Critique: 2001 A Space Odyssey
More Than a Tedious, Boring, Unintelligible Mess?
Deep mysteries, unsolved, lie below the surface of the film. Black rectangles repeated at scale through time, with the exact dimensions of an obscure movie screen and a dollar bill. A hand touches the screen, and a human is reborn as something new, outside the Earth. What did Kubrick know?
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In another box set that my parents got me when I was younger contained four books by A.A. Milne. 'When We Were Very Young' is a collection of poems that Milne wrote for his son Christopher Robin. This is a book that is full of references to Mr. Edward Bear, but a lot of the poems give some various descriptions of life of a very young child and where, when, how and why they do what they do. The illustrations are quite cute for you can see what Christopher Robin is and may be thinking. Also, Pooh Bear does make his self-known at various points. I have read these verses many, many times over the years and each time make me feel good about myself.
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Here is another computer book that I reviewed for manning.com. This one is entitled 'Geometry for Programmers' written by Oleksandr Kaleniuk. So, who remembers their geometry course from high school? To be honest I was a business studies student in high school and did not take geometry, but I do remember other students complaining and it seemed a lot about this course. This book will give a very basic review of the basic and how it fits in with computer programming. The code is easy to understand the author teaches as he writes. There are many mini summaries throughout the chapters as well as at the end each chapter for even better understanding of the subject covered. I am thinking about trying to draw some of the illustrations as artwork that is what to me geometry is all about shapes in many contours and the vocabulary was another way that I may share some ideas, as in Spline.
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