositions.

This one is probably my favourite because of that incongruity:

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They seem rather straightlaced and traditional in the photo–and I love the idea that they must have in fact had a rather impish humour to pay for an elaborate “trick” photo like this one.  Continue reading →

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Question for fans of Doctor Who

08 Saturday Dec 2012

Posted by Kat in An Aside

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david tennant, Doctor who, regeneration, the tenth doctor

We watched the last David Tennant episode of Doctor Who a couple of nights ago. As with the previous regeneration episode (where Eccleston bowed out and Tennant took over), I am once again puzzled.

I understand why viewers are sad to see a given Doctor go, and also why his friends are sad about it. I even get why the actor playing the role might be sad. But it feels as if the doctor’s whole conflict around the regeneration episodes ties into trying to speak to that sadness, which comes from outside the doctor’s emotional experience.

I really don’t understand why, within the story, the Doctor is so conflicted. Assuming everything goes well, post-regeneration he appears to remember everything from before and it’s his same body that transforms. I know the character says something about dying, but for me dying has to do with there being some break in memories, in essential self or in something deep and fundamental. Concepts of rebirth or any sort of afterlife to me involve becoming something else, not just having the same body change form and superficial quirks, while retaining all memories and competencies as before.

To put it another way: if I got fatally injured and the cure for it was to transform my physical form, while retaining all aspects of my essential self, my memories and my acquired skills, this strikes me as a pretty good deal, frankly.

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The End of the Computer Age

01 Saturday Dec 2012

Posted by Kat in An Aside, concepts & analysis, My Take On:

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Age of the Cyborg, infernal devices, post-computers, room sized computer, technology

My husband and I were discussing today how phrases like “the Computer Age” and its variants have a kind of antiquated, outmoded feel to them. To me they conjure up visions of the past: room-sized computers with far less processing power than the average mobile phone, TRON-like mainframes and other such relics of the past. It was an age where anything seemed possible, artificial intelligence appeared to be right around the corner and the world’s problems would be solved by the new technologies (kind of like in the Victorian era, there was the sense that scientific inquiry would solve those same problems). It was hopeful, and every time the room-sized computer performed a complex calculation, it would be the subject of great wonder and accolades. Continue reading →

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