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Yeah, it is sad. Thoughts to his family in this tough time

Alien: Covenant Regarding timing: I admit to - like Floride - I left the theater somewhat disappointed. Its not all bad, it is tense, set design is awesome, direction is solid, cast is great but I feel like it could have been better. In particular there's a lot of things that seem to go nowhere. Some questions seem to imply a larger aspect of the universe which might be neat if they follow-up on it -

Charles Grey's Blofeld? Yaphet Koto's Mr. Big?

I'm okay with them letting it stand alone. If they want / need to do a cross-over once the show is established, they still can.

People made the same argument against the removal of the Battle Flag of the Army of North Virginia during the Confederacy from the Georgia flag. Problem is that was added to the Georgia flag in the 1950s as a reaction to rulings that schools were to be integrated in the South; until that time that flag had never flown for Georgia (its possible that Confederate ships may have had a similar flag while at the port in Savannah as the Confederate naval jack is a similar design). Short of being the state flag for 45 years, was the flag really historic in such a way that it needed preservation outside of a museum or texts discussing the flag of Georgia?

Given that most of the 'confederate' statues that I've heard of came out of the 1880s Jim Crow era or the post-"Birth of a Nation" Klan revival period, its hard to argue that their existence wasn't intended as a pro-Confederate south statement, and therefore - like the 'confederate flag', aka the Battle Flag of the Army of North Virginia, are hard to ignore in the timing of their creation with respect to what they symbolize I'm against the destroying of art pieces. But moving them to museums where they can be provided a context that sitting around the city or on a state capitol lawn isn't a bad idea where possible, IMO.

Intellectually I get the argument for the Readymades. And in a way I kind of buy it which is why I'm not necessarily against Duchamp even if he's probably not one of my favorite artists. But in another way that's kind of the problem I think Duchamp and the Readymades fostered on us. Anything is art provided you can make a story to explain why its art. Add to that the "and if it doesn't make sense then its the fault of the plebeian who doesn't understand art" and you pretty much have the sort of the art student pretension that, IMO, Clowes was poking fun at with "Art School Confidential". I kind of agree that something like the Readymades was going to happen in some form or fashion; there'd been too long a stranglehold on art that had narrowed 'art' to certain things accepted by the "intelligencia". There were already earlier rebellions in art prior to Dada but they kind of rebelled (to greater or lesser degree) while remaining in the box that they were rebelling against. It was inevitable that someone would realize that they needed to break out of the box that art had been put in (or as Duchamp put it, to break away from "retinal" art).

I'd agree he's hit or miss, but I've liked some of his stuff and the Manga (what I read of it) was solid

Takashi Miike's 100th film is an adaption of the manga Blade of the Immortal by Hiroaki Samura

The Mummy Trailer #3:

CW posted a first look for Black Lightning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=172&v=RZpJeuXo2CY

When we've hired people its always been whether they were enthusiastic about the right aspect of the job to align with their potential job satisfaction. For example, we had some positions that were often required to ensure rules were enforced without exception. Candidates who were overly enthusiastic about the advocacy side of the job were usually disappointed in it since the desire to strongly advocate for the individual you were working with would almost assuredly butt heads with immutable rules at some point. So we had to weed through and find the people who were understanding that the advocacy part of the job was done in a metaphorical box of "da rulez".

So the main character is half human half vulcan, who has a bad dad. Everything else in the trailer was a mess. I have absolutely no idea what is going on. Perhaps that's the reason why they removed the trailer? Main character is a human who was raised on Vulcan. Discovery is an exploration vessel and it looks like they're going to come into conflict with the Klingons as they try to map space. Trailer seemed pretty clear to me.

I would also agree, but I'm curious as to what bad ideas you think Duchamp fostered. :D I think that Duchamp's Readymades (and to a certain degree, the Dadaists in general) are the source for the type of pretension in artists that "Art School Confidential" pokes fun of. They foster the idea that anything slapped together and backed by a rationale is art. But the Readymades (IMO) generally fail any sort of test regarding transformative nature of art. If you put a bicycle on a stool it is, ultimately a bicycle on a stool. I get that Dadaism was 'anti-art' but I'd argue that parts of it was art and helped re-expand the boundaries of art after so many years of formalism. But to me most of the Readymades I've seen fail in the effort to actually be art. To be fair, I'm not sure many people care about the transformative part of art, but to me this is the role of the artist. Whatever they've 'found' - whether its canvas and paint or a bicycle - needs to be transformed by the artist to really be art. Its part of why I think Lichtenstein's early "pop art" work isn't transformative at all and therefore doesn't qualify as art to me. Its a shame that he appropriated the art of others and made millions off of them, to be honest. YMMV.

Its in the press release that Owlcat is owned by My.com.

I've seen it and read the inspiration for it - a Daniel Clowes short comics story from his EIGHTBALL anthology series. While I agree with some of the sentiment in it, I also agree with algroth that not all post-modernist or abstract or 'modern' art is bad (and I say that as someone whose dumped a lot of criticism on the likes of Duchamp and his collaborator for fostering bad ideas on art at the same time that they tried to challenge what art could be).

Supposedly the series was shot in widescreen, but instead of paying to remaster the film using the widescreen images, they just cut and zoomed to make the widescreen releases. That said it has enough following I think eventually it'll get a real remaster in both image and CGI.

I'm watching B5 for the first time. Just started season 3 last week.

I'm thinking its got to be the Nekataka Guard filter. If you look at the initial log, Xoti's Holy Radiance, Triumph of the Crusaders and the Player's Leap don't show on the last filter; those three don't seem to specifically target the Nekataka Guard. There's also an earlier area hit on a Sailor and a Vendor from Aloth (I think its an area attack). But everything in the last toggle is shown to relate to the Nekataka Guard. So to me it looks like the portraits are Nekataka Guard, Player, Pallegina, Maia, Aloth, Xoti.

The Delaware Art Museum is making a lot of their documents available online - http://www.delart.org/collections/the-helen-farr-sloan-library-and-archives/digital_collections/ Included are correspondence from Pre-Raphelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti and correspondence and talks by and about Howard Pyle. I believe they are still adding things to the digital collection (the Pyle section is currently only a couple of items).

Not all of those were arcade games and it sounds like maybe you're more familiar with Arcade Games? Altered Beast - Zaxxon - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toSxQ3QHaTc Space Harrier - House of the Dead - God I hope they revive Shining Force. There aren't enough srpg's around, IMOP. I'd love it, but the last tactical Shining Force game didn't get a release outside of Japan (Shining Force Feather in 2009). There was a different tactical game Shining Blade from 2012 that also didn't get a release outside of Japan. Neither had the very FIRE EMBLEM-esque system of the earlier Shining Force games. Instead we got the action RPGs Shining Force Neo and Shining Force Exa neither of which I cared for (and the Shining Souls hand held games, which were 'okay' action dungeon crawls).

anymore examples what SEGA holds? Can't remember much from them - Lets revive Golden Axe!! Off the top of my head stuff like Golden Axe, Altered Beast, Ecco the Dolphin, Jet Set Radio, Crazy Taxi, Alex Kidd, Zaxxon, House of the Dead, Shining Force, Space Harrier, Streets of Rage. Of course I was a huge Eternal Champions fan back in the day. The thing that bugs me about re-releases is that they only ever seem to keep putting out Genesis versions of the games even with games like Altered Beast or Golden Axe that had arcade versions. I love Golden Axe, but I'd really love to have an arcade version of Golden Axe I and an arcade version of Golden Axe: The Revenge of Death Adder to go along with Golden Axe, Golden Axe II, Golden Axe III from the Genesis. Toss in the Arcade version of Golden Axe: The Duel and you have a pretty decent retrospective set, IMO. But agreed a good new game would be awesome (Golden Axe: Beast Rider is another example of a game that seemed to miss the point of the originals in creating an update).

I'm not against SEGA bringing in some of their big titles, but the last few times they've tried to revive titles, they've really been 'in name only' affairs (see, for example, the drubbing the Shining series got, particularly Shining Force).

May 21.

I thought there was an earlier kit list (as my memory told me the Landsknecht was on a later version of the kit list), but I can't find any listing that has the myrmidon kit. The Landsknecht is on all the ones I can find (and was mentioned by Sawyer in an interview, so the myrmidon one must have been fairly early).