Turns out that projections of 2d movies are being affected by the use of 3D projectors and lenses. Read all about how 3d kills the light that is the movie experience.
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Monthly Archives: May 2011
Like Mad’s stupid answers to stupid questions, but taken seriously
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Mr. Know-It-All: Star Wars Averse Offspring, Earbud Etiquette, Compromising Coworkers
- By Brendan I. Koerner
I have two kids, ages 4 and 6. When I showed them Star Wars, they said it was boring and refused to watch. How do I get them into the saga?
If your progeny were meh on any other sci-fi classic, my advice would boil down to “get over it.” But the first Star Wars is a special case—it’s the most sacred cultural touchstone for anyone born between the Ford and Reagan administrations. If your children don’t know Star Wars, can they ever truly know you? This is why it’s important to keep trying to get them to see the power of the Force.
It won’t be easy. By today’s narrative standards, Star Wars: A New Hope suffers from glacial pacing. Contemporary kiddie entertainment has primed your progeny to expect nonstop action instead of talky scenes about droid sales and Imperial politics.
To keep things lively, you need to make the Star Wars experience more active. “Get the kids off the couch while watching the movie,” advises Kevin Decker, coeditor of the book Star Wars and Philosophy. Equip them with ersatz lightsabers and have them whack at a makeshift training remote; wrap brown towels around their bodies and encourage them to be Jawas; turn a cardboard box and some packing peanuts into the Death Star’s garbage compactor.
Willing to get sacrilegious? Then swallow your disdain for Jar Jar Binks and show them The Phantom Menace before retrying A New Hope. “Anakin is a kid in it, and there’s a reason that kids’ films almost always feature protagonists the same age as the viewers,” explains Kevin Wetmore Jr., author of Empire Triumphant: Race, Religion, and Rebellion in the Star Wars Films.
But unlike a Jedi, you should keep “try” in your vocabulary. You must accept that it is possible your offspring will never become Star Wars converts. If that ends up being the case, control your feelings or you’ll be giving in to your own personal dark side. All padawans must choose their own path.
What’s the earbud etiquette when someone asks for a quick listen to whatever song I’m rocking on my iPhone? Am I obligated to give the buds a wipe-down before passing them along?
I can understand why earwax gets a bad rap: It’s weirdly sticky, puslike in color, and smells ever so faintly of Velveeta. But unless you have a history of ear infections, that gunk is generally innocuous. Gordon Siegel, an otolaryngologist at Northwestern Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago, says that “it’s unlikely you’re going to do any great harm” by sharing earbuds but that it’s not “advisable.” He also stresses that you commit a much riskier act every time you plunge a Q-tips swab into an ear canal (the bane of otolaryngologists the world over).
Though earwax isn’t a public-health menace, it’s still pretty icky, especially in large quantities. So inspect your earbuds before handing them over, and ponder the Golden Rule: Would you want that much foreign earwax touching your own body? Let your honest answer to that question guide your “to wipe or not to wipe” decision.
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