Bresson’s passing away on the 5th of august 2004 brings the death to 95 years of photo history. To say that the man singlehandedly invented the genre of professional photojournalism would not be much of an exaggeration - he will be sorely missed.
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I haven’t seen my sister for ages, as she lives in Australia. She decided to grace me with her presence, and hence I decided to take her out for some fun. Shock! Horror! What kind of fun stuff can you show someone in Liverpool? After we did the Beatles Museum and the Tate modern, we kinda sorta ran out of ideas, until I remembered the fact that there is a safari park only a few miles up the road, in Knowsley.
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This essay will discuss to what degree the media can be blamed for the United States’ loss in the Vietnam conflict ending 1975. It will be based predominantly on key written resources on the subject, but it will also contain - by means of an interview - certain first-hand observations from a Vietnam War veteran.
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Most anglophones, sadly enough, know this movie by its English name, Life is Beautiful. Just - for the love of the movie - do not see the redubbed version of this film. You won’t die from a few subtitles, and the Italian spontaneity in this movie really adds to its value.
Jeepers Creepers starts off when two college students, Darius (Justin Long) and his sister Trish (Gina Philips) leave college to go home - they drive on a desolate highway, and are attacked by a truck. Next, they see a guy dropping some sheets down a pipe. Roped sheets. Blood-stained, roped sheets. Of course, they decide to go back and have a look. (bad move.. Bad bad move)…
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The books start off slowly, by painting a vivid portrait of Lyra, the books’ main character. Lyra is a 12 year-old girl with a heavy prophecy hanging over her. Early in the first novel, the reader learns that the existence of everything - in the widest possible sense of the word - depends on Lyra, and Lyra alone.
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Filth is about a less-than-charming Scottish Detective Sergeant, Bruce Robertson. He is an angry young man who is betting high on his upcoming promotion in the Edinburgh police force, and is willing to do whatever it takes to reach that goal..
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This essay will offer an ephemeral outline of the history of image manipulation, before presenting a discussion about the definition of image editing.
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The plot is quite simple; We follow Kenneth (Or Ken Nott) a radio DJ on a moderately popular radio station in the time right after September 11. 2001. Surprisingly - or perhaps not, I am not quite sure yet - Ken is quite unaffected by the whole terrorist attack.
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The Crow Road is a novel written by Iain Banks in 1992, first published in 1993. It was later made into a television series.
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