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Black Static Issue 3

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2008-02-02 18:02:20 by Richard Hawkins in SciFi UK Review
...Static s Dark Place Number 3 Out Feb 2007 Matthew Holness AKA Gareth Marenghi of the eponymous cult TV show has a story in Black Static 3, which has just gone to the printer and will be out, early, in February The Toad and I by Matthew Holness. The author is a A real life TV star, most famous for his Gareth Marenghi character (absolutely...
 
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2/22: Here

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2008-02-22 22:04:00 by Ed Howard in Only The Cinema
...static space, time moves freely, overlapping as multiple events spanning throughout time occur in different panels and sub-panels. Sometimes, McGuire's division of space into time makes a simple joke as when he hilariously overlays images of cows from 1860 onto the faces of women talking in a living room in 1944 and at other times the effect...
 
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1/16: L'opéra-mouffe; Oncle Yanco; News From Home

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2008-01-16 23:57:00 by Ed Howard in Only The Cinema
...static shots of urban settings: streets, buildings, subways. Occasionally, the camera moves, very infrequently at first, and limited to sideways sweeping pans; as the film progresses, the camera becomes freer, moving more frequently, often in languid 360-degree pans or lengthy traveling shots filmed from a moving car or an elevated train....
 
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3/9: Peur(s) du noir

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2008-03-09 23:59:00 by Ed Howard in Only The Cinema
...static, and Blutch's dense pencil shading can sometimes make adjacent areas from different figures blend into each other, so that at several points in these early sequences, for example, the dogs appear to be partially translucent. However, he quickly overcomes this initial stiffness in the animation, and with each subsequent installment of...
 
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Panic

2008-03-16 21:25:00 by J.J. in As Little as Possible
 
Channel-surfing yesterday on the waves of our pirated cable, I passed my favorite, channel 49, and saw nothing but static. I doubled back. Static again. No. Static on every TV in the house. No. Channel 49, you see, is Turner Classic Movies. And it's gone
 
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CULT TV FLASHBACK # 50: The Starlost: "Voyage of Discovery" (1973)

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2008-05-05 07:41:00 by John Kenneth Muir in John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Film/TV
...static; not entirely unlike the Introvision projection process spearheaded in the early 1980s and deployed in films such as Outland (1981) and Darkman (1990 However, in 1973, Magicam was still undependable, it rarely worked, and the harried, under-the-gun team crafting The Starlost was forced to abandon it all together. Instead, the team -...
 
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8/11: British Sounds

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2008-08-11 22:08:00 by Ed Howard in Only The Cinema
...static camera; a right-wing news anchor delivering a hateful speech; a group of workers discussing working conditions and the possibility of socialism; some Maoist students trying to rewrite Beatles songs with more revolutionary lyrics; a bloody hand in the snow reaching for a red flag These images are simple in every sense. Each image...
 
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DAY 10: Poltergeist (1982)

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2007-08-10 22:36:00 by Damian in Windmills of My Mind
...static on the screen until the mother tells her Oh, honey. Dont look at that. Youll wreck your eyes, and then changes it to a channel showing scenes of combat; apparently watching images of people dying violent deaths is less harmful to kids than electronic snow). There is rarely a scene where the set is not turned on in Poltergeist . Even if...
 
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1/22: Early Spring; Duck Soup

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2008-01-22 23:42:00 by Ed Howard in Only The Cinema
...static camera makes up the vast majority of the shots in the film, nearly all of them taken from his signature low angle. This restraint and stasis gives an especial significance to the few moments when the camera does move, even if the rationale for the movement isn't always clear. In this film, the camera moves in just two circumstances....
 
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2/21: The Odds of Recovery; The Head of a Pin; Ulysse

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2008-02-21 23:54:00 by Ed Howard in Only The Cinema
...static, low position that cuts off people's heads. The bulk of the film's frames are focused at around the mid-section, and also in close-up, so that people, both doctors and patients, tend to become abstracted arrangements of torsos and hands, sometimes engaged in conversation in hospital examining rooms, sometimes cooking or gardening at...
 
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