Friday, 10 April 2015
Chromatics - "Just Like You" (After Dark, 2007)
(and most of the other songs and albums as well)
Heard in "Lost River", sounds a lot like the "Drive" soundtrack. Nice, though after a while it might become a bit too repetitive.
Heard in "Lost River", sounds a lot like the "Drive" soundtrack. Nice, though after a while it might become a bit too repetitive.
Thursday, 9 April 2015
Hi-Finesse
Found via the 'Maggie' trailer, the usual trailer music creation company. Fun stuff for an early Thursday morning.
Sunday, 5 April 2015
essay "Navigating the absurd: Camus, Hemingway and the sea"
"Cold hard science, Camus suggests, must ultimately concede to poetry, art, and descriptions. We cannot attain all knowledge, and thus we live in a world full of paradoxes and irrationals."
"While logic suggests suicide as escape from a painful existence, the very fact that our existence is painful gives meaning to our lives. To those aware of the absurd, there “is no finer sight than that of the intelligence at grips with a reality that transcends it” (480). Camus esteems this struggle, holding it to be the noblest aspect of being, and suggests that it is the unassailable passion of the heart to defy that helps man achieve greatness feeding on “the wine of the absurd and the bread of indifference”(480)."
"a larger motivation keeps Santiago’s old and pulverized hands on the line – the need to prove “what a man can do and what a man endures”. He recognizes that “the thousand times that he had proved it meant nothing. Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it”
This is a great article (not finished yet) but I do have a problem with the following statement:
Eddins points out that skin cancer is a manifestation of the dual nature of challenges that Santiago must face. The cancerous spot appears “malevolent in their assault upon the well-being of the organism, but are in another sense ‘benevolent’ in what they force the organism to become through overcoming them” (71).
First of all, malevolent/benevolent suggest a *will* to do harm or good. I have not read much of Camus yet – am on page 10 – but I have not seen any indication that he assigns the absurd, the universe, its irrationality and/or our inability to grasp it, as having a will to do harm or good. Secondly: does this mean that every life-threatening situation or phenomon is “in another sense ‘benevolent'” because of what it forces humanity to become through overcoming it? That somehow feels like an easy generalization to me…
"While logic suggests suicide as escape from a painful existence, the very fact that our existence is painful gives meaning to our lives. To those aware of the absurd, there “is no finer sight than that of the intelligence at grips with a reality that transcends it” (480). Camus esteems this struggle, holding it to be the noblest aspect of being, and suggests that it is the unassailable passion of the heart to defy that helps man achieve greatness feeding on “the wine of the absurd and the bread of indifference”(480)."
"a larger motivation keeps Santiago’s old and pulverized hands on the line – the need to prove “what a man can do and what a man endures”. He recognizes that “the thousand times that he had proved it meant nothing. Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it”
This is a great article (not finished yet) but I do have a problem with the following statement:
Eddins points out that skin cancer is a manifestation of the dual nature of challenges that Santiago must face. The cancerous spot appears “malevolent in their assault upon the well-being of the organism, but are in another sense ‘benevolent’ in what they force the organism to become through overcoming them” (71).
First of all, malevolent/benevolent suggest a *will* to do harm or good. I have not read much of Camus yet – am on page 10 – but I have not seen any indication that he assigns the absurd, the universe, its irrationality and/or our inability to grasp it, as having a will to do harm or good. Secondly: does this mean that every life-threatening situation or phenomon is “in another sense ‘benevolent'” because of what it forces humanity to become through overcoming it? That somehow feels like an easy generalization to me…
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