‘Berberian Sound Studio’: a soundscape bridging reality and fiction
☛ Berberian Sound Studio by Peter Strickland, United Kingdom, 2012 (IMDb). Still @ 01h 20m. In his Prolegomena (Prolegomena zu einer jeden künftigen Metaphysik, die als Wissenschaft wird auftreten können, 1783), Kant wrote of analogies: Such a cognition is one of analogy, and does not signify (as is commonly understood) an imperfect similarity of two […]
“The functioning of the eye in many ways can be compared to that of a camera” (1972)
☛ 50 Watts: “Figure 19.3 The functioning of the eye in many ways can be compared to that of a camera”, illustration by Paul Slick, from Life and Health published by Communications Research Machines in 1972. 50 Watts, previously known as A Journey Round My Skull is Will Schofield’s richly and well curated space about […]
Metaphors, terrorism and violent crimes
Public discourse about crime is saturated with metaphor. Increases in the prevalence of crime are described as crime waves, surges or sprees. A spreading crime problem is a crime epidemic, plaguing a city or infecting a community. Crimes themselves are attacks in which criminals prey on unsuspecting victims. And criminal investigations are hunts where criminals […]
On (bad) analogies
☛ Ross Zietz photostream on Flickr: “Life is Like a Box of Terrible Analogies” (slogan by Lawrence Pernica). © 2011 Ross Zietz …and if somebody asks “What’s a bad analogy?,” one can always answer “A bad analogy is like…”. Ross Zietz is a designer and an art director at Threadless. From what I understand, Lawrence […]
