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Cinemetrics 1

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Cinemetrics This is a fascinating information visualization project. Wordle is a visualization of text, the homunculus is a visualization of the brain, and maps can be recreated and proportioned according to a number of factors, but I've never seen anyone do this with cinema before. As the creator points out, it is a time-based medium, and the additional dimension means that few people have tried to tackle a purely data-based representation. This makes me wonder: how could you visualize music, another time-based art? I'm sure someone has done it…

Alice in Wonderland

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Finally got around to watching the 2010 Alice in Wonderland, and the last third was… a disappointment. There are at least five people who could have turned out to be the Jabberwocky, some less logically than others, but all heartbreaking. When I saw Absalom going into his cocoon, I was sure we had a winner. But no… the Jabberwocky was just an anonymous ugly dragon. Alice was just the generic dragonslayer. I’m not saying we should have some fluffy ending where she’s taming the Jabberwocky instead of killing it, or something similarly vanilla, but a little more nuance. Or coherence. […]