Be safe out there everybody.

#BlackFriday

This morning was definitely a mood

#foggy #photography

So: I teach this class on Minecraft and Modernity, and added a unit on panoramas and sensationalism in modern culture, with an excerpt of Vanessa Schwartz’s classic book SPECTACULAR REALITIES as secondary reading. As an exercise, I sent the students in groups to the Concordia visualization studio, which has an interactive LCD display wall measuring 9.2 m x 1.7 m (363.6" x 68.5") with an available resolution of 11,520 x 2,160 pixels.

It works pretty well.

For a long time, when I'd read a comic with Lex Luthor in it, and he'd be... I dunno, conspiring with a guy who's super power is that he is mediocre at riddles, and maybe Solomon Grundy or someone like that, in order to launch their army of poison turtles into Metropolis, I'd scoff and say, "it's unrealistic that the world's richest man would waste his time and money on something that's only going to showcase to the world how incompetent he is."

I owe DC comics an apology.

#BorisKarloff was 44 and had been acting for 20 years when he was cast in #Frankenstein (1931).

Proof that it's never too late to be an overnight success.

#BornOnThisDay