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There are greeting cards that play music or smell like your favorite scent when you open them. Now, there are cards you can eat – sort of. American Greetings has come out with its new line of Tasties.
Each Tasty comes with a flavored, edible strip inside the card. The flavors include cupcakes, doughnuts and margaritas. Dissolvable flavor strips for the recipient to eat.
The possibilities of this could become a trend for many commercial printers. We have worked with a few that already use scented inks, and its only a matter of time until a printer near you applies this technology of taste!
With news that postage rates are going to increase once again. The print industry will need to contiune to look for new ways to entice design firms and others to continue printing their mailing pieces.
We have seen some pretty amazing innovations in the print industry already. A few of which that are combining print and digital media. Augmented Reality and RFID are a couple modernizations creating new experiences for consumers. However, those still appeal to the same senses, this innovation by American Greetings has added the sense of taste to the printing world.
My question to you is, will you try it?
Check out the newest sensory experience in the card aisle and get that cupcake taste without all that cupcake and calories!
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Great post Joyce! I actually tried a "tasty" recently.
I was in Las Vegas at a supermarket going through the Liqour aisles. There was a woman there giving samples of tequila…so I thought.
Yes she had the bottle of tequila out, however her samples were the strips similar to American Greetings tasties. Of course I wanted to try it! To adhere by state liquor laws, she ID'd me and sure enough I popped it in and it tasted similar to a shot of tequila without the burning sensation after throwing one down.
Not sure if there was alcohol in the strip, but a pretty interesting concept!
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its very strange. again, these were working in the morning, but now they are like this.
When I restart my computer, but before I login and ping it again, all succeed. As soon as I RDP in, the .131 and .132 both fail.
Im sure its not my end. I have a website sitting on the .132 and my phone and http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ says that the site is also down.
All statics are on the same nic and all configured the same way.
looks like the failed pings are not from RDP starting. While the machine is finishing up its boot it can be pinged on all of its ips, then they drop out.
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The 12 Costs of Cameron campaign, outlined in the graphics on this page, accuses the PM of doing the dirty on voters a dozen times over – leaving them on average £1,600 worse off than when he came to power.
David Cameron is savaged over childcare, rail fares and for bringing in the cruel Bedroom Tax – which the Sunday People is fighting to axe – while handing tax cuts to millionaires.
Setting out for the first time his key flashpoint ahead of the election on May 7, 2015, Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls writes in this paper: "When David Cameron and George Osborne try to claim their plan is working, it's no wonder most people reply: 'It's not working for us.'"
Labour leader Ed Miliband is pledging more homes, apprenticeships and help for small firms, as well as a freeze on energy costs.
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Pretty sweet plant. Maybe we need to get ours from off the bottom of the plant shelf and hanging somewhere more prominent. Matti
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Gumbo a la Rousseve
By Karinne Keithley
Copyright 2001 Karinne Keithley
David Rousseve is splendid. And I
bet his Grandma was too. Both of them figure in his tender, powerful, elevating
solo, "The Ten Year Chat," running this weekend at P.S. 122 and seen last night.
I was thoroughly willing to love him right from the beginning when, in his Grandma's
voice, he appears on a video screen and lets us in on some secrets of life. "Kick
some ass, shake some ass, and then fly yo' ass off to heaven." A map of the show.
There's something distinctly Southern
about the whole vibe of this show, and vibe is indeed the word. Allowed out of
our silent-observer-in-darkened-auditorium role, the audience is early on entreated
to join Rousseve in a Black church moment, as he preaches and we give him our
'Amen!'s and 'Hallelujah's. (One lucky person even gets a tambourine to bang.)
This coaxing-out is a major tool for Rousseve, bringing us right in to his world,
creating a warmth and noise he can later orchestrate into silence to poignant
effect. Even though it's clear that he's in full control, there's nothing confrontational
or even manipulative about his relationship to us. The invitation is genuine.
This encapsulates much about the show: It's tightly controlled, impeccably crafted,
and yet you feel somehow privy to a late-night confidence in the kitchen. You
look down, surprised to see your program where there should be a bowl of gumbo.
Let me spend a paragraph with some
details. Rousseve moves between monologues and movement, in each mode working
both in direct address and in portrayal. Often recounting childhood stories at
a microphone downstage, his mode is generally that of a story teller, but is occasionally
broken by theatrical device -- mostly the weaving in of physical/visual motifs
that will take on an emotional resonance as the evening progresses. He tells stories
about a rat he had as a child ("I loved him because he was 'flicted"), about integrated
school districts in Houston and role models ("Since I was knee high to a duck
I've wanted to be a large black woman who sings gospel"). He tells his grandmother's
stories then, preaches Aretha Franklin's Dr. Feelgood, and divulges his show business
beginnings in ludicrous soap operas. Content ranges from AIDS to aloneness to
race to the need for a father's love. But each end of the scale reaches towards
joy. I loved the dance which follows the preaching section, which used (as he
indicated it would before starting) a downtowny releasy vocabulary, but looked
mostly like the simple pleasure of dancing. Couched in the spirit of the show,
dancing is restored to a part of its nature which is often dried up by formalism
and by passive audiences in darkened rooms.
"The Ten Year Chat" is a testament
both to the consistency of a single artist's mind, and also the extent to which
performance is malleable, wide in its possible meanings and correlates. The piece
is, to a certain extent, a ten-year chat, an interweaving of ten years' worth
of material pulled from several projects. Reading through the press release after
the show, I learned that I had essentially seen a retrospective of Rousseve's
work -- The Creole Series (1990-1992), The Dream Series (1993-1995), The Love
Series (1996-1999) and his upcoming Jazz Project. What's unusual is that "The
Ten-Year Chat" in fact possesses a remarkable unity. The arc of the evening is
beautifully constructed. The movement sections are somehow absorbent, becoming
the text, with its various situations and implications, binding the text, and
then freeing us from it. The consistency lies in the way in which each episode
contains something very basic about a life reaching towards an endpoint which
is a freeing: a line of flight.
The show is lit beautifully by David
Ferri, who's never let a floor go without knowing it could possess a rising glow.
He can change a visually cluttered space into the most elegant of things. Rousseve
benefits from Ferri's lush architectural clarity. A fine pair of Davids.
Applauding at the show's end, I realized
that the performance had actually generated in me, outside of all convention,
the genuine impulse to clap -- to raise some noise in appreciation, an involuntary
physical response.
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By Errol Castens/NEMS Daily Journal
"The eye is not satisfied with seeing … ," we read in Ecclesiastes 1:8, and I'm a testament to its truth. The blazing summer bloom of butterfly weed, the soulful depths of my wife's eyes and the wistful ache of distant horizons can be so compelling that it hurts to look away.
Yet there are days when these pleasures and many more matter less than our younger selves ever dreamed they could.
It's not that we don't care anymore. It's not that we're morose, though we may take a certain joy in a measure of melancholy.
It's just that what we would have called in younger decades "resignation" or "giving up" or even "getting old," our middle-aged-and-older selves call "acceptance" and "appreciation" and "gratitude."
The compulsion to impress pretty girls gradually yields to the hope of sharing our values with our grandchildren.
Good reasons to stay up late get fewer, even though sleep comes less and less easily.
Temporal dreams, hammered by some harsh realities, develop an advanced degree of modesty. On the other hand, some of the insecurities that beset us in young adulthood seem almost as misplaced as the wails of a toddler over his spilled apple juice.
In the midst of obligations that beset from all sides like artillery, a front porch or a fireside recliner can seem like a welcoming old friend. A touch of boredom seems almost like a guilty pleasure.
Peace becomes a pearl of great price for which we'll sell everything else.
At some point, we realize we don't want to control the world anymore, or even our block. Experience with our own and other people's problems convinces us that any day we can control our own hands, feet, bladder and bowels is a good day.
There can come a day, though, when we don't control even that. We lose abilities. We lose freedoms. We lose loved ones.
Christian musician and theologian Michael Card phrases it thus:
"A thousand moments that belonged to us
That now will never be
By faith we hold a better dream inside our hearts
A time when our family will never have to be apart
Till then we struggle with just what it really means
And we will mourn the death of our beautiful dreams."
Maybe one purpose of such loss is to make us less enamored of this world and more enamored of the next – to forge that "better dream" of no tears, all joy.
An old gospel song may have phrased the thought I'm aiming at best of all. With every loss, "I've got more to go to Heaven for than I had yesterday."
To some the thought will seem morose; for some, it's a melancholy joy.
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"Director Bryan Singer acknowledges that the budget of "Superman Returns" is hovering near $250 million, though Warner Bros. execs are mum. Other studios are working on mega-pics with budgets north of $150 million: Disney's back-to-back "Pirates of the Caribbean" sequels, Paramount's "Mission: Impossible 3," Sony's "Spider-Man 3," Universal's "King Kong" and two other pics from WB, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" and a remake of "The Poseidon Adventure"..." (full details)
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"Roddy Piper is in talks to join the cast of "Sin Jin-Smyth", Ethan Dettenmaier's upcoming horror about two federal marshals, who man an isolated Federal Outpost in the American Midwest, who receive an emergency message one night to blitz across the border into the Kansas Badlands for the midnight prisoner transfer of man with no identity. Piper, is currently in talks to play an unspecified role in the film, which co-stars Richard Tyson and Reggie Bannister..." (full details)
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OverDrive CyberShelf Downloads now available on Kindle
Pikes Peak Library District is excited to announce that its eBook collection is now compatible with the world's bestselling eBook reader, the Amazon Kindle. Patrons can now download popular and classic eBooks to a Kindle device or any mobile device running the free Kindle app, such as iPhone, iPad, Android, and more. To get started, visit ppld.org/cybershelf.
PPLD also offers eBooks and audiobooks for use on a PC or Mac computer and popular mobile devices such as a smartphone, MP3 player, and eBook reader like the Barnes & Noble Nook and Sony Reader.
Kindle users can browse PPLD's collection of bestselling and classic eBooks from a PC or Mac computer, check out titles using a library card, and select "Get for Kindle" to deliver eBooks to their Kindle device or any device running the free Kindle app. Users who enjoy eBooks on Kindle will benefit from Amazon's Whispersync technology that synchronizes notes, highlights and last page read between their Kindle and free Kindle apps.
Watch the video below for a tutorial on checking out eBooks from PPLD's CyberShelf Downloads onto your Kindle. You can click here for printable instructions.
i can also still check out
i can also still check out regular books and Kindle books, right? thanks!
kindle question
Thinking of buying one but a friend of mine says; you can borrow from the library free but even when you return it early can't get another one till that due date has expired? Is this right?
Kindle Question/Limit on Kindle downloads?
You can actually have up to 20 things checked out from the cybershelf at once, so this information is incorrect. Your friend MIGHT be thinking of the Amazon Kindle Owner's Lending Library. At PPLD, you can borrow 20 at once.
great, it was a big move for
great, it was a big move for PPLD :)
Nook users can use CyberShelf
Nook users can use CyberShelf as well. Click on this link for more information:
Hello, Thanks for adding the
Hello, Thanks for adding the Kindle to your list of eReaders. I had two questions. 1.) how often do you add new books to be loaned out? 2.) May we make specific requests for books that you currently do not have available? Much thanks!
New eBooks
Thank you for your inquiry. We generally add books a couple of times a month. You can search for new books by selecting advanced search and using the drop down menu for date added.
To suggest a title, please go to the main page of the website. Click on *Get Titles Not in The Catalog* under the question on the left *How Do I?* Select the link under question #3 and log in with your card number and last name. Under format, choose CyberShelf eBook download or CyberShelf eAudio download.
Some publishers and authors do not make titles available for the library market. There are many titles that are available from vendors that we cannot purchase. Hopefully, the titles in which you are interested will be available.
Thank you again.
Returning books
You can also return books through your Amazon account.
Kindle return date
I can not find the due date for returning my Kindle library book. Where should i look? Thanks!
Kindle books
Thanks so much for giving us access to books for our Kindles. I've used it already and I think it's a great addition to a great library.
Kindle eBook Return
I asked this question while at the library - about how to return an eBook on Kindle.
I went home and downloaded several Library Books.. and found that in the Manage your Kindle area, the books show up.. and under the Action buttons... there is an option to Return the book.
Also.. for they other persons question... when I clicked the Cybershelf button Get it on Kindle.. my browser
(Chrome) opened a new tab to my Amazon Account and a page showing the book I had selected...
There was yello button to the right that said Get Library Book.. and when I clicked on that.. it took me to a new page that said my book had been downloaded (My kindle flickered almost immediately)
The last page.. was a page full of 1 Click purchases... you don't want to click them.. or you will buy them.
Anyway... I thought I would let you know.. since this program is so new..
Thanks for having Kindle books at the Library!!!
Kathleen Sheridan
Early return
I just bought a Kindle and was wondering if I finished a book before the due date, is there a way to return the book "earlY'.
kindle book check out
When I clicked on "get for kindle" it went straight to my amazon account and had a 1-click check-out, which I did (my mistake). I was charge 4.99 for the book. What did I do wrong? THanks!
Hi there. Give us a call at
Hi there. Give us a call at 389-8968. Perhaps there were two buttons with 1-click: a 1-click purchase button and a "get library book" button and you clicked the wrong one?
Yeah the kindle actually
Yeah the kindle actually looks pretty good nowadays. I think I might have to get one too. Soon. kat
Hi Al, 1. Yes 2. 5122 Kindle
Hi Al,
1. Yes
2. 5122 Kindle titles, 2403 are available right now.
3. You can choose to keep the title for either 1, 2, or 3 weeks.
Hope this helps!
YES! Thank you for being at
YES! Thank you for being at the forefront of technology! My wife and I have been dealing with major issues with the OverDrive app and now don't have to mess with it. Love this!
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College Hockey:Wentworth Rallies past Lebanon Valley For ECAC Northeast Title
Zelasko Nets Two; Leopards Erase Two-Goal Deficit En Route To Win
ANNVILLE, Pa. — Junior forward Jamie Weiss' empty-net goal with 54 seconds remaining in regulation proved to be the difference as Wentworth rallied to defeat Lebanon Valley, 5-4, and capture the ECAC Northeast championship.
Wentworth trailed early, falling behind 2-0 in the first 16 minutes. Junior forward Brian Yingling got the Flying Dutchmen on the board at 9:28 of the first on a power-play goal. Lebanon Valley doubled its lead 6:24 later, as junior defenseman Benjamin Kwon scored to make it a two-goal lead.
Wentworth cut the lead to one 38 seconds later, when junior forward Dave Zelasko scored a power-play tally at 16:30. The game would remain 2-1 for the rest of the first period.
Lebanon Valley increased its lead to 3-1 at 6:52 of the second, as freshman defenseman Adam Bonenberger scored a power-play goal. Zelasko brought the Leopards back within one with his second goal of the game at 15:54.
Freshman Matthew Robles' first collegiate goal could not have come at a better time, as he tied the game at 3 at 6:31 of the third period. The Leopards grabbed the lead for good on a junior Alex Marinkovich goal with 4:35 remaining in the contest.
With Lebanon Valley pulling the goalie for the extra attacker, Weiss took a feed from junior defenseman Zach Wotherspoon and deposited the puck in the empty net to give the Leopards a 5-3 lead.
The Flying Dutchman cut the lead to 5-4 with 22 seconds left in regulation, but could get no closer.
Junior goalie Jamie Vanek, the game's most valuable player, turned aside 29 saves. Lebanon Valley senior Kevin Block made 24 saves.
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Computer Task Group, Incorporated (CTG)
Q3 2013 Earnings Call
October 22, 2013 10:00 AM ET
James Culligan – Director, IR
James Boldt – Chairman, President and CEO
Brendan Harrington – SVP and CFO
Brian Kinstlinger – Sidoti & Company
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I'd now like to turn the conference over to our host, Director of Investor Relations, Jim Culligan. Please go ahead.
James Culligan
Thank you, Paul and good morning, everyone. We certainly appreciate your time and your interest in CTG.
On the call today we have CTG's CEO, Jim Boldt; and Brendan Harrington, Senior Vice President and CFO. Jim and Brendan are going to review the results for the third quarter of 2013, and then update you on the company's strategy and outlook. We'll follow with an opportunity for Q&A. If you don't have the news release discussing our financial results you could access it at the company's website at ctg.com.
Before we begin I want to mention that statements in the course of this conference call that state the company's or management's intentions, hopes, beliefs, expectations and predictions for the future are forward-looking statements. It's important to note that the company's actual results could differ materially from those projected.
Additional information concerning factors that could cause actual results to differ from those in the forward-looking statements is contained in our earnings release as well as in the company's SEC filings. You can find these at our website or the SEC's website at sec.gov. Please review our forward-looking statements in conjunction with these precautionary factors.
With that, I'd like to turn it over to Jim to begin the discussion.
James Boldt
Thanks, Jim and good morning everyone. This is Jim Boldt. I want to thank you for joining us this morning for our third quarter earnings conference call. As you saw in our news release our revenues decreased when compared to last year, as we continue to experience delays in healthcare project starts, as hospitals deal with lower reimbursements caused by sequester cuts and as we experienced a reduction in spending from a significant staffing customer.
Our focus on expense control helped our earnings per share to come in at the midpoint of our guidance and once again caused our operating margin to be 6%. I'm going to talk more about our results and what we see for the fourth quarter and the full year, but first I'm going to ask Brendan to start us off with a review of our financial results. Brendan?
Brendan Harrington
Thanks, Jim. Good morning, everyone. For the third quarter of 2013 CTG's revenue was $100.7 million, a decrease of $5.7 million compared to the third quarter of 2012. Third quarter 2013 had 63 billing days, the same as in the third quarter of 2012. Solutions revenue in the third quarter of 2013 totaled $40 million, a decrease of $4.2 million or 9.5% compared to the third quarter 2012, primarily due to lower revenue from electronic medical record projects. As a percentage of total revenue, Solutions revenue was 40% compared to 42% a year ago.
Staffing revenue in the quarter decreased $1.5 million or 2.5% to $60.7 million, reflecting reductions in staffing from a large client offset by higher demand for technical resources from several other clients.
Third quarter revenue from IBM, our largest customer, was $23 million compared with $28.3 million in the third quarter 2012. As a percent of total revenue, revenue from IBM decreased to 22.9% in the 2013 third quarter compared with 26.6% of total revenue in the 2012 third quarter. The revenue from IBM in the quarter was negatively impacted by approximately $1.2 million when compared with the third quarter of 2012, as a result of IBM's spin-off of its retail business to another large company. Although this change lowered our revenue from IBM the spin-off did not have a negative impact on CTG's overall revenue since we've retained the business with this new client.
Revenue from our European operations was $18.2 million, a 12% increase from the $16.3 million recorded in last year's third quarter. The effect of foreign currency fluctuation during the third quarter of 2013 increased consolidated revenue by approximately $1 million. On a local currency basis our European revenue increased 5.6% compared with the 2012 third quarter. Excluding the impact of the etrinity acquisition that we closed in February 2013, European revenue increased by 8% or 2.5% in constant currency.
Direct costs as a percentage of revenue were 79% in the third quarter compared with 78.3% in the third quarter of 2012, reflecting the decrease in the higher margin EMR revenue. SG&A expenses as a percent of revenue decreased to 15% from 15.8% in the third quarter of 2012, as a result of our disciplined cost management. The billable travel expenses included in the third quarter 2013 revenue and direct costs were $2.8 million. The billable travel expenses for the third quarter of 2012 totaled $3.3 million.
Third quarter operating income was $6.1 million, a decrease of approximately $300,000 or 4.3% year-over-year. Operating margin in the third quarter increased to 6% of revenue, a 10 basis point improvement from last year's 5.9%. The year-over-year decrease in operating income was due primarily to the decreases in our EMR revenue offset by lower SG&A expenses.
Net income in the third quarter was $3.9 million, an increase of $50,000 or 1.3% compared to the third quarter 2012. On a per-diluted share basis net income was $0.23 for the quarter, the same as in the third quarter of 2012.
The tax rate for the 2013 third quarter was 35.2% compared with 39% in the 2012 third quarter. The lower rate is primarily a result of the reversal of certain tax reserves and federal tax credits recorded in the third quarter of 2013 that did not occur in the third quarter 2012.
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A theologian uses two exemplars of postmodernity to argue against capitalism
By Fred Folmer
Talk about tapping into the zeitgeist: not long after his most recent book, Economies of Desire: Christianity and Capitalism in a Postmodern World (Baker Academic, 2012), was published, Methodist theologian Daniel Bell received a rather high-profile, if unwitting, endorsement of the most critical viewpoints he'd argued. While Bell's work is not well known outside academic and professional religious circles, the name of Pope Francis is probably one of the most recognizable on Planet Earth.
And so when—in a recent exhortation entitled "Evangelii Gaudium (Joy of the Gospel)"—Francis assailed the strain of economic thought that claims that freeing up the markets will necessarily lead to social justice, he brought high-profile attention to Bell's cause.
In his exhortation, the pope surprised (and/or delighted, confused or angered) many people by writing that such free-market philosophies express "a crude and naïve trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system." Francis returns to the motif of free markets as false gods several times in the document. "We have created new idols," he writes. "The worship of the ancient golden calf has returned in a new and ruthless guise in the idolatry of money and the dictatorship of an impersonal economy lacking a truly human purpose." In such a circumstance, Francis argues, "man is reduced to one of his needs alone: consumption."
In a similar vein, Bell centers his own argument on the idea that capitalism, particularly in its contemporary free-market purist and neoliberal variants, assumes the form of a false god. He even includes a chapter entitled "Capitalist Theology" in which he details what he says are capitalism's ontological and teleological claims about human beings, their social worlds and the nature of reality itself. Such claims, Bell argues, go against God's intentions for how humans are to relate to one another and to God. For Pope Francis as well as Daniel Bell, free-market-purist forms of capitalism are, in a word, sin.
But whereas Francis utilizes a method of argument that primarily is designed to appeal to one's moral sensibilities—"beliefs," if you will—Bell further deploys the resources of postmodern thinkers to make his case. He does this in part because he seeks to oppose capitalism's having become normative; for many people, capitalism's ontological/teleological claims and prerogatives have become common-sensical, and therefore are bound up with their very personhood—structuring thought patterns, life choices of all kinds and, most crucially for Bell, desires. A change in human subjectivity toward the kinds of claims Bell offers as an alternative to capitalism would therefore have to come at the level of desire, and postmodern thought, in his reckoning, offers resources for his sought-after destabilization of capitalist desire.
That's in part because postmodernists seek, among other things, to rethink long-held assumptions of modernity, particularly about the distinctive social locations of various "spheres," such as religion, politics and economics. And so whereas modernist thought might posit a separation between, say, the political sphere and the domestic sphere, a postmodernist might regard such a separation as a line fabricated for purposes of maintaining power of some kind (gender, racial/ethnic, state, class, etc.). The postmodernist might, for instance, point out that the organization of families, gender roles, household structures and disciplines, daily habits, presumptions and beliefs, and so on actually have a great deal to do with the way the political sphere—governments, laws, etc.—are understood and lived out.
Similarly, a postmodernist might further break down lines between the sacred and the secular, noting that "religious life" is lived in all kinds of ways that have nothing to do with theologians or churches; a modern focus on "beliefs" only scratches the surface of how religious sensibilities are formed, maintained and altered. Bell contends—correctly, I believe—that capitalism gains such a strong purchase on human personhood in part because these modern "spheres" (massive abstractions, all) are thought to be much more substantive than they actually are. This creates the widespread assumption that economic problems can have only economic solutions, and not, as Bell argues, solutions rooted in everyday human practices and desires. Since Bell's strategy is, as he writes, to move "beyond beliefs to consider the fundamental human power that is desire," he draws on postmodernists to help make his case.
Postmodern Theorizing
Bell's postmodernists of choice are the French thinkers Michel Foucault, who developed theories about the history of sexuality and the intermingling of knowledge, power and social discipline, and Gilles Deleuze, a philosopher whose best-known work focuses on the constant breakdown, via ever-shifting and multifaceted human desires, of "totalizing" structures such as capitalism and the state. One key question of the book is the extent to which these philosophers, whose work is not theological in any traditional use of the term, can be used in the service of an argument that is unabashedly theological in its claims about a God who desires that human beings should live, organize and understand themselves in certain ways.
From the outset, the results are quite mixed. Readers who have a familiarity with Deleuze and/or Foucault, as well as the writings and theory of Karl Marx, may find themselves scratching their head in puzzlement early on, when Bell twice refers to the two postmodernists, without qualification, as Marxists. And while it's true that Deleuze and Foucault share some of Marx's concerns, neither argued that institutional power principally stems from economic activity, or that human social life revolves around how labor power is organized—both key indicators of Marxist thought.* At the very least, Bell ought to provide a definition of a "Marxist," as he sees it, and then defend his contention that Foucault and Deleuze fit it. As it is, the claim doesn't inspire a lot of confidence in a reader that the two philosophers' work is going to be represented accurately.
However, as the book begins Bell shows exactly how Foucault and Deleuze's respective theories might provide ballast for his argument. He uses the work of both thinkers to challenge the idea that politics can be reduced to statecraft—that change comes from official channels, such as governmental organizations and laws, rather than from the huge array of minute desires from which people shape their selfhood. As Bell writes, Deleuze calls this arrangement the "micropolitics of desire." In Deleuze's line of thinking, the "organization of social space with the state at its summit," Bell writes, "is not the natural, given order of things." We have, according to Bell, "been captured by a statist habit of mind," and so pushing people out of this frame of mind is a first step toward helping them contemplate a way of life beyond capitalism. For Deleuze, this means that "the fundamental character of reality," in Bell's description, must be rethought. And because "reality is constituted by desire," human desires must be redirected. This idea dovetails with Deleuze's contention that capitalist structures—which depend on a modern understanding of the state, and vice versa—are flows of human desire channeled in a particular way. And since, as Bell writes (referencing Deleuze), "any and every assembly or organization of desire is inherently unstable," desires can always be pushed in a new direction.
To discuss particular ways that human desire is shaped through disciplines and habits, Bell turns to Foucault. As with Deleuze, Foucault argued that one needed to think beyond the state in order to understand how power operates. Rather, as Bell writes, Foucault believed that "power is better understood as omnipresent, as always already everywhere, with no single point of origin or source." Foucault called this power "governmentality," arguing that this entails the commingling of state power along with what he called "technologies of the self"—the myriad forms of public and private power in which personhood is shaped by forces that include, in Foucault's words, "discourses, institutions, architectural forms, regulatory decisions, laws, administrative measures, scientific statements, philosophical, moral and philanthropic propositions." In one of Foucault's most famous studies, Discipline and Punish, he argues that modern individuals internalize these forms of power, incorporating their dictates and prerogatives so that they cannot be separated from one's own personhood. "Government surveillance" then becomes a matter of the self-policing that is part and parcel of one's own psychic makeup. For Foucault, such is the "modern art of government," in Bell's words.
One of the effects of the governmentality of modernity, for Bell, is emergence of the conceptual individualism on which capitalism depends. Within this framework, individual interests can be understood to emerge completely apart from the control of states or any other social formations; rather, Bell writes, they are imagined to "naturally and spontaneously converge in the public interest." The public good can then only be conceived in terms of private good, and the public good necessarily shatters into billions of private dreams molded on desires fueled by capital markets. Bell applies Foucault's argument to what he calls today's "ultrarapid forms of free-floating control," in which market logic provides the terms for nearly every social setting or institution, be they churches, governments, hospitals, schools or organizations—a situation frequently called "neoliberalism." Under this form of power, Bell writes, individuals "must submit every aspect of their lives to the logic of the economic; they must be entrepreneurs of themselves." In effect, Bell writes, "we are governed through freedom," a key aspect of which is the freedom to consume endlessly variegated commodities as unquenchably as the market can make them available.
Considering that Foucault's subject was not capitalism per se but rather forms of power of which capitalism is only one aspect—making him, again, firmly not a Marxist—Bell provides some intriguing connections from Foucault's thought to his own arguments about the emergence and presumed naturalness of capitalism. In particular, Bell makes strong use of Foucault's genealogy of the supposedly self-governing, autonomous individual. Particularly when it is underscored by Bell's discussion of Deleuze, Foucault's account provides a compelling springboard into Bell's own theological claims. And while many of these claims will not be anything new to many readers, they nonetheless register, to Bell's credit, as assertions to take seriously anew.
Capitalism's Claims
According to Bell, the choice between capitalism and Christianity is quite stark; it is a matter of choosing between two masters; as Matthew 6:24 states, "you cannot serve God and money." Capitalism is its own ontological, moral and teleological system, brought on by the kinds of changes in modernity that Deleuze and Foucault describe; for Bell, "capitalism is nothing less than a theological revolution, involving radical changes not only in the circulation of material things but also in the nature of desire" (emphasis in original). What's more, "every economic system rests on either an implicit or explicit theology."
There are six aspects, according to Bell, of this capitalist theology. There's the previously mentioned individualism; individuals are set apart from social groups, and capitalism severs many traditional ties. Second, these autonomous, self-governing individuals are free to make choices of their own, and for Bell, this is a "negative freedom" from authority and tradition. Third, individuals are "interest maximizers," meeting their own needs first and foremost, absent of any sort of common good. Their desire is, fourth, "construed by capitalism as fundamentally insatiable"; it is ruled by the gospel of constant growth and the dictum that "more is better." Fifth, the natural state of all of these interest-maximizing individuals is that of a "war of all against all"; everyone is potentially a threat to the all-important pursuit of one's own interests. And sixth, justice, rather than being seen as a socially important good, is "strictly personal" and based on the enforcement of legal contracts; therefore, like its conception of freedom, it is strictly negative, insisting "only on noninterference in the free choices of others."
Underscoring all of this is the theology of the "invisible hand" of the marketplace, as famously theorized by Adam Smith; such an "invisible hand" indicates an understanding of a God that serves only to protect self-interests, not to promote social justice or point humans away from sin. If we are inescapably self-interested, as capitalist theorizers argued, this becomes "a claim that we will never be free from sin" (emphasis in original)—that scarcity and self-interest are simply the way of things and can never be redressed. Ultimately, Bell argues, this is a framework "founded on an idolatrous vision of God…that is atheistic, deistic, or Stoic."
One thing that ought to be said in response to Bell's argument is that while he cogently lays out the doctrines of capitalism as they are frequently articulated, actual human beings often do not live out these principles as completely as one might assume from reading the book. Traditional ties and group identities endure, despite capitalism's depredations; varying conceptions of social or collective justice remain. One senses a tendency here to mistake official doctrine, as argued by Milton Friedman or Friedrich Hayek (or latter-day libertarians) for humans' lived experience, which, more often than not, holds these things in tension rather than obliterating one for the other. To paraphrase scholar Bruno Latour, we are often not nearly as modern as we think we are. Nevertheless, when one considers how quickly many social formations and spaces are being privatized—and thus turned into commodities for consumption on the capitalist market—Bell's argument seems not only persuasive but urgently needed.
A Theologian's Response
Bell's theological strategy is to more or less respond to "capitalist theology" point by point. Thus, where capitalist defenders would argue that we are conceptually and ontologically alone, Bell's counterclaim is that "we are not alone"—and, further, the gathering of persons under God ("called the church," Bell reminds us) provides the antidote for the what the author sees as the idolatrous notion of strict autonomy. "[B]y means of the divine things in our midst—Word and sacrament, catechesis, order, and discipline," Bell writes, "human desire is being healed of its capitalist distortions and set free to partake of a different economic ordering." What's more, for Bell, the natural order of things is not of scarcity, as capitalism would have it, but of abundance. Even the usual narrative of the redemption on the cross, wherein Jesus "pays" for the sins of humanity, "reflects the ways that our imaginations have been so disciplined by the capitalist economy of desire." The cross, Bell argues, is a demonstration of God's economy of plenitude and generosity, which is boundless—a mirror image of the endless scarcity and self-interest promoted by capitalism's defenders. Desiring communion with others called by God—whereby "the love of self and the love of others, including God, is a single, unified love"—replaces the inherent selfishness and conflict embedded in capitalist desire.
While all this has its undeniably compelling aspects—many people, whether Christian or not, are likely to be drawn in by such a noble vision—at the same time it may seem fairly foreign to non-Christians, and particularly those who do not subscribe to a worldview that depends upon claims about a God as an agent who calls humans together for a specific purpose. This may be especially problematic because Bell's arguments apply not merely to Christians but rather try to articulate "a good that unites all of humanity." Also, there really is no separating Bell's ideas about humanity from his theological claims; one cannot have "communion" as he envisions it without an extrahuman agent that calls forth such a gathering. As with the aforementioned papal exhortation, there is a normative claim being made rather fervently, and if one does not accept it, one might find oneself consigned to a state of sin.
This is where Bell decisively parts company with Foucault and Deleuze, who, suffice it to say, did not make normative claims of this kind, as is typical of postmodern theorists whose project is to "deconstruct." While this departure initially seems as though it can be harmonized with Deleuze and Foucault's arguments—Bell's arguments are "postmodern" insofar as they question and seek to push past the assumptions of modernity—ultimately their differences show them to be incompatible in other ways, leaving one to wonder whether Bell's project of using them to make his argument was doomed from the start.
Desire and Power
Deleuze, though certainly an anticapitalist writer, makes no affirmative claims about what are appropriate kinds of desire; rather, his theories aim merely to describe how flows of human desire can destabilize centers of power, without articulating what an alternative should look like. In fact, Bell himself takes Deleuze to task for prescribing only further anarchy. "Deleuze's madness," he writes, "is not a break with capitalism but an intensification of it." Unlike Marx—or Bell—Deleuze has no teleology; there is no endpoint or ideal toward which human beings need to strive. We keep spinning forward as flows of desire break down barriers and mutate endlessly, "rhizomatically," to use Deleuze's famous wording. And while one could argue that this is a conceptual problem in Deleuze's thought, it nevertheless puts Bell's use of Deleuze into question, because Bell has offered Deleuze as a credible source of evidence as to how desire "really" works. But in the end, Deleuze and Bell fundamentally disagree on the nature of human desire. Bell thinks that desire "really" works to the glory of God, whereas Deleuze's work points to more or less the opposite claim—that "the glory of God" is a totalizing structure that can, and should, be destabilized.
The problems Bell has with Foucault are arguably even greater, because they illustrate Bell's skirting, if not outright elision, of the issue of power in the "communion" he envisions. Like Deleuze, Foucault did not prescribe a particular teleology; he was interested in problematizing the modern categories that helped to constrain and discipline subjectivity, and gender and sexuality in particular. Let's remember Foucault's central formulation: power is everywhere, and perhaps especially emanates from systems of thought that make claims about human morality. In this aspect, Foucault followed one of his key intellectual progenitors, Nietzsche. For Foucault, the basic claims about human beings that Bell makes would fundamentally be claims about power—power on a human, not a theological, scale—putting the two at odds over a fundamental assumption in their respective arguments. How, Foucault might ask, does Bell's "communion" happen? Only through what Foucault would call "capillary power"—the everyday work of shaping habits, sensibilities and, yes, desires to conform persons to a particular ontological/theological framework. In the end, Bell is asking readers to accept Foucault's logic (of deconstructing operations of power), but then to abandon this logic once an optimal theological/ontological vision has been reached. Foucault would have had none of this. For Foucault, the operations of power in reaching such a vision are exactly what would need to be put under the microscope.
Along these lines, there are indications in the book that Bell has overlooked important historical issues of power and discipline. For instance, contending that Christianity has long been about desire at least as much as it has been about "beliefs," Bell argues that "for much of its history, the church was understood as a workshop of desire, a hospital where desire that had been disordered by sin recovered its true direction toward God and the things of God." But in this description of desire, Bell never mentions the very public acts that the pre-Reformation church took in securing those desires. As anthropologist Talal Asad argues in his important book Genealogies of Religion, in the middle ages it was power that nurtured "true Christian dispositions," including "laws (imperial and ecclesiastical) and other sanctions (hellfire, death, salvation, good repute, peace) to the disciplinary activities of social institutions (family, school, city, church) and of human bodies (fasting, prayer, obedience, penance).
These variegated and far-reaching forms of power, Asad continues, "created the conditions for experiencing [religious] truth." In other words, Asad's argument implies, it was impossible to separate the political from the religious; these categories are creations of modernity, but would have been unintelligible in the pre-Reformation setting. And so if Bell seeks a return to a medieval understanding of Christianity as a model for how this tradition should shape human selfhood, his book would have been better served by articulating whether he thought this could be done absent the church's public, "political" powers—and, if so, explaining why such measures were no longer necessary or relevant.
A telling moment illustrating this elision is found in a footnote at the end of a paragraph discussing the numerous medieval Christian works of mercy, such as hospices and hospitals; these works, he writes, "permeated Christian society." In the footnote to this, he adds, "This is not to absolve medieval Christian practice of its failures and abuses." But a logical question arises: whether such "failures and abuses" might have been part and parcel of the very power that the church wielded in fomenting certain kinds of human desire. We simply do not get a glimpse of what a contemporary Christianity rethought to mold "all of humanity" into a "communion" would have to be, in terms of public power. This omission might very well lead observers—whether non-Christians or simply Christians whose assumptions are different from Bell's—to wonder whether Bell is really arguing that the only alternative to contemporary neoliberalism is a return to an authoritarian form of public religion that could brook no dissent (to say nothing of "pluralism," a notion that is never mentioned in the book) in its pursuit of communion.
That's not quite what Bell argues in the book, but given the implications of his arguments, the above wouldn't be an illogical conclusion to infer. Bell would like us to think beyond the state in asking how human desires are formed, but then doesn't provide a full picture of how power would circulate—what, exactly, "the state" (or whatever would replace it) would look like. One thing that mitigates this problem somewhat is that Bell's actual practical prescriptions are frequently more modest than his argument might suggest or imply. Following Augustine, he argues that the job of Christians is to dwell within the "earthly cities" of "disordered desire," serving as "nomads, refugees, exiles, sojourners, and pilgrims" whose task is to model Christian community and reform economic practice. As evidence that desire is "being healed of its capitalist distortions," Bell cites several "glimpses of the kingdom in its pilgrim form": the Catholic Worker Movement, New Monasticism and alternative fair-trade market practices. Change, he writes in the book's closing pages, "may not be a matter of one great leap or stride but many steps, many very small steps." We should start, in other words, with practice based on desiring this nexus of Christianity and economic/social justice, and then a new form of human co-existence could emerge; maybe, for all we know, "power" may be beside the point if such a community ever arose. Whatever questions may remain, there is no denying that there are compelling and challenging aspects to Bell's vision, ones that stir the imagination to what could be, rather than what "is." Still, given how tethered Bell's arguments are to particular theological claims—and given how fundamentally plural the world as we now know it is—it is hard, if not impossible, for some of us to think past the practicalities, and power arrangements, of how such a vision could come to fruition.
Fred Folmer, a graduate of New York University's M.A. program in Religious Studies, is a librarian at Connecticut College.
*Thanks to Jeremy Walton and Anthony Petro for their crucial thoughts on this particular point of discussion.


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SITE 2012--Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference
Mar 05, 2012
Paul Resta
Table of Contents
Number of papers: 862
Learning Literacy and Content Through Video Activities in Primary Education
Maaike Heitink, Petra Fisser & Susan McKenney, University of Twente, Netherlands
This case study research explored to what extent and in which ways teachers used Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPCK) and related competencies to implement video activities in primary... More
pp. 1363-1369
Digital Storytelling with Web 2.0: Perceptions of Pre-service Teachers in Special Education
Shawn Huisinga & Melissa Nail, Indiana State University, United States
Abstract: This study examined pre-service teachers' perceptions of creating and using digital stories in special education classrooms. During this study, pre-service teachers created a three... More
pp. 1370-1372
Practicing Teachers' Technology Integration: Projects that Mattered
Mary Kayler & Debra Sprague, George Mason University, United States
Using an intellectual developmental pedagogical framework (Magolda, 2004) and centering technological projects on a "real classroom need" became a powerful impetus for K-12 teachers enrolled in a... More
pp. 1373-1380
Driving Pre-Service Science Teachers' TPACK Development Through Their Generative Use Of Digital Video
Matthew Kearney, Kimberly Pressick-Kilborn & Damian Maher, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, Australia
An emerging body of literature explores the benefits of prospective science teachers creating and sharing digital video in their professional learning activities. A common theme is the facilitation... More
pp. 1381-1388
How iVideos Inspire Teacher Learning
Matthew Kearney, University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia., Australia
This paper reports on the findings of a study investigating the efficacy of learner-generated 'Ideas Video' tasks in pre-service teacher education. It explores the experiences of student teachers... More
pp. 1389-1396
Digital Storytelling in Senegal
Elizabeth Langran, Marymount University, United States
In 2010, a U.S. university received a three-year grant from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), through Higher Education for Development (HED), to support development of... More
pp. 1397-1399
Introducing TPCK to Pre-service Teachers through Digital Storytelling
Ellen Maddin, Northern Kentucky University, United States
The Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPCK) conceptual framework (Mishra & Koehler, 2006) provides a way to examine the complex relationships between content, technology and pedagogy in ... More
pp. 1400-1406
An Assessment Framework and Tools for Digital Storytelling Projects
Sara McNeil, Univ of Houston, United States; Bernard Robin, University of Houston, United States
This paper will describe a variety of ways that teachers can assess students' multimedia projects, and in particular, digital storytelling projects. The framework that we have developed has three... More
pp. 1407-1410
Digital Storytelling for Reflective Learning in Anatomy Education
Shu-chien Pan, Indiana State University, United States; David Dominguese, Indiana State Universityu, United States
The digital natives (Prensky, 200l) are familiar with multimedia learning devices and enjoy using these tools in their daily life. Schools are gradually implementing digital tools and applications ... More
pp. 1411-1415
The Use of Digital Storytelling to Promote Reflective Practice in Teacher Education
Carmen Pena & Isela Almaguer, The University of Texas - Pan American, United States
During the fall 2011 semester, a group of students in their first semester of the elementary education program at the University of Texas – Pan American was required to participate in 32 hours of... More
pp. 1416-1418
A supporting framework for the creation of digital stories and learning programming by the students within Kodu, Scratch and Storytelling Alice
Panagiotis Psomos, University of the Aegean, Greece, Greece; Maria Kordaki, University of the Aegean, Mytilene, Greece, Greece
Introduction to programming is one of the main challenges of the didactics of computer science since programming is usually difficult for novice users. Different teaching approaches are studied... More
pp. 1419-1424
What Practical Relevance Can Tell Us about Teacher Reflections on Experiences Expressed through Digital Storytelling
Chris Renda, University of Colorado Denver, United States
This paper presents the results of a study conducted at a university in the western United States, which compared practical relevance of reflection upon learning experiences expressed through... More
pp. 1425-1432
Lessons from the Trenches: What Educators Should Know about Teaching Digital Storytelling
Bernard Robin & Sara McNeil, University of Houston, United States
In this paper, the authors present some of the most important lessons they have learned from teaching courses, conducting workshops, writing articles and supervising graduate student research on... More
pp. 1433-1440
Digital Records of Practice: A Literature Review of Video Analysis in Teacher Practice
Michael M. Rook & Scott P. McDonald, The Pennsylvania State University, United States
Teachers must be provided opportunities in teacher education and professional development to reflect on their practice, engage in discourse around practice, and use cases of practice to improve and... More
pp. 1441-1446
Assessing the Effects of Digital Storytelling on Middle School English Language Learners
Christine Rosalia, Hunter College, CUNY, United States; Marcus Artigliere, I.S. 220, John J. Pershing School, United States
This paper is a report on the effects to student learning when students create multiple digital stories in the middle school English language-learning classroom. The researchers created a project ... More
pp. 1447-1450
National History Day: Using Technology as a Mindtool
Scott Scheuerell, Loras College, United States
Students in the National History Day program participate in a significant amount of research and share their findings in a variety of ways. The documentary or digital video category has become one... More
pp. 1451-1456
Digital Storytelling "My Memorable Teacher" by Future Teachers
Hitoshi Susono, Mie University, Japan
Preservice students at Mie University, Japan, had a digital storytelling (DST) project in their 2011 Educational Technology class. Each student created a short digital story on the theme "My... More
pp. 1457-1460
An Ethnographic Study of Children's Technology Use Outside the School
Lisa Twiss & Sarah Lohnes, Towson University, United States
What are children doing with technology when they are not in school? What are they learning from their technology when no one is looking, and how are they learning it? What are children thinking... More
pp. 1461-1463
Digital Storytelling: Notes from the Adolescent Rural World
Donna Wake, University of Central Arkansas, United States
This study explores the use of digital storytelling with middle school students in two rural Southern communities. Digital storytelling is easy to implement and is an engaging and powerful means... More
pp. 1464-1469
Creating Interactive Video Stories for Mobile Devices with Adobe Flash CS5.5: An Exploratory Mixed Methods Case Study
Robert Workman, Southern Connecticut State University, United States; Thomas Christ, University of Bridgeport, United States; Winnie Yu, Southern Connecticut State University, United States
This explanatory mixed methods research project examined how interactive multimedia digital story telling works as a topic to teach students how to create interactive multimedia web based... More
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2006-04-20 / Obituaries
Jason Baird
Memorial services for Jason Baird, 39, of Windthorst, but a former resident of Troup, were held April 19 at Windthorst Parish Hall in Windthorst, under direction of Aulds Funeral Home of Archer City.
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There's a solution here staring us in the face. We need to think of solutions to the challenges we are facing, it just needs a bit of imagination... 1. College pulls out of plans to open studio in Heanor town centre.
2. Heanor hospital needs rebuilding.
3. Visitors and patients to Heanor hospital need good access from the town centre.
4. New extra care facility being built in Heanor town centre.
5. Heanor Library needs rebuilding.
6. Sustained cuts in public sector funding.
7. Need to encourage people to use public transport more to reduce car usage where possible.
8. Heanor town centre increasingly blighted.
9. Heanor town centre businesses need footfall to sustain their businesses.
Is it just me but could we combine a smaller college offer, new hospital and new library on the college site in Heanor?
The original building would make a great library and college space. The post-war additions could be removed and a new hospital facility built. As part of the development the development could incorporate energy saving measures and green energy sources such as solar panels to keep the running costs low.
The existing library and hospital sites could be sold for family housing, generating money to help finance it all. If we were even more sensible, we could throw the fire station into the mix to ensure we keep the fire station in the town for years to come.
The new development could keep some or all of the car park on the college site. If the area used by the car park was needed for new buildings, the new building could rely on existing town centre car parks such as the underused Wilmot Street car park. This would mean people would walk past town centre shops as they walk to and from the new hospital, library and college site - thereby supporting increased town centre footfall that traders desperately need.
In London, this joined up thinking across public service and education providers is common.
Maybe we need to bring this joined up thinking here and kill a few birds with a cracking big stone of common sense. We'd solve a lot of problems with a simple solution.
What do other readers think?
Stefan Kruczkowski
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As we all know, the film Gravity, directed by Alfonso Cuarón, recently won several Oscar awards. Of those awards, three were based on the sound and score: Best Music–Original Score, Best Sound Editing, and Best Sound Mixing. That's a lot of awards for a category that moviegoers take for granted. In fact, most people don't notice how key the sound is to the film unless it's done poorly. Local sound professional James Alire (5J Media) reviewed Gravity back in October, and pretty much predicted its success.
In his article, Alire discusses how the landscape of sound truly sets the tone for a film. Cuarón made things tough for himself by setting a goal of ultra-realism for the film. Since there is no sound in space (sound can't transfer in a vacuum), the job of Sound Designer Glenn Freemantle and the Re-Recording Mixer Skip Lievsay was difficult to say the least. Let's just say that since NASA was involved in some of the sound effects, this film actually IS rocket science!
Music historians will love to learn that the score of the film, composed by Steven Price, was recorded at the famous Abbey Road Studios. Alire claims that the film is best seen not in 3D as most would assume, but in a theatre with Dolby Atmos©. He states that the film is a "great advertisement for what Dolby Atmos© can do for a film – even a film primarily using silence."
James Alire is 5J Media, a local sound shop specializing in indie films. He does everything from sound mixing, sound designing, and audio editing for film and video – with web design thrown in for good measure. Check out his full sound-focused review of Gravity here.


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