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Swenglish, svengelska eller dålig engelska

fotoautomat — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:28:53 +0000

De senaste två veckorna har de varit flitiga repetitioner. Skådespelarna har jobbat hårt på att få till sina karaktärer. Det har varit långa dagar av fäktövning och dialogövingar. Det är kul att se hur samspelet mellan de olika rollerna växer fram.

I söndags var jag med på en profilmning där några utvalda scener filmades med kläder, rekvisita och allt. Lite som en generalrepetition inför pjäs. En viktig komponent är att få till trovärdigheten i språket. Filmens dialog utspelar sig på engelska men med kraftig brytning (svensk, fransk, arabisk beroende på karaktär) och enstaka ord på svenska. Det är en balansgång i hur mycket brytning det ska vara. I början av repetitionerna var det väldigt olika mellan skådespelarna - några hade för perfekt engelska, medan andra hade för mycket svensk accent och språkmelodi. Här har repetitionerna gjort stor nytta. Nu börjar alla hitta den språkliga balansen.

Riktigt kul är att se hur samspelet mellan Tobbe (Osvald) och Isabella (Hildegun) har vuxit fram. De är filmens kärlekspar. Något annat som imponerar på mig är Anders (Jean Guillou) svärdstrix.

Non-linearity

alexismitchell — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:39:23 +0000

I thought a lot about how to subvert linearity through non-linear art forms. I'm interested in prescribed notions of linearity within Western society - I guess the obvious ones being time and lifetimes- but moving beyond there into examinations of routines, repetitive movements or activities, societal expectations and even merely walking the distance from one destination to the next.

Heather and I enjoyed an awesome evening of rockclimbing while we joked about this exact subversion of linearity when the goal is to climb the rigid but strictly straight wall all the way to the top.

I think for this video exercise then, I may take the most banal or obvious gesture, movement, action and begin to repeat it in order to subvert the linearity of it only when it is placed out of order or a logical, linear time sequence.

This seems like a simple way of beginning this experimentation.

In regards to the class discussion that ended the class yesterday, I think we have been taught to understand documentary as a way of ordering in order to understand some things that may be beyond our understanding in the first place. Through the last 2 semesters, that was through photo and video and the theory we were engaged in was quite biased along those lines. I don't feel like I've been pushed in any way to think of documentary as anything but what society has prescribed, or at least accepted it to be. In that way, I can understand how people are having trouble grasping new media concepts. If documentary is used as a tool for understanding, what happens when you subvert the act of understanding itself in order to merely question, or ponder new ideas? Is this still documentary? I would definitely say it is, but I understand how this may be out of some people's realms of understanding.

I've never been one for linearity in life in general - perhaps that's something that divides us.

How to use "how about"

ronkb2 — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:23:03 +0000

"How about" is often used by native speakers to repeat a question but with a different subject (often after a "no" answer). The best way to explain this is to use some examples:

A: Do you like horror movies?

B: No, they give me nightmares (bad or scary dreams).

A: Do you like How about action movies?

B: Yes, action movies are my favorite.

The part of the question that would be repeated, "Do you like", is replaced with "How about". Notice that the person being asked the question can also use "How about" as in:

A: Would you like to play baseball?

B: No, I don't like baseball. How about football?

A: Sorry, I don't know how to play football. How about tennis?

B: Sure. Tennis sounds good.

As long as you are asking the same kind of question, you can use "how about" as many times as you want. You are also not limited to replacing nouns in the question; you can also replace verbals (infinitives or gerunds). For example:

A: Do you want to go shopping this weekend?

B: No, I don't have any money. How about playing a board game?

There is just one final note. You must use a gerund (verb + ing) after "How about", you can't use the infinitive (to + verb).

Native speakers use "How about" very often in conversation because it is shorter and faster than repeating an entire question over and over. Try it yourself in your next conversation.

Henri Désiré Landru

Percevoir — Fri, 09 May 2008 02:09:07 +0000

Le fameux Landru comparait au tribunal, le 12 novembre 1921. Ses derniers mots publics sont pour clamer une dernière fois son innocence des assassinats dont on l’accuse même si sa comptabilité minutieuse l’accable et doit le mener à la peine de mort !

Pourtant... Et si Landru avait été une victime ? Et s’il avait été pris dans un ignoble chantage ? Et si nous étions, nous-mêmes, bernés pour des enjeux inavouables ?

C’est l’hypothèse que Chabouté échafaude pour ses lecteurs à coup de planches somptueuses de noir et de blanc à l’encrage fortement contrasté. Son dessin colle à l’atmosphère du pavillon de banlieue où disparaissent les victimes qu’il a contactées par petites annonces. Tout au long de ces 137 pages au grand format, les compositions de Chabouté jouent sur la répétition de certaines vignettes transformant cette histoire en un refrain lancinant et macabre.

Un album d’une grande force mystérieuse qui revisite l’Histoire avec autant d’imagination que de virtuosité !

Henri Désiré Landru, Christophe Chabouté, Vents d’Ouest, septembre 2006, 137 pages au format 22,8x32,3cm

Repetitioner

fotoautomat — Thu, 08 May 2008 11:04:38 +0000

Denna och nästa vecka är det full fart på repetitionerna inför höstens filminspelning. För många av skådespelarna är det första gången de träffas. Ett av huvudsyftena med repetitionerna är att skådespelarna ska får lära känna sin motspelare och börja utveckla sin karaktär.

Jag var och filmade några av gårdens övningspass (det kommer upp video här inom kort). Det var kul att se hur snabbt de kommer in i rollerna och får igång samspelet. Tobbe som spelar Osvald och Isabella som spelar Hildegun (filmens kärlekspar) har ett skönt samspel. Vi som tittade på fick många sköna skratt.

Igår var det även en del fäktningsträning. Stuntmannen och combatinstruktören Jakkin hade med övningssvärd och gav instruktioner. Anders Dahlberg alias Jean Gulliou imponerade med svärdet - även om han tappade det ett antal gånger. Något som höll oss andra ständigt på spänn - även ett övingssvärt kan ställa till med en hel del skada på regissörer, motspelare eller kameramän som råkar finnas inom fäktradie. Jakkin upprepade flera gånger - även övningssvärd räcker att döda en människa...

I helgen ska även några scener provfilmas för att se hur det funkar i verkligheten.

May 04

rosepena — Sun, 04 May 2008 11:38:01 +0000

"A landscape painter, whether he strives to produce an effect by a faithful rendering of the subject, or by a more ideal reproduction, perhaps leaves the individual cold, but such a picture as I have in mind produces an indescribable effect for the fact that one does not know whether to laugh or cry, and because the whole effect depends upon the mood of the beholder. There is surely no person who has not passed through a period when no wealth of language, no passion of exclamation was sufficient for him, when no expression, no gesticulation satisfied, when nothing contented him except to break out with the strangest leaps and somersaults. Perhaps the same individual learned to dance, perhaps he often saw ballets and admired the art of the dancer, perhaps there came a time when the ballet no longer affected him, and yet he had moments when he could retire to his room, give himself up entirely to his impulse, and feel an indescribably humoristic relief in standing upon one leg in a picturesque attitude, or in consigning the whole world to death and the devil, and accomplishing it all by a leap head over heels."

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~Source: Repetition: An Essay In Experimental Psychology (1843)

Author: Søren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Constantin Constantius

at the end of the day

never red — Sat, 03 May 2008 21:25:06 +0000

people don't change. their opinions just revolve in one massive complex cycle too big to comprehend fully and control. thats why, we don't fight the law if we disagree, we eventually give in, compromise - it's easier. but what happens when you compromise is your opinions are altered in such a way that you become blind. you see, we all have photographic memories, we just don't use them to the best of our ability. our 'intelligent laziness' kicks in and one by one the photos go to the back of the album.

sometimes other people will refresh your memory, take out your albums, embarrassing the 'new' you. your naivety is something you find commical, something you'll look down upon and fail to respect. however, you've changed before, you'll change again, and there's only so many moods, emotions and different ways in which you can transform yourself before you more or less end up at the beginning.

nobody gets me and i doubt they ever will. sometimes i can respect the efforts of other people and their attempts to, nevertheless, i'll mostly take it for granted. this is just the way i'm feeling right now, yet by the time anyone relates to this, i doubt i'd see their side of things.

Beethoven i magen - Mozart under hakan

mediamogulen — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:55:43 +0000

Som de flesta läsare av den här bloggen känner till så har jag ett litet underbart knyte hemma som heter August. Han är nu snart 10 veckor och alldeles underbar.

De senaste veckorna börjar mamma och pappa få lite mer kontakt med August. Vi kommunicerar helt enkelt och förstår varandra. Jag fånar mig - August ser undrande ut. Jag fånar mig igen och August skrattar. Igenkänning är knepet. När han upptäcker att saker återkommer blir han glad. Så funkar det för de människor vi kallar vuxna också.

Hör jag Linda Bengtzing sjunga nån av sina spinningspasslåtar 40 gånger på radio så nynnar jag med till slut, kanske stampar även foten takten, helt ofrivilligt.

I mitt arbete har jag förmånen att kunna lyssna på löjligt mycket musik. Repetitioner och konserter. Nu gör jag även webb-tv. Ibland är det ett verk jag aldrig hört förr. Jag filmar repet och sätter mig sen och klipper det. Under klipparbetet hör jag samma musik om och om igen, fram och tillbaka till förbannelse.

Men... när det sen är dags för konsert - vad tror ni händer? Jodå - det där stycket som jag en vecka tidigare aldrig hört förr är plötsligt en ny favorit. Oftast i alla fall.

August funkar likadant. Bilden ovan är tagen vid ett sånt där fåntillfälle som beskrevs tidigare. Jag pillar med alla fingrar i August mage och brummar med mörk röst "Beeeethooooven" för att direkt efter med ljus röst pipa "och lille Mozart" samtidigt som jag kittlar honom under hakan. Det slår aldrig fel. Vid Beethoven ser han lite spänd och förväntansfull ut, för att i Mozart brista ut i ett alldeles fantastiskt bubblande skratt.

Beethoven är lite mer pompös och slår mer i magen. Mozart känns lite mer som ett kittlande skratt. Ikväll ska pappa få höra Beethovens nia live med kör och allt. Dudamel dirigerar.

Biljetterna är slut sedan länge men för den som undrar så finns lite repetitionsklipp i vår webb-tv. Och ja - hela den nionde symfonin hade jag aldrig hört förr - enbart finalen som är EU's nationalsång. Det slog mig när jag skulle filma. Repetitionen börjar - ingen kör! Hmm tänkte jag... jag har missat nåt här.

Tre satser senare kliver kören in. Fullt ställ! Asballt.

Repetition as ratification: How parents and children place information in common ground

Callier Library — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:54:28 +0000

from the Journal of Child Language

Repetition is used for a range of functions in conversation. In this study, we examined all the repetitions used in spontaneous conversations by 41 French adult–child dyads, with children aged 2 ; 3 and 3 ; 6, to test the hypotheses that adults repeat to establish that they have understood, and that children repeat to ratify what adults have said. Analysis of 978 exchanges containing repetitions showed that adults use them to check on intentions and to correct errors, while children use them to ratify what the adult said. With younger children, adults combine their repeats with new information. Children then re-repeat the form originally targeted by the adult. With older children, adults check on intentions but less frequently, and only occasionally check on forms. Older children also re-repeat in the third turn but, like adults, add further information. For both adults and children, repeats signal attention to the other's utterances, and place the information repeated in common ground.

Work

Fadi Abou-Rihan — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:37:13 +0000

Freud grounded psychoanalysis in terms of a collaborative uncovering of the unconscious as dynamic and over-determined. That such uncovering occurs in a fraction of the time “psychoanalysis” occupies or that it necessitates much preparation does not deny it its status as the core and defining element of the practice; if anything, it reinforces it as the however infinitesimally small but not any the less defining marker of a practice that is singular and specific, a practice that is irreducible to this or that of the modes of relating with which we are already familiar.

That such uncovering leaves open the questions of “efficacy” and so-called “therapeutic value,” that, in other words, the uncovering does not necessarily make people “feel better,” assuming we already know and agree on what the expression actually means, the way doctors and parents are presumably supposed to make patients and children "feel better," may be a concern for those attempting to justify the practice in the eyes of a culture grounded in the principles of expediency and comfort. But it is precisely the work of such a culture that psychoanalysis has been designed to counter. This is no less true nowadays than it was in the time of Freud. Sadly, the practice has become increasingly consolidated around the safety and satisfaction certain objects may bring to the process of reproduction and less around the complexity and unpredictability of our desires.

It is for this reason that, I believe, the parental metaphor has continued to hold great sway over the profession. Unlike all the other models that have enjoyed varying degrees of success (I am thinking of friendship, education, witnessing, or even healing) parenting comes closest to elevating repetition from a basic physiological need and/or a pathological compulsion to the status of a stable and overarching principle of psychic life.

However, and by the standards of not only this or that of the various leading orientations in psychoanalytic theory or practice but by those standards that the discipline itself has held as its foundational and distinguishing mark, repetition could not be any further from the either the truth of the unconscious or, for that matter, the history of its science. As regards the former, and even at those times when the unconscious is trapped in the most monotonous and debilitating of cyclical scenarios, it is still, and however minimally, an unconscious that dreams, phantasises, mourns, defers, displaces, remembers, thinks, and compromises; it is still an unconscious that works. It is a machine that affords a rest only once in its lifetime, in that very same ground where it finds its final resting place. Otherwise, it is in constant movement. As for the science of the unconscious, it has managed to thrive precisely because many of its practitioners, famous or otherwise, have resisted the institutional demands and methodological requirements for repetition and homogeneity.

Yes, I'm That Movie Guy

Troy — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:19:01 +0000

Are you one of the people that absolutely hate when people watch the same movie over and over, constantly buying DVDs to watch them -- at random times -- all the time to remember the lines and master impersonations of the characters? That guy/that girl getting on your last nerve with their ability to not get tired of a movie so easily?

I'm that guy.

I've watched the movie Wedding Crashers a grand total of 68 times since I bought the DVD in February 2006. In fact, that total is going to distend to 69 today, as I'm going to watch it this afternoon. And yes, I have counted. The movie watching stats never did amuse me until I realized that I had watched Wedding Crashers 10 times. That's when I started counting the teams I've watched it. Yes, I do enjoy the movie immensely. Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson were at their bests. Christopher Walken wasn't half bad either. This movie updated me on who the beautiful Isla Fisher was (and the character she played, oh wow).

I've watched Wedding Crashers so many times that if there was a re-make of the movie, I could probably make a decent act in it.

All of my friends and family wonder: "How in the hell do you watch movies over and over?" I like to, if 1.) I enjoy the movie and 2.) I like the lines and want to remember them for the hell of it. It's only that simple. I've probably watched the movie Tommy Boy (starring Chris Farley and David Spade) far more times than I've watched Wedding Crashers. I've watched Remember the Titans a sexy total of 32 times. I've watched Coach Carter a decent total of 17 times. The lowest amount I've watched one movie in my total grand history of what I have on my shelf is four times for Glory Road (and only twice for Scary Movie 4, which I only watched it a second time to give it a chance -- I need to get rid of that junk). And it's not because I dislike Glory Road, it's because it doesn't have the aura like the other said movies have to draw me. Will I watch it again? Of course, that's why I bought it.

I've watched my 2006 St. Louis Cardinals boxset too many times as well. It features two DVDs on the Cardinals' championship season. Game 6 and 7 of the NLCS DVDs. And five more DVDs featuring all five games of the World Series. The same with the 2005 AND 2007 Spurs' championship DVDs (albeit not as bulky).

Yep, I'm That Movie Guy.

Repetitive Action Verbal Expression

planetross — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:40:37 +0000

Do you catch yourself saying something stupid when performing a very ordinary action?

Everytime I turn on my propane cooking stove elements I always say, "Flame On!" like the human torch in the Fantastic Four!!

When I leave the house for work I say, "Let's Rock".

When I finish work I say, "Done Doggy Deal".

I'm not even sure where that last one came from or what it means!

I think this should be called R.A.V.E. Repetitive Action Verbal Expression

What about you?

Do you say the same thing when doing some regular run-of-the-mill thing?

robo-me

flyoungstudio — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:22:14 +0000

I've been channeling this guy lately. Just check out the royal mess in my studio factory.

All this repetition is making me go coco-bananas.

All in preparation for this...(be there or be square)

Success For The Average Man - Woman Repetition

ragnar111 — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:00:51 +0000

Repetition

There's the story about a skinny, old, shabbily dressed Lawyer who appeared in court to plead a case. He was so shabby that every one felt sorry for him. To inspire confidence, he didn't look like much of a match for the opposing, handsome, young lawyer. Yet the old shabby lawyer won the case.

Why? Everyone wanted to know. The young lawyer was puzzled. He went over to the shabby old lawyer. First he congratulated him, then said, "You and everyone else knows I should have been the one to win this case. Can you tell me how YOU won?"

"Sure I can tell you," the old lawyer said. "You quoted eleven sound arguments. But the jury didn't remember a single one. I quoted only one, but I repeated that one nine times in just slightly different words.. I didn't win that case. The repetition won. Young man, never neglect the power of repetition.

Repetition is Heaven's first law.

Therefore repeat the following wisdom sayings over and over as a daily practice until they become part of you.

Life's royal crown jewels: Health and peace of mind. Treat them royally.

Get your happiness out of your work or you'll never know what happiness is.

Make yourself do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain. Face fears fiercely and they'll flee. He who battles with us strengthens us.

Thinking is creative. Think your tasks as easy: that will make them so.

We never grow old. We get old when we stop growing. Keeping useful keeps us youthful.

Yard by yard, all tasks are hard, inch by inch, they're all a cinch.

Test of true courage: Do you always do what you should do, when it should be done, whether you feel like it or not?

Learn how and do now.

All obstacles are power generators.

The supreme philosophy is fortitude, self mastery.

Daily repeat words of power, strength, courage, self-confidence, success.

Act a part long enough and you will BECOME the part.

New thoughts make you a new man.

Be ye renewed by the re-newing of your mind.

Every day say to your self something good is going to happen to me today.

Do that thing you planned to do; it's later than you think.

Success starts with a dream, a thought; but that's only the first step. Writing it down is the second step. Doing one specific thing to bring it about is the third step.

Everyone of us should find time every day to be alone with them self to meditate, to take stock of them self. In silence great things fashion themselves.

Firmly believe you have reserves of health, energy, strength and endurance and that firm belief will help bring it about.

What is old age? It is a lack of interest. Keep up you interest and you'll never be old.

It takes many people a lifetime to learn that health is more important than money, fun and fame.

Nature's changeless Law "Nothing for Nothing."

Everyone needs a goal to keep him from being distracted by non-essentials.

Rest but never quit. Even the Sun has a sinking spell every evening, but always rises the next morning. At Sunrise every soul is born again.

To be great concentrate. Most people remain ordinary because they scatter their energies.

Do you love life? Then don't squander time.

Thinking is the highest faculty of the human mind.

Use yours more often.

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Repetition

breetreport — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:16:36 +0000

Here we have a good quote from Mr. Albert Einstein. You know the guy who was a German and developed the bomb during WWII. The war where a lot of people were murdered, and people (this day and age) deny and lie to themselves saying it never happened.

"Endlessly repeating the same process, hoping for a different result."

Drones. This is what I'm talking about. Change up - Explore - Live - Harm none.

If you keep doing the same thing over and over and over again - what/where has it gotten you?? If you continue to be up the crack of someones bum, say after a break-up = stalking, every single time it "happens to you" <start up the tears> -- or if you continously keep up the crack -- sooooo many possibilities to elaborate on here -- you are living as a drone.

Try some new food - within in your price range. When things are over - they are over. Think outside the box, so to speak, and try a different way of things.

Ha! Hell is repetition ~~

Empty Inbox, Repetition, The Beautiful Internet...

coffeeshoptheologian — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:45:11 +0000

The many hours I've invested in whittling down my email inbox to zero have finally borne their intended fruit. I give you... (pause for drum roll and the deafening din of throngs of frenzied supporters)... the empty inbox, in all its resplendent glory. Believe me, people, this inbox is empty for the glory of God. It's the only thing worth sifting through [actual number deleted to protect the reputation of the guilty as a hard worker] of emails!

"Thank you. Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. It's good to be here. Thank you." All this repetition reminds me of something I came across... This is hilarious. I believe Ann Curry uses the word "morning" 4 times in a span of about 3 seconds.

Ohhhhh goodness.... Can you believe this stuff? I love the internet.

Featured Guest Poet: Charles Anderson

mychen — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:37:17 +0000

Untitled

By Charles Anderson (Chuck)

Ah, you Asians are an unusual race
Send funny notes, but hard to meet face to face.
You're shy, they're shy, I'm shy
but no way anyone can live up to Lisa's talk of a helluva guy.

But another splendid day to grind out at ACDC
The music, the booze, and back stage passes all for free.
No wait, that is a group of a different kind
You all just have Jeremy to make you lose your mind.

No response can do the original poem justice
The humor and the warmth make meeting Michael a must for us,
And so with a hearty laugh and a joyful tear on my cheek.
I proclaim that Lisa and Michael to be the most delightful of freaks.

===

About the poet: Charlie ("Chuck") Anderson is my coworker Lisa's special friend all the way from North Kingstown, Rhode Island. He hails from somewhere in Michigan, and from what I've been told, he's a passionate follower of Detroit-based sports franchises. To me, his predilection (or as others may say, passion) for following sports teams that usually end up on the losing side of the scoreboard is what led to my line about questioning his intelligence. But I mean this in jest, of course.

This is his response to me, sent over e-mail. I am actually a bit interested in this idea of exchanging lines; it reminds me of the show, Yo Momma, but with a much friendlier, family-oriented, and witty tone.

Again, if you'd like to be featured on Michael Chen Poetry, please send me an e-mail.

UV Flipping Technique to Avoid Repetition

Habib — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:43:50 +0000

Alex Vlachos
A common problem exists among many shaders that rely on scrolling two copies of the same
texture in slightly different directions. No matter what angle or speed the textures are scrolling,
they will eventually line up exactly and cause a visual hiccup. This scrolling technique is commonly
used to gain the effect of having random patterns, like water caustics. With caustics, the
pattern appears to stop every once in a while even though it is scrolling at a constant speed.
This was also encountered when implementing the Ocean Water and Reflective and
Refractive Water shaders when we scrolled two copies of the same bump map in opposite
directions to produce high frequency waves (see “Rendering Ocean Water” and “Rippling
Refractive and Reflective Water” later in this book). The method we used to solve this problem
is to compute the two sets of texture coordinates like you normally would. Then immediately
before using those texture coordinates to fetch from textures, choose one of the sets of texture
coordinates and swap the U and V. This will effectively flip the texture along the diagonal.
Using this method, the intermittent hiccup that appears due to the two copies being perfectly
aligned is now impossible since one of the textures is reflected about the diagonal of the
texture.

Alex Vlachos: UV Flipping Technique to Avoid Repetition [D3DShaderX]

Antigone

Fadi Abou-Rihan — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:41:29 +0000

The generally held view, the one that psychoanalysis has recapitulated but not yet fully explored, is that the kernel of the Sophoclean script treats of a three-sided violation: Oedipus was doomed as much for his attempt at defying the Delphic oracle as he was for his parricide and incest. The latter were of a common quality to the classical Athenian mind, at least in the context of a mytho-theology that was replete with incidences of what we nowadays might consider as even more obscene and absurd passions and events. This did not make the king’s treatment of his parents any the less heinous, but it did render it in paler colours in comparison to his even more sinister and intolerable defiance as a mere mortal. His refusal to submit to the dictates of the higher deities, his though well intentioned but not any the less desperate and misguided wish for the fallibility of their oracles, which is to say his willed ignorance of these oracles’ influence and authority, and, in the process, his attempt to arrogate as his own their powers and privileges, his, in other words, refusal to recognise and abide by his station as a flawed and powerless human in an otherwise rigidly organized cast system is what ultimately cost him his royal privilege.

Two aspects of the example of Antigone are instructive on this point: the first is political the second psychological. Her father’s daughter, Antigone thought that she too could circumvent the laws of the state in favour of a heavenly commandment to which she declared herself subject. To her mind, she also became that commandment’s enforcer, protector, and agent. Initially its tool, she subtly but steadily transformed herself into its master; subject to it, she became its subject. Anarchist, resistance fighter, or proto-feminist she may have for her modern readers become, for most of her Athenian audiences she, like her father, would have probably remained the blasphemous pretender to a seat at the Olympian high table; her hubris would have been a trigger for her audience’s indignation, dismissal, and pity. Quite likely, her death would have been seen as the product of a misplaced and disgraceful sense of allegiance rather than a lofty sacrifice since, and to the mind of her contemporaries, suicide was cowardly self-indulgent and she was but a woman, irrational and unenviable. On the other hand, Creon’s final torment at his loss of honour and family may very well have been the play’s climactic moment and the worthiest of its audience’s compassion and sympathy. On this score, and while his restaging may have served specific political purposes at the time of the Nazi occupation of France, Anouilh did not escape the trap of casting the intransigent and overly self-assured as resistor when she could have been equally cast as fascist.

The other aspect to Antigone's scenario worth noting here is that, sadly, her psychological structure has completely eluded much of the current analysis of the Theban trilogy. Let us pause for a moment and consider the following: Antigone is the product of incest; her father was a murderer and her mother had committed suicide; her two brothers failed at containing their sibling rivalries and eventually killed one another; and much of her adult life was spent ministering to a man toward whom she must have felt some hint of revulsion. Would it be too much of a stretch to suggest that, as one might say these days, she had “baggage?!” Would it be even remotely possible that, as someone who had lived in the midst of and been shaped by so much unmitigated hostility and destruction, she could only come to act on her envy toward Creon as the one relative who was not manifestly implicated by the oracles and their damned and damning prophecies? She is carried away by her rage at her (grand-) uncle; she will trigger a chain of events that will leave him weak, sexless, and childless. She will effectively castrate him. True to her name, Antigone is portrayed as not only the one without progeny, but also as the woman who will arrogate for herself the manly power to bring an entire family's lineage to its end. She will effectively embody that vision of femininity men have reviled and women have fought against.

Il seems to me that Antigone is more deserving of recognition than she is of either the ruthless dismissal she must have suffered at the hands of her Athenian audiences or the abstract elaborations on psyche and community she has come to endure from her modern readers. If these latter are on the right track then it would be quite the comic feat of justice if, two and a half millennia from now, their psychologies and politics were to be filtered through whatever traces will have survived of Beaches or Days of Our Lives.

Some thoughts and links about failure

Anna — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:41:02 +0000

Dealing with Failure by Chandresh Bharwaj

Dealing with Failure by Dion Melchior

Conscious competence (learning model matrix) from businessballs.com

Dunning-Kruger effect at Wikipedia, and associated article at DamnInteresting.com

Keep it in perspective: balance the frequency of your failures against the frequency of your successes
Could they have been worse - could you have failed more dramatically if you hadn't used your existing skills and experience to intervene (even if you were not able to completely avoid difficulties)?
What actions or behaviours or assessments might have changed the outcome?
What systems (skills, knowledge, processes) can be put in place to avoid repetition?
Can this knowledge be shared to benefit others?
We only find our limitations by stepping over them and stretching ourselvers; the cost of adopting any approach that diligently avoids failure is never to challenge ourselves, and ultimately to prevent any chance that we might fulfil our full potential
How many toddlers are so destroyed by their failure to walk first time that they give up for life? Can we learn from their lack of self-consciousness?
"Try to be a failure" - look back over the things you have done and see if you really can classify yourself as a failure. If there's any successes in there, you're just not enough of a failure to qualify (this is what your perfectionist negative filter is doing, just the other way around).
What is there to be redeemed from failure? If it is unrealistic or limiting/counter-productive to try and avoid it completely, is there something in the experience in which we can find some redemption? (such as being good at identifiying the lessons to be learned from failure, without being hindered or paralysed by the challenge it poses to our pride and appearence)
Acknowledging a personal limitation that might have lead to failure can be uncomfortable. It can also be a useful opportunity to really get inside the experience of that acknowledgement, and identify what it is that is holding you back in recognising your own limitations. For example, are you reminded of an instance in the past where your limitations have had intense or negative consequences, that has left an impact. What is the risk if you fail or are responsible for failure? What is the risk if you never risk failure?
If you are very unable to acknowledge your own limitations, it is impossible to become consciously aware of your lack of skills, the impact of that on the situation, and the limits it places on your future opportunities. You are stuck at "unconscious incompetence" forever, because you are unable to (or refuse) to become conscious at it. Failures can be painful experiences; those around us who may also have their own issues around failure in their life can be critical and destructive. Don't let them rob you of the opportunity to learn and develop yourself to your full potential.

A quoi ressemble une repet??

Kalu — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:20:07 +0000

Vous vous etes surement deja demandé a quoi pouvais ressembler une repetition de Dark Djann??

Et bien voici la reponse:

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La on joue Highway to hell, un morceau douloureux pour certains...

La blague du debut n'est jamais la meme, mais elle est toujours pas tres drole :D

Of the Reason behind Cycles of Life

xeper — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 14:28:34 +0000

You see, for some time now, I have been a keen watcher of various documentaries. I find most documentaries speak about cycles; the life cycles of animals being born, struggling to grow up to give birth then die; cycles of natural phenomena such as the water evaporating to go in the form of clouds to another place to rain and support life elsewhere; the energy cycle from sun to plant to animal to other animal and dissipating into space in the process; and the most wonderful cycle of the seasons and how animals and people adapt to them; even the longer term cycles of the rise and fall of nations and great ideas that change the life course of humankind. Indeed, life, it seems the documentaries I watch concur with what we get through books, what our parents may show us, and our biggest suspicion stays lingering: "We are simply living in circles", and our eternal question remains unsolved: Why do we live in this complex group of interrelated cycles called "life"?

It seems futile, doesnt it? Going on and on and on.. forever.

But take a car off the road and press fuel, watch the intricate cycles working inside, the rotation of the wheels in the end, and after the initial amazement, you will think the same. "Cool! But futile!".

But this is only because you only looked at it off the road; and therefore out of its main context: to adance you on the asphalt road as you sit inside it.

It seems all cycles have the same reason; to take forward something that is outside the cycle but related to it.

Work cycles in a business have the same role: advance it on the income road. Supposedly, every year, a business goes through the same cycle. But in reality it is not exactly the same cycle; even in theory, while the business has to repeat everything that defines it, produce again, market again, sell again, pay taxes again, yet shareholders could be happier and happier every year and their wealths might be larger every year, they dont have to be poor again.

And Life cycles just the same: they advance our life on the spiritual road; each cycle gives us a new chance to advance on our spiritual road. While we know new people, lose new people, while we work again, rest again, yet with each time we have the opportunity to reach a new level of savoring the taste of life, and where does taste come from? often from the sauce, not the "food" itself.

And this seems to be why we have cycles and repititions in almost everything; just so that their friction against our sense of ease and idleness gives the chance to move us forward in awareness, consciousness.. spirituality.

Cycles we meet in life are the Wheels of our Vehicle along The Higher Road.

April 06

rosepena — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 22:42:37 +0000

"One enters the Konigstater Theater. One takes one's seat in the first tier of boxes; for here there are relatively few people, and when one is to see a farce one must be seated at one's ease, without feeling in the remotest way embarrassed by the solemn pretense of art which causes many to let themselves be jammed into a theater to see a play as if it were a question of their eternal salvation. The air in this theater is also fairly pure, not contaminated by the sweat of an audience moved by sensibility to art, or by the finer emanations of art connoisseurs. In the first tier of boxes one can be fairly sure of getting a box by oneself."
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~Source: Repetition (1843)
Author: Søren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Constantin Constantius

Repetition avant Vacances

Kalu — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 19:57:36 +0000

Voici le compte rendu de la repetition d'aujourd'hui:

Sarah et Bozow sont arrivés tout le deux en meme temps dans la meme voiture (la limousine ;) ) vers 16h.

En grands professionnels, nous avons décidé de repeter pour notre concert au lycée René Char. Nous avons donc fait un filage et enchainer toutes les chansons. Bof, trop simple ;)

Apres pres d'une demi-heure de jeu intensif, c'était l'heure de la pause, avec ses discussions habituelles, autour de sujets divers et variés, serieux ou pas (surtout ou pas).

Nous avons parlé du concert de Iron Maiden, de Kinder Surprise, de metre pour mesurer ( on dira pas quoi :D ), et de notre peut-etre futur bassiste Hugo.

Tout ça pour finir desseché sur des chaises apres avoir bu 1 litre de jus de pommes bio, sans eau (ajoutée si on compte pas l'eau de pluie).

Voili voilo a peu pres tout sur la repet, tout ce qui ne merite pas d'etre censuré surtout...

Maintenant c'est les vacances donc pas repet la semaine prochaine mais quelques post vont etre ecrit par sa majesté moi meme.

Pour finir: BONNES VACANCES!!!

Synonyms

123clear — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:30:26 +0000

Using synonyms--words that have nearly the same meaning--in the same sentence is a common cause of clutter. It's also a sign of confusion about the subtle differences in the meanings of the words. The following sentence is a clear and simple example:

The oil companies aren't reinvesting their huge profits in ways that will reduce our oil addiction habit.

Because "addiction" and "habit" are synonyms, using both of them is overkill. Either of the following would do:

The oil companies aren't reinvesting their huge profits in ways that will reduce our oil addiction.

The oil companies aren't reinvesting their huge profits in ways that will reduce our oil habit.

Which word is better, "addiction" or "habit"? That is up to the writer, whose task it is to study the definitions of the two words and decide which one reflects his intention best.

Cheers,

Tara Treasurefield

Treasurefield Communications