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The Importance of Net Neutrality
Although I remain a huge admirer of Lawrence Lessig, I am ashamed to admit that I never fully understood the importance of net neutrality until last week. Mr. Lessig described network neutrality in these urgent terms in 2006: At the center of the debate is the most important public policy you...
Wow, that's one nice looking Tumblr.
Just Because I Have A Tumblr Now Doesn't Mean I'm Abandoning The Blog
BUT Y'ALL TUMBLR IS SO FUN GO CHECK IT OUT!!!! http://madwomanintheattic.tumblr.com/ Lemme 'splain. No, my attention span is too short. Lemme sum up. On new meds, scattered and exhausted, entire blog post difficult to impossible to achieve. Have NOT ABANDONED BLOG. But if you wanna see my brain d...
#4 Children of Men - I saw a making of that scene and as far as I could tell the whole scene was shot that way. They had a special car with the driver way in the front. The various seats in the car would lay down as needed. I think the only thing which may be digital is the roof of the car as the roof of the car was open to allow the camera in at the top.
20 Greatest Extended Takes In Movie History
The extended take or long take is the first time I noticed a filmmaker articulating cinematic space and pushing his/her desire for notions of auteurism. It was the iconic opening shot in Stanley Kubrick's A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, where we are introduced to our anti-hero Alex in an extreme close...
I never knew John Cramer was your dad. Makes a sort of sense though! So tell me, is he ever going to write another novel? Twistor and Einstein's Bridge are 2 of my favorites.
Superconducting Magnet Quench
These are pictures from the STAR detector at the RHIC facility at Brookhaven that my father, John G. Cramer, brought to lunch today. He was running on the machine at Brookhaven as part of the STAR Collaboration. The first two are from a "normal" collision of two gold nuclei, producing several...
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