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[Thursday, April 26, 2007]
for the sake of brevity, let me just redirect you to this site. all you need to know is that a certain todd goldman is making money off of the collective intellectual perspiration of other online artists. in my opinion, quoting picasso only works if you're gloating, not making excuses.
sige ingat.ü
posted by stani at 6:20 PM
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sige ingat.ü
posted by stani at 6:20 PM
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[Tuesday, April 24, 2007]
[Friday, April 20, 2007]
the dangers of taking other things out of context
sige ingat.ü
posted by stani at 9:34 AM
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[Thursday, April 19, 2007]
VT killer's hammer pose resembles movie
NEW YORK - One of the photographs in the Virginia Tech killer's "multimedia manifesto" may have been inspired by a bloody South Korean movie.
"Oldboy," from the respected director Chan-woo Park, is about a man unjustly imprisoned for 15 years. After escaping, he goes on a rampage against his captor. In one scene, he dispatches more than a dozen henchmen with the aid of a hammer.
In the package of materials that Cho Seung-Hui sent to NBC News, one photo shows the killer brandishing a hammer in a pose similar to one from the film.
"Oldboy," the second film in Park's "Vengeance Trilogy," won the Gran Prix prize at the 2004
Cannes Film Festival.
The connection was spotted by Professor Paul Harris of Virginia Tech, who alerted authorities, according to London's Evening Standard. The similarities have prompted speculation, especially in online forums, that Cho's entire massacre may have been inspired by "Oldboy."
yet another example of supposedly senseless violence misattributed to the arts. it boggles the mind how on one hand, it is a fact that hobbies such as watching movies, listening to music, and playing video games relieve undue stress caused by routinary and distasteful tasks, but on the other, they somehow make high school students run amok.
here's an idea: maybe the rampage was "inspired" by his perception of how his peers were treating him? you know, just like every other school shooting?
just a thought.
sige ingat.ü
posted by stani at 11:07 PM
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NEW YORK - One of the photographs in the Virginia Tech killer's "multimedia manifesto" may have been inspired by a bloody South Korean movie.
"Oldboy," from the respected director Chan-woo Park, is about a man unjustly imprisoned for 15 years. After escaping, he goes on a rampage against his captor. In one scene, he dispatches more than a dozen henchmen with the aid of a hammer.
In the package of materials that Cho Seung-Hui sent to NBC News, one photo shows the killer brandishing a hammer in a pose similar to one from the film.
"Oldboy," the second film in Park's "Vengeance Trilogy," won the Gran Prix prize at the 2004
Cannes Film Festival.
The connection was spotted by Professor Paul Harris of Virginia Tech, who alerted authorities, according to London's Evening Standard. The similarities have prompted speculation, especially in online forums, that Cho's entire massacre may have been inspired by "Oldboy."
yet another example of supposedly senseless violence misattributed to the arts. it boggles the mind how on one hand, it is a fact that hobbies such as watching movies, listening to music, and playing video games relieve undue stress caused by routinary and distasteful tasks, but on the other, they somehow make high school students run amok.
here's an idea: maybe the rampage was "inspired" by his perception of how his peers were treating him? you know, just like every other school shooting?
just a thought.
sige ingat.ü
posted by stani at 11:07 PM
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[Wednesday, April 18, 2007]
i'm not really a fan of astrology. i'm the type of guy who reads my horoscope at the end of the day, to see what i've 'missed'. more often than not, i find the results either way off or simply too generic to be considered a hit of any sort.
a good example of the latter is the set of horoscopes for yesterday, which seemed to have been taken straight out of a self-help book. now, i do enjoy introspection every now and then, but i wonder if perhaps the use of this particular channel may be more thought-provoking than the actual content.
sige ingat.ü
posted by stani at 10:06 PM
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a good example of the latter is the set of horoscopes for yesterday, which seemed to have been taken straight out of a self-help book. now, i do enjoy introspection every now and then, but i wonder if perhaps the use of this particular channel may be more thought-provoking than the actual content.
sige ingat.ü
posted by stani at 10:06 PM
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[Tuesday, April 10, 2007]
the dangers of taking things out of context
sige ingat.ü
posted by stani at 4:02 PM
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[Tuesday, April 03, 2007]
[Sunday, April 01, 2007]
i've found it suddenly necessary to take a hiatus from the monotony of tropical life and take leave for more temperate pastures. accordingly, i may have neither the time nor the diligence to fully flesh out my misadventures on this blog. my photoblog, though, may not be quite as empty.
good luck to the both of us, then.
anyong.ü
posted by stani at 8:11 AM
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good luck to the both of us, then.
anyong.ü
posted by stani at 8:11 AM
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