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Karl Hess Club: May 2013
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Affiliated with Los Angeles's libertarian Karl Hess Club. Thursday, May 02, 2013. Ben Pleasants, RIP. Sadly, longtime KHC attendee Ben Pleasants passed away on April 18, in Crescent City, CA, of a heart attack. From the Los Angeles Times's obit. Born Aug. 6, 1940, in Weehawken, N.J.,. Ben] Pleasants graduated from Hofstra University on New York's Long Island in 1962 and within a few years enrolled in graduate English courses at UCLA. Beginning in the mid-1960s he wrote for the. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Karl Hess Club: Bobby Shriver for L.A. County Supervisor, 3rd District
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Affiliated with Los Angeles's libertarian Karl Hess Club. Friday, October 10, 2014. Bobby Shriver for L.A. County Supervisor, 3rd District. Two progressives are running for Los Angeles County Supervisor in the 3rd District - Sheila Kuehl. As a libertarian, I endorse Shriver. Both Kuehl and Shriver are longtime Santa Monica residents, as am I. So I have watched their political careers for many years. I have no illusion about Shriver being a libertarian, but he is the more libertarian choice. And you thoug...
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Horror Film Aesthetics: The Kiss: Implied Gore in Offscreen Space
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By Thomas M. Sipos, author of Horror Film Aesthetics. And Horror Film Festivals and Awards. Wednesday, April 16, 2014. Implied Gore in Offscreen Space. A long-running debate in horror film criticism is the merits of explicit vs. implied threats. Which packs the greater emotional punch? To see gore in all its graphic detail, or to leave such horrors to our imagination? 1988) provides an excellent example of the power of implied. Amy's boyfriend, Terry (Shawn Levy), who works at the store, hears Amy. H...
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Horror Film Aesthetics: Dual Use of a Wide-Angle Lens in "The Concrete Captain"
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By Thomas M. Sipos, author of Horror Film Aesthetics. And Horror Film Festivals and Awards. Saturday, July 12, 2014. Dual Use of a Wide-Angle Lens in "The Concrete Captain". Wide-angle lenses expand space. If the lens's angle is wide enough, it even noticeably distorts space. Horror films have found many applications, both aesthetic and pragmatic, for wide-angle lenses. Among its uses, a wide-angle lens can. Depict the subjective POV of a person who's drugged, drunk, tired, or insane. In the above scene,...
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Horror Film Aesthetics: Circle of Fear's “Legion of Demons” - Staging of Actors Instills Fear and Paranoia
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By Thomas M. Sipos, author of Horror Film Aesthetics. And Horror Film Festivals and Awards. Wednesday, June 1, 2011. S “Legion of Demons” - Staging of Actors Instills Fear and Paranoia. The 1970s was a golden age of televised supernatural horror. Back then, broadcast TV forbid graphic violence, even more so than today. This forced horror TV shows to create fear and suspense solely by non-gory means, such as story, music, and acting. Retitled Circle of Fear. Grouped people can be menacing. Seeing a gr...
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Horror Film Aesthetics: Edge: Poor Grooming Hinders Suspension of Disbelief
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By Thomas M. Sipos, author of Horror Film Aesthetics. And Horror Film Festivals and Awards. Monday, March 17, 2014. Poor Grooming Hinders Suspension of Disbelief. Sometimes a filmmaker can't achieve something on screen because of a low budget - but sometimes it's due to laziness. And a lack of artistic commitment. It would have been just as cheap to shoot a scene correctly, but the filmmaker - or the actor - couldn't be bothered. This cop from Edge. Above) has a full beard. Fodder. This is why low-bu...
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Karl Hess Club: October 2014
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Affiliated with Los Angeles's libertarian Karl Hess Club. Friday, October 10, 2014. Bobby Shriver for L.A. County Supervisor, 3rd District. Two progressives are running for Los Angeles County Supervisor in the 3rd District - Sheila Kuehl. As a libertarian, I endorse Shriver. Both Kuehl and Shriver are longtime Santa Monica residents, as am I. So I have watched their political careers for many years. I have no illusion about Shriver being a libertarian, but he is the more libertarian choice. And you thoug...
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Karl Hess Club: Two Peas in a Pod: Vladimir Nabokov and Ayn Rand
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Affiliated with Los Angeles's libertarian Karl Hess Club. Tuesday, July 08, 2014. Two Peas in a Pod: Vladimir Nabokov and Ayn Rand. Gene H. Bell-Villada is a professor of romance languages at Williams College, having earned his doctorate in the field at Harvard. He's written or edited eleven books, including Art for Art's Sake and Literary Life. A finalist for the 1997 National Book Critics Circle Award, and The Pianist Who Liked Ayn Rand. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). LPC's November 2016 Ballot Pr...
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Karl Hess Club: Libertarian Party of California's Ballot Access Strenghtened
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Affiliated with Los Angeles's libertarian Karl Hess Club. Sunday, October 05, 2014. Libertarian Party of California's Ballot Access Strenghtened. Los Angeles Libertarian Party activist Ted Brown sent out the following news item from Richard Winger. Of Ballot Access News. On September 30, Gov. Jerry Brown. Although no one can know how many voters there will be in 2016, the last tally (Sept. 2014) showed California had 17,634,876 registered voters, and 0.33% of that number is 58,195. Hillary Clinton has be...
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Karl Hess Club: February 2012
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Affiliated with Los Angeles's libertarian Karl Hess Club. Monday, February 20, 2012. Steve Reed, RIP. Longtime Karl Hess Club attendee, J. Neil Schulman. Sends the following note:. A short while ago I received a sad phone call from Tim Reed that his brother Steve Reed, a libertarian, frequent Karl Hess Club attendee, and a friend of mine, passed away in his sleep on February 4th, apparently due to complications of diabetes. Sunday, February 19, 2012. Ben Pleasants Interviews Actor Timothy Bottoms. Furthe...