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Things September 2018: Disney, Star Wars, Optimisation and Motivation

Disney Live Action With the live-action version of Beauty and the Beast surpassing expectations, and the trend of Disney live-action remakes continuing ever-onwards, I wondered how well these films were performing at the box office compared to the animated originals. I think the fairest comparison is the US box office (as global distribution can vary […]

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Things December 2015: Star Wars Special

As you may recall from Things 43, I’m a bit of a Star Wars fan. So in terms of Things I found interesting in December, there was really only one. If you hate Star Wars I’ve got one other Thing for you below, a bit more music, and then it’s wall-to-wall Space Opera. I’ll save […]

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Things 43: Indian Superman, Pub Quiz Physics, Star Wars Collection

(Originally sent March 2009) Video The joy of cultural differences – Indian Superman (sound essential for when they get to the musical number): (Note that their superman does not wear red pants on the outside – clearly they thought that would just be silly) Link A link to the non-text bit of another video, also […]

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Things 2025 Q2: Constraints, Polarised light, Kuleshov, Infohazards

Artists vs. Constraints The medium of any given art form creates restraints or encourages certain properties in the art itself. For example, movies and theatrical productions are somewhat constrained in duration by the capacity of the human bladder. Paintings tend to be painted at certain scales that are easier to perceive, to distribute, and to […]