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I started reading a wonderful novel called Blindsight by NZ author Maurice Gee the other day. It is … gasp … one of those old-fashioned things printed on … gulp … paper, but I'm reading it concurrently with several ebooks on my iPhone and, to be fair, I bought it secondhand. (I am probably one of the reasons Borders and Angus and Robertsons have gone under, as I like nothing better than spending the occasional Saturday morning kneeling uncomfortably on the cold linoleum floor of my local charity shop and picking up a preloved bargain. I do that because I am cheap love that someone else has read the book before me and passed it on, although whenever I come to a particularly suspect-looking stain I do wonder about my choices. Another good reason not to read erotica, I suppose. Anyhoo…) I've been a big fan of Mr Gee since I read The Halfmen of O as a child, and have continued to dip into his proliferation of novels ever since. Blindsight grabbed me as soon as I turned to the first page, and it did so because of the "hook".
Never underestimate the power of a great opening line, or indeed a great opening paragraph. I am going to give you a few examples here of some great openers. I believe including these counts as "fair use for the purpose of study or review" under the Copyright Act, and that this might be seen to be fair and free promotion for these authors' works. If anyone else believes otherwise, then feel free to set the hounds of the law on me and I will remove them and run like the blazes, but I reckon I can get away with adding just a sentence/paragraph or two here on a non-commercial blog that links to Amazon.
So, Mr Maurice Gee's powerful first paragraph of Blindsight:
Father taught us how not to love.
The thought came fully formed as my brother walked by. As usual he did not see me, for I never stand in his way, but he slowed his step and changed his line for others on the footpath: college girls in summer uniforms, office workers with swipe cards on their belts. The girls look away with that affronted expression the young, especially the female young, take on at the sight of dereliction and decay. They cannot believe in a fall of such magnitude and set their faces in hostility. Some of the office workers believe. A man, well dressed, said: 'Gidday, mate.' That was kind of him — or perhaps it expressed foreknowledge in some way. Gordon did not hear; but must, I believe, have heard the whispering in my head, the message, the reminder, from the sister he had loved.
I dare not include more without seeking the author's permission (in which case this blog post could be months away), but the next paragraph takes those mysterious elements (Why is she walking past her brother? What does she mean by I never stand in his way? What happened to Gordon and why is he a derelict? Why did she use 'he had loved'? And, most enticingly, what does she mean by the somewhat ambiguous statement: 'Father taught us how not to love'? ) and expands upon them even further, adding some even more provocative statements that completely reel the reader in.
The hook here, is that the paragraph above has the reader asking some enigmatic mental questions. However, this opening paragraphs also sets the scene. The 'Gidday, mate' places the story quite firmly in New Zealand, the reference to "foreknowledge" foreshadows some kind of conflict, and the reaction of the people on the footpath gives us an idea of how Gordon must be looking and behaving. I was hooked from page one, and if I didn't have a freelance job on I would read this book straight through without putting it down. (In a weird synchronicity, I am working on a manuscript appraisal of a work also called Blindsight, a job I hadn't yet booked in when I picked up Maurice Gee's book! Life has a funny way of handing out those coincidences.)
Many great opening hooks catch the reader by creating more questions than answers. Here are just a few , from a range of favourites on my bookshelf, to prove it:
Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening Hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen. — First sentence of Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
What is a daemon? And why is this girl sneaking down the hallway and avoiding the kitchen?
The people who remained in this place have often asked themselves why it was that Ibrahim went mad. I am the only one who knows, but I have always been committed to silence, because he begged me to respect his grief, or, as he also put it, to take pity upon his guilt. — First two sentences of Birds Without Wings by Louis de Berniere
Why has the author used "people who remained" (a nice bit of foreshadowing)? Why did Ibrahim go mad? Who is the protagonist, the keeper of this secret? And what guilt does Ibrahim have?
Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge. — First sentence of The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood.
Why so matter-of-fact, then, protagonist? And why after the war ended? And just plain ol' why?
All of these are very powerful openers that force the reader to question. Some opening hooks (most often those written in first person point of view) also help set the scene and introduce the genre of the novel and its protagonist, somewhat like Mr Gee's does above. Take the first paragraph from fantastic author and all-round nice guy John Marsden's first book in the Tomorrow series, Tomorrow, When the War Began:
It's only half an hour since someone—Robyn I think—said we should write everything down, and it's only twenty-nine minutes since I got chosen, and for those twenty-nine minutes I've had everyone crowded around me gazing at the blank page and yelling ideas and advice. Rack off guys! I'll never get this done. I haven't got a clue where to start and I can't concentrate with all this noise. — First paragraph of Tomorrow, When the War Began, by John Marsden.
Marsden very cleverly introduces not only his refreshingly down-to-earth, "farm-girl" teenage protagonist Ellie in this paragraph, he also introduces another main character (Robyn), drops hints that this group of kids is in an unusual situation, or at least unusual enough that it warrants writing down, and leaves the reader wondering what has happened. It also very effectively and firmly places this novel within the young adult genre.
Not all opening hooks have to ask questions, some can just paint a beautiful scene. Take the opening sentences of my favorite book of all time, Mary Renault's The Bull from the Sea:
It was dolphin weather, when I sailed into Piraeus with my comrades of the Cretan bull-ring. Knossos had fallen, which time out of mind had ruled the seas. The smoke of the burning Labyrinth still clung to our clothes and hair.
The Bull from the Sea is actually the sequel to Renault's earlier The King Must Die, but I discovered it first, as an eleven-year-old, and I loved it. I have read it hundreds of times. Renault's opening paragraph tells the reader so much in just a few sentences. The term "dolphin weather" coupled with the verb "sailed" brings to mind an idyllic sun-drenched day with dolphins leaping before the ship's prow. "Piraeus" establishes she is talking about Athens, and the mention of Knossos and the bull-ring gives a sense of time, while "time out of mind" also reminds the reader of a long and ancient past. Ahhh, this is a historical novel. Thanks for the heads up, Mary. The evocative "smoke of the burning Labyrinth" clinging to our, as yet unidentified, protagonist and his "comrades", adds a sensory touch that draws the reader into this world, right where Renault wants them.
Another opener that gives a sense of time passing, as well as an excellent insight into the protagonist, comes from a man who is probably my favorite Australian author, award-winning writer Tim Winton. In Dirt Music, he opens with:
One night in November, another that had somehow become morning while she sat there, Georgie Jutland looked up to see her pale and furious face reflected in the window. Only a moment before she'd been perusing the blueprints for a thirty-two-foot Pain Clark from 1913, which a sailing enthusiast from Manila had posted on his website, but she was bumped by the server and was overtaken by such a silly rush of anger that she had to wonder what was happening to her. Neither the boat nor the bloke in Manila meant a damn thing to her; they were of as little consequence as every other site she'd visited in the last six hours. First paragraph of Dirt Music by Tim Winton.
If you haven't read all of these books yet, get thee to a bookstore, to an ebook store (or a secondhand bookstore or a library).
For me, the best hooks include intrigue, scene-setting, and a glimpse of at least one aspect of character, along with (in some cases) foreshadowing of what might be to come. Of course, a great novel has more than one hook and works more like a set of "jag hooks," snaring the reader at least at each chapter opening and ending, if not at each scene change, preventing them from escaping the story even if they did want to. Does your first paragraph do enough of those things to reel in your little fishes and ensure they don't swim off to someone else's creative pond?

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The Dayton Art Institute (DAI) is a museum of fine arts in Dayton, Ohio, USA. The Dayton Art Institute was rated one of the top 10 best art museums in the United States for kids.[2] The museum also ranks in the top 3% of all art museums in North America in 3 of 4 factors.[3] In 2007, the art institute saw 303,834 visitors.[4]
Founded in a downtown mansion in 1919 as the Dayton Museum of Fine Arts, the museum moved to a newly designed Edward B. Green building in 1930. The DAI was modeled after the Casino in the gardens of the Villa Farnese at Caprarola, and the front hillside stairway after the Italian Renaissance garden stairs at the Villa d'Este, near Rome, and Italy. It is also visible from and easily accessible from I-75, which passes through the center of Dayton.[5]
The museum was later renamed the Dayton Art Institute as an indication of the growing importance of its school in addition to the museum. The nearly Script error: No such module "convert". building is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Museum information
The museum's collection contains more than 20,000 objects spanning 5,000 years. In September, 2005, the Museum became one of eleven galleries in the US to host The Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt, the largest collection of ancient artifacts ever to travel outside Egypt.
The art museum is an Italian Renaissance-style building, which sits atop a hill overlooking downtown Dayton. The Institute's highlights are the museum's Asian, 17th-century Baroque, 18th- and 19th-century American, and contemporary art collections. In addition to its collections, the museum frequently features other exhibitions.[6]
Notable works
There are many works that are home to the Dayton Art Institute, some of the most notable are:[7][8]
- The Song of The Nightingale by William-Adolphe Bouguereau
- Study Heads of an Old Man by Peter Paul Rubens
- High Noon by Edward Hopper
- Aurora Red Ikebana with Bright Yellow Stems by Dale Chihuly
- After the Bath by Edgar Degas
- Stacks in Celebration by Charles Sheeler
- Scene in Yosemite Valley by Albert Bierstadt
- Allegory of the Four Seasons by Bartolomeo Manfredi
- Water Lilies by Claude Monet
- Untitled by Jean-Michel Basquiat
- HOMAGE TO PAINTING by Roy Lichtenstein
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The Feast of Achelous by Jan Brueghel the Younger and Hendrick van Balen
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13.
- ^ "Best Art Museum for Kids". Retrieved 2009-04-01.
- ^ "Top art museum". Retrieved 2009-07-29. Archived February 1, 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Attendance fact sheet" (PDF). Retrieved 2010-04-14.
- ^ "Dayton art museum history". Retrieved 2009-05-26.
- ^ "Dayton art museum information". Retrieved 2009-05-26.
- ^ "Notable Works". Retrieved 2009-06-24.
- ^ "Notable Works 2". Retrieved 2009-06-24.
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The amount of transmission fluid a car can hold is dependant on the model, make and size of the car. It also matters if the car has a standard or automatic transmission. Each vehicle's owner's manual lists the correct amount of transmission fluid that its engine can hold.
Amount of Fluid
While the type and exact amount of transmission fluid are dependent on the model of the vehicle, most passenger vehicles take approximately 12 to 16 qts of transmission fluid. The level of transmission fluid can be checked either with a dipstick or by lifting the car and checking the fluid from underneath the vehicle.
When To Change
Manufacturers recommend a change in transmission fluid for manual cars after every 30,000 to 60,000 miles. For automatic cars, a change in transmission fluid is required less frequently, from 60,000 to 100,000 miles.
Potential Harm
Allowing the car to run low on transmission fluid can cause the transmission to shift improperly or to not shift at all. Low transmission fluid can also cause harm to the internal parts of the transmission by not providing proper lubrication.
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By Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner–
President Trump warned China and Russia not to seek to win an arms race with the United States, and instead proposed negotiations to expand a recently scrapped nuclear arms control pact.
"We really have no choice," Trump said of the decision to withdraw from from the 1987 INF Treaty. "Perhaps we can negotiate a different agreement, adding China and others, or perhaps we can't — in which case, we will outspend and out-innovate all others by far."
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced last week that the United States would withdraw from the treaty — which bans land-based intermediate-range cruise missiles — due to Russian violations of the pact in recent years. The treaty applies only to the former Cold War arch-enemies, while China has been free to develop such weapons unrestricted by the accord.
Beijing has rejected even preliminary suggestions for a negotiation to expand the deal.
"It would involve a series of complicated political, military and legal issues to make the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty multilateral, and many countries remain concerned about this," Geng Shuang, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, said Saturday."A higher priority is to maintain and fully implement the existing treaty rather than establishing a new one."
China's development of the otherwise-illicit weapons has spurred congressional calls for a rapid rollout of the land-based cruise missiles.
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Did I hear something?
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So that was the first day of the teacher in the class room session ?ReplyDelete
Nice read, thanks for sharing. Greetings!ReplyDelete
I could feel something was brewing up behind her back :PReplyDelete
Oh I have always wondered how it felt to stand infront of the class on the first day! You described it quite well :)ReplyDelete
Sometimes the mind plays too many games and we get conscious about ourselves. Happens with everyone sometime in life ... Leaving one wonder if the dress is inside out, or something is stuck to the dress... Well captured thought!ReplyDelete
I used to whisper and admire my teachers like that :DReplyDelete
Brought back some memories. Very nice post. :)ReplyDelete
Yes! sometimes we perceive negativity when we are actually surrounded by positivity.ReplyDelete


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SCOTT QUIGG faces unbeaten Oscar Valdez in a huge fight in Los Angeles.
The Bury-born fighter moved up from super-bantamweight after his 2016 loss against Carl Frampton - and now trains with the legendary Freddie Roach in LA.
But unfortunately he will not be fighting for the WBO Featherweight title after missing the weight.
What TV channel is the fight on, and can I live stream it?
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Your Turn: I'd like to thank video games
February 04, 2010
Friends of mine described the experience of seeing Avatar in gushing terms.
"It was like seeing Star Wars for the first time," one drooled.
I am still jealous. I wanted to feel the same.
But I couldn't get past the fact that Avatar was one of the most stupid films I have seen in a long time, right up there with Matthew McConaughey's Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (which I also had to suffer through over the holidays).
But today prolific video game blogger Gabe McGrath has a different complaint about Avatar. He complains that director James Cameron hasn't given video games any kudos for inspiring the flick.
Click below for his rant, which is in the running for a shiny new PS3 from Sony.
I'd like to thank video games
When James Cameron gets up to collect an Academy award or two for his "blue people" movie, he'd better to thank the video game industry.
Because Avatar the film probably wouldn't exist if it wasn't for Avatar the video game concept. That is, the act of controlling a character, that represents you, the player.
But Cameron claims his idea has nothing to do with games or online worlds. He says he borrowed the avatar concept from Hinduism. This would make perfect business sense, except that:
(a) Only 10 per cent of the world's Hindus live outside India.
(b) That's the one country where last year's locally-made films raked in around 2.5 times as much as Hollywood's output.
(c) When India's Hindus protested about the film, Cameron's representative told the Hindustan Times newspaper avatar is a word "used in the cyber world by people who take on an assumed identity." (haha, gotcha Cameron!)
(d) I think slightly more males aged 15-25 in the Western World would be familiar with video games than Hinduism. Those young blokes - buy a lot of movie tickets.
Sadly, it's no great surprise that James Cameron is happy to "borrow" from gaming then deny it. Artists often portray themselves as having "loftier" inspirations. But what really annoys me is his "borrowing" from gaming then stabbing it in the back!
When someone complained that Sigourney Weaver's character in Avatar was seen smoking, he replied "She's rude, she swears, she drinks, she smokes. (The character) is not meant to be an aspirational role model to teenagers." And that would have done it. But no, Cameron had to have a bash at video games, too. "We were showing that Grace doesn't care about her human body, only her avatar body, which again is a negative comment about people in our real world living too much in their avatars, meaning online and in videogames."
Crap Jimbo, crap.
His real concern was that this "irresponsible filmmaker" story might blow up in the tabloid media. And that might dent Avatar's box office income! So he quickly shifted the blame to the one industry tabloid media hate more than Hollywood. Video games!
Of course, James is right: people spend far too much of their lives playing video games. For example: the 17 different Terminator titles released so far, and 30 different Alien games. Of course, they're pretty hard to find, having only appeared on the following systems: Amiga, Arcade, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, Game Gear, GameCube, Handheld LCD, Mobile phones, NES, PC, PlayStation 2, Sega CD, Sega Master System, Sega Megadrive, SNES, Xbox, Xbox 360 and ZX Spectrum.
Wait a minute... Terminator, Aliens... aren't they somehow connected to James Cameron? Maybe he could demonstrate his genuine concern about gaming addiction, by donating his lifelong videogame royalties to an appropriate cause. Like Child's Play.
So Screenies, much has been written about bad films based on video game brands, but what about when Hollywood quietly steals ideas and concepts from video games?
What other directors or films should be thanking video games on awards night?
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- Darryn
- February 04, 2010
Oh, you mean 'Dances with Smurfs' right?
If anyone here mentions 'The Book of Eli' in relation to Fallout 3, I think I'll scream...
F3 does not have the market on post-apocalyptic wastelands.
- Joka
- February 04, 2010
Gabe, I'd like to make a point that Avatar was written before Titanic, in the early 90s. However over that time, sure things have changed and evolved and probably allowed his opinions and thoughts to change.
- Michael
- February 04, 2010
I agree that movie sucked it was so cliched i cant understand for the life of me why everyone loved it.
I feel like elaine did in that episode of Seinfeld when she thought the english patient sucked and everyone thought she was crazy.
The general movie going public is stupid and are easily won over by pretty special effects.
- Dave
- February 04, 2010
Meanwhile, video games try to become more and more 'cinematic' - a concept "borrowed" from movies. Granted there's not much fanfare involved in video game awards, but out of all the games I have finished and consequently seen the credit sequence for, I have never once seen:
'We'd like to thank: MOVIES - we couldn't have made this game without "borrowing" the idea of being cinematic from you'
- ArghZombies
- February 04, 2010
Good read Gabe!
I really hope he doesn't win best picture - looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Picture it is really obvious this film isn't on par with past winners (Amadeus, Godfather, Gladiator are some examples).
The real kudos goes to the animators and designers which was spectacular. Everything attributed to Cameron (writing, directing etc) was average at best IMO.
- Thom
- February 04, 2010
@Darryn, can I still take a dig at the Book of Eli for being a cliched piece of crap?
@Gabe, whilst Cameron's success probably does come on the backs of gamers, the movie was called Avatar well before the term in gaming existed. Keep in mind this project had been floating around under that name since 1994 or something.
Also, I can understand if Cameron doesn't like the games industry. Yes, he presumably he gets royalties from T2 and aliens (though I have fact checked this), but what about all the other games that blatantly rip him off? I sometimes wonder if he could bankrupt the industry by suing pretty much every publisher and developer.
- Dave
- February 04, 2010
Wow Jason... you didn't like Avatar because it was stupid?
I can't believe you said that... I usually love your opinion, but you just went down a notch for me :(
Jason says: I really, really wanted to love it. Honest! I was even prepared to enjoy it just as a fairly mindless action flick if it didn't have a decent story. But I couldn't do it, sorry. That ridiculous interchange between Dr Grace and Parker at the start where they went out of their way to scream out to the audience who they were and what their roles were was beyond belief. And "unobtainium"? Gimmie a break.
- Nicolai
- February 04, 2010
Nice, has anyone else seen the superposition script of Avatar with Pocahontas?
While I realise we live in a postmodern story age and that with tropes, it's very difficult to come up with a completely new story, being able to summarise something that closely does tell me either that was highly derivative, or a story people were trying to tell in the late 90s.
- Darryn
- February 04, 2010
@ Dave
Your comparison kinda rings false. While sure games developers dont specify movie titles in their end-game credits (why would they?), but they are certainly up front with what entertainment products influence their games from themes & settings to characters.
The issue here is James Cameron seems to spout nonsense thats downright inflamitory to play to the tune the tabloids like to here, while at the same time promoting his partnership with Ubisoft for a game that is awful should you look past the big red curtain of 'ooo 3D'.
Hes a hack & a hypocrit.
Furthermore, if games companies are so comfortable with the idea of selling their products through easy comparisons to film, why cant the reverse be true? yet more examples of this 'games are for kids' stigma.
For someone who effectively made a flashy childrens film, thats a bitter pill to swallow.
- RealityCheck
- February 04, 2010
Sorry Gabe, your arguments are poorly presented, childishly simplistic, petulant and (worst of all) tissue thin.
No PS34U, you come back one year!
- Lith
- February 04, 2010
Jason, I don't want to derail Screenplay into a film critique blog, but I could just about hug you right now. This thing has actually received multiple Oscar nods? I can understand the excitement around the CG, but the film itself - it doesn't even stand up in the competitive field of brainless action flicks.
I think this is another case of hype just running way out of control.
- Mongey
- February 04, 2010
I liked avatar. I agree the story and dialogue were average, bordering on bad at times (ok very bad) but what I did love about it was the scale of his vision . I thought the 3d was well used and added to it but also just how the world was created really blew me away . I could of sat there and watched 2 hours of the scenery and plants and enjoyed it
When a director with a truley great story to tell gets their hands on these tools it will be a powerfull thing
and I agree Jason "Unobtainium" is probably the worst bit of writing I've ever seen in a film
- Misty
- February 04, 2010
Am I the only person in the world that has yet to see Avatar? I've read enough about it to get the gist of it. I just don't understand what all the fuss is about.
- Wall (Tim S)
- February 04, 2010
Cameron's statements do seem on the silly side.
I for one love the idea that games and films steal from one-another. Recent interviews with Randy Pitchford of Gearbox regarding Borderlands were fantastic. He unashamedly praised all of his favourite games and openly spoke about what he borrowed from them to put i his game. If I were ol'Jim, I would have come screaming out as loudly as possible saying that my film was inspired by all the awesome film, literature and gaming I've experienced in the last thirty years. I'm into this kind of meta-culture, there's nothing wrong with it. It doesn't stop me from appreciating original works, and so in turn loving original work doesn't stop me from loving products of meta-culture.
Avatar heavily borrowed from a lot of things but I don't accuse Jim of any crime. Like I've said before, nothing in the film surprised me, but I was and continue to be delighted with the middle third. Sure, I get all the Pocahontas and Dances with Wolves similarities, but I still regard that as a good thing. I never had any high expectations for the film at all so while the beginning and end were a chore, I knew what I was in for and came out with more than I expected given some of the gorgeous visual design, particularly in the environments, and often (but certainly not always) great animation.
I think Cameron needs to get over the fact that film writers and directors aren't actually miraculous people because really, it's OK, we don't mind.
(222272, but I guess 222222 would have been cheating again - damn you DexX and your palindromes!)
- Mr Ak
- February 04, 2010
Nicely enough written but I find your premise a stretch. I'm pretty sure I knew the term avatar before I was into gaming, why couldn't Cameron? And not only that, I don't buy that the word is the only way of expressing that concept.
Incidentally, does anyone know if its gaming usage was coined by the Ultima series, or before?
Hmmm. The wikipedia entry is interesting, if somewhat self-contradictory.
- Joka
- February 04, 2010
It's funny that everyone mentions unobtanium. Sure it's a stupid name, but I actually forgot all about it during the movie.
@ Nicolai
And basically every movie has some form of origin or borrows heavily from other movies. You either like it or hate it.
But getting back to the article, does seem silly that Avatar is made into a game and he defends the movie and slams another form.
@ Dave
Perhaps we should include "We'd like to thank Books: for without them, we would have to rely on our own writers to come up with something".
- Mr Ak
- February 04, 2010
I'm at a loose end this morning, so I'm coining a term. Hypercrit - someone who does exactly what they said they would, to the extent that it becomes a bad thing.
Like... Hitler.
- Darryn
- February 04, 2010
@ Mongey
I dunno, I sorta got over the visual representation pretty quick, then felt the pacing of the movie needed a bit of a fix.
Got to the stage where I was thinking 'ok, I get it. The planet is very purple/orange/green and everything has 6 legs'.
@ Tim S
I agree. Even to the point where Hideo Kojima's name is put to 'films that influenced MGS4' as a marketing tool for PSN / Sony-Universal to sell extra copies of some dozen digital download versions of old films.
Thats ok with me, because games should 'borrow heavily' from films and books for that matter, because those forms of art/expression have been around alot longer than videogames.
Likewise, one would say Mass Effect is among the best original IP's a developer has come up with, for a game the universe is exceptionally detailed.
Yet I can see strong influences on particular components that come together to form that fiction.
- Symon
- February 04, 2010
why does everyone rag on unobtanium? Its a actual scientific term! wikipedia it. And plus, The Core used that term before Avatar, so go and rag on that movie.
Avatar was a fun film, and I enjoyed it a lot. It's a damn sight better than many other films I've seen.
- death to nerds
- February 04, 2010
Avatar was embarrassing.
I actually preferred Titanic, at least that had Bill 'Game over man' Paxton.
- Mongey
- February 04, 2010
"The Core used that term before Avatar, so go and rag on that movie."
I'm pretty sure The Core has been unversially ragged on to death
- barrymoves
- February 04, 2010
@ Thom
Actually both Habitat (1986 - video game) and Snow Crash (1992 - awesome novel by Neal Stephenson) used the term avatar.
- ArghZombies
- February 04, 2010
@MrAK@HyperCrit - Great example!
@Symon - 'Unobtainium' is a concept for an ultimate resource - it reeks of poor writing to name your resource unobtainium. It's like someone forgot to take out their place holder. Its like writing The Terminator and throughout the script calling it 'Robot'
- Thom
- February 04, 2010
@Barrymoves, so where did they get those terms from? Even if the word was used in reference to gaming, it wasn't widely used. Isn't it probable that he did in fact pull the word from where he said he pulled it?
And the word unobtanium is actually a Hollywood trope. It's been used in (literally) dozens of films, which he's paying homage too. I'm not saying I particularly like the word, but it has history as a McGuffin.
- luverly_5pam
- February 04, 2010
I am intrigued by the polarisation of opinion that Avatar seems to have caused. It is a film that has had overwhelming general critical and public appeal. For example:
82% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes (94% of top critics)
Metascore of 84
Top grossing film of all time in both the American domestic and international markets
#43 on the IMDB top 250 films of all time, with an average user rating of 8.5
9 Oscar nominations including for best picture and director
(I accept that none of the above says a thing about the films quality per se, however I believe it gives a fair picture of the films general reception.)
HOWEVER there has been a vocal and persuasive group of people who didn't enjoy or felt disappointed by Avatar.
I enjoyed Avatar when I saw it in the cinema. (Slightly less the second time around if I am honest). I am not particularly interested in why other people found Avatar to be great/awful actually. But I have a great deal of interest in why there seems to be no middle ground in opinion. In my experience people either thought it was magnificent, or terrible. Why is this so? I think there are some interesting ideas about what traits makes a good movie good and a bad movie bad.
@ Article
Gabe, I can't agree with your idea that Cameron owes some kind of debt to video games for the use of a concept of an Avatar. We could devolve many ideas from film, video games etc. back to their sources, what does this prove?
Halo: "Thanks to James Cameron for the idea of Space Marines in Aliens"
Cameron: "Actually I got the idea from Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers..."
Heinlein: "Damn Straight!"
- death to nerds
- February 04, 2010
Using 'Unobtainium' is like naming your hero protagonist; Hiro Protagonist
- death to nerds
- February 04, 2010
@5pam - I'm middle ground. I give it a 6/10.
Stupid, good looking, predictable, poor acting, overly long, a message they force fed down your throat, but just about enjoyable.
Hey, the film I saw beforehand was Transformers 2. Now that was all kinds of terrible.
What I'd really like to see is a few eps of Man vs Wild set on Pandora. Now that I would watch.
- owza
- February 04, 2010
@dtn....hiro protagonist, I snorted when I read that.
On Topicish. I liked avatar, as flash bang movie. IN no way should it be nominated for best film, that would imply it had the best script, the best acting and best directing out of all the movies in the past year. No doubt it has the BEST effects and maybe musical score but, everything else, maybe not so much.
There have actually been some decent movies out this year unlike the usual crud.
- Darryn
- February 04, 2010
@ luverly_5pam
I think people are confusing what it is to see a good movie and what it is to go to the cinema, particularly as the film is the first to gain mainstream attention for its '3D' visuals.
By that I mean to say, sure I liked the film when I saw it in the cinema because it was like a theme park ride. I paid $20 to get an experience I couldnt have anywhere else, first time experience no less. A sense of joy certainly comes from that.
But then the Academy gives it 9 nominations?!? they should hold themselves at a higher standing than a theme park ride... its a pretty average film, as I said one I was happy to pay for (once!) for the experience, but Im not confusing that enjoyment to think it a particularly spectacular film.
The narrative (etc) was so peripheral to the experience as to be a complete joke and still not phase me (much) from the fun of my wide-eye temporary naivity.
Of course the next major 3D film will not reach the same heights because of this, then the next less so and so on... until were all left wondering 'Why did we ever pay to see Transformers 3...D(eceptacon)!'
- Wall (Tim S - I'll stop doing this on Monday)
- February 04, 2010
@5pam and dtn - I gave it 7, but then I have a tiering system too so it's a second-tier 7. 7 is a good score for me, even in second-tier. It means I enjoyed myself and wasn't particularly aggrivated by anything. Granted I can understand people's gripes with it but I guess I was expecting those things from the film. It was a blast at times and then had moments of real charm - nothing that knocks my socks off, but enjoyable nonetheless. Is that the kind of middle-ground you're looking for? All told, even though each individual perceives ratings differently (and shouldn't ever equate them to one another... like I'm about to do - I'm full of contradictions today), my second tier 7 is probably quite similar to dtn's 6.
@dtn - Hiro; I like it!
- death to nerds
- February 04, 2010
Hiro Protagonist IS the name of the hero protagonist in 'Snow Crash'. :)
Rest of the book is great though. 8/10 if we're scoring everything today.
- Tim S
- February 04, 2010
@dtn - Ah - very nice. It's one of the many books that have been recommended to me that I've not read so I would have known. One of these days.
- Blenny
- February 04, 2010
I didn't really enjoy Avatar. It wasn't a bad movie, but it was too predicatable and silly for me to really get into.
Walking out of the cinema I didn't feel like I'd gotten anything more out of watching the film than I got watching the trailer.
I always figured it for a typical holiday blockbuster: Not a great film but everyone will still see it and it'll make a packet. Gotta say I'm surprised at just how popular it's become. And the Oscar nomination for best picture I just don't understand at all.
- Gabe
- February 04, 2010
@Joka... you may be right. I _thought_ it was written post-Titanic. Perhaps not.
@Thom... I was more suggesting Cameron may have been inspired by the Avatar 'concept' than the word itself.
But I take your point, that game devs have also 'borrowed' from Cameron as much as George Lucas, etc.
Also - I didn't know "unobtanium" is a Hollywood trope. Thanks for pointing that out. It's a pity it just seems a "lame" word to 99% of people who don't work in the industry, and thus don't get the gag.
@RealityCheck... Thankyou for your kind words of encouragement.
- matt
- February 05, 2010
Its cool to hate avatar.
- ncfc
- February 05, 2010
I wouldn't say it's cool to hate avatar, but it would suggest that you have an appreciation for an actual plot or decent storyline.
But wow it had such amazing special effects.
- klaw
- February 08, 2010
It could be that Cameron is fibbing about the origins of the title, but the concept of avatars is certainly not new. Perhaps the original screenplay was called something else, but there's no reason to doubt that Cameron conceived the idea before avatars became common in gaming.
Either way, I don't really care where he got the idea or who he acknowledges as inspiration - I thought the movie was fantastic and I enjoyed every minute. I guess I'm totally uncool to actually enjoy the totally immersive experience of a fully 3D movie in a beautifully realised fictional world...I can live with that.
I'm not searching for a deeper meaning, I just like watching movies and I thought Avatar was excellent entertainment. What's wrong with that?
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Bert has perfected the art of light painting and you should check out his account on Instagram (@graffitilights) of the many beautiful images he has created. My first meeting with Bert was an interesting one – I had broken my 12-24mm lens the previous night and after a day of shooting with an 85mm, I was pretty disappointed that I could not get any of my usual wide angle shots. But I was still trying to do some long exposures when this tall guy comes over and very awkwardly asks me if I can do a favour. At this point, I hold on to my camera a bit tighter and am ready to tell him that I have no money to spare but something about his earnest manner makes me pause and all he asks is to press the shutter button on his camera while he does his light painting stuff. He then proceeds to take out a 1m long light stick out of a ski bag and I am immediately interested. For the next couple of hours, we walked around Venice doing long exposure light painting images whilst Bert danced around with his light stick and attracted a lot of attention!!! I was so disappointed that I did not have my wide angle as I could have got some pretty sweet shots but with the 85mm, it was just too tight to get anything nice. This was the only one that came out with the light painting in the picture! Bert, thanks for the experience and can't wait to do it again!


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Monthly Competition
Members of the Charlottesville Camera Club are divided into "B" (beginner) and "A" (advanced) classes. Each month, members are encouraged to enter images for evaluation by a judge. Images are evaluated on a five point scale. Up to two images may be submitted each month with no more than one in any of the following categories: 1) Assigned (see topic, below), 2) Open (photographer's choice of subject), and Innovative. In the Assigned and Open categories, members compete within their class. In the Innovative category, entries from A and B members are judged together. For both the Assigned and Open categories, only limited photo editing is allowed, while images that have been artistically modified are reserved for the Innovative category. The amount of editing acceptable for images in the Assigned and Open categories is described in the Rules of Competition. The "Innovative" category allows members artistic freedom through the use of any available camera or digital manipulation including image capture using a scanner. A FEW THINGS TO THINK ABOUT BEFORE ENTERING A COMPETITION:
- Is my craftsmanship as good as it can be? (Is the image perfectly sharp, well exposed, not over-sharpened or over-saturated, etc.?)
- Are there any distracting or unnecessary objects in my image? (Remember: If something doesn't help your image, it hurts it!)
- Is any part of the background brighter than my subject? (If so, find a way to eliminate or at least darken it.)
- Are any parts of my image too close to the edges of the frame?
- Is my subject or horizon right in the middle? Am I sure that's the best place for it?
- Am I being objective about the subject's appeal? (Your pet or grandchild or garden may mean everything to you, but a judge cares only about the quality of the image.)
This Year's Themes (2019)
All Assigned and Open images will be projected. Print submissions will be accepted in November only. Need help submitting your images for projection? Read Gerry Bishop's Instructions for Uploading Images to PhotoContest Pro.
|Walls and Fences
Albemarle County alone offers a plethora of fences for you to photograph, from old and decayed to carefully kept. The walls of old barns and city buildings can put a whole new twist on the topic. And don't forget graffiti! Fences and walls may be used to lead the eye into the image, as a way to emphasize an element of your composition, or as the main subject of your photo. For some ideas and examples you can try the following two websites: https://www.lightsta... or https://www.better-d...
|Glass in All Its Glory
Glasses to drink from or see through, fractured glass, beaded glass, an hour glass, molten glass, stained glass, buildings, bottles, jars, vases, tubes, fibers . . . the list goes on. Photographing glass requires careful attention to reflections and blown-out highlights. Lighting, important to all categories of photography, plays an especially important role in minimizing or avoiding distracting reflections, although in some cases an interesting reflection may enhance the photograph. However, for this competition, while your picture may include reflections, glass must be the main subject, not just a means of creating a reflection. For helpful information on equipment and techniques search the web on "photographing glass".
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|Abstracts and Altered Reality
Abstracts and Altered Reality is the theme for March.
|Matthew Schmidt
|Wonders of Rain and Tools from the Past
'Tools from the Past' was originally for March (Enter both)
Tools can be anything, large or small, used to do any kind of job. The topic will give you an easy and wide range of subjects to choose from. The trick will be to present the tool in a way that will move the observer. Work at presenting your tool in a way that will tell a story or create a feeling of nostalgia (or possibly relief that you don't have to use that thing anymore).
"Singing in the rain" . . . "When it rains it pours" . . . "Don't rain on my parade" . . . familiar phrases for (most) all of us, each one of which may bring to mind interesting photo opportunities for capturing a moody photograph: A child with a ball and glove looking forlornly through a rain spattered window, people with colorful umbrellas crossing a busy street, a person walking a rain-drenched dog, water gushing from a building rainspout. Just be careful to keep your gear dry! Search "rain photography ideas" for inspiration.
Note: We will *not* have an Open competition in April but will have two Assigned competitions, instead.
|John Connell
|From Highways to Byways
There are many ways to take photographs of paths and roads. They are a great way to incorporate leading lines into your images. Roads, trails, or paths are inherently leading because they go somewhere, give us a feeling of motion, and the lines often point so far inwards that they reach a vanishing point – the place where two or more lines converge into theoretical infinity. When leading lines, such as roads, connect the foreground to the background of a scene, they help to create depth and dimensionality that draws the viewer into the image. But perhaps you can come up with an original way to photograph highways or byways.
|Jon Golden
|People at Work or Play
Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker . . . Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy . . . Basketball, Baseball, Games of Chance . . . Gymnastics, Painting, Music, or Dance. Capture a moment that shows someone deeply into work or play. Capture the joy or the pain or the smile or the sweat. Sometimes work is play and sometimes play is work. For some ideas and tips see: http://www.digital-p...
|Sheena Rogers
|Colors, Loud and Quiet
Colors can be beautiful in both bold and subtle ways. Great masses of color; quiet hints of color, complimentary colors, clashing colors, colors that make a statement, colors that inspire, excite, calm. How well can you use color to make a photographic statement, loud or quiet or something in between?
|Randall Sanger
|Keep it Simple
A bare minimum of elements can make a dramatic or moving photo. Photograph a landscape with just a few points of interest; or a simple vase with a single flower. Simplicity is about clarifying your message by excluding useless details. A photographic rule of thumb is to include objects only if they add value to your photograph. But this theme will challenge you to include as few items as possible to create a successful photograph. https://www.picturec...
|Andy Jezioro
|Abstracts and Altered Reality
The second in our Abstract and Altered Reality competition. Up to 2 entries will be accepted. Both entries will be scored.
Note: We will *not* have an Open competition in September.
|Matthew Schmidt
|The "Blue Hour"
Capturing the Magic Before Sunrise and After Sunset: The blue hour is the period of twilight in the morning or evening when the sun is far enough below the horizon that the sky takes on a wonderful shades of blue—a color invisible to your eye but revealed by a long exposure with your camera. Long exposures, of course, require a tripod and other tools and techniques you may not be familiar with. The following website will give you some good pointers on shooting during the blue hour: https://digital-phot.... And to help you further, we'll be offering a workshop on the same subject.
|Ellis Rosenberg
|Print Competition
Please observe the following guidelines for the print competition:
If you plan to submit prints for the print competition, please be aware of the following information. The prints will be judged BEFORE the meeting begins. Therefore, you must deliver your print IN ADVANCE using one of the following options.
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Next Year's Themes (2020)
|Doors and Windows
We pass through and look through them many times every day. Most get, and deserve, little attention. But others--both old and new--offer photographers a rich array of shapes, colors, patterns, textures, and designs. Some are compelling subjects in themselves. Others can serve as a frame for interesting subjects on the outside, on the inside, and passing through.
For tips and possibly a bit of inspiration, see https://www.picturecorrect.com/tips/window-and-door-photography-tips/
|Black and White
By creating a black and white, or "monochrome" photo, you are bypassing color to emphasize other aspects of a subject, such as form, texture, and contrasting tones. When a potential subject speaks to you through these visual qualities, then all that remains is composing, capturing, and editing to bring out the best the subject has to offer. (A workshop on creating monochrome photos will precede this competition.)
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IFH 216: From Indie Films to Oscar Nominations with David Permut
From Indie Films to Oscar Nominations with David Permut
I'm back from Sundance! What a ride this year. So much to tell you guys. The first interview in my Sundance Film Festival Interview Series (co-produced with my buddies Adam Bowman at Media Circus PR) is legendary producer David Permut.
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- Attorney General Jeff Sessions says he is "not a fan" of laws legalizing marijuana use and that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will be taking a look at marijuana policy.
- Recently, Trump press secretary Sean Spicer also said the DOJ may step up enforcement against states that have voted to legalise recreational marijuana, comparing it to the opioid crisis.
- While researchers do have questions about marijuana, most data shows it's linked with far fewer risks than opioids.
- Marijuana doesn't cause overdoses like opioid drugs, it's not nearly as addictive, and doesn't seem to be a "gateway" to opioid use.
Trump administration officials have problems with state laws legalizing access to marijuana.
On February 27, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he was "not a fan" of laws legalizing recreational marijuana that voters have passed in a number of states, adding that "we don't need to be legalizing marijuana. He also said that the DOJ plans to review its current policies, which don't prioritise enforcing federal marijuana laws against businesses or groups that follow state laws on marijuana.
Several days prior, Trump press secretary Sean Spicer issued similar comments, implying that the DOJ might be considering a crackdown on recreational marijuana use in those states.
"[T]here's a big difference between the medical use [of marijuana] … That's very different from the recreational use, which is something the Department of Justice will be further looking into," Spicer said in response to a question on February 23.
Both Sessions and Spicer brought up the deadly opioid crisis in the US while explaining their policies.
Sessions called the idea that marijuana might make opiate abuse less of a problem a "desperate attempt to defend the harmlessness of marijuana or even its benefits," saying that he doubts that's true — though he did note that "[m]aybe the science will prove I'm wrong."
Spicer directly compared the opioid issue to marijuana use.
"I think that when you see something like the opioid addiction crisis blossoming in so many states around this country, the last thing that we should be doing is encouraging people," said Spicer. "There is still a federal law that we need to abide by when it comes to recreational marijuana and other drugs of that nature."
The opioid crisis is a big deal — death rates from heroin and synthetic opioid painkillers continue to rise, according to a newly released CDC report. But comparing marijuana to the opioid addiction crisis doesn't make sense from a scientific standpoint. And in fact, while Sessions might doubt it, there are a number of scientific reasons to think access to medical marijuana significantly reduces opioid overdose rates.
Plus, cannabis and opioids are vastly different in the first place.
Marijuana doesn't kill people with overdoses, while opioids do; it's not as addictive or harmful overall, according to public health researchers; and most research shows that it doesn't act like a "gateway" to other drug use, no matter what we may have learned in school. Even though researchers do still have a lot of questions about marijuana they want answered, the opioid comparison doesn't stand up, no matter how you look at it.
In many ways, the legalization of recreational marijuana in states like Colorado and Washington may offer a good deal of reassurance to many who are concerned about potential negative effects of legal weed.
"What we know right away is that the sky didn't fall," Amanda Reiman, a researcher and marijuana policy expert then-working with the pro-legalization Drug Policy Alliance, told me in an interview on how legalization has worked out so far last fall. "We didn't see huge upticks in traffic accidents or people using marijuana." Data from those states supports what she says.
What the science says about marijuana, public health, and opioids
Overdoses and addiction potential:
There's a fair amount of research out there comparing the harms and risks of different sorts of drugs and by most of those measures, marijuana is fairly low risk. In one recent study where researchers compared the overall risk of fatal overdose from various drugs, marijuana was the only substance evaluated to fall into the "low risk" category.
Substances like amphetamines and diazepam (Valium) were medium risk; substances like alcohol, cocaine, and heroin were all high risk. In other research into how addictive drugs are, opioids and heroin are near the top of the chart, above alcohol and substances like benzodiazepines or ketamine. Marijuana (and psychedelics like LSD or psilocybin) were found to be far less addictive.
Effect on public health and opioid use:
While there are a number of factors behind the current opioid epidemic, one thing that many experts agree has played a role is the use of opioid painkillers to treat chronic pain. Using powerful drugs that have a high risk of causing overdose and high addiction potential is risky. Marijuana, which can also treat chronic pain — the most common reason people want to use it medically — is far less risky, scientists say.
As mentioned above, there are several studies that show that states that allow medical marijuana have fewer opioid deaths. This effect seems to stack over time, with states who pass these laws seeing a "20% lower rate of opioid deaths in the laws' first year, 24% in the third, and 33% in the sixth," according to Stat News. In general, it's hard to say that deaths went down because of medical marijuana legalization and not other reasons; but in this case, researchers think that since the effect gets stronger the longer marijuana has been legalised, that implies that marijuana is a major cause of the decline in opioid deaths.
To be fair, the data we have so far associates that drop in overdoses with medical marijuana; there's not enough data to say what effect recreational legalization will have. But we at least think marijuana is unlikely to worsen any existing opioid troubles. A recent review by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine that provides our most up-to-date comprehensive look at marijuana research found there wasn't enough evidence to draw a link between cannabis use and opioid use.
The "gateway drug" effect:
If marijuana doesn't seem to be linked to opioid use, is there anything to that "gateway drug" effect that many of us were taught about in middle school? Many experts don't think so, and even the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) considers this idea controversial. As the NIDA notes, there is data indicating that people who have addiction problems later in life are more likely to have used marijuana as adolescents. But most research shows that most marijuana users don't go on to use other substances. And those people who do develop addiction problems are also more likely to use other substances as kids.
"An alternative to the gateway-drug hypothesis is that people who are more vulnerable to drug-taking are simply more likely to start with readily available substances such as marijuana, tobacco, or alcohol," NIDA's website states.
Are there any real risks?
None of this is to say that marijuana is absolutely and completely risk-free. Much of the data we have so far indicates that people who begin using cannabis regularly at a young age may suffer negative cognitive effects from that use in the long run (the same being true of young use of alcohol or any other substance), as one example. Some people struggle with marijuana dependency, too, even if it's not as addictive as some other legal substances.
In other words, there are real risks, like with use of any pharmacological substance.
Researchers think we need to better understand those risks a states move forward with legalization, something that's hard to do right now since that requires study and marijuana is particularly difficult to research. But prohibiting research and cracking down on states who have voted to legalise recreational use won't make marijuana safer.
"One of the the big fallacies is that prohibition somehow gives us control of the product," said Reiman. "One of the big fears is that we lose some sort of control [with legalization], and I think actually the opposite is true."
It's not that marijuana is a zero-risk substance. It's just that from what we know so far, marijuana is far less likely to harm users than opioids or even other legal substances like alcohol, making it hard to see how a comparison to the opioid crisis is relevant.
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Howling for Wolves Group Opposes New MN Hunting Season
We are pleased to pick up a shout from a major outdoor/hunting magazine. Field & Stream suggests our organization's name needs a more serious moniker, and we appreciate the counsel. In naming our grassroots, pro-wolf group, we felt it was important to include the wolf's voice. And the wolf has enough "gravitas" for all of us, don't you agree?


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The committee meets the second Friday of the month.
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