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What happens to the energy when waves perfectly cancel each other (destructive interference)? It appears that the energy "disappear" but the law of conservation of energy states that it can't be destructed. My guess is that the kinetic energy is transformed into potential energy. Or maybe it depends on the context of the waves where do the energy goes? Can someone elaborate on that or correct me if I'm wrong?
We treated this a while back at University...
First of all, I assume you mean global cancellation, since otherwise the energy that is missing at the cancelled point simply is what is added to points of constructive interference: Conservation of Energy is only global.
The thing is, if multiple waves globally cancel out, there are actually only two possible explanations:
Waves always travel. Even standing waves can always be interpreted as two traveling waves that are moving in opposite directions (more on that below).
Keeping the idea that waves must travel in mind, here's what happens whenever you figure out a way to build a region in which the energy of such a moving wave cancels out fully: If you look closely, you will find that you have created a mirror, and that the missing energy has simply bounced off the region you created.
Examples include opals, peacock feathers, and ordinary light mirrors. The first two reflect specific frequencies of light because repeating internal structures create a physical regions in which that frequency of light cannot travel - that is, a region in which near-total energy cancellation occurs. An optical mirror uses electrons at the top of their Fermi seas to cancel out light over a much broader range of frequencies. In all three examples the light bounces off the region, with only a little of its energy being absorbed (converted to heat).
A skip rope (or perhaps a garden hose) provides a more accessible example. First, lay out the rope or hose along its length, then give it quick, sharp clockwise motion. You get a helical wave that travels quickly away from you like a moving corkscrew. No standing wave, that!
You put a friend at the other end, but she does not want your wave hitting her. So what does she do? First she tries sending a clockwise wave at you too, but that seems to backfire. Your wave if anything seems to hit harder and faster. So she tries a counterclockwise motion instead. That seems to work much better. It halts the forward progress of the wave you launched at her, converting it instead to a loop. That loop still has lots of energy, but at least now it stays in one place. It has become a standing wave, in this case a classic skip-rope loop, or maybe two or more loops if you are good at skip rope.
What happened is that she used a canceling motion to keep your wave from hitting her. But curiously, her cancelling motion also created a wave, one that is twisted in the opposite way (counterclockwise) and moving towards you, just as your clockwise wave moved towards her. As it turns out, the motion you are already doing cancels her wave too, sending it right back at her. The wave is now trapped between your two cancelling actions. The sum of the two waves, which now looks sinusoidal instead of helical, has the same energy as your two individual helical waves added together.
I should note that you really only need one person driving the wave, since any sufficiently solid anchor for one end of the rope will also prevent the wave from entering it, and so end up reflecting that wave just as your friend did using a more active approach. Physical media such as peacock features and Fermi sea electrons also use a passive approach to reflection, with the same result: The energy is forbidden by cancellation from entering into some region of space.
So, while this is by no means a complete explanation, I hope it provides some "feel" for what complete energy cancellation really means: It's more about keeping waves out. Thinking of cancellation as the art of building wave mirrors provides a different and less paradoxical-sounding perspective on a wide variety of phenomena that alter, cancel, or redirect waves.
Maybe the question can simply be answered by the observation that a wave like
$$\Psi(x,t)=A \cos(x)-A \cos(x+\omega\ t),$$
where the two cosines cancel at periodic times $$t_n=\frac{2\pi}{\omega}n\ \ \longrightarrow\ \ \Psi(x,t_n)=0,$$ still has nonvanishing kinetic energy, if it looks something like $$E=\sum_\mu\left(\frac{\partial \Psi}{\partial x^\mu} \right)^2+\ ...$$
You really would have to construct an example.
Since non-dissipative waves whose equations of motions can be formulated by a Lagrangian will have an energy associated to them, as you say, you'd have to find a situation/theory without an energy quantity. The energy is related to the wave by its relation to the equation of motion. So if the energy is defined as that which is constant because of time symmetry and you don't have such a thing, then there is no question.
Also don't make the mistake and talk about about two different waves with different energy. If you have a linear problem, the wave will be "one wave" in the energy expression, wherever its parts may wander around.
edit: See also the other answer(s) for a discussion of a more physical reading of the question.
Just in case anyone (e.g. student) would be interested in the simple answer for mechanical waves:
CASE 1 (global cancellation): Imagine that you have crest pulse moving right and equally large though pulse moving left. For a moment they "cancel", e.g. there is no net displacement at all, because two opposite displacements cancel out. However, velocities add up and are twice as large, meaning that all the energy in that moment is stored within kinetic energy.
Instructive and opposite situation happens, when crest pulses meet. For a moment, displacements add up and are twice as large, meaning that all the energy in that moment is stored within potential energy, as velocities on the other hand cancel out.
Because wave equation is linear differential equation, you can superpose different waves $\psi_{12} = \psi_1 + \psi_2$. As a consequence, after meeting both crest pulses or pair crest / though pulses keep traveling if nothing has had happened.
It is instructive, that you can add velocities separately of amplitudes, as $\dot{\psi}_{12} = \frac{\partial}{\partial t} (\psi_1 + \psi_2) = \dot{\psi}_1 + \dot{\psi}_2$. So even if amplitudes do cancel out at a given moment ($\psi_1 + \psi_2 = 0$), speeds do not ($\dot{\psi}_1 + \dot{\psi}_2 \ne 0$).
It is just as if you see that oscillator is in a equilibrium position at a given moment. That does not mean that it is not oscillating, as it still might posses velocity.
If we generalize written above: in any wave you have exchange of two types of energy: kinetic vs. potential, magnetic vs. electrical. You can make such two waves that one of the energies cancels, but the other energy will become twice as big.
CASE 2 (local cancellation): In case of spatial interference of two continuous waves there are areas of destructive and areas of constructive interferences. Energy is no longer uniformly distributed in space, but in average it equals added up energies of two waves. E.g. looking at standing waves, there is no energy at nodes of the standing waves, while at crests energy is four times the energy of one wave - giving a space average of twice the energy of one wave.
More engineer-like explanations can be found here: http://van.physics.illinois.edu/qa/listing.php?id=1891
When two waves interfere totally destructively the energy turns into heat.
Two sound waves, the temperature of the medium will go up and energy is conserved because it turns into incoherent kinetic energy of the molecules of the medium.
Two water waves, ditto.
I have been trying unsuccessfully to find a reference about two electromagnetic waves with total destructive interference and energy conservation.
If it is an interference pattern, as observed in a detecting medium, screen etc. and one gradually goes to total destructive interference then again the medium will be heated.
If it is two electromagnetic waves in vacuum, I expect the energy to go into soft infrared invisible photons, as there is no ether to take it up, but may be wrong. One would need QED to see how this could happen, imo. Figure 6.8 allows for photon photon scattering and the change in frequency but the probability is small. Or maybe there cannot be complete destructive interference in vacuum, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle ( delta(E)*delta(t) always allowing for constructive ones. Or the truth is in between that the energy propagates and we can only see interference if the beams impinge on a medium, which will take care of energy conservation .
Edit Thanks to @HelderVelez for the link of the antilazer. Saves me thinking of an experiment.
I had not thought of current, but heat is right there.
Oblique superposition of two elliptically polarized lightwaves using geometric algebra: is energy–momentum conserved? Michelle Wynne C. Sze, Quirino M. Sugon, Jr., and Daniel J. McNamara JOSA A, Vol. 27, Issue 11, pp. 2468-2479 (2010)
We added the two elliptically polarized waves and computed the energy–momentum density of their sum. We showed that energy and momentum are not generally conserved, except when the two waves are moving in opposite directions. We also showed that the momentum of the superposition has an extra component perpendicular to the propagation directions of both waves. But when we took the time-average of the energy and momentum of the superposition, we found that the time-average energy and momentum could also be conserved if both waves are circularly polarized but with opposite handedness, regardless of the directions of the two waves. The non-conservation of energy and momentum of the superposition of two elliptically polarized plane waves is not due to the form of the plane waves themselves, but rather to the accepted definitions of the electromagnetic energy and momentum. Perhaps we may need to modify these definitions in order to preserve the energy–momentum conservation. In our computations, we restricted ourselves to the superposition of two waves with the same frequency.
This figure shows two common situations.
The top is an example where the waves are coming from different directions--one from "S1", one from "S2". Then there is destructive interference in some areas ("nodes") and constructive interference in others ("hot spots"). The energy has been redistributed but the total amount of energy is the same.
The bottom is an example where the two sources S3 and S4 are highly directional plane-wave emitters, so that they can destructively interfere everywhere they overlap. For that to happen, the source S4 itself has to be sitting in the field of S3. Then actually what is happening is that S4 is absorbing the energy of S3. (You may think that running the laser S4 will drain its battery, but ideally, the battery can even get recharged!)
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Antenae in sattelites (vaccum) work the same way as the ones at Earth surface to shape the intensity of the field.
See the antilaser experiment.
We dont have theory? Then we must rethink.
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If the antilaser antilaser experiment is performed in the vacuum there is no thermal dissipation, and the Poynting vectors are opposed, and cancel, for the same field intensity and with the fields out-of-phase.
For plane waves (WP, link above):
If you have one electromagnetic beam at a time then work can be done. If you have two in the above conditions then no work can be extracted. (Energy is canceled, destroyed, ;)
BUT, things can be more complicated then described by the eqs, because a physical emmiter antenna also behaves as a receiving antenna that absorbs and reradiates etc, ... changing and probably trashing my first oppinion.
the waves will obliterate each other but they will still exist, they just won't be moving they would just change form (energy cannot be destroyed it can only change form) so when the waves meet they will cancel each other so sound will change to potential and kinetic will change to sound or whatever


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Choosing the right forex broker to conduct your foreign currency exchange trading activities seems relatively easy on the surface. Unfortunately, when you look a little deeper, you'll soon find that it's important to choose the right account to suit you, or you could face problems later.
You'll need a forex trading account if you intend to generate profits from trading foreign currencies, and an online forex account can give you a significant amount of freedom. When you trade online, you have the ability to place trades at any time of the day or night from anywhere in the world with an internet connection.
Here are some other considerations to think about before signing up for your forex account:
Trading Costs
Most forex brokers don't charge any trading fees or commissions. Instead, they charge a 'spread'. This is the difference between the bid and ask price. They add the spread onto the price of the trade and keep this as their fee for your trade. Spreads can vary greatly between brokers.
It's important to understand how these things are calculated, as you may find that the bid/ask price represents a spread that is higher than other brokers may charge and could impact your profitability.
You could also find that the type of forex trading account or online forex account you choose can impact the trading costs associated with trading. This means some brokers will charge a much lower spread for high-volume traders and charge a higher spread for those traders who place trades less frequently.
Even though you might think one single pip (or point of currency value) might not look like much, consider trading on a 5 pip spread instead of a 4 pip spread. One tiny pip worth of currency value looks so incredibly small. Yet it still could represent a 25% on your overall trading costs.
When you multiply this amount by the amount of high leverage available through most forex trading accounts, those tiny pips suddenly multiply into vast amounts of money. This is especially true with leverage available of ratios up to 200:1.
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You also have the opportunity to place trades within your demo account that can show you how quickly each trade is facilitated and executed. You'll be more aware if that particular forex account is the right one for you before you commit any of your own money into the deals.
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There are plenty of forex accounts that accept standard sized trades, but if you're a little more cautious about how much of your own money you want to spend, you might consider opting for a micro trading account or even a mini trading account.
These can allow you to place trades for significantly smaller amounts, which can limit the amount of capital you expose during each trade. You will also find that the amount of deposit needed to begin trading is also substantially lower, ranging from just $25 to get started up to around $200. These types of online forex accounts can be an excellent way to get a feel for forex trading.
Everywhere you look online are ads and banners promoting becoming involved with FOREX. The ads frequently talk about how you can make a great deal of money by trading currencies, how their company can help you with detailed technical analysis to insure you are profitable, as well as whatever other feature is the buzz word that week. Do not get me wrong, I am not against FOREX. What I see is that many of these ads have the opposite effect of what they desire to do. Instead of encouraging people, their use of fancy words and terms may be scaring people away. For many people the concepts of FOREX are a part of their daily lives. A member of the military stationed overseas gets paid in dollars which he has to convert to the local currency to pay his rent and other living expenses. When you talk about trading in foreign currencies you are just doing the same thing. The difference is that you are trying to time your purchases so that you can earn a profit. You will have to look beyond what the market is today but what you think it will be in the future. One of the scariest things for a new trader is Technical Analysis. Dont get me wrong, one does not need Harvard Executive Education to master technical analysis.
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Learning technical analysis саn bе а fun аnd rewarding experience. Aѕ wе progress аlоng оur technical analysis education journey, wе wіll bе learning аbоut mаnу techniques, indicators аnd formations. But bеfоrе wе gеt tоо involved, іt іѕ important tо discuss оnе оf thе mоѕt basic tenets оf technical analysis: investing WITH thе trend.
Onе оf thе fundamental concepts оf technical analysis іѕ thаt markets, including stocks, futures, forex, etc., tend tо rise оr fall fоr extended periods оf time. Whіlе thеу dо nоt gо іn а straight line, but іn jagged moves, thеrе іѕ аn оvеrаll direction оr trend tо prices. Typically, оnе оf оur fіrѕt tasks іѕ tо identify thіѕ trend.
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If you have a plan to invest during the crisis, you should look for a company where your investment is secured. Before you start investing, think about the reputation of the company. During financial or economical crisis, you should invest on a company that has a good record in terms of service and integrity.
A business may face certain times of struggles and minor financial problems and even those that are prominent within the industry have no power to escape from these situations. On the other hand, if the company has excellent track records and financial reports, it will always be capable to survive the challenges without causing any bad effects on the money invested on them by their investors.


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The first note about this movie I have in my tiny notebook is "Dark version of main theme at beginning". We discussed this in the discussion after the movie—as Ivan goes to work on a suit to rival Tony's, we hear a dark, sinister take on the main theme of the movie. The fact that it also has definite Soviet undertones didn't occur to me until somebody pointed it out. Presumably, it just so happens that Russian music lends itself to being dark, sinister and overbearing when the situation calls for it. (In fact, one of the things that helped me realize this was from the X-Men cartoon from the 1990s, where Colossus, a Russian character, had similar theme music. I always liked it.)
This makes a point of at least two things: First, Ivan Vanko is a very dangerous character. If he is after Tony Stark, for whatever reason, then he means trouble. Second, the influence from the main theme of the first movie stresses their similarity—Ivan Vanko is a technological genius working on a power suit of his own. (In this case, that only serves to make him more dangerous, though I found myself not quite having the feelings of dread to match the music. Not yet, anyway.) Third, he is Russian.
In the same breath, I note one of Ivan's quirks: "Card suits on fingers. And a burd." This is picked up again later. One of the things that helps sell Ivan Vanko as a character and a legitimate threat is the various quirks that are given to him.
Ivan Vanko's status as a new character and a legitimate threat is supported by the sheer number of little quirks given to him. He has a pet cockatoo, which he feeds Vodka. He has tattoos all over his body, from card suits on his fingers to I-don't-know-what. He looks darn cool in an alley with an overcoat, shades, and his hair done up. He isn't Obadiah Stane (the villain of the first movie, memorable but arguably taken for granted) and he isn't the Mandarin (a favorite for the third movie and Iron Man's arch-nemesis in the comics), so they get creative in selling him on his own merits. A sympathetic backstory of a warped childhood doesn't hurt—so to speak.
While I'm on the subject of Vanko, two other things come to mind. First, Mickey Rourke is reportedly a very good actor. I can't say, really—I'm not familiar with his work. However, taking that for granted, it was one and a half viewings before I realized, in contrast with the measured, charismatic performances of Hammer, Stane, and even Raza: Vanko is blunt. His actions are blunt, his mannerisms are blunt, even his features are blunt. He is clearly intelligent, even articulate, and he comes alive after a fashion when he is in his element and his prodigious technological skills are engaged, but he still comes off in many ways as a revenge-driven brute. (This probably partly reflects his upbringing.)
The other thing was his very first scene. This film, like many before it, has fun (re-) introducing its characters, and in many cases, their faces. It's a minor thing, but it still made its way into my notes, partly because I've become rather intrigued by the variety surrounding the "face reveal" shot. I could go on at length, but in this movie alone:
-Ivan Vanko's very first scene sees him stewing in a corner as his father dies of alcohol poisoning. What's going through his head—if it's even supposed to be clear—I can't say. But it's ten seconds before he turns to meet the camera for the first time, and his father for the last.
-Tony's re-introduction is a stark (excuse me) contrast, as, following a flashy entrance in the Iron Man suit, his helmet is removed to reveal him grinning, loving the crowd and soaking up attention. Robert Downey Jr. is good at that—just one of his many talents. "It's good to be back," he says, and the audience agrees.
-Rhodey's reappearance is ingenious, and I can't claim credit for noticing, though I like to think I'd have figured it out on my own. He is introduced facing away from the camera, until it's clear who he is, new actor or no. "I'm here, it's me, let's move on," he says. Tony tries to say something. "Drop it."
I could go on about similar scenes for many members of the cast—I could dissect Pepper's re-appearance to an unnecessary degree, or any one of Justin Hammer's scenes—but let's move on.
Back to Stark. There is an art to re-introduction, and there's more to it than revealing just another bearded face. Stark's first scene is a bombastic, impressive re-introduction to the audience—ego and all. The scantily-clad go-go dancers kind of make that clear, and Stark drives it home with a thoroughly vain, charismatic speech about his accomplishments. Both audiences, as a group, love him for it.
Let's talk about Stark. Let's talk about why these movies are so popular and so much fun. In the comics, Tony Stark, is (quite) a character, too. But at his most basic, he is a flawed hero, the CEO of Stark Enterprises, and also (with an appropriate origin story) Iron Man. He is also clever, rich, and largely uninhibited in a way that would be difficult to match with fellow Marvel heroes Hulk or Captain America. The writers, directors, and Robert Downey Jr. have taken Tony Stark—the central character of their multimillion dollar blockbuster—and run with him.
That is to say, they have thrown everything into making him a clever, entertaining, charismatic, larger-than-life powerhouse of a hero (such as he is) who is also Tony Stark. He makes funny quips left and right, an art at which which Robert Downey Jr. appears to be genuinely adept (the "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's" joke from the first movie was reportedly not in the script but improvised on the spot, on-camera) in an environment of loose consequences as a character who thrives on being a lovable egotist. Cary Grant, eat your heart out. He uses his vast wealth quite liberally, and if he wants to respond to his existential crisis by jumping in on the Circuit de Monaco, then he is going to do it.
The word I'm looking for is escaping me—Chutzpah? Gall? Audacity? That might be it—but he pulls off amazing tricks, feats and one-liners of every variety, looks darn good in the meantime… and hits the beats that make him recognizably Tony Stark and Iron Man of Marvel Comics.
But more to the point, he is Tony Stark of Iron Man and Iron Man 2. (The relative amount of screen time he spends as Iron Man and Tony Stark, and the overall problem of working a semi-realistic plot into any superhero movie, just occurred to me. But I can get into that some other time.)
This actually takes me through the first four pages of my notes. The only thing I haven't touched on is Pepper's absolutely stunned reaction to being promoted to CEO. I'm not sure where I would go with that.
Revenge! This is the first word on the next, page, minus the exclamation point, and it brings me to something very important about Iron Man 2's plot. Iron Man 2 hits many of the same beats as its predecessor, even for a sequel. Tony's struggle, two major villains, one foreign, one a "second banana" figure, one besting the other's guards in an act of betrayal, scantily clad dancers working for Tony, a somewhat disappointing climax, an unorthodox sequel hook after the credits—they're all there. The second movie does them well enough, while bringing in an exceptional amount of its own material, including character background, development, and setups for more movies. (All of which can presumably be found in abundance in the comics, but what they worked into the movie is impressive. Stop me before I get sidetracked.)
One thing Iron Man 2 is missing, however, is a certain kind of sueprheroics. The first movie featured a realistic terrorist organization, The Ten Rings, as one of its villains. While corrupt businessman / iron-monger Obadiah Stane turned out to be the movie's "real" villain, Iron Man also had to face off with a band of marauders terrorizing innocent people in the Middle East, the likes of which we are certainly familiar with in real life. Iron Man takes them to the cleaners. We cheer him for it.
Iron Man 2 is missing this. Its main villain, Ivan Vanko, has his eyes on one man: Stark. Iron Man is fighting to save his own life. Yes, Ivan endangers and even kills various innocent bystanders, and Iron Man goes out of his way to defend them, but this is a fight between the two men. This would not normally make a bad movie, just as Stane's attempt to take over Stark Enterprises in the first movie would not have made a bad movie, and in point of fact, it doesn't make a bad movie. It's well-made, well-received and a lot of fun.
It is, however, also a superhero movie. One of the main roles of superheroes is to defend innocents from threats—fantastic or mundane—and save the day. (To be fair, there is a repeated emphasis on how Iron Man has had a significant impact on worldwide violence, but while arguably more important and a creative concept to boot, it doesn't have the same effect.) Except for a few scenes where Stark must save innocent innocent bystanders caught in Vanko's attacks, Iron Man 2 is missing superhero-style superheroics. That may not be 2's only weakness compared to the original, but it's a signficant one.
All this talk about Vanko. What about the movie's other villain, Justin Hammer? Some would argue that he just isn't as interesting as Vanko. There may be something to that. However, there is one angle I have come up with, ever since the ride back after seeing the movie for the first time: Justin Hammer is what Tony Stark could have been.
He's a good deal less skilled. He's a lot less charismatic. At certain points, he is certainly more ruthless. But he is also an amoral, egotistical, self-absorved showboater in charge of a major corporation. There are tricks he pulls that even the "old" Tony might not have, such as being Senator Stern's puppet, or hiring a maniac who just tried to murder his biggest competitor to work for him, to say nothing of the way he breaks Vanko out of prison, but he is not a far cry from the Tony Stark we see at first.
Given how Tony changed after his epiphany in Afganistan, I do wonder what we might see from Hammer after being arrested and disgraced (the disheveled hair and broken glasses, which he later loses altogether, were a nice touch) while vowing payback the whole way out.
Where was I? Still at the racetrack, according to my notes—an easily missed line about Tony suggesting that Pepper get a massage from the new girl (which probably isn't that hard to unpack), a note about the foreshadowing as Hammer watches Vanko's attack on Tony with more interest than fear (and me expecting I could do scenes like that if I bothered to write more), and…
I described a while back how Iron Man 2 was lacking in self-sacrificing heroics. There is one roundabout exception to this: Tony's friends, Rhodey, Pepper, Happy, and less personally, Fury and Romanov, trying to save him. This isn't in my notes, but it did strike me about the movie and one of its messages: How not to deal with an existential crisis, imminent or otherwise. The movie presents a very good picture of someone responding to the prospect of death by alternately performing spontaneous, half-thought-out acts of charity, clamming up and refusing to tell his friends what's wrong, and toward the end, getting drunk and acting like an animal. These are pitfalls he falls into so that, ideally, the audience won't. (I'm still not sure why he didn't turn to an external power source that wouldn't affect his bloodstream. But that's beside the point.)
This is followed by a note about adapting and improvising in writing. I think there was a lot of that in this film, and it benefited for it—many of the best ideas are brought up on the spot, and I don't just mean on-camera ad libs. But that's a bit much to get into right now. (I think I was still thinking about Stark's sheer, no-holds-barred characterization, described earlier.)
Then there's a note about Vanko's escape… and the note about how Iron Man "never stopped protecting us." Again, it is a kind of superheroism, and it does work on its own terms, but it arguably lacks the "oomph" expected of a hero defending the innocent.
That said, this brings us to two of Vanko's lines to Tony: "If you make God bleed, people will cease to believe in him," and more simply, "You lose." We also discussed this after the movie, the first in particular. I won't repeat what was said there, except that the point about Jesus actually bleeding is oddly apropos, and that it may be important to note that Vanko is a villain. However, there is one wrinkle to this claim that may not be obvious: It is not that he was able to damage the seemingly invincible Iron Man suit or literally make Tony bleed, though he certainly did both. It isn't even that he showed that contrary to Tony's claims, such suits were possible, and immediately so, though this is closer.
What he proved, more conceptually, is that Tony Stark was not the only one who could do it. To hold to Vanko's metaphor, in the eyes of some of Stark's more single-minded supporters, as both Iron Man and the creator of "Iron Man", he showed that he was not a "god".
My notes trail off a bit here, apart from some amusement at Hammer claiming that he and Vanko are "very alike". (He is set up as a buffoon at every turn, isn't he? I stand by my "What Tony Stark could have been" hypothesis.)
Shortly after this, we have the "party" scene, and the lowest that Tony Stark sinks. My first note is about the powerful "fallen" image after his fight with Rhodey: Collapsed in the corner of a wrecked room, with an unusual party light shining on him. (Off that, Rhodey takes the suit to the military. End second act.) It called up my own ideas for a Birdman movie, but that's well outside of this analysis. In the same breath, though, there is a note about the "scary" party—and how, as Tony slips into drunken, nihilistic "anything goes" mode and starts blasting wine glasses out of the air, to the delight of the (also drunken) crowd, it is portrayed as a very bad thing, thanks in no small part to the very ominous music.
The soundtrack is also important shortly thereafter: In the fight between Stark (Iron Man) and Rhodes (War Machine), the music—diegetic music, no less—helps to very nearly play it for laughs, with a strong element of fun in seeing these two comic book heroes slug it out on the big screen. However, by the end, things become very un-funny as the music drops out entirely. It's not funny anymore. A minute later, we're looking at the fallen hero described two paragraphs ago.
My next note… a brief thing about Fury and Romanova's faces, the latter "introduced" in a form-fitting bodysuit before her identity is revealed. And let me just say that in a movie already full of fun actors and characters, I love Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury. (There's a notable story behind his casting, but this isn't the place for it.) (I do also note that this is right after the first movie… which it actually isn't, now that I think about it. How fast did that paladium spread all of a sudden?)
Say my notes: "Elaborate backstory. I like it. Scope." Again, this movie goes into the pasts and details of its characters, though it is limited by its two hours of screentime. (Comics nothing, I wonder what the novelization gets up to.) There is also a note to the effect of, "Hammer. Engineer or not?" It isn't clear just how much of an engineer Hammer himself is, even if he is clearly below Stark and Vanko. (On the one hand, there is his loving, detailed description of "The Ex-Wife". On the other is his total lack of comphrehension at what Vanko was up to until he explained his "drone" concept—any good engineer should have been geeking out in the same breath as berating him.)
This movie has lots of "big" characters, I noticed, and I'm not just referring to Tony Stark, charismatic, brilliant superhero and former head of Stark Enterprises. Other players include the current CEO of Stark Enterprises, the CEO of Hammer Enterprises, a prominent United States senator, and—the one who inspired the note—the director of the ultra-cool fictional defense organization S.H.I.E.L.D.. The power and authority behind every other character in this movie arguably adds to its appeal.
...followed by a note about actions, MOs, speech and reactions (inspired by Downey's reactions to discovering the "new element" with his late father's help—all of them, one after the other) to match. Tony Stark, protagonist extraordinaire, may be the main source of great moments (of which cramming the entire "World of Tomorrow" display into his car and driving off is only one), but he by no means has a monopoly on them. It's that kind of movie—very "packed", very fast-moving. And we love it for it, at least insofar as it's very—almost purely—fun. That's when (taking the original notes) I finally realized how "blunt" Vanko is. If that's how he comes off, presumably, that's how Rourke intended it.
Speaking of "big" characters, the final battle has the appeal of many comic books, probably more so than even most fantasy novels, or possibly many comic book movies to date: Super-powerful combatants trading super-powerful blows in a battle we just don't have the means for in real life. This is followed (as Vanko closes in in his personal, refurbished suit) by the two-word note, "Boss fight." Little more needs to be said about that, I think, except that I am a long-time video gamer and proud of it.
Well, that, and that (like the first movie) I personally had a hard time getting into the climactic scene. Vanko may have had Rhodey and Stark on the ropes, so to speak, but… given Vanko's "energy whip" weapons, it's hard to read when our heroes go from "still fighting" to "mortal peril". I'm not sure what to expect from Iron Man 3.
But that wasn't in my notes. The last thing I have written, before a few notes about the post-movie discussion, is "Bittersweet ending… averted." This goes back to the first time I saw Iron Man 2. Vanko is beaten. However, he still sneers: "You lose." His drones begin to self-destruct. However, our heroes escape in plenty of time, so—while he could have been simply overestimating himself—it does not seem like that's what he meant. Tony narrowly rescues Pepper, but Vanko could hardly have known about her.
Then they make it to safety… and beneath them, explosions light up the city. That was it, I thought. He didn't get Tony, but he left his mark. It's the second movie of the trilogy. How many people did Vanko just take with him? By the sound of it—none. I was strangely disappointed. But that wouldn't have been a fun way to end a fun movie.
Setting up for an Avengers sequel, getting Stark and Rhodes decorated by their political enemy, and discovering Mjolnir after the credits—that was fun. (The first time around? I laughed like the Joker.)
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41 albums I (Greg) enjoyed listening to this year
Monday, December 16, 2013
Arcade Fire - Reflektor
Ásgeir Trausti - Dýrð í dauðaþögn
Boards of Canada Tomorrows Harvest
Cage the Elephant - Melophobia
Chvrches The Bones Of What You Believe
Daft Punk Random Access Memories
Daughter If You Leave
Dawes Stories Dont End
Delorean Apar
Fitz & the Tantrums More Than Just a Dream
Haim Days Are gone
Iron and Wine Ghost on Ghost
James Blake - Overgrown
Janelle Monae The Electric Lady
Jim James Regions of Light and Sound of God
Julianna Barwick - Nepenthe
Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience
Laura Marling Once I was an Eagle
Lily & Madeleine - Lily & Madeleine
Lord Huron Lonesome Dreams
Lorde Pure Heroine
Lucius - Wildewoman
Maps - Vicissitude
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Push the Sky Away
Over the Rhine Meet Me at the Edge of the World
Phoenix Bankrupt!
Phosphorescent Muchacho
Poliça - Shulamith
Samaris - Samaris
Sigur Ros - Kveikur
Tegan and Sara - Heartthrob
The Avett Brothers Magpie and the Dandelion
The Blind Boys of Alabama Ill Find a Way
The Civil Wars The Civil Wars
The Head and the Heart Lets Be Still
The Knife Shake the Habitual
The Lone Bellow The Lone Bellow
The National Trouble Will Find Me
Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the Weekend
Vok - Tension
Volcano Choir - Repave
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Female Narratives in the Music Industry by Avery Johnson
Thursday, December 05, 2013
What is it that women must do to get their fifteen minutes of fame in the music industry? Although some are able to find loopholes, many of them find that they are successful when they follow the advice of the men who are in power over them. Based on what has gained media attention in the past, women must present themselves in a way that exploits their sexuality and appeals to men. In music, a singer is told that these types of performances will help her break away from outdated values and gain a wider adult audience, but that is not what happens. When the musicians are exploited in this way, they are not gaining the respect of audiences for being free with their bodies or taking risks, but exposing themselves to objectification and playing into destructive narratives.
Many female artists have been led to believe that their behavior is freeing them, all while they have been caught in the trap of the men who are telling them this. Their liberation looks more like bondage. It is not that women should live in fear of exposing their ankles or go back to Victorian ideals, but the behaviors that they have been conditioned to perform go against what they have named as a purpose. As a result, the behavior that is the new norm has created a binding narrative that forces women to play into the distorted ideals in place. They do not gain respect, but become pawns that play into false expectations.
The most current example of this playing out is Miley Cyrus and her recent performance at the VMAs. She has gained media attention for her behavior, but at what expense? Not only has she alienated younger audiences, but she has become a part of the narratives that she grew up exposed to. She was shown that exploiting herself in this way is what she needs to do in order to be successful in popular music. Because she was raised in a family that was immersed in the music industry, she has been conditioned to act this way. She is not the first, but only the most recent in a long history. We only have to look back at Britney Spears and Katy Perry to find the legacy that Miley has been indoctrinated into.
One singer who has gained popularity in a different way is Taylor Swift. She became popular at the same time as Miley Cyrus, but chose to present herself as the good girl. She does not behave in a way that is similar to Miley, but maintains a young audience by attaching herself to a narrative that is unlike the other, but still limiting and demeaning. Taylor has a little more control of her image because she writes her own songs, but she has a role to play. The script that Miley has picked up is only part of the dichotomy that women in music are forced to chose between. Each lies on different extremes, but they are both roles that prove to be restricting because they have to stay within the boundaries that have been put in place. Like Miley, Taylor has made choices about how she wants to present herself, though they are different.
Though both of these women chose different paths, they were trained in similar ways. They became popular about the same time in an institution known for the code that it creates for those involved. They choose people young to be a part of the music industry, but because they are young when they begin, they are more easily conditioned to fit certain roles. Once Disney is finished with them, the regular press takes over. They watch and wait expectantly for the young artists to come of age and then begin to interpret their behaviors as rebellion. Some, like Taylor Swift, choose to stick to what they were originally taught and do not break away from their image, but others have expected the reactions of the press for so long that they play along for the exposure. Miley had seen what had happened to other former Disney-made musicians, so she knew what could happen when she emerged from that world. There was a script ready and waiting for her when she turned eighteen. The press encourages these behaviors in young musicians for the sake of a spectacle that they love to hate.
One question that arises in this conversation about the roles of women in music is how Robin Thickes song Blurred Lines comes into recent events. Although Miley has received criticism for her performance at the VMAs, Robin Thicke has come away from it relatively unscathed. What we forget is that he was on stage with her and that he was a participant; we only focus on the part that Miley played in the performance. The fact that he wrote the song and that he was performing the song with her is often overlooked. If we pay attention, we can see that she is copying some of the tactics that he used in his music video. The foam finger that she used on stage was also a prop in the music video, and she acted like the nude, voiceless women from the music video who danced next to the fully clothed male singer, but she changed it by taking part of Robins role. Rather than remaining voiceless, she sang some of his lines to him. The same words that he said earlier somehow became worse when she said them. All of this is without even bringing the implications of song itself into consideration.
The lyrics come across blatantly as a situation of rape in many instances. Has anybody asked which lines are being blurred? And how about T.I.s rap in the song that assumes she wants her ### smacked and hair pulled? In one of the lines, he says, Ill give you something big enough to tear your ### in two. This, as well as calling her an animal, is demeaning. It is not clear why Robin thinks that being with a square who treats her with respect is a bad thing either. What this presents us with is a double standard within the industry and culture of music. The press has completely overlooked his participation while blaming Miley for what happened. They chose to focus on Miley, who was acting out the lyrics, rather than Robin who wrote them and acted them out with her. While Robin Thicke gets away with making women disposable sexual objects, Miley Cyrus gets criticized for playing along.
These are only a few examples of the double standards and female objectification that feminists have been trying to eradicate for so long that still lingers within our culture. These women have been exposed to an industry that tells them to act in a certain way, and it is up to them to decide how to respond. They can either do what the men in power tell them to in order to get attention from audiences, or they can try to go against the grain, running the risk of moving into obscurity. Unfortunately, the roles that are placed on these women will not change until men like Robin Thicke and those in power change.
Meanwhile, we criticize those who have been conditioned to perform these behaviors and continue to pay more attention to those who act in certain ways. This reinforces what they have been told and perpetuates the cycle that connects success in music to performance techniques. What we are forced to acknowledge in these situations is that despite feminist movements, we still do not know how to present female musicians.
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Review: Play! A Video Game Symphony by Jacqueline Ristola
Monday, April 22, 2013
As I approached the DeVos Performance Hall January 29th, I noted my drastic lack of formal attire. With my jeans, tennis shoes, and backpack, it wasnt clear I was about to attend a symphonic concert. But to my relief, I wasnt the only one, for this concert was no ordinary Grand Rapids Symphony concert. The concert was Play! A Video Game Symphony, and gamers from children to adults came to listen to their favorite gaming themes.
The whole concert experience felt more democratic in nature; there was no assumed dress code for the event, though some chose to wear gaming T-shirts to show their pride. Gamers cheered loudly for their favorite games, starting the concert with continuous, uproarious cheering through the first piece, various Super Mario Bros. themes. Eventually the audience bridled their their enthusiasm at appropriate moments to listen, but their participation illustrates the communication between both parties, the performers and the audience. With the symphonys increase in live performances to film, this indicates the symphonys attempts at both broadening the scope of their audience and perforating the line between high culture and low (pop) culture.
Aiding in this democratization was Andy Brick, encouraging the audience to be vocal about their love for this music. Not only was he the conductor for the evening, a video game music composer and conductor of the Play! Symphony tour from 2006-2010. He took time to introduce each piece and the game the music was attached to, and illustrated the sense of pride and celebration of the gaming artform. Its hard not to get elated when the conductor himself sang along to the Dragonborn theme from Skyrim.
The music itself was thrilling, bring a full scope of textures and a richness to the music that. Having a full orchestra only amplified the mood and atmosphere of the pieces, especially the creepy tones to the Castlevania and Metroid themes. The video game footage playing on three large screens above the orchestra (which also cut to live footage of Brick and performers throughout as well) also helped set the mood and illustrated the artistry of both the music and game. The Legend of Zelda piece might have had the best combination of music and visuals. Beginning with the opening Zelda theme and beautiful images across the open plains of Hyrule, the experience was transcendent.
I suspect the Symphony will keep expanding the standard classical limits and integrate the popular arts into their performances. If their work is anything like Play!, breaking the high/low culture barrier will prove fruitful indeed.
Sigur Ros: Live in Detroit by Jacqueline Ristola
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Driving down to Detroit, anticipation for the Sigur Rós concert was quelled by assigned readings and reflection. Remnants of a lecture lingered in my mind concerning the decline of the city, robbed of its vitality with the decline of industry in the nation. But within the city, a gilded stage remains, The Fox Theater, the destination of my friends and I for our eventful night.
There are many acts that are radically different seeing live than listening via an album. My Brightest Diamonds set last year comes to mind; full of masks, theatricality, and raw talent, Shara Worden elevates her music to beautiful performance art. The same might be said for Sigur Rós. With the elegant theater stage set with an opaque screen separating the performers from the audience, the concert began. Projections of light and images illuminated the screen, eventually culminating with a large shadow of a man lit to mythic proportions. That man would be Jónsi, wailing on his guitar with a violin bow, blasting sound to fill the room. At the apex of their second song in, the veil dramatically dropped, and the concert really began.
With a large encompassing screen in the back and small lights on the stage, Sigur Rós combines visuals and music as effectively as Ive ever seen in a large show, often connecting the two in terms of creates a cohesive atmospheric effect. The visuals always supported and added to the narrative effect of each song. Whether it be the slow plan up of revealing to be a mountain, a colored wave of light mirroring the surface of water, or the actual music video to the track itself, the production values illustrated themselves as more than just eye candy, but inherent to the performance itself.
The music was grand in every sense of the word; epic in scope and breadth, nuanced and mixed for clarity and precision, and performed to fill the auditorium to the brim with luscious sound. One highlight of the night included the performance of Brennisteinn, a heavier, metal-inflected track off their new album coming out this June. Another was a drifting vocal solo by Jonsi to finish a song, hitting a high note for over a minute with an almost beguiling sense of grace and serenity. With a mix of old favorites and newer tracks, one length encore was enough to make concert attendees fully satisfied.
Needless to say, my friends and I left the theater elated. One mentioned it was the best concert hed ever been to, while another mentioned it exceeded his already high expectations. Driving back, the night ended with the remark that every human being should see a Sigur Rós song performed live. Leaving the lusciously decorated Fox Theater into the disparate Detroit cold, I lamentably, yet heartily agreed.


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