Marianne

I think Annihilation, which didn’t do well at the box office will go down in history as a landmark in cinematic history like Blade Runner, which also didn’t knock it out of the park in terms of box office on its initial release, but now is recognized as a one of a small handful of classics.

While the roots of cyberpunk easily go back at least as…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
Looks like it may be a good one. I like the genre to a point. Movies that are so relentless with dread, terror, violence, horror, _______, just desensitize me and I don’t care what happens at some point. This is typically what happens in sequels.

It has a couple jump scares but it’s more about weirdness than scares and gore. W…[Read more]

PopeBeanie wrote:
I think I watched the trailer before because of Natalie being in it, but didn’t follow through. The audio effects alone were “manipulative”, and I mean it sets people up for dread. Very effectively, IMO.

Fiction minus manipulation. Gee… I wonder how that would work(?).

Having written some fiction, I can tell you it’s all a…[Read more]

BTW, in case you’re clueless as to what Annihilation is all about, here is a trailer. It is based on a best-selling novel of the same name. It is sci fi, but it is very intelligent sci fi.

PopeBeanie wrote:
I was never into horror flicks, unless it had lots of boobs.

Well, Natalie Portman, one of my very favorite actresses (and for me, a sex symbol as well), doesn’t deliver in that department.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Why do you say there are only 3 distinct parts to the human body? Is the head not distinct from the torso, the torso not distinct from the legs, the arms not distinct from the legs, the hands not distinct from the feet.

You can subdivide the human body by three in a great many ways because there’s nothing stopping…[Read more]

Clearly, The Warning is special, but what’s their secret?

In blues music, there’s a long tradition of borrowing melodic and lyrical phrases, and in music generally, there are only so many ways to create a musical phrase. I think it’s becoming harder and harder to “own” one’s own music anymore. A performance/recording, yes, but to into a court and  claim that a melody is original and never been strung…[Read more]

The word “different” is key to IP claims, and yet it doesn’t mean much at all without some definitional narrowing of the meaning for a particular purpose.

For example, even two guitars made by Fender, identical part numbers from their catalog, are different if only because they don’t occupy the same space. This one’s here, that one’s over there.

If Yahweh is three persons, I can beat that. I’m nine persons and I don’t need mathematics to prove it. I’m a son, a brother, a father, a grandfather, and a great grandfather. I’m also an ex-husband, an uncle, and a grand uncle. I’m also a self.

An omnipotent and omniscient being would know how to prove himself without resorting to revealing…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
If it is apparent that the image of a copyrighted painting was an input to an algorithm, you have probably violated the creator. However, the laws are behind the times and AI databases that “rip-off” IP will be dealt with in the future.

Incidentally, AI generated art cannot be copywrited as no human created it, LOL.

That’s a par…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
I guess somehow you don’t owe H.R. Giger any money to use his IP. Not until the law catches up to all this piracy, LOL. The free ChatGPT version doesn’t seem to generate midi files anymore. Perhaps the music lawyers are on it already.

I’m not sure an artist or business can protect their style legally. Go on Amazon and shop for gui…[Read more]

Maybe it’s a trans Medusa holding Perseus’s head(?)