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In memory and honor of Laura Pollan
Although a few days have passed since the death of Laura Pollan, I have not been able to update the blog during this time. The following report not only serves as proof of the constant repression in Cuba, but also as a tribute to Laura, considering that this Lady in White dedicated the majority of her time to resisting the Cuban dictatorship and fighting for human rights. In my opinion, like in the opinion of many other Cubans inside and outside of the island, the death of Pollan was the fault of the Castro regime. Some have said that the strange infection which she suffered from during her last days, which led her to the intensive care unit of the Calixto Garcia Hospital, was the product of a lethal injection given to her at the hands of government mobs- a theory which I do not in any way doubt, for they are very capable of this and much worse, and this must be kept into consideration. And, let's say, that there was no lethal injection. Regardless, the reality is that the constant mob repudiation attacks, the brutal beatings, the blackmailing, and the harassment against this brave woman did play a crucial part in the deterioration of her health, and ultimately, her death.
The news of her death has been a very difficult blow for all Cubans, for that hurt, but not weak, resistance. Threatened, but not afraid. The example and spirit of Pollan will continue guiding the resistance, and no dictatorship can ever stop that.
Laura Pollan: A Cuban Repressed by the Regime, a Cuban Loved by her Compatriots
In less than two years, three known figures among the Cuban resistance have been killed by the Castro dictatorship- Orlando Zapata Tamayo in February of 2010, Juan Wilfredo Soto Garcia in May of 2011, and the most recent- Laura Pollan Toledo during this month of October 2011. And as has occurred after each one of these deaths, the funerary acts have been marked by the regime's repression against dissidents and all those family and friends who wished to pay their final tributes to the victim.
It was around 7 PM on Friday, October 14th, when the news arrived. "Laura Pollan has passed away", read various Tweets straight out of the island, after she had spent a little over a week in the intensive care unit of the Calixto Garcia Hospital in Havana. From the very moment that her death was confirmed, Cubans in and out of the island mobilized to express their solidarity, their pain, and deep frustration. In Miami, Cubans shocked by the news- among them Reina Luisa Tamayo- congregated outside the popular local Versailles Cuban Restaurant, while the Sanctuary of the Virgin of Charity kept its doors open all night, offering a place to pray for the soul of the dignified Lady in White.
In Cuba, the pain shared by dissidents and relatives of Pollan was not respected by the dictatorship, which was expected. The political police and the National Police carried out an aggressive operation throughout the island, including in Holguin where dissidents Caridad Caballero Batista and Isabel Pena Torres were trying to get to the local bus station to travel to Havana to be present in the wake of Laura Pollan and express their solidarity with her relatives. "It was around 2:40 AM when we were intercepted on the street by National Police and State Security agents who shoved us in police vehicles and took us to the the Pedernales Unit", the detainment center notorious for its completely dark cells and the aggression which functionaries treat inmates with, "The arrest was very violent, they pushed onto the vehicle, and State Security even gave orders to drag us through the floor". The activists were kept in separate cells. Caridad added that on Sunday, at around 4 in the afternoon, a lieutenant by the name of Armando Rivera snatched the few belongings of Isabel Pena Torres which included documents of her medical history. Upon seeing this document, officer Rivera tore it to pieces and threw them on the floor. After an interrogation session and an aggressive beat down, Isabel had to pick up the pieces herself. Caridad and Isabel were later released from the dark and humid cells at around 8 PM on Saturday.
Caridad Caballero also informed of other violent arrests in other eastern parts of the country. "In Velasco, Holguin, Yonart Rodriguez Avila and his mother Mariblanca Avila were both detained as they tried to head to Havana. Instead they spent the night in prison cells", while similarly "In Sagua, Anni Sarrion Romero and Milagros Leiva Ramirez, whom were traveling from Moa, were arrested at around 1:30 AM. Both women were beat off the bus by State Security and Political Police agents". Caballero adds that despite the fact that she was detained for hours, her home remained surrounded by government agents the entire time.
During that same somber night when the news of Laura Pollan began to spread, police vehicles and G2 (Secret Police) agents immediately surrounded the home of former political prisoner of conscience Jose Daniel Ferrer Garcia in the eastern town of Palmarito de Cauto. Ferrer's wife, Belkis Cantillo, also tried to get to the funeral of Laura Pollan together with Aime Garces and Tania Montoya. The three women were arrested at around 11 PM. They were taking to the Police Unit of Contramaestre and from there they were transferred to the the 3rd National Revolutionary Police Unit of Santiago de Cuba, where they remained until Monday. Various activists from the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU) also suffered violent arrests- Leudis Fajardo Rivera, Martín Ruíz González, Mario Antonio Brocal Borges, Bárbaro Tresol Verdecía, Omar Wilson Estévez, Omar Pérez Torres, Yilian Pérez Sarrión, and Gerardo Guerrero Sarrión.
In Manzanillo, dissidents from the Independent and Democratic Cuban Party (CID) denounced that various activists from this same group had been detained, among them Juan Eduardo Salgado Jurado, Enrique Piñeiro Azahares, Abdel Mecochini Avalos, Manuel Enrique Peláez, Ramón Enamorado and Roberto Jurado Salgado as they tried to get to Moncada Avenue where they would take part in the signing of the condolences book for Laura Pollan. A few hours later, Ubaldo Manuel León suffered a mob repudiation attack in that same town.
In Banes, on Sunday October 16th there was a mass held in which various attendees prayed for Laura. The mass was assisted by dissidents Marta Diaz Rondon and Vivian Tamayo Ramayo. Upon concluding the services, both Rondon and Ramayo tried traveling to Holguin to join in solidarity with their fellow detained dissidents but they were arrested at around 11:30 AM and released at 1:50 PM. Ariel Cruz Meneses, Rafael Meneses Pupo, and Dayami Romero Ortiz were also arrested, at around 7:00 AM and released at 12 in the afternoon.
Former political prisoner of conscience Pedro Arguelles Moran reported that on the same night of Laura's death, the regime's police forces surrounded his home in Ciego de Avila, impeding him, and anyone else inside, from stepping outside to travel to the capital. The situation was repeated throughout the country, in a wide range of cities and provinces, while in Havana, the Maseda-Pollan family (accompanied by dissidents and friends) bid their final farewells to Laura Pollan. She was cremated a few hours later. The pastor and independent blogger, Ricardo Medina was present during the wake with his wife Katia Sonia Martin, also a Lady in White. Medina provided religious services for Pollan and published an excellent account which detailed the emotions of that somber moment on his blog. He also reported that his wife, Katia, and other women were intercepted by State Security agents on Sunday October 16th as they were taking floral arrangements to the Santa Rita Church . The government agents snatched their flowers and hurled them on the floor, destroying the arrangement altogether. Katia also suffered an arrest.
Even among so much pain and repression, solidarity and international support emerges
Although this has been a very difficult stage for the Cuban resistance, it is also important to point out that the devastating news of Laura Pollan's death has also given way to an important emergence of solidarity amongst Cubans inside and outside of the island.
Some of these displays of solidarity have been:
Activists from the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU) demonstrated throughout the streets of Moa, Holguin, with signs which read 'Laura has not died' and 'Laura, we will continue your struggle'. In Santiago de Cuba, Father Jose Conrado decided to dedicate his Sunday mass in the Church of Santa Teresita to Laura Pollan, while archbishop Dionisio Garcia Ibanez did the same in another church. According to Jose Daniel Ferrer, various homes throughout the country declared themselves "in mourning", hanging up signs honoring the fallen leader of the Ladies in White.
"Although it has been very sad for all of us, The Ladies in White and Ladies in Support will continue fighting for freedom, just like Laura always did. For us, she has not died. Laura continues to be alive in spirit, and she will be among us and guiding us, giving us strength to continue fighting against those who assassinated her. And we can say that, yes, she was killed, the government killed Laura through their countless beatings and even the disease she suffered from in her last days, which we cannot rule out the possibility that it was contracted at the hands of government mobs", declares Caridad Caballero Batista from Holguin. From Placetas, Antunez declared through his Twitter account, "Laura, your brothers from the resistance are honoring you with the Resistance and Dignity Award", while in Havana, the blogger Yoani Sanchez sported a T-shirt with Laura Pollan's image all day in public, while also blogger Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo handed the family in mourning a book of condolences.
On Sunday, a mass was dedicated in Havana to Laura Pollan in the Church of Santa Rita. It was accompanied by the weekly march of the Ladies in White, for the first time without their leader. It was attended by her husband, Hector Maseda, as well as Berta Soler and her husband Angel Moya, including many other Ladies and White and dissidents. Berta Soler declared that the movement of the Ladies in White had suffered a very strong blow but that it is emerging with much more strength, and that they would continue to be active and united in the name of Laura Pollan.
In the United States, various political figures joined Cuban dissidents in solidarity, from president Barrack Obama to Cuban-American legislators such as Ileana Ros Lehtinen and Marco Rubio, as well as Florida State Senator Bill Nelson. Other international leaders, from countries such as Spain and France, also offered condolences.
Cuban exiles in Tampa announced that there will be a march in honor of Pollan on Sunday, October 23rd, while Cubans in Madrid- in their majority former political prisoners from the Black Spring- also dedicated a mass to Laura.
During the Sunday Mass of October 16th, Miami's Sanctuary for the Virgin of Charity (La Ermita de la Caridad) dedicated their services to Pollan, praying for her dignified soul. Attending were many former political prisoners and Ladies in White now in exile, who filled the sanctuary with white. The owner of Miami's popular Versailles Cuban Restaurant- Felipe Vals- hung various signs throughout the locale which read 'Zapata Lives and Laura Pollan Lives", along with a note of admiration on behalf of Vals to Pollan which was placed at the entrance of the constantly busy restaurant. And as soon as the news came out, Miami Dade College announced that it would offer a scholarship which would carry the name of Laura Pollan.
Also in Miami, a number of exiled Cuban women have called on the community to carry out a vigil in memory of Laura Pollan, as well as to denounce the atrocities committed by the regime which lead to her death. The activity will take place on Friday, October 21st and will include the presence of a diverse range of exiled pro-freedom organizations such as MAR por Cuba, the Coalition of Cuban American Women, the Cuban Democratic Directorate, Exile United, Young Cubans in Action, and the Rosa Parks Movement for Civil Rights (in exile). Meanwhile, Cuban musicians Gloria and Emilio Estefan have announced that they are planning a massive event in honor of Pollan and in solidarity with the Ladies in White and Cuban resistance in general. After the assassination of Orlando Zapata Tamayo on February of 2010 and after the brutal beat down of the Ladies in White on March of 2010, the Estefans carried out a march in Miami which was attended by more than 100,000 people marching down 8th street, dressed in white, and flowers at hand.
Another Cuban figure has joined the list of heroes and patriots which have lost their lives for dedicating their efforts for achieving Cuba's freedom, and although deeply pained, we can now say, with certainty (among many others) that Pedro Luis Boitel Lives! Orlando Zapata Tamayo Lives! Juan Wilfredo Soto Lives! and yes, Laura Pollan Lives!


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Amazing Spider-Man (2D), The (US - BD)
Gabe watches Peter Parker's categorically adequate return to film...
Teenage social outcast Peter (Andrew Garfield) spends his days trying to unravel the mystery of his own past and win the heart of his high school crush, Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone). A mysterious briefcase belonging to his father, who abandoned him when he was a child, leads Peter to his dad's former partner, Dr. Connors. The discovery of his father's secret will ultimately shape his destiny of becoming 'Spider-Man' and bring him face to face with Connors' villainous alter ego, the Lizard. (From Sony's official synopsis)
Sam Raimi had a mostly good run on his three Spider-Man movies. There's been quite a bit of retrospective backlash heaped upon his original 2002 film, much of it in the wake of the messy third film, but I wholeheartedly disagree with the sentiment. Spider-Man remains one of the most buoyant and entertaining of the post- X-Men superhero films, and is structurally the smoothest of the popular origin story motifs that have proliferated ever since. There's very little halving of the plot between the everyman's (boy's?) journey to herohood and the action movie thrust of his 'first adventure,' unlike, say, Batman Begins, Iron Man, Captain America, and just about every other mostly successful superhero movie, where the origin and 'first adventure' are sharply divided between two disparate sections. The Green Goblin's costume may have been a little stupid-looking and some of the effects work a bit ropey, but Raimi and screenwriter David Koepp got that origin story down pat. There's absolutely no reason to revisit it. The only more unnecessary revisiting of a superhero's origin story would be Superman's and there's no way any filmmaker would possibly make that mistake (cough, cough).
Yet here we are, a mere decade since that perfect origin story to 'first adventure' ratio and we're starting all the way from scratch with Marc Webb's made-in-committee, creative voice-less Amazing Spider-Man. Did Spider-Man need a reboot? I enjoyed at least half of the mostly reviled third movie in Raimi's series and even I tend to think it was time to move on (in a perfect world, Spider-Man 3 would've been given the time to be two movies and some of its biggest narrative and thematic lapses could've been avoided), but there's still absolutely no reason to re-tell the origin story from the ground up, wasting a huge swath of this new film's runtime on a whole load of stuff we already know. Changing the story a little doesn't even matter (much of it was taken from some of the less beloved comics and, strangely, Ang Lee's Hulk), nor does Peter's more obsessive and proactive approach in his hero's journey – it still comes down to more footage of a guy discovering powers and screaming 'woo!' a whole lot while finding his moral compass. There's not even any 'web-slinging' until 50 minutes into the movie. The Incredible Hulk and Punisher: War Zone both did fine jobs retelling the lead characters' origin stories with changes during the opening credits and in brief flashback, respectively (the quality from there is up for argument, but I seriously doubt anyone in the audience was confused). The only reason Batman Begins gets away with retelling Batman's origin is the fact that it had never been told directly on film. Well, unless you count Mask of the Phantasm. But most people didn't see that (tsk, tsk). The Batman brand was also in a deep shame spiral at the time and, no matter what you think about the overall quality of Spider-Man 3, it made more money at the domestic box-office than either of the other two already popular films in Raimi's trilogy.
I want to reiterate that I'm not acting as a Raimi fanboy that needed an additional movie in the original series. I agree with the producers, for the most part, that there weren't many places to take his version of the characters. Spider-Man 3 was also insanely, stupidly expensive and a whole lot of that money was spent on the cast's and Raimi's paychecks. A reboot made sense and so did a stylistic change. Webb mimicking Raimi's aesthetic would've been a mistake. I also get the impulse to go 'darker' with the material, following the wild success of The Dark Knight, even though I think it's wrong for the character (there are rumours that Sony opted to change the film's colour grading to something more vibrant after the far less serious The Avengers made a box office mint). The problem is that Webb and the producers (who, for all intents and purposes, really were the 'filmmakers' as I understand it, much like the travesty called X-Men Origins: Wolverine) got way too wrapped up in being 'dark' and missed the opportunity to make up for one of Raimi's most undeniable shortcomings in adapting Spider-Man/Peter Parker to the big screen – he still isn't very funny. They tossed a few more quips into the mix, but, if anything, Peter is even more mopey and despondent here than he was in Raimi's already excessively watery-eyed, frowny-faced portrayals.
I still haven't seen former music video superstar Webb's first film, (500)Days of Summer, so I don't really have much of an opinion on his directing abilities outside of this film. It doesn't mean much, since I have little confidence of his creative voice even appearing here, but he's certainly a capable button-pusher. He's very good with actors and his action work is usually pretty crisp, aside from the herky-jerky, nausea inducing P.O.V. shots. The school fight is downright great and a rare case of this production capturing the unadulterated joy I prefer from my Spider-Man franchises (it's entirely possible that a lion's share of credit is due to second unit director Vic Armstrong, who directed second unit action for Gangs of New York, War of the Worlds, the original Total Recall, and a number of James Bond films over the years). I'm not clear on why everything needs to be quite so consistently dark, but as inappropriate noir adaptations go, this is one of the better looking ones (is it ever plain old 'daytime' in New York or is it always sometime between dusk and dawn?). At times, I felt like I was watching David Fincher's version of Spider-Man, which makes sense – Webb took Andrew Garfield from The Social Network, so he might as well snag a technical element or two along with him. Webb's visual control is pretty well-maintained throughout, but his pacing is all over the place. Some of this is a case of the script having so much more story than it needs (origin story again), but plenty can still be blamed on bad storytelling choices on his part.
Raimi's films were very well cast. We all grew a bit tired of Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, and James Franco in those roles, but they worked very, very well for that first movie, and pretty, pretty well for the even more well-received second movie. However, if there's one thing about The Amazing Spider-Man that stands above Raimi's original, it is the cast (other than special effects and that's just a case of technological advances). The differences aren't massive, but Webb did very well by hiring Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone and I actually look forward to seeing more of them in sequels. Unfortunately, the version of Spider-Man/Peter Parker on the page isn't nearly as relatable or likeable as Maguire's and Garfield is forced to spend his considerable talents on a boorish, unlikable superhero. I can only assume this is the reboot character's version of 'growing pains' and that he'll be a little less Junior Batman next time around. I'm most torn between Webb and Raimi's films when it comes to Peter's relationship with Uncle Ben and Aunt May. This is perhaps the best example of The Amazing Spider-Man actually doing something different and succeeding on its own terms. Martin Sheen and Sally Field aren't necessarily better than Cliff Robertson and Rosemary Harris – they're enjoyable in a different way. Hell, I'll even give Webb and company the edge for the better, more crushing, and more thematically relevant Uncle Ben death scene, which counts for a lot when the entire audience knows exactly what is going to happen.
As a nerd (which is the absolutely worst place to come from, critically speaking), I'm actually more disappointed by the treatment of Dr. Curt Connors/The Lizard. Raimi's films arguably spent too much effort making the villains sympathetic, even changing long-standing character traits to make them less evil and more tragic (Dr. Octopus and The Sandman don't really represent their comic book counterparts, though; I'd call their underdeveloped version of Venom an improvement on almost every level). It was time for another villain as joyfully nasty as Willem Dafoe's Green Goblin. In an effort to not repeat Raimi's villains, the filmmakers here chose fan-favourite The Lizard – the most consistently sympathetic/tragic villain in Spider-Man's gallery – and turned him into self-obsessed, single-minded jerk. Not just a jerk, but a jerk that reminds me a lot of a sub-standard, poor man's version of Dafoe's Goblin. It makes sense, because both Connors and the Goblin's alter-ego Norman Osborn have acted as mentors/father-figures to Peter throughout the comics, but why cast someone as talented as Rhys Ifans to play such a flat version of a multi-layered, Jekyll and Hyde analogue? And why give him such a lame, nonsensical plan? Didn't someone think to tell him that Magneto had already tried the same thing in the first X-Men movie? And why does he look like a Goomba warrior from Super Mario Bros.?
Before they even agreed on a storyline, director, or cast, Sony had already decided that The Amazing Spider-Man was going to be a digital 3D release. This became a central part of the advertising campaign, including an early teaser trailer that was almost nothing but a 3D show-reel. Webb and cinematographer John Schwartzman shot their movie using RED Epic digital HD cameras at a super high 5k resolution, ensuring it could be expanded and shown in IMAX theaters without a loss of detail. Not surprisingly, this 2D, 1080p, 2.40:1 transfer (the image does not expand to 1.78:1 for the IMAX shots) does not disappoint. Webb and Schwartzman shroud a lot of the movie in darkness (the raw footage from the behind the scenes footage appears to verify that the film was darkened in post). I'd argue unnecessarily so, but the RED format's abilities with smooth gradations and super-sharp highlights ensure the important details aren't lost. I worry that a standard definition release would lose some of the finest details, specifically those spider webs, would be missing altogether. I also worry more that the shade of 3D glasses would make 90% of the film indiscernible, but I'm unable to verify that one. Occasionally, the darkness and shallow focus practices make for kind of mushy backgrounds, but this is obviously not a problem with the transfer, but rather, a problem with filmmakers that weren't very interested in background texture. The intricate, deep-black cityscapes are a good contrast anyway and positively swimming in complex detail without any major signs of digital noise or sharpening effects. Spider-Man's theme colours of blue and red are the most outstanding in terms of consistent vibrancy and contrast the otherwise earth-toned palette quite nicely, along with a few more poppy elements, like pinks and yellows. Colour blends are fluid, the more aggressive hues are tightly separated, and the impressionistic shadows are good and sharp.
In other non-news, this DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack is outstanding. The mix is appropriately subtle when dialogue is concerned, creating a busy environment that doesn't overtake the words or constant musical presence. At worst, the quality is a bit dulled by a bewildering amount of canned effects (yet no Wilhelm?). Bigger aural moments include the obvious action sequences and representations of Peter's hyper-attuned senses (I like the changes made to the 'Spidey sense' and webbing 'thwip' effects in order to keep this series aurally separate from Raimi's series).There's a lot of directional enhancement in web-slinging scenes and an especially aggressive use of the surround and stereo channels during the Spider-Man vs. Lizard battles, many of which take place amidst crashing metal rubble that shakes the hell out of the subwoofer channel. The obvious demo piece, though, is the bit where Peter sets web traps to alert him to Connors' presence in the sewer and the twang of the webs subtly rattle throughout the room. James Horner had some huge shoes to fill with this musical score. Both Danny Elfman and Christopher Young supplied memorable and emotionally stirring music for the Raimi trilogy (surprisingly, I find myself arguing that Young's Spider-Man 3 score may be the better of the three). But he's James Horner, he's easily in the same class as both Elfman and Young, and he doesn't disappoint. This sweeping, dramatic, and yes, emotionally stirring score is often too good for the film that represents it. The score mixes traditional symphonic motifs, punchy percussion, and more delicate electronic work, which is given a lot of direction breadth throughout the track. Webb's pop music choices are a little less graceful and painfully on-the-nose, but are given a proper surround and LFE treatment.
This packed two-disc release begins with a commentary track from director Marc Webb and producers Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach. Webb, who is recorded separately from the producers, is calm, collected, and his tone is warm enough to maintain the film's excessive length. He's good at crediting the proper parties for their contributions, he conveys his intentions for the franchise (though it often sounds like he's justifying starting from scratch, rather than offering a genuinely good reason for it), compares the subject matter to occasionally unlikely literary sources, and is generally more concerned with thematic expression than deleted scenes or technical elements. He runs out of steam a few times, but there's not an excess of long pauses. Arad and Tolmach are more about narrating on-screen action or talking up the film as if they're involved in a press tour. They basically have nothing interesting to add and the track would probably have been better without them, since they rarely fill Webb's blank space anyway. The in-film experience continues with a second screen app that doesn't seem to work on laptops. I don't have a tablet, so I'll just assume this is similar to the one that accompanied The Avengers disc.
Disc two begins with Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn (1:50:50, HD), a somewhat deluded, but well-made, five-part behind the scenes documentary. The first part, Drawing Board, covers the stalling of Raimi's Spider-Man 4 (no one mentions money and pretends that it was an important narrative choice, rather than a case of keeping the product going), writing the script, hiring Webb, and developing characters. Friends and Enemies covers the casting process, including screen tests. Second Skins covers the costume, make-up and creature design. Spidey Goes West covers the production design, stunts, set construction, and location shooting in LA, while Safe Haven covers much of the same stuff as filmed at the Sony Studios stages, and Bright Tights, Big City covers the limited New York shoots. The Greatest Responsibility covers post-production, including editing, digital effects, music, sound design, and release. Interview subjects include Webb, Arad, Tolmach, producer Laura Ziskin, screenwriter James Vanderbilt, costume designer Kim Barrett, co-creator Stan Lee, specialty costumer Joseph Richard Collins, production designer J. Michael Riva, make-up designer Ve Neill, creature designer N.C. Page Buckner, location manager Mike Fantasia, second unit director Vic Armstrong, stunt coordinator Andy Armstrong, set decorator Leslie A. Pope, special (physical) effects supervisor Jim Schwalm, (digital) effects supervisors Jerome Chen and David A. Smith, additional animation supervisor David Schaub, prop master Andrew Seigal, B camera operator David Luckenbach, stunt tech Tyler Barrett, composer James Horner, cinematographer John Schwartzman, editors Alan Edward Bell and Michael McCusker, and actors Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary, Sally Field, C. Thomas Howell, Jake Ryan Keiffer and Irrfan Khan.
Disc two continues with eleven deleted/extended/alternate scenes (16:50, HD), most of which could've probably been put back, in lieu of the pointless origin stuff to fill out the characters a bit better. The most interesting of these scenes is one that explains the disappearance of one of the film's villains and hints at Sony's originally planned/rumoured changes to the origin story (via Ang Lee's Hulk, it seems). The extras are completed with sixteen pre-viz/storyboard sequences (39:10, HD), three image galleries, four image progression reels, eight stunt rehearsal footage reels (11:50, SD), and Developing The Amazing Spider-Man Video Game featurette (3:30, HD).
There's a big moment in The Amazing Spider-Man where the people of New York are given a chance to help the title character along his hero's journey, seemingly in an effort to evoke the 'you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us' moment towards the end of Raimi's original film (this seems hokey in retrospect, but was exactly what audiences reeling from 9/11 wanted and elicited cheers from the audience the first time I saw the film in theaters). The sentiment is right on and the set-up is borderline brilliant, but so much of the film is wasted on laying the same narrative track already seen a decade ago, that there's little context and thus no emotional impact. The irony being, of course, that there were already three films worth of context the filmmakers could've been working from, had they not made the choice to start from scratch with the series. There's a good movie in here somewhere. The cast is great and the director does much better with the action than I would've ever imagined, given his short track record. Perhaps now that they've gotten this retread out of the way, the production will move onto some something genuinely great next time around. Those millions of folks that liked The Amazing Spider-Man more than me are in for a treat, however. This Blu-ray features a fantastic HD transfer, a dynamic DTS-HD MA soundtrack, and a whole lot of extra material, including a feature-length making-of documentary.
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Review by Gabriel Powers
Jeyl Member Join Date: February 2008 Location: United States Posts: 208
I wish it was Spider-Girl or Spider-Woman. Too many mans in these movies.
hogaburger Contributor Join Date: April 2007 Location: United States Posts: 1,153
Hahaha that first cap is magical
mc_serenity Member Join Date: December 2006 Location: United States Posts: 824
This film frustrated me. It's mostly better-cast than the Raimi films, but the direction the producers opted to go with Peter Parker was utterly wrong. He's not a depressed emo kid, he should be a wry, funny nerd. Maguire captured some aspects of the character (not all of them) that Garfield either ignored or failed to do adequately. And don't get me started on the lazy, contrived script.
I pray the creative leeway Webb gets with "Amazing Spider-Man 2" allows him to get something close like what "Spider-Man 2" did back in 2004. If he doesn't, then this reboot series was a waste of time and money.
I pray the creative leeway Webb gets with "Amazing Spider-Man 2" allows him to get something close like what "Spider-Man 2" did back in 2004. If he doesn't, then this reboot series was a waste of time and money.
Chris Johnson Member Join Date: October 2005 Location: United States Posts: 1,465
WTF is Sally Field doing in that first pic?
mlcm Member Join Date: November 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 947
Parker is a well-dressed, athletic, skate-boarding photographer and student who gets straight A's. Ergo, not a nerd in the slightest. In fact, super cool by today's high school standards.
HagenDarth Member Join Date: October 2006 Location: United States Posts: 321
Chris Johnson wrote: WTF is Sally Field doing in that first pic?
Preparing for her role in LINCOLN...
Preparing for her role in LINCOLN...
djblack1313 Member Join Date: April 2006 Location: United States Posts: 529
LOL! that first pic w/ Sally is HILARIOUS!! lol. i never liked the Toby SPIDERMAN movies but i very much liked this new reboot movie. i look forward to the next installment.
felipe-11 Member Join Date: July 2009 Location: United States Posts: 418
I loved this one, thought it was better than 1 and 3, and arguably as good as 2. Definitely the best acting and character development of all four.
Jeremy S Member Join Date: October 2004 Location: United States Posts: 109
You thought this movie had a better Uncle Ben death scene? In Raimi's Spider-Man, Uncle Ben dies because Peter wanted to impress Mary Jane by rolling up in a cool car. In Webb's Spider-Man, Uncle Ben dies because Peter wanted some chocolate milk.
Webb's Spider-Man is a turd dangling precariously off the ass of Raimi's Spider-Man.
Webb's Spider-Man is a turd dangling precariously off the ass of Raimi's Spider-Man.
David Blackwell Senior Member Join Date: February 2004 Location: United States Posts: 2,834
I enjoyed this film more than the Sam Rami films. It was better cast and I liked this Peter Parker better. Too bad they didn't include the full screen test between Garfield and Stone on the Blu-ray.
Gabe Powers Editor Join Date: September 2004 Location: United States Posts: 4,721
Jeremy S wrote: You thought this movie had a better Uncle Ben death scene? In Raimi's Spider-Man, Uncle Ben dies because Peter wanted to impress Mary Jane by rolling up in a cool car. In Webb's Spider-Man, Uncle Ben dies because Peter wanted some chocolate milk.
Thematically Raimi's film has an emotional edge, but the way the scene here is cut, and how close Peter is to the event does make a difference in terms of standalone impact.
Otherwise, the more I think about this reboot, the more lifeless I realize it is. Just a terrible excuse to reboot and a waste of talent. I can imagine the next one being good, though.
PS: Thanks for replying to the content of the review. It's always good to know someone is actually reading, even if we're disagreeing.
Thematically Raimi's film has an emotional edge, but the way the scene here is cut, and how close Peter is to the event does make a difference in terms of standalone impact.
Otherwise, the more I think about this reboot, the more lifeless I realize it is. Just a terrible excuse to reboot and a waste of talent. I can imagine the next one being good, though.
PS: Thanks for replying to the content of the review. It's always good to know someone is actually reading, even if we're disagreeing.
Giovanni Alberti Member Join Date: April 2004 Location: United States Posts: 618
I enjoyed this movie enough, and while Garfield and Stone are perfect I really think Aunt May and Uncle Ben were way better in the Raimi trilogy. In casting and in writing (I really disliked how they so painfully and obviously tried to aviod Uncle Ben's signature line). It's also so nice to see someone defending the Raimi trilogy. I really don't understand where all these detractors came from because 3 aside, a mere five years ago everyone loved the first two. All of a sudden it's "they're all bad, this is way better". Everyone's entitled to their opinions but I think people are certainly getting carried away and need to revisit how great Spider-man 1 & 2 are. I'd go as far as saying that Raimi's first film is the 21st Century's Superman.
David Blackwell Senior Member Join Date: February 2004 Location: United States Posts: 2,834
I still think the new film got it better with better casting than the first three films and I grew up reading the comics for a few years (so I do know some of the original story lines).
Simon77 Member Join Date: September 2008 Location: Canada Posts: 149
I didn't think I'd like the reboot too much, but ended up enjoying it quite a bit. It was quite different in tone than Raimi's trilogy, and it's a nice change of pace. We certainly can sense Nolan's Batman in some areas, and certainly the material tries to "stick" (no pun intended) to its source. Though I'm no fan of the comic book, I can say the efforts are, in both cases, honorable. Raimi did a wonderfully warm adaptation while Webb's (a fitting name when you think of it) tries to get into pyschological things. By no means great, this reboot actually had a few aces up its sleeve.
titanius719 Member Join Date: September 2012 Location: United States Posts: 5
I liked the Rami version too, but even my supervisor at DISH agrees that The Amazing Spider-Man was much better. I think a lot of it was due to the script staying a lot closer to the plot of the original Spider-Man comics and the praise worthy acting. I didn't get a chance to see the 3D version, but I was more then satisfied with what I saw in the 2D version too. After everything is said and done I am absolutely thrilled I got a chance to watch it. I never have time to stop at the Redbox down the street to grab movies, but since I started renting from Blockbuster at Home through DISH the discs are already waiting in my mailbox when I get off work and this was an awesome first choice.
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Release Date: 9th November 2012
Discs: 3
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.40:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English, French and Portuguese, Dolby Digital 5.1 Mandarin, Spanish, Thai and English Audio Descriptive Track
Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Indonesian/Bahasa, Korean, Portuguese and Thai
Extras: Director and Producers Commentary, Second Screen App, Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn, Deleted Scenes. Pre-Visualization Sequences, Progression Reels, Stunt Rehearsals, Production Art Gallery, DVD Copy, UltraViolet Copy
Easter Egg: No
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Director: Marc Webb
Cast: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary, Campbell Scott, Irrfan Khan, Martin Sheen, Sally Field
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy and Drama
Length: 136 minutes
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Things to do this week in NYC May 7-May 14: MuseumsMay 7, 2011 - by CG Directory Editor
Some of the world's most impressive museums and exhibits are in New York?including the Whitney, the Guggenheim, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and (of course) the Metropolitan Museum of Art. One of the great things to do in NYC is to visit these spectacular collections. Whether you're a native New Yorker or here on vacation, NYC's museums have something new and interesting to offer everybody! Here is a list of what's going on this week at museums throughout New York City.
Intervals: Futurefarmers - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Futurefarmers, a San Francisco–based art collective, creates projects that are diverse both in terms of production and in their strategies of audience engagement. For the Guggenheim's Intervals series the group investigates the vanishing art of shoemaking with a site-specific installation for the museum.
The Global Africa Project - Museum of Arts & Design
An unprecedented exhibition exploring the broad spectrum of contemporary African art, design, and craft worldwide. Featuring the work over 100 artists working in Africa, Europe, Asia, the United States, and the Caribbean, The Global Africa Project surveys the rich pool of new talent emerging from the African continent and its influence on artists around the world. Through ceramics, basketry, textiles, jewelry, furniture, and fashion, as well as selective examples of architecture, photography, painting, and sculpture, the exhibition actively challenges conventional notions of a singular African aesthetic or identity, and reflects the integration of African art and design without making the usual distinctions between "professional" and "artisan." Closed Mon.
The Great Upheaval: Modern Art from the Guggenheim Collection, 1910-1918 - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
When Vasily Kandinsky and Franz Marc formed Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) group in late 1911, the artists predicted a watershed in the arts, a große Umwälzung (great upheaval) that would radically challenge traditional artistic production. Undoubtedly, tremendous creativity and innovation characterized the years leading up to World War I, especially 1910–14. Cubism achieved recognition in Paris, sparking new artistic directions in France, Italy, the Netherlands, and Russia. Art's more expressionistic manifestations were at an equally momentous stage in Germany and Austria; Kandinsky wrote his influential treatise On the Spiritual in Art in late 1911 (published 1912), and abstraction took hold. The Great Upheaval: Modern Art from the Guggenheim Collection, 1910–1918 features more than 100 works from the museum's holdings, attesting to this period of collaboration, interchange, synthesis, and innovation.
Glenn Ligon: America - Whitney Museum of American Art
Glenn Ligon: AMERICA is the first comprehensive mid-career retrospective devoted to this pioneering New York–based artist. Throughout his career, Ligon (b. 1960) has pursued an incisive exploration of American history, literature, and society across a body of work that builds critically on the legacies of modern painting and more recent conceptual art. He is best known for his landmark series of text-based paintings, made since the late 1980s, which draw on the writings and speech of diverse figures including Jean Genet, Zora Neale Hurston, Jesse Jackson, and Richard Pryor. Ligon's subject matter ranges widely from the Million Man March and the aftermath of slavery to 1970s coloring books and the photography of Robert Mapplethorpe—all treated within artworks that are both politically provocative and beautiful to behold.
Picasso: Guitars 1912-1914 - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Sometime between October and December 1912, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) made a guitar. Cobbled together from cardboard, paper, string, and wire, materials that he cut, folded, threaded, and glued, Picasso's silent instrument resembled no sculpture ever seen before. In 1914 the artist reiterated his fragile papery construction in a more fixed and durable sheet metal form. These two Guitars, both gifts from the artist to MoMA, bracket an incandescent period of material and structural experimentation in Picasso's work. Picasso: Guitars 1912-1914 explores this breakthrough moment in 20th-century art, and the Guitars' place within it. Bringing together some 70 closely connected collages, constructions, drawings, mixed-media paintings, and photographs assembled from over 30 public and private collections worldwide, this exhibition offers fresh insight into Picasso's cross-disciplinary process in the years immediately preceding World War I.
Bye Bye Kitty!!! Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art - Japan Society
Curated by David Elliott, founding Director of the Mori Art Museum, Bye Bye Kitty!!! is a radical departure from recent Japanese exhibitions. Moving far beyond the stereotypes of kawaii and otaku culture, Japan Society's show features sixteen emerging and mid-career artists whose paintings, objects, photographs, videos, and installations meld traditional styles with challenging visions of Japan's troubled present and uncertain future. Each of the three sections, "Critical Memory," "Threatened Nature," and "Unquiet Dream," not only offers a feast for the senses but also demolishes our preconceptions about contemporary Japan and its art.
A Year With Children 2011 - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
This exhibition showcases art by students participating in Learning Through Art (LTA), an educational program of the Guggenheim Museum. LTA places professional teaching artists in public elementary schools in New York, where they collaborate with teachers to develop art projects that teach students art skills and techniques while exploring themes related to the school curriculum. The program encourages curiosity, critical thinking, and ongoing collaborative investigation. -- Greer Kudon, Senior Manager, Learning Through Art
Vertical Urban Factory - Skyscraper Museum
Vertical Urban Factory surveys more than 30 projects, including canonic examples of Modernism and new or recycled industrial architecture. The installation features over 200 photographs, diagrams, and drawings. Nine architectural models created for the exhibit using state-of the-art computer fabrication highlight a progressive design and construction. A series of films by documentary filmmaker Eric Breitbart use historical and contemporary footage to immerse the gallery visitor in the environment of conveyors systems and industrial processes. Hours: Noon-6pm, Wed.–Sun.
"Vertical Urban Factory" - Skyscraper Museum
This exhibit surveys more than 30 projects, including canonic examples of Modernism and new or recycled industrial architecture. The installation features more than 200 photographs, diagrams, and drawings.
Rooms with a View: The Open Window in the 19th Century - Metropolitan Museum of Art
This exhibition focuses on the Romantic motif of the open window as first captured by German, Danish, French, and Russian artists around 1810–20. These works include hushed, sparse rooms showing contemplative figures, studios with artists at work, and window views as sole motifs. The exhibition will feature some thirty oils and thirty works on paper by, among others, C. D. Friedrich, C. G. Carus, G. F. Kersting, Adolph Menzel, C. W. Eckersberg, Martinus Rorbye, Jean Alaux, and Leon Cogniet. Loans to the exhibition will come from museums in Germany, Denmark, France, Austria, Sweden, Italy, and the United States.
A Song for the Horse Nation - National Museum of the American Indian
A Song for the Horse Nation presents the epic story of the horse's influence on American Indian tribes from the 1600s to the present. Drawing upon a treasure-trove of stunning historical objects -- including ledger drawings, hoof ornaments, beaded bags, hide robes, paintings, and other objects -- and new pieces by contemporary Native artists, the exhibition reveals how horses shaped the social, economic, cultural, and spiritual foundations of American Indian life, particularly on the Great Plains.
German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
From E. L. Kirchner to Max Beckmann, artists associated with German Expressionism in the early decades of the twentieth century took up printmaking with a collective dedication and fervor virtually unparalleled in the history of art. The woodcut, with its coarse gouges and jagged lines, is known as the preeminent Expressionist medium, but the Expressionists also revolutionized the mediums of etching and lithography to alternately vibrant and stark effect. This exhibition, featuring approximately 250 works by some thirty artists, is drawn from MoMA's outstanding holdings of German Expressionist prints, enhanced by selected drawings, paintings, and sculptures from the collection. The graphic impulse is traced from the formation of the Brücke artists group in 1905, through the war years of the 1910s, and extending into the 1920s, when individual artists continued to produce compelling work even as the movement was winding down. The exhibition takes a broad view of Expressionism, highlighting a diverse array of individuals—from Oskar Kokoschka and Vasily Kandinsky to Erich Heckel and Emil Nolde—who nonetheless shared visual and thematic concerns. Their works reflect a period of intense social and aesthetic transformation, and several themes of continuing resonance emerge. These include a focus on urban experience, an uncompromising approach to the body and sexuality, and an abiding preoccupation with nature, religion, and spirituality. Most pivotal for these years, however, was the experience of World War I. The war and its aftermath are the subject of works by a range of artists, including Otto Dix, whose series of fifty searing etchings, The War, was based on his own service in the trenches; Käthe Kollwitz, in a portfolio of seven woodcuts focusing on the devastation felt by the families left behind; and Max Beckmann, whose lithographic series, Hell (1919), confronts the violence and decadence in Berlin during the immediate postwar period. In addition to a publication and a major website on German Expressionism, the exhibition will mark the culmination of a major four-year grant from The Annenberg Foundation to digitize, catalogue, and conserve all of the approximately three thousand Expressionist works on paper in the Museum's collection.
Body & Spirit: Tibetan Medical Paintings - American Museum of Natural History
An exhibition of 64 Tibetan medical paintings (also known as tangkas), in the Museum's fourth-floor Audubon Gallery. On view for the first time in a museum exhibition, these hand-painted reproductions of traditional scroll paintings provide a unique and richly illustrated history of early medical knowledge and procedures in Tibet and are believed to be among only a handful of such sets in existence. Each of the paintings on display was painstakingly reproduced by hand in the late 1990s by Romio Shrestha, a Nepalese artist, and his students, who followed the Tibetan tradition of copying older paintings, basing their work on two published sets of medical tangkas likely painted in the early 1900s that were copies of the original set. The originals were created in the late 1600s to illustrate the Blue Beryl, an important commentary on the classic Tibetan medical text, The Four Tantras. Also on display in this exhibition is a Buddha statue made of gilded copper alloy, minerals used in medicine, and Tibetan medical instruments from the early 1900s. The Museum is deeply grateful to Emily H. Fisher and John Alexander, whose vision and generosity supported the acquisition and conservation of this collection of Tibetan Medical Paintings. Body and Spirit is made possible by a very generous gift from the Estate of Marian O. Naumburg.
Alexander McQueen - Savage Beauty - Metropolitan Museum of Art
The exhibition, organized by The Costume Institute, celebrates the late Alexander McQueen's extraordinary contributions to fashion. From his Central Saint Martins postgraduate collection of 1992 to his final runway presentation, which took place after his death in February 2010, Mr. McQueen challenged and expanded the understanding of fashion beyond utility to a conceptual expression of culture, politics, and identity. His iconic designs constitute the work of an artist whose medium of expression was fashion. The exhibition will feature approximately one hundred ensembles and seventy accessories from Mr. McQueen's prolific nineteen-year career. Drawn primarily from the Alexander McQueen Archive in London, with some pieces from the Givenchy Archive in Paris as well as private collections, signature designs including the 'bumster' trouser, the kimono jacket, and the three-point "origami" frock coat will be on view. McQueen's fashions often referenced the exaggerated silhouettes of the 1860s, 1880s, 1890s, and 1950s, but his technical ingenuity always imbued his designs with an innovative sensibility that kept him at the vanguard.
Francis Alÿs: A Story of Deception - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Francis Alÿs (b. 1959, Antwerp, Belgium) uses poetic and allegorical methods to address political and social realities, such as national borders, localism and globalism, areas of conflict and community, and the benefits and detriments of progress. Alÿs's personal, ambulatory explorations of cities form the basis for his practice, through which he compiles extensive and varied documentation that reflects his ideas and process. As one of the foremost artists of his generation, Alÿs has produced a complex and diverse body of work that includes video, painting, performance, drawing, and photography. This exhibition draws on the Museum's unique and important collection of Alÿs's work, highlighting three recent major acquisitions—Re-enactments (2001), When Faith Moves Mountains (2002), and Rehearsal I (Ensayo I) (1999–2001)—which include video installations, paintings, drawings, collages, photographs, and newspaper clippings. These works present an investigation of methods of social action, from rehearsals and re-enactments in urban environments that address the politics of public space to large-scale communal participation where the culmination of many small acts achieves mythic proportions. The exhibition, which is conceptually grouped around these three thematic bodies of work, also includes additional artworks that the artist has developed around the idea of rehearsal and re-enactment in relation to progress in art and everyday life. The exhibition continues at MoMA PS1 with an in-depth look at Modern Procession (2002), a piece commissioned by MoMA to mark it's temporary relocation to Queens during the Museum's 2002–04 expansion project.
Joel Grey/A New York Life - Museum of the City of New York
Joel Grey/A New York Life examines the enduring impact that performer and photographer Joel Grey and his adopted city have made on each other. Through rare artifacts from his stage and screen career, objects from his personal collection, and his own photography, the exhibition offers a unique look at New York through Grey's eyes. Joel Grey/A New York Life will include posters, playbills, and costume pieces from Grey's iconic productions, combined with a selection of his New York City photographs. Together, they dramatize how the breadth of his artistic work has been nurtured and inspired by his life in New York City. Closed Mon.
Brain: The Inside Story - American Museum of Natural History
This unprecedented journey through the essential bundle of neurons that is the human brain offers insight through a sensory feast of imaginative art, vivid brain scan imaging, and thrilling interactive exhibits. Features include a "Brain Lounge," where you can view colorful, functional brain scans -- or fMRIs -- of two musicians, a NY Knick, and a U.N. translator. Open daily. $16; children 2-12, $9.
Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective - Metropolitan Museum of Art
This first retrospective of drawings by the contemporary American artist Richard Serra (b. 1939) presents a comprehensive overview of some forty years of his drawing activity. It traces the development of drawing as an art form independent from yet linked to his sculptural practice. Drawing for Serra has always played a crucial role in the investigation of new concepts and new creative methods. It has been a means of exploration of formal and perceptual relationships between the artwork and the viewer. His innovative ideas have radically transformed the traditional understanding of drawing as a form outlined against a background of the paper support, and exponentially expanded the definition of modern drawing through novel techniques, unusual media, monumental scale, and carefully conceived relationships to surrounding spaces.
Thinking Outside the Box: European Cabinets, Caskets, and Cases from the Permanent Collection (1500-1900) - Metropolitan Museum of Art
This installation features a selection of one hundred examples of important boxes, caskets, and small chests from the Metropolitan Museum's European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Department. For centuries, boxes, caskets, cabinets, and chests played an important role in everyday life. Ranging from strongboxes to travel cases and from containers for tea or tobacco to those for the storage of toiletries or silverware, these lidded pieces were made in a large variety of shapes and sizes, and of many different materials. The form and decoration of these objects not only reflect changes in social customs and manners but also follow the stylistic developments in Europe over four hundred years. Pieces made of tortoiseshell, carved and veneered wood, porcelain, hard stones and natural substances, embroidery, various metals, leather, enamel, pastiglia, and straw will be included. These objects, some of which have not been on display for years, were much more than mere containers and often became precious works of art, collected in their own right.
A Chronology: The Guggenheim Collection, 1909-1979 - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
In 1937, Solomon R. Guggenheim established a foundation with the goal of opening a museum to publicly exhibit and preserve his holdings of modern art. Since then, the museum's founding collection has been enhanced through major gifts and purchases from pioneering individuals who share Guggenheim's spirit. A Chronology: The Guggenheim Collection, 1909-1979 presents a visually dynamic time line of this extraordinary metamorphosis from private collection to public museum.
Inspiration and Industry - American Women on the Home Front - Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
The purpose of wartime posters was to unify and mobilize Americans. During World War I and World War II, U.S. government posters urged all citizens to make a personal commitment to the war effort. The special exhibition Inspiration and Industry draws upon original wartime posters to explore the contributions of women during these two conflicts.
Breaking Ground: The Whitney's Founding Collection - Whitney Museum of American Art
At the turn of the twentieth century, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, an heiress and sculptor born to one of America's wealthiest families, began to assemble a rich and highly diverse collection of modern American art. This group of objects, combined with a trove of new works purchased around the time of the Whitney Museum's opening in 1931, came together to form the founding collection. This exhibition features a selected group of works from the approximately 1,000 objects in the Whitney's founding collection, including iconic paintings by artists such as Stuart Davis, Charles Sheeler, George Bellows, Rockwell Kent, Edward Hopper, and Georgia O'Keeffe, as well as works by lesser-known artists. Co-curated by Barbara Haskell and Sasha Nicholas. Breaking Ground: The Whitney's Founding Collection is the first in a multiyear series of exhibitions aimed at reassessing the museum's collection. Unfolding in chronological order over a two year period, these exhibitions will explore overlooked developments in American art and reconsider iconic figures and masterworks within new frameworks and contexts.
Anthony Caro on the Roof - Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sculptures by Anthony Caro (b. 1924) -- who is considered the most influential and prolific British sculptor of his generation and a key figure in the development of modernist sculpture over the last sixty years -- is featured in the 2011 installation on The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden. The installation features a selection of sculpture in steel, painted and unpainted, spanning the artist's career to date and highlighting principal aspects of his long career: engagement with form in space, dialogue between sculpture and architecture, and creation of new, abstract analogies for the human figure and landscape.
The World's Largest Dinosaurs - American Museum of Natural History
A new exhibition that goes beyond traditional fossil shows to reveal how dinosaurs actually lived by taking visitors into the amazing anatomy of a uniquely super-sized group of dinosaurs: the long-necked and long-tailed sauropods, which ranged in size from 15 to 150 feet long. Drawing on the latest science that looks in part to existing organisms to understand these extinct giants, The World's Largest Dinosaurs will answer such intriguing questions as how an extremely large animal breathes, eats, moves, and survives by illuminating how size and scale are related to basic biological functions. Innovative interactive exhibits -- including the exhibition centerpiece, a life-sized, fleshed-out model of a 60-foot- long, 11-foot-tall female Mamenchisaurus, known for its remarkable, 30-foot neck -- will take visitors inside these giants' bodies, shedding light on how heart rate, respiration, metabolism, and reproduction are linked to size. An interactive excavation at the end of the exhibition will introduce visitors to how dinosaurs are discovered in the field through a replicated dig site.
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RICHLAND, Wash. — The nation's most contaminated nuclear site — and the challenges associated with ridding it of its toxic legacy — will be a subject of upcoming hearings and a higher priority in Washington D.C., a key lawmaker said Tuesday.
Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, whose home state neighbors the Hanford nuclear reservation in south-central Washington, said he was troubled by news last week that a radioactive waste tank there is leaking and concerned that a long-planned plant to treat that waste is behind schedule and over budget.
"This should represent an unacceptable threat to the Pacific Northwest for everybody," Wyden said after touring the site. "There are problems that have to be solved, and right now the Department of Energy cannot say what changes are needed, when they will be completed and what they will cost.
Wyden, who has long been a proponent of Hanford cleanup, is the new chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, which will conduct confirmation hearings for the person nominated to replace outgoing Energy Secretary Steven Chu.
Wyden said he would use those hearings to secure a commitment to finally treat and safely dispose of all radioactive waste at Hanford.
The federal government created Hanford in the 1940s as part of the top-secret Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb. The government spends $2 billion each year on Hanford cleanup — one-third of its entire budget for nuclear cleanup nationally. And cleanup is expected to last decades.
Central to cleanup is construction of a plant to convert millions of gallons of waste — a toxic, radioactive stew stored in 177 underground tanks — into glasslike logs for safe, secure storage. The $12.3 billion plant is billions of dollars over budget and behind schedule.
In addition, tanks are already long past their intended 20-year life span. Many are already known to have leaked in the past, and last week, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announced that a single-shell tank could be leaking in the range of 150 to 300 gallons a year, posing a risk to groundwater and rivers.
The Energy Department said it is still unable to determine why liquid levels in the tank are declining, saying it is still investigating the problem.
Monitoring wells around the tank have not detected higher radioactivity levels, said Ben Harp, an Energy Department manager at the site, though contaminants would not be expected to have reached those wells yet.
Inslee and Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber have championed building additional tanks to ensure safe storage of the waste until the plant is completed. Wyden said he shares their concerns about the integrity of the tanks, but that he wants more scientific information to determine it's the correct way to spend scarce money.
It's not as if there haven't been successes with Hanford cleanup over the years. Two of three tasks that were identified as urgent to protect public safety and the environment have been completed, and plans are being made for shrinking the overall footprint of the Hanford site and eventually opening up some areas to recreation and development.
Wyden's tour included stops at two so-called tank farms, including one where the suspected leaking tank is located, a plant to treat contaminated groundwater, and the construction site for the waste treatment plant.
His first stop: Hanford's B Reactor, which produced plutonium for the first atomic blast, the Trinity Test, and for the Fat Man bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, effectively ending World War II. B Reactor has been designated a National Historic Landmark and legislation has been submitted to recognize it as part of a new national park recognizing Manhattan Project sites.
Anti-nuclear activists have called the plan an expensive glorification of an ugly chapter in history, but Wyden expressed his support for the idea.
"History isn't always ideal, and science can be liberating," he said, adding later, "If you forget about history, you're condemned to repeat it."
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"It's going to blow in the wind like a tumbleweed." Nicely phrased... and so it shall.
Interesting post, Paul. I would stop short of "blaming" listeners for not being passionate enough, but I do think it's worthwhile for all of us to spend some time thinking about why the passion about this genre has diminished. Why are people buying less music, and talking less about the music they do listen to?
It takes into account the complexity of the ambient scene and the fact that a lot of us are trying to make beautiful and mysterious music, we're not necessarily trying to advance the genre so it fits more squarely within a marketed genre and we can finally get our space on the Wall-mart shelf!
I would love a thread where we take some time and pic 5 - 10 releases we love for whatever reason that we feel never got the love they deserve. Give links to find and buy it and artworks, ect. Or another that really focuses on this is what is cool for January...right now! I guess that would be like a new release wall
I actually find the statement: "We're not necessarily trying to advance the genre" a tad bit disturbing. Now maybe I am misinterpreting it, but boy am I glad that Brian Eno and Miles Davis and Led Zeppelin and so on in each ones respective genre's did not think that way.Now the flip side is that the folks who go into a project or a musical experience with the attitude that "I am going to do something no one has ever done before, I will be ground breaking" is also equally disturbing...But somewhere in the middle there should always be the goal of advancing one's self and their art. If you are not passionate about your art and its propagation, well why should anyone else be?
I think there is still great music being released but there is such an enormous quantity of music like this being created that most of it just doesn't stand out in a way that makes people say, "Shit, wow, you have GOT to hear this!"


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The University of North Carolina at Greensboro was established by legislative enactment on February 18, 1891. The City of Greensboro, situated near the geographical center of the state, was selected for the location of the new institution after its citizens approved $30,000 in bonds for its first buildings. R.S. Pullen and R.T. Gray gave the original 10-acre site. The institution opened on October 5, 1892 with a student body of 198 and a faculty of 15 and the final enrollment reached 223 at the end of the first year. Classes were organized in three departments: commercial, domestic science and pedagogy.
The institution came into being as a direct result of a crusade by Dr. Charles Duncan McIver on behalf of the education of women. Other pioneers in public school education notably, Edwin A. Alderman, James Y. Joyner and M.C.S. Noble assisted McIver, but to him, more than to any other individual, the University owes its foundation.
During the past century the university's mission has evolved, as suggested with its sequence of names. It was known first as the State Normal and Industrial School, and after 1897 as the State Normal and Industrial College until 1919. During the period 1919-1931, it was known as the North Carolina College for Women, and became the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina from 1932 to 1963. It is warmly remembered as the WC by its many alumnae of the period.
From 1932 to 1963 the university was one of the three branches of the Consolidated University of North Carolina. The other campuses included The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering at Raleigh (now N.C. State University). In 1962, the Board of Trustees recommended that the Greensboro campus become coeducational at all levels of instruction. Subsequently, by act of the General Assembly in the spring of 1963, the name of the institution was changed to The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The first African American students were admitted in 1956 and men were first admitted as part of the general student body in 1964.
In December of 1934, during the years of the Consolidated University, the Woman's College Section of the Alpha of North Carolina Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa was installed. (Alpha Chapter is the one at Chapel Hill.) On February 17, 1956, Epsilon Chapter of North Carolina was installed at this campus. In 2006, UNCG's chapter was voted the best in the nation on a public university campus by the national Phi Beta Kappa organization.
In October of 1971, the North Carolina General Assembly adopted legislation which combined all 16 of the state-supported institutions of higher education into a single University of North Carolina. The UNC system is governed by a board of governors and administered by a president. Each constituent institution has a separate board of trustees and is administered by a chancellor.
UNCG's chancellor is Dr. Linda P. Brady, who took office August 1, 2008. She came to UNCG from the University of Oregon, where she was senior vice president and provost.
In addition to founding president Charles Duncan McIver, UNCG's other chief executive officers have been:
- Dr. Julius I. Foust (1906-1934)
- Dr. Walter Clinton Jackson (1934-1950)
- Dr. Edward Kidder Graham (1950-1956)
- Dr. W.W. Pierson Jr. (1956-1957, 1960-61, interim)
- Dr. Gordon W. Blackwell (1957-1960)
- Dr. Otis Singletary (1961-64, 1966)
- Dr. James S. Ferguson (1964-1979, including interim term)
- Dr. William E. Moran (1979-1994)
- Dr. Debra W. Stewart (Fall semester 1994, interim)
- Dr. Patricia A. Sullivan (1995-2008)
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With more than 18,600 students and 2,500 faculty and staff, UNCG is the largest state university in the Piedmont Triad and has an annual economic impact of more than $1 billion. The campus has grown to include 24 residence halls and 30 academic buildings on 210 acres.
UNCG takes pride in being a learner-centered public research university. The College of Arts & Sciences and seven professional schools offer 85 undergraduate majors, 61 master's programs and 26 doctoral programs.
The university holds two classifications from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, as a research university with high research activity and for community engagement in curriculum, outreach and partnerships. More than $35 million annually in grants and contracts for research and creative activity are awarded to faculty members annually. Among the most prominent of UNCG's research initiatives are the Gateway University Research Park and the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, both partnerships with North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.
Globalization of the curriculum has expanded opportunities for international education, through new programs like the UNC Exchange Program and the Lloyd International Honors College. In addition, innovative signature programs such as Building Entrepreneurial Learning for Life (BELL), Communication Across the Curriculum, Undergraduate Research and Freshman Seminars enhance the student experience.
As a cultural leader, UNCG offers concerts, lectures, dance and theatre performances, exhibitions in the internationally known Weatherspoon Art Museum, and readings by nationally known authors. In athletics, Spartan teams compete in nine women's and nine men's sports in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. With ethnic minority students making up 26 percent of the student body, UNCG is the most diverse of the UNC system's historically white campuses.
Although much has changed, some things remain the same. The university motto Service continues to be a guiding principle put into practice through all aspects of university life.
UNCG Schools and College of Arts & Sciences
The University's Academic Affairs Division consists of seven academic schools, the College of Arts & Sciences, the Graduate School and the Lloyd International Honors College. The names below are the ones currently in use. In some cases, the names have changed since the academic units were founded. The schools and their dates of establishment are:
- Graduate School 1921-22
- College of Arts & Sciences 1969
- Lloyd International Honors College 2005
- Joint School of Nanoscience & Nanoengineering 2007 (PDF file)
- Joseph M. Bryan School of Business & Economics 1969
- School of Education 1921
- School of Health and Human Sciences 2011
- School of Music, Theatre and Dance 2010
- School of Nursing 1967


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