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Move Club #2: Brick The Official Plot Summary In a modern-day Southern California neighborhood and high school, student Brendan Frye's piercing intelligence spares no one. He's not afraid to back up his words with actions, and knows all the angles; yet he prefers to stay an outsider, and does - until the day that his ex-girlfriend, Emily, reaches out to him unexpectedly and then vanishes. His feelings for her still run deep; so much so, that he becomes consumed with finding his troubled inamorata. To find her, he enlists the aid of his only true peer, the Brain, while keeping the assistant vice principal only occasionally informed of what quickly becomes a dangerous investigation. Brendan's single-minded unearthing of students' secrets thrusts him headlong into the colliding social orbits of rich-girl sophisticate Laura, intimidating Tugger, substance-abusing Dode, seductive Kara, jock Brad and - most ominously - non-student the Pin. Only by gaining acceptance into the Pin's closely guarded inner circle of crime and punishment that Brendan will be able to uncover hard truths about himself, Emily and the suspects that he is getting closer to. nixon's take: It's the first feature film by director Rian Johnson (he did last years Looper), starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lucas Haas and Nora Zehetner. Basically a murder mystery at it's core, it's got the loner hero getting in over his head and the taking chances all for a woman he loved who was murdered. Almost noir in it's tone, but set with high school age characters, who seemingly never actually attend class. Ever. It kept on popping up in my "Netflix Think's You'll Like These Movies" list every time I'd go in to watch something, so I knew I had to see what the algorithm had in store for me. I enjoyed it quite a bit and am happy to share it with the rest of BF. Available on: Netflix Amazon Instant DVD/Blu-Ray
Holy shit - a movie I've seen. Worth noting - the pitch here is that this is done in the style of an old noir joint. Not almost - completely. Meaning that the dialog delivery and pacing and story beats are exactly calibrated to that. So if you've watched....I dunno, Double Indemnity and found it incomprehensible, you might have a problem here. I quite enjoyed it when I saw it, myself. Not sure I can remember quite enough to provide more information than I just did, but I do remember enjoying it quite a bit.
Damnit, not available on Netflix in Canada, I'm 99% sure it used to be, guess the time ran out on this. I'll have to figure out some other way of watching this.
I loved the heck out of Brick. It's one thing to have the precious idea of anachronistically doing a noir inside a modern high school setting - if there was ever an idea that screamed "first year film student", it's that one - but it's quite another to pull it off. Johnson makes the interesting choice to not shoot the movie in a noir style (visually, it's closer to something like River's Edge), which you would think would make the noir dialogue (and clever costuming) more jarring. Instead, it underscores how surprisingly easy it is to map the stereotypical noir world of thugs, criminals and femme fatales to the high school ecosystem. Of course, having a tremendous lead performance by Joseph Gordon Levitt helps. In fact, all the actors are good with the exception of Nora Zehetner, who granted at least looks the part of a noir female character but is sadly out of her depth when it comes to the acting. That's a fairly minor problem, though. In a world of boring-ass cookie-cutter Sundance relationship movies masquerading for "independent cinema" in America, it's incredibly refreshing to see an independent movie like Brick take some real risks with both style and content. Great pick, nixon66.
I saw this and loved it when it came out. It's like a classy standalone episode of Veronica Mars, with extra-stylized dialogue.
Kevin Smith has Johnson on this week's Smodcast. The first half of the interview is about everything up until Looper, so it might be a good companion to this week's discussion. Fun fact from that interview: there had been a bunch of high school movies around that time, so there were a lot of young-looking 20 somethings who were famous in Hollywood when Brick was going into production who were looking for something good. Because of that, and his casting director, Johnson got a much more experienced cast than a first time director on an indie high school noir movie could normally hope for. And half the $450,000 budget for the movie was put up by his father and grandfather, who introduced him to movies. When they sold the film to Focus for $2 million, he could write them big fat checks. Happiest day of his life. BTW, what a great excuse to watch this again.
i loved this movie! this was the first one that showed me jgl could act. it is weird seeing all those famous people in an indie film. claire from lost, the persuasive voice girl from heroes(i don't think she wasn't famous then). once in a while i had trouble keeping up with the dialog. and i could never take the dinner party with the femme fatale seriously. the eaten line and the english teacher's description was my favorite quotes from the movie. the fistfight with the jock and the end of the chase with the knife guy were amusing as hell to me. i felt bad for the pin's mom, though. feel free to skip the other noir high school movie, assassination of a high school president. that one wasn't anything special.
I tried to watch this when it came out to massive acclaim. I love old noir flicks but this one did nothing for me. :( Maybe I should give it another try, but it's hard to make myself do that when I hated it so much the first time.
(re)WATCHED IT. Hadn't seen it since it came out, and it's quite a bit more fun to watch it the second time. Joseph Gordon-Levitt's performance is just ridiculous, playing Brendon like a Chandler character caught in a Hammett novel. The only real issues I have with the movie are sometimes the sound mix makes the dialogue harder to hear than it should be and, like I said above, Nora Zehetner. She doesn't break the movie or anything, but she also never comes across as a person capable of the level of duplicity the script requires. Visually, though, it's actually quite a bit better than I remembered. The connection to River's Edge is still very strong, and like that movie Brick seems to inhabit secret places known only to teenagers - drainage sewers, empty lots, basements. It plays as an inversion of noir: where noirs traditionally deal in shadow and dense urban areas, Brick takes place in wide open spaces. The noir tropes and dialogue mesh up with this idea of the characters world living underneath the purview of adults, the way the criminal element does in a noir, only being noticed when they do something so wrong that adults are forced to notice. (To that end, there are hardly any adults in the movie at all, and seemingly no real authority.) Also, crucially, Brick doesn't ever wink at the audience. That's the thing I think that really sells it for me - if there was even the tiniest break in the noir conceit, the reality of the movie would shatter. It was a real treat to watch it again. Thanks for the pick, nixon66.
WATCHED IT I admire the attempt at high school noir but but ultimately it fails. The stylized dialogue suffered from poor sound/mumbling. Only JGL performed up the material and he sometimes raced through his lines. I think the director did indulge in some winking: The Pin's mom, The theater nerds as foot stools... Not dark enough to be Fargo not light enough to be Bugsy Malone
I don't think the scene with Pin's mom (which is hilarious) counts as winking. It serves a similar function to Brendon's scene with the assistant VP* to show how little attention are paid to the actions of the teenagers by the adult world (Or, in the Mom's case, perhaps just intense denial.) * I'm talking about Shaft! Can you dig it?
WATCHED IT For me this was also the first film I watched where I saw the talents of JGL. I remember I had to watch it twice in a row to understand it, even with subtitles. I mostely agree with madkevin, although I do think the scene with assistant VP Shaft is very appropriate for the noir trope (a private dick clashing with chief of police or something similar). The scene with Pin's mom didn't fit into anything like that, though it's also not an obvious or direct wink. I also thought that Nora Zehetner isn't right for the part, her delivery feels off which is very noticable next to JGL. This movie has one of my favourite scenes of all time, the chase scene. The tension is so high, and I don't often feel a physcial reaction to a movie but every time I watch this film my heartrate goes up at this particular scene, it's incredibly well done.
Oh, yeah, that scene completely fits in with noir cliche of having the private dick getting a tongue lashing from a higher authority as well. I should have made that more clear.
Yes that, but since you compared the scene with Pin's mom and this scene with each other I was more or less talking about that. Because where Shaft obviously fits in with the rest of the film, the Pin's mom feels kind of out of place. Not enough that it's an "We're breaking the trope, nudge nudge, wink wink", but still less appropriate than VP Shaft.
I remember being quite weirded out by this, up until the principal scene where it finally clicked, and I realised what the movie was.
WATCHED IT (again). I maintain that Nora Zehetner was cast because she looks like Mary Astor. I believe that hair clip in the last scene on the football field is right out of The Maltese Falcon. What's with Tug's head? Sometimes he has the blood dripping down, sometimes it seems to me like a birthmark, and in one scene he had bloodstains on his white cap. I was struck this time by all the birds around the Pin. I probably missed some too. There's a metal raven on his front mailbox. There's the stuffed raven next to him. There's the duck on his walking stick. There are bald eagles on his light fixtures in the basement. And when Dode gets what's coming to him ravens fly out of the tunnel. All the birds are black or metal. When Brendan goes to meet Laura on the football field, an entire flock of white birds (seagulls?) fly up. The evil has been purged, y'know? It's almost a John Woo film. The only real weirdness with the adults was in the big meet, which was supposed to be at 4am. The Pin's mom is serving milk to both the crews. I was fine with her being clueless when it was Brendan, Pin, and Tug, but c'mon, Mom. It's 4am and your house is crawling with thugs in black suits and other thugs in white t-shirts, and you're serving them milk? Also I remember when this came out a lot of my students didn't like it because Brendan was "the emo poster boy." He was the definition of emo back then, and the backlash against emo was in full swing. In watching it this time, I thought that if Brendan is emo, then every hard boiled dick ever was just a big emo baby.
WATCHED IT This was a mixed bag for me. The noir style, story and performances were decent for the most part. One thing I just couldn't get past was the high school setting and the jarring and forced moments with adults that struck me as the director screaming at me "THESE ARE JUST KIDS DOING CRAZY GROWN UP SHIT, DOESN'T THAT MAKE THIS SO HIP AND SMART OR SOMETHING??" and "LOOK AT HOW THAT ADULT PATS HIM ON THE HEAD AS SHE GIVES HIM APPLE JUICE!!" The only scene with an adult that worked at all for me was the vice principal. I think mostly because he didn't interact with Brendan as if he were a child but more as someone he respected and treated as someone who's capable. Also probably because he represents an actual character relevant to the plot. If this were done against a different backdrop he'd be the cop that our detective protagonist knows and deals with somewhat frequently when solving these cases. I think this either needed to more fully embrace the high school setting or just drop it and play the whole thing straight. As it is the high school angle just feels like some sort of tacked on marketing gimmick. Story wise I had a hard time accepting that Brendan had basically no reaction when he found out who killed Emily, we didn't even get a narration bit or anything, he just went on as if it was no big deal. I guess you could argue he had much more of it figured out by that point but the scene when he finds out is clearly set up to make both Brendan and the audience think that he's going to be accused of it and once we find out we get basically nothing. The random sickness that Brendan was suffering from also seemed far too convenient, a bit of weak writing there I think. I also had a hard time with Tug making the transition from the Pin's muscle to leader of his own gang, which we absolutely didn't even see until the very end.
I could be wrong here, but I interpreted that not as 'random sickness', but sickness that you get from being stomped in the gut multiple times by multiple people. I actually liked that, so often we see people in films just shrug serious injuries off, and here they made a serious effort to show that it most certainly does have an effect.
Maybe, it's just the how and when it affected him was simply too convenient, he was fine when the script needed him to be fine and impaired when the script needed him to be impaired. It was just a device used to create drama when the writer couldn't figure out another way of handling it.
Obviously, your opinions are you own, but I completely disagree with this. The cleverness of the high school angle is how easy it is to map noir to the environment of a high school. Classic noir is deeply concerned with social power structures (or, in the case of Chinatown, literal power structures), a theme you can trace all the way back to Fritz Lang's 1931 masterpiece M, which was a huge influence on the American noir cycle. The protagonist of a noir is usually a guy who stands just on the outside of these structures (that's why private dicks are such a staple - they're not quite police, and not quite thugs), able to move within the different circles while never really being a part of any of them. Right there, it's easy to see how the high school setting plays on that theme. Brendan is established as once being part of a more popular circle, but he's ostracized himself. He's known to people, but removed from them. Now, maybe that says more about my own high school experience than anything, but that is a very relatable part of being a teenager. The different circles map to different cliques - jocks, rich kids, druggies, theater drama queens, nerds like Brain.
Sure, it maps but the movie doesn't play on that to any significant degree. The vast majority of the time the fact that these are high school kids is irrelevant and most of the time they're doing things that high school kids simply don't do. As I said it either needed to embrace it more or drop it. Right now it's just sort of there with no real purpose other than to occasionally clobber the viewer with the fact. It could easily drop the high school part, say the characters are in the early twenties and have several of them live in the same apartment complex and you'd hardly have to change the script at all. I'd also have a much easier time believing the events and actions are those of twenty somethings rather 16 and 17 year olds. Most of the time I forgot they were teens, only to have it unnecessarily bludgeoned over my head and ruin any suspension of disbelief. I'll grant that the movie was good enough to make me forget again and keep me interested but it did this in spite the high school setting. I'm probably coming off as more negative, overall I enjoyed the movie it was just that every time I was reminded of the age and setting surrounding the characters I had to work to get over it again.
WATCHED IT I liked it. This sums up how I feel about the movie pretty well. I enjoyed it, and having seen it I'm satisfied with it, but while watching it there were times that I felt pulled entirely out of the film and reminded that it was being oh so clever by doing the high school/noir mashup, but then it would go back to being good and I'd settle back into the story. I'll probably watch it again some time.
Yeah, I think the movie would've been just as engrossing without the High school setting, even with the same actors, considering none of them look like actual high schoolers.
WATCHED IT Enjoyed this. Joseph Gordon-Levitt was obviously the best part of the film and most of the rest of the cast is good. I'd echo the thought that Nora Zehetner wasn't up to the task of being the femme fatale. She has the look but can't back it up. I was constantly surprised that Brendan would trust her at all. (Not that he really does) I haven't really watched all that much noir. Thankfully the dialogue never felt stilted - which is a credit to most of the actors. I'd echo the other comments made here that the high school setting wasn't all that great though. Besides the usage of the lockers as a message system and the brief (but excellent) interlude involving the Vice Principal it has no direct bearing on the story. Most of the characters also seem to exist outside of the high school setting. Absolutely none of them actually "take lunch" at the school; nor do they spend much actual time at the school. With regards to Gordon-Levitt they make sure to highlight his truancy. Whenever he is actually at school it is only a way to make him find a new clue to get away. The best part of the film is how Rian Johnson is able to frame shots. I believe the first shot we have of Brendan is that of his shoes and it is something which becomes a trend within the film. Several times there are long shots involving his shoes which culminate in the chase scene. That is probably the transitional scene where Gordon-Levitt's character "takes off his gumshoes" and goes in deep with the Pin. Doesn't hurt that it was a great sequence.
Glad many of you enjoyed the movie and got a chance to watch it again for many of you. My choices actually came down to a classic noir movie in Chinatown and then the high schoolish take of Brick. I went with the latter as I didn't think it as well known, but as usual Broken Forum surprises me and gives me the warm fuzzies. I'd agree that while the social structures of high school map well to the noir types they were going for, the movie didn't succeed in telling it's story well with believable teenaged kids. Which is fine. I still enjoyed the story they told a ton and look forward to watching this again in a while to enjoy it all over again.
(re)WATCHED IT a few nights back; had loved it the first time some years ago, and was happy to find out I still did now. (Some movies don't work out that way, which is always a sad thing.) As well as being really nicely shot, the sound design was usually effective too. There were the occasional bad moments of the mix making the dialogue hard to hear, a common enough crime in movie sound mixing (I'll never understand it), but especially a crime here. But then there were the scenes like that great foot chase, and everything coming to a violent head at the end, off-camera but heard from upstairs and off-camera in darkness, and the foley work was fantastic. I'm firmly in the camp that didn't mind the high school noir mashup in the slightest. The tropes mapped onto abstracted high school cliques well enough as well stated above. But also because I'm at peace with every movie, especially movies with teen characters, being stylized by nature. No one talks that smoothly, even in "realistic" non-noir approaches; no one's that cool or confident. But querying my inner teenage self, there wasn't a kid in the world who didn't wish that they did, who didn't see their own struggles and troubles as frought with terrific cool significance. I'm also in agreement with many others that the femme fatale didn't quite work, but she did her best, and didn't stick out too badly.


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AUSTIN, Texas - Lady Bird Johnson, the former first lady who championed conservation and worked tenaciously for the political career of her husband, former President Lyndon B. Johnson, died Wednesday, a family spokeswoman said. She was 94.
AUSTIN, Texas - Lady Bird Johnson died amid song and prayer as she spent her last moments with her two daughters, other family and friends at her bedside, a priest said Thursday.
At least Romney had binders. Binders full of qualified women to fill cabinet positions, that is. Democrats mercilessly pounded Romney for the binders comment he made during the 2012 presidential campaign, but I'll bet the Obama campaign now wishes Romney had passed the binders on to Obama since it seems he's having a hard time picking women to fill his second term cabinet positions.
Time magazine makes headlines every year by selecting a Person of the Year. It's great PR for the magazine and it prompts us to think about our times and the people who shape them.
The Medicaid Restoration plan put forth by Gov. Brewer is a prudent economic option that helps our state stay competitive while serving those who are most vulnerable. We need a solution that works with us to reinstate coverage for those in need, while remaining fiscally responsible by reigning in the out of control costs of uncompensated care. The Governor's plan is an excellent solution for Arizonans since it allows our hospitals and providers to continue giving the very best standard and quality of care, while reducing stress on taxpayers and the general fund to pay for the costs of uncompensated care.
As an individual with multiple sclerosis and a support group leader in the East Valley, I know how devastating the past few years have been for some of my friends and group members. I have seen people who have had to stop using their medication when their Medicaid was cut. When confronted with feeding their families or their medication, they had been forced to choose their families. One of my medications, the one that slows down the progression of the disease, is $4,324.09 per month. If my insurance company would not pay for it anymore, I would be forced to discontinue using the medication that allows me to live a normal life. It is a horrible choice to make. Please join me in encouraging the governor to expand the current Medicaid program. In a state that is as great as Arizona, we should not force our citizens to make choices like this one.
Washington's self-created "fiscal cliff" crisis has been somewhat resolved, which means we can continue ignoring the real fiscal crises that are dead ahead.
Medicaid expansion needed
Expanding Arizona's Medicaid program is vital to the wellbeing of children and their parents — our state's working poor. As Arizona's leading professional pediatric organization, we strongly urge support for Gov. Jan Brewer's proposal.
The fight to expand Medicaid in Arizona continues as Gov. Brewer pushes the Legislature to pursue legislation to expand coverage to include folks up to 133 percent of poverty guidelines.
As "Opponents of Brewer's Medicaid plan speak out" it rapidly becomes obvious that they are obsessed with forcing their personal, misguided value systems on we citizens.
Mr. Purcell's explanation of high Medicare costs are wide off the mark. America's health care costs lead the world for a very simple reason, we're the only developed nation that doesn't carefully limit at least health care prices; some limit total spending as well. We spend about 18 percent of GDP on health care, compared to 8 percent for competitors Japan and Korea, and 4 percent for Singapore. Taking aggressive action aka our competitors would free up at least $1.5 trillion per year, though admittedly, also shatter a few free market shibboleths.
Can there be any doubt that it has become little more than a game, run by and for the wealthiest 1 percent and corporate CEOs?
The Governor's plan to add more than 300,000 Arizonans to the Medicaid rolls will do nothing more than facilitate and expand ObamaCare. Voters clearly expressed their will to reject implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) via Proposition 106 in 2010. If this expansion goes through, nearly one fourth of all Arizonans will receive free taxpayer-paid medical care. This isn't a "safety net" for the poorest citizens. It is an incentive program for socialized medicine.
WASHINGTON - Republican Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona is hosting a film screening at the Capitol for a far-right Dutch lawmaker who claims that Islam inspires terrorism.
Many of us know them only as the stuffy portraits on the walls of our childhood classrooms. But America's presidents are a fascinating, eclectic lot: Some brought genius to the office, some forged greatness in the crucible of Washington politics, and some were freakier than a carnival sideshow.
Many of us know them only as the stuffy portraits on the walls of our childhood classrooms. But America's presidents are a fascinating, eclectic lot: Some brought genius to the office, some forged greatness in the crucible of Washington politics, and some were freakier than a carnival sideshow.
NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas - A bottle of Lone Star beer raised in one hand and his guitar in the other, Fred Andrews, the lead singer of Honeybrowne, toasted the crowd gathered around the old wooden stage in Gruene Hall with "Here's to all the ladies."
Donald H. Goldwater launched his candidacy for the governor's office by recalling his family's long ties to Arizona on Tuesday.
NEW YORK - Sotheby's has withdrawn from auction three papers related to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. after his estate claimed the documents being sold by Harry Belafonte are estate property.
A memorial park commemorating the late U.S. Sen. Barry Goldwater is nearing completion, though donations to cover the cost of a bronze statue of Arizona's most noteworthy political figure are still lagging.
The Arizona Legislature has gone from the fast track to stuck in the mud as lawmakers have become bogged down by the three key issues: Medicaid, sale taxes and the state budget.
Milt Lee was a barber then, and not a lot of barbers get to josh with presidents of the United States.
Last week's mid-term elections were benchmark elections -- but not how most people are inclined to think about them.
They raised the question as to whether President Obama's self-acknowledged setback was also one for Latinos, who have consistently supported the President.
To understand the implications for this country's 50 million Hispanics, some historical perspective helps.
As early as the 1960s, large swatches of the Hispanic population, back then demographically small, helped elect John Kennedy. Even with Lyndon Johnson, who claimed to be a friend of Hispanics in Texas, on the ticket, Latinos got little recognition or benefit for it. Johnson made the point to some community leaders that government had to be pushed and pressured to act.
In a nutshell, Hispanic civic and community improvement efforts became a movement for political intercession. Much of this history, leading up to George W. Bush's first year as president, was covered in my 2003 book, The Rise of Hispanic Political Power.
From the 1960s to the '90s, neighborhood-level organizing in support of local candidates drew attention to issues concerning public works, education and unfair practices that held back Latino economic development. The reality was that personal efforts went unrewarded unless the group was given the social respect that usually came following political gains. Personal betterment is more easily recognized after a community has political standing.
Congressional pioneers up to the 1970s were Rep. Manuel Luján, R-New Mexico, and three Democrats, Edward Roybal of California, Henry B. González of Texas, and in the Senate another New Mexican, Joseph Montoya.
The emerging Hispanic political culture has been especially consequential since the election of Jimmy Carter in 1976. In turn, the attention that Hispanics drew translated, at first slowly and then at a healthy pace, to economic improvements for their communities.
The Democratic Party sought to capitalize on a mass following of Latino working people; Republicans defined middle-class professionals and entrepreneurs as their best prospects. These were especially noteworthy during the Nixon, Reagan and both George Bush campaigns and administrations. The political movement was one for inclusion and not for alignment within any party.
It culminated the 1990s during the Clinton administration with the synchronization of a political economy leading to the largest ever Latino expansion into the middle class.
It coincided with the surge of Hispanic elected and appointed officials, who by 2010 had increased to more than 6,000. Such officials are the ones responsible for aiding state and national candidates, who depend on Latino help and expertise in voter registration drives and campaign infrastructure. The reciprocity has stirred a national consciousness on Latino issues.
Still, sloppy analysis and stereotyping have persisted since the '70s over whether Hispanics even show up to vote at all -- or are they fickle or Pavlovian voters?
The 2008 election of Barack Obama made it crystal clear that the Hispanic influence is abundant and here to stay as part of the national political culture, and will vote consistent with how it perceives its community interests.
By then, only the U.S. Supreme Court remained a government pillar lacking Hispanic inclusion. That was overcome with Obama's nomination and subsequent Senate confirmation of Judge Sonya Sotomayor to the Court.
With that, the beginning of the quest for responsive government through inclusion was completed in the civic life of U.S. Latinos was complete.
The 2010 mid-term elections established the first benchmark in the new phase, one that harmonizes Latino interests with national ones. Scholar Ilan Stavans once defined it as the "Hispanicization of the United States and the Anglocization of Hispanics."
The elections came at a time when U.S. society was seeking its own political responsiveness for its recovery from the financial crisis, recession and widespread unemployment. The national parties and Tea Party offshoot had been at loggerheads for more than a year.
The trademark attitudes for the 2010 redress have been reactionary and angry. They could -- or better said, should -- have borrowed a chapter from the Latino playbook by seeking progress instead of making yesterday sound like tomorrow.
They had the opportunity to approach candidates and issues constructively, with optimism instead of enmity, alienation and bad blood.
That is the essential yardstick for measuring who won and who lost.
NEXT WEEK: What the midterm elections forebode for Hispanics - in nuts and bolts of lightening.
Jose de la Isla writes a weekly commentary for Hispanic Link News Service. E-mail him at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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text: And there is the famous story of Suzanne Vega's "Tom's Diner," the song used by audio engineer Karlheinz Brandenburg to fine-tune the MP3 encoder. Brandenburg was putting the finishing touches on his compression algorithm when he heard Vega's hit playing down the hallway. "I was electrified," he later explained. "I knew it would be nearly impossible to compress this warm a capella voice." He listened to the song thousands of times, eventually figuring out a way to convert it into an MP3 while preserving the warmth of her performance. As reporter Hilmar Schmundt remarks, in an article noted by Sterne: "When an MP3 player compresses music by anyone from Courtney Love to Kenny G, it is replicating the way that Brandenburg heard Suzanne Vega.


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Tintin Cooper's artworks are curious deconstructions, informed by press and media imagery. Most recently these works have focused on the spectacle of football, the players and managers in relation to the audience. The collages weave and repeat images of sports heroes and managers. Faces are obscured in what visually resembles Cubist deconstruction, or on a more sinister level, the masking of facial features in the media as an attempt to conceal identity.
Disappearing (and remerging) is a common theme in Tintin Cooper's work as the figures and faces are obscured, reconfigured or simply cut away. The new figures (mostly footballer portraits) seem to exist partially in the physical world but also point to another, unknown mysterious world.
The new images are also particularly insightful to the mundane journey images face today, as they are spliced and mutated by designers, bloggers, media, and are in constant flux. Some of the works also seem to 'freeze' that process, for example they also resemble internet jpegs that are exploded into bits and bytes, whilst travelling through ether/cables and being reconfigured onto other computer screens worldwide.
In the past Tintin Cooper has also appropriated footage and images of emperors, football managers, Hollywood actors and politicians. The kingly and powerful, and their subsequent (or expected) downfall are implied across all the works, reflecting a cultural obsession with footballers and celebrities that is not dissimilar to earlier times where a dictator's images bought him, not only to fame and power, but close to divinity.
Tintin Cooper was born in Bangkok, Thailand and lives and works in Bangkok and London. She has been artist in resident at Silpakorn University (Bangkok), Tokyo Wonder Site (Tokyo), About Cafe-AARA (Bangkok), and Kurt Schwitter's Merzbarn (Lake District, UK). She has lectured and given talks at Mahidol, Chulalongkorn, Silpakorn and Bangkok Universities, and started the Conference of Birds project space in Bangkok. She recently completed her Masters at the Slade School of Fine Art, London, under an AHRC award during 2009-2011.
Recent exhibitions include Bangkok Reprise at Chulalongkorn Art Center in Bangkok, Props at Guest Projects in London, More to Love, ArtAids (ChiangMai, Bangkok and Barcelona), Face a Faces at Tang Gallery (Bangkok), Lifeboat 2251 at Gallery 4A, Sydney, and solo shows at PSG Gallery, Silpakorn University and Siam Art Space, both Bangkok. Museum exhibitions include Prenzlauer Museum, Berlin, CMU Museum in ChiangMai, and Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou.


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On Sunday, the Roman Catholic Church's new pontiff, Pope Francis, held his first canonization ceremony, and it was most certainly one for the record books. Francis named over 800 new saints during the ceremony, which is already nearly double the number of saints that were declared by Pope John Paul II, whose 480-some canonizations in total were more than those of all of his predecessors since 1588 combined.
Many of the 800 new saints are 15th century martyrs who were approved as a group for sainthood by Pope Francis' predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI. The 813 "Martyrs of Otranto" were beheaded by Ottoman soldiers for refusing to convert to Islam.
Francis, who is trying to improve the Catholic church's relationship with the Muslim world, attempted to handle the possibly awkward moment by declining to mention the word "Islam" in his entire speech marking the canonizations. Rather, Francis emphasized the Christian faith of the martyrs and a nod to ending inter-religious violence, stating:
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After that, successive governments held talks in an effort to end the historical acrimony.
But engagements were suspended in November 2008 after the terrorist assault on Mumbai, which left more than 160 people dead. India said Pakistani-based groups were behind that attack.
Over the past two years, India and Pakistan have held a series of high-level meetings in their bid to put their peace dialogue back on track, a process considered crucial to regional stability ahead of the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
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She was born on Feb. 23, 1939, in Galesburg to Lee and Opal (Hizey) Ward. She grew up in Galesburg, where she attended Galesburg High School, graduating in 1957.
On Oct. 11, 1962, in Miami, Okla., she married James F. Rogers. He survives of the home.
She worked for Dr. Phillip Eastep in Cherryvale from 1978 until her retirement in 2000.
Other survivors include three daughters, Jammy Froebe of Neodesha, Jennifer Culbertson of Lawrence and Rhonda Rohr of Altoona; a son, Mike Rogers of Tulsa; six grandchildren; a great-granddaughter; and two sisters, Nelva Drummond of Chanute and Beulah Barker of Thayer.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Lee and Opal Ward; and three brothers, Fred Bolinger, Ernie Ward and Wayne Ward.
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The "Kony 2012" video didn't so much create a furor over a problem long addressed as reduce a complicated mess in Uganda to "Let's get Kony"
While Taylor Maxwell vacationed in Florida during spring break in March, she found her inbox flooded with emails about the "Kony 2012" video campaign. Maxwell, a senior political philosophy major and co-president of the University of Virginia's Invisible Children chapter, discovered on Facebook that the advocacy group had released the Kony 2012 film.
The film featured heart-rending stories from the thousands of Ugandan children abducted, raped, and forced to serve in the militia of Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army. It quickly went viral, generating 87 million YouTube hits in just a few weeks. Almost overnight the plight of Ugandan children became a cause célèbre on college campuses.
But the film soon came under fire as misleading. Its director was arrested after a public meltdown. And with its credibility shot, Invisible Children itself seemed headed for invisibility, despite the continued support of students like Maxwell.
But the situation in Uganda is considerably more complicated than the controversy would suggest, say some who work in the country. The problem with the video, they say, is not merely that it re-opened a wound but that the furor reduced a much bigger problem down to a soundbite: "Let's get Kony."
Almost as soon as the video appeared, critics pointed out that military experts believe Kony left Uganda six years ago, retreating first to Sudan then to the Democratic Republic of Congo. He now is probably hiding in Central African Republic with a force U.S. officials believe has been reduced to about 250, WORLD Magazine reported. Sporadic raids still take place, but not the mass attacks that once threatened northern Ugandans, as portrayed in the film.
As the controversy unfolded, San Diego police announced that they had detained Kony 2012 director and film narrator Jason Russell after witnesses claimed (and YouTube videos seemed to confirm) he was pacing the streets naked while screaming incoherently and banging his fists on the pavement. The police found him in his underwear. The Kony 2012 follow up film, "Beyond Famous," unsurprisingly, generated much less attention: less than two million Youtube hits.
Maxwell says she still supports the organization. "It's such an important issue," Maxwell said, "and talking about [Russell's illness] instead of the thousands of children forced to become soldiers or sex slaves seems absurd to me."
Kony is still active; he abducted nearly 600 people last year according to the LRA crisis tracker. The girls become his sex slaves. The boys, his soldiers. Kony believes he is the recipient of prophecies from spirits and has kidnapped close to 30,000 children.
But the situation in Uganda is more complicated than the Kony 2012 film conveys or Invisible Children addresses, said Rae and Phil Wilmot. Rae Wilmot visited northern Uganda last summer, interacting with locals and visiting the capital city, Kampala. Phil Wilmot married a native Ugandan, Suzan, and lives there part of the year. Additionally, he is involved in grass roots restoration work in Uganda.
The Ugandan army has tried to arrest Kony since he was put on the International Criminal Court's most wanted list in 2005, but the military is guilty of human rights violations itself. "The Ugandan militia has done things very similar to what you hear of the LRA," Phil Wilmot said. "They were being paid to stop the LRA, but many saw it as a money-making venture." For example, the army would attack villages, but frame the attacks to appear as if they were committed by the LRA.
Additionally, various factions are struggling in Uganda and neighboring countries for control of valuable mineral resources such as copper, phosphate, cobalt, iron-ore, and gold. The mineral deposits like cassiterite and germanium in the Democratic Republic of the Congo provide the country's main source of income. Other minerals, like columbo-tantalite used in cell phones, are essential for Western technology.
"When power politics and guns get involved, you see a country that could be really blessed struggling," he said.
Wilmot said that he and his wife have switched to a cellphone provider, Earth Tones, that doesn't provide phones containing columbo-tantalite. "If you want to fix the situation, you have to be willing to make a change," Rae Wilmot said.
Phil Wilmot also called the Kony 2012 dehumanizing because it implied that the Ugandans are powerless to help themselves. He said that when Ugandans first saw the film, they threw rocks at the screen.
"The only way to help is to give them the authority to solve their own issues," Suzan Wilmot said. "Some people still think they can't survive without foreign aid."
The film reopened a wound in a healing country by showing images of LRA victims. "People are going back to their homes. People are doing well," Suzan Wilmot said. "The movie refreshed in the mind the problem, but it's not a problem anymore."
The bigger problem, she said, is the government's corruption. "The [main] problem Uganda has is it doesn't have a good government," Suzan Wilmot said. "The government is letting the people down."
Uganda is one of the most corrupt countries in the world, according to the Anti Corruption Coalition Uganda. Uganda ranks 2.4 on Transparency International's Corruption Perception's Index 2011 where a 0 is highly corrupt and a 10 is very clean.
The president of Uganda, Yoweri K. Museveni, abuses U.S. foreign aid, using it to support a luxurious lifestyle rather than help his needy people, according to Phil Wilmot. Additionally, Museveni has no real interest in capturing Kony, said Wilmot, because foreign aid would decrease after his capture.
These are some of the reasons why people like the University of Virginia's Maxwell still support Invisible Children. The human aspect of the victims presented in the Kony 2012 film was necessary to "understand why Kony is such an evil figure and how important it is to get Kony taken to justice," she said. "It's tough to make a documentary and not focus on the [human aspect]."
"Invisible Children wants to make sure that the Ugandans have a say in what's going on and are primarily responsible for creating a change," Maxwell said. She wished that the 30 minute film had included more information about the work Invisible Children does in Uganda: mentoring, educating, and rehabilitating.
Maxwell said that more people on campus have become aware of who Kony is and what he has done. "I no longer get the joke about 'Why if they're invisible do you need to help them?'" she said. "I'm relieved that people have a general understanding of the organization."
Invisible Children chapters at various schools, including the University of Virginia and Regent University, still participated in the "Cover the Night" event on April 20. "It will definitely make people ask questions," said Maxwell. "If people go online and search 'Kony 2012' that will be great."
However, Phil Wilmot suggests aiding Ugandan NGOs, churches, and other activist groups like Action for Change and Refugee Law Project. "Our global class privilege and power is silencing the efforts of agencies which actually understand the complicated mess that we have reduced to a single soundbite: 'Let's get Kony,'" Wilmot said.
This story first appeared on WORLD Virginia.


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Wärtsilä has received an order for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Platform Supply Vessels (PSVs). Norwegian operator Eidesvik Offshore has placed an order for its fifth gas PSV. All Eidesvik's gas PSVs, including this latest order, are designed by Wärtsilä and utilize Wärtsilä's unique dual-fuel technology. In addition to the complete design of the vessel, Wärtsilä's scope of supply for the new PSV includes the dual-fuel main engines and generating sets, the electrical power and propulsion system, integrated automation, and the power management system. The vessel will be fitted for use in arctic waters with 'winterization' and de-icing solutions, and is to be built at Kleven Verft in Norway. The new Wärtsilä VS 489 Gas PSV design represents a state-of-the-art vessel. It features outstanding energy efficiency, a unique hull form, fuel flexibility, and outstanding vessel performance in areas such as fuel economy and cargo capacity. The Eidesvik orders include a unique configuration of the gas electric propulsion system. This is based on a combination comprising the Low Loss Concept for Electric Propulsion, the Wärtsilä 34DF main engines, and the recently introduced Wärtsilä 20DF engine. The dual-fuel units enable, in addition to heavy fuel oil (HFO) and marine diesel oil (MDO), the use of gas as a main fuel for marine applications. Wärtsilä's ability to offer total concept solutions that include the design of the vessel, the propulsion plant, electrics and automation, and a host of fuel saving and environmentally sustainable options, has given the company a notable competitive edge - particularly in the area of specialty vessels such as Gas PSVs. The Wärtsilä 20DF engine is the latest addition to the company's complete portfolio of dual-fuel engines. This technology offers the marine sector numerous benefits, including the primary advantage of having the flexibility to utilize different fuels. At a time of uncertainty in the cost of liquid fuels, and as environmental legislation becomes increasingly stringent, this flexibility enables the use of cost-efficient and environmentally friendly LNG as the main fuel. In case of interruption to the gas supply, Wärtsilä DF engines automatically switch to diesel mode operation without any loss in speed or power output. Single fuel installations obviously lack this additional level of operational safety.
The Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) met for its 65th session from May 13-17 2013, at IMO Headquarters in London.
The 3600 TEU container ship, built under the supervision of Navgathi Marine by Hyundai Sambo delivered to Pacific International Lines. Hanjin Argentina is the
NAMJet to provide Traktor Jet propulsion system for the new oyster harvest vessel 'Pacific Express 1'. Washington ship builder Penn Cove Shellfish (dba Everest
A milestone was reached with the semi-launch of the first Triple-E at the shipyard in Okpo, Korea. To make room for completing the next ships, the drydock was
A cutting edge ferry, which is the second of two hybrid vessels, was launched on the Clyde today at Ferguson's shipyard in Port Glasgow. The ferries are being built
TTS Sets its sites on China to Achieve its Financial Goals TTS has set its sights on becoming a billion euro business and is focusing on China as a key growth driver.


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Thank you to all of our generous donors who made the 2013 Toy Fair collection the best Toy Bank collection to date! With the participation of 284 companies, we collected more than 42,000 toys worth more than $400,000 for children in need. Toy Fair toys were distributed across 19 different charities in the Toy Bank network and to children served by our national partners, CASA for Children and Boys and Girls Clubs of America Military Services.
Thank you to all of the Toy Fair exhibitors that donated to the collection!
For questions or concerns regarding the 2013 or upcoming 2014 Toy Fair collection, please contact Melissa Sorvillo at 646-520-4878 or firstname.lastname@example.com.