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Components of Tait Diagrams of Grid Graphs
This is a small project that kept me busy in Europe this summer. It’s one of the first problems I remember Przytycki floating during one of our research meetings. And, even though it’s a simple result and apparently well-known, it was satisfying to take this problem from statement to written work.
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All of Us Strangers
A movie that tells a gay man to grow up, but in a productive way. For allt hat it is brutal, it retells the ending to Romeo and Juliet, with Romeo (our main character) living on past his dead by drugs boyfriend. What has raised the stakes is that Our main character dreamed up the…
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Wendy & Lucy
Every line of dialogue (not spoken to a dog) is shrouded by a haze of mutual unintelligibility in Kelly Reinhart’s Wendy and Lucy. Word becomes unbearable sentence becomes lost cars and lost loves in this 2008 meditation on economic subjugation. The film asks us to see how being poor erodes the shared language between humans.…
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Hiromi Tiny Desk
Masterful playing and a positive vision for jazz in 2023.
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Ocean’s 8 – Graveside Martini
Social interactions mediated by substances: food, drinks, cigarettes, and everything in between. The preparation of food and drink slows the action of a scene down without dragging it to a halt. An over-the-shoulder shot of Sandra Bulloch’s character and her brother’s niche would have been redundant—we already recognize the location. The preparation of the cocktail…
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Lost in Translation – A Pack of Cigarettes
Social interactions mediated by substances: food, drinks, cigarettes, and everything in between. The visual language in Lost in Translation is direct and emotional. Cramped spaces filled with Tokyoites, looming Kyoto Towers, and the impossibly elevated view from the hotel serve to externalize our characters’ often wordless, always pensive passage through Japan. They scream what another…
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Max MSP Experiment 1: Breakbeat?
This was me thinking about modular arithmetic. Essentially, each chord of two or more notes is the solution to a system of linear equations with different moduli.
