I have decided to do a quote week while I redo the new site. So to begin:
"Write in recollection and amazement for yourself."
-Jack Kerouac
Friday, September 30, 2011
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Time Travel to the Past...
So I am currently watching Terra Nova...
So I am loving this show. For starters, the future at that is shown to be at the beginning of the 22nd Century is actually a real posibility in some cases and the way that they show it with the breathers and the dirty air is totally realizable. In some cases, some could argue the idea behind the future that we see for the first twenty minutes of the show could make for it's very own series, but that is not what this show is to be about.
The idea is simple. We messed up and now, due to a small gap in the time-space continuum, what they refer to as a tear in space, they are able to travel back in time, they are able to travel towards the past (the era unknown at first) to make a fresh start. The first part is understandable, however, once they make it though, breaking the law in order to do so, the next part is a little unbelievable. Due to having a third child, and thus breaking population laws, the Father is thrown in jail. He breaks out and they do find out in the new colony. Once it is determined that they can't do anything about it, the chaff is soon shown.
The brother is soon shown to be suffering from what I call "daddy issues". As if they couldn't make his character three dimensional. That however is not to be the best part in the first half hour. A few moments after the issues are shown to be the problem. A few moments later, the youngest child Zoey is shown to be meeting the first of the original denizens:
Dinosaurs.
They could be Brontosaurus, but I believe the original name for them is to be Brachiosaurus.
The rest could be a strange and slightly underwhelming ordeal, if not somewhat predictable. I must say, the faction reminds me a little of the Fifth column from the original "V" series. I'm a little disappointed, but even with the "Jurassic Park" sentiments, it should turn out better I hope.
So I am loving this show. For starters, the future at that is shown to be at the beginning of the 22nd Century is actually a real posibility in some cases and the way that they show it with the breathers and the dirty air is totally realizable. In some cases, some could argue the idea behind the future that we see for the first twenty minutes of the show could make for it's very own series, but that is not what this show is to be about.
The idea is simple. We messed up and now, due to a small gap in the time-space continuum, what they refer to as a tear in space, they are able to travel back in time, they are able to travel towards the past (the era unknown at first) to make a fresh start. The first part is understandable, however, once they make it though, breaking the law in order to do so, the next part is a little unbelievable. Due to having a third child, and thus breaking population laws, the Father is thrown in jail. He breaks out and they do find out in the new colony. Once it is determined that they can't do anything about it, the chaff is soon shown.
The brother is soon shown to be suffering from what I call "daddy issues". As if they couldn't make his character three dimensional. That however is not to be the best part in the first half hour. A few moments after the issues are shown to be the problem. A few moments later, the youngest child Zoey is shown to be meeting the first of the original denizens:
Dinosaurs.
They could be Brontosaurus, but I believe the original name for them is to be Brachiosaurus.
The rest could be a strange and slightly underwhelming ordeal, if not somewhat predictable. I must say, the faction reminds me a little of the Fifth column from the original "V" series. I'm a little disappointed, but even with the "Jurassic Park" sentiments, it should turn out better I hope.
Monday, September 19, 2011
The Hiatus to Continue...
Yes yes yes... I know that it sounds rediculous. I am almsot done with the new site of the blog and everything. This will be fine. No worries. In the meantime, I have a picture and an article to show you:
I had a question not but two days ago in which a person liked the way that I described how Amaretto traveled and was curious about the bending of space-time-dimensional rifts and was curious as to how it looked. Today, I by pure chance came across a photo of what I partioally imagine sometimes as she travels. Here it is:
This image is brought to us curtesy of one of my favorite blogging sites: io9.
The article that I got this picture from is here.
That's really all today.
I had a question not but two days ago in which a person liked the way that I described how Amaretto traveled and was curious about the bending of space-time-dimensional rifts and was curious as to how it looked. Today, I by pure chance came across a photo of what I partioally imagine sometimes as she travels. Here it is:
This image is brought to us curtesy of one of my favorite blogging sites: io9.
The article that I got this picture from is here.
That's really all today.
Friday, September 16, 2011
Paradoxical History at It's Finest
I have an absolute fascination with time. Time is like that little bit of reality that we insist is real even though the perception of it is all that we have. I enjoy the posibility of playing with time and all the facets that come with being able to form a rather deceptive reality with it. So I was reading an article online that was about one of my most favorite peices of time anomolies: The Paradox.
Temporal Paradoxes are probobly one of the most strange and unpredictable things in literature. The whole reason behind them is complex enough that I could write for hours and still not be able to explain it all. Thus I shall use my character Amaretto to describe some major point in paradox. As a matter of fact, ther eare several paradoxes that are already occuring.
The first is an example of simple time twisted logic. When Amaretto first get's the hourglass, she is transported all over time, in the same place, within only a matter of a few hours. The paradoxical loop that I have set up is very often much like a Time line protection hypothesis. There is no way to stop this enevitable self from twirling this over and over again. As she moves forwards through time to hit herself and thus manages to hear the instructions that she is going to see in the future and theu in the past as well.
There was no real paradox when she went to the Second Great British Empire, but when she arrived in teh Country of Pesok, she realized that there was a bootstrap paradox involving items (for those of you who have not read it, I shall not reveal the plot line as I do not want to ruin it for you. I can however, give you an idea of what the principle is mentioning for you, that is to say, if you take an object back in time it can perpatuate itself as it's own reality and thus it's own creation, so that in fact, the item that you were taking back is the same item you were looking at before you took it back, thus perpetuating a massive causality loop (or a predestination paradox) that is never going to stop.
An nice simple example is this:
A man in the future owns the last apple tree. Another man, right before the tree dies, tries to perpetuate the future of the apples from going extinct, so he grabs the last seeds and hands them to the first child on the first farm he can find before he dies. That child winds up planting the seends and in teh future winds up owning the last apple tree all over again.
Okay, maybe that was not as simple as I would have liked it to be, but in all reality, paradoxes are a little hard to explain without a visual representation.
Now, I'm gonna go send this email to myself so that I know in about 20 minutes to read the article that percipitated this whole thing...
Temporal Paradoxes are probobly one of the most strange and unpredictable things in literature. The whole reason behind them is complex enough that I could write for hours and still not be able to explain it all. Thus I shall use my character Amaretto to describe some major point in paradox. As a matter of fact, ther eare several paradoxes that are already occuring.
The first is an example of simple time twisted logic. When Amaretto first get's the hourglass, she is transported all over time, in the same place, within only a matter of a few hours. The paradoxical loop that I have set up is very often much like a Time line protection hypothesis. There is no way to stop this enevitable self from twirling this over and over again. As she moves forwards through time to hit herself and thus manages to hear the instructions that she is going to see in the future and theu in the past as well.
There was no real paradox when she went to the Second Great British Empire, but when she arrived in teh Country of Pesok, she realized that there was a bootstrap paradox involving items (for those of you who have not read it, I shall not reveal the plot line as I do not want to ruin it for you. I can however, give you an idea of what the principle is mentioning for you, that is to say, if you take an object back in time it can perpatuate itself as it's own reality and thus it's own creation, so that in fact, the item that you were taking back is the same item you were looking at before you took it back, thus perpetuating a massive causality loop (or a predestination paradox) that is never going to stop.
An nice simple example is this:
A man in the future owns the last apple tree. Another man, right before the tree dies, tries to perpetuate the future of the apples from going extinct, so he grabs the last seeds and hands them to the first child on the first farm he can find before he dies. That child winds up planting the seends and in teh future winds up owning the last apple tree all over again.
Okay, maybe that was not as simple as I would have liked it to be, but in all reality, paradoxes are a little hard to explain without a visual representation.
Now, I'm gonna go send this email to myself so that I know in about 20 minutes to read the article that percipitated this whole thing...
Thursday, September 15, 2011
NEWS of a DIFFERENT sort
Yes, I was in need of a catchy title, but that is all right. I say this only because I have some good news!
I finally got everything sorted out and now have my old web address back. Seananand.com is once again mine! So I am now redesigning the website (with some major changes from what I had before) and am hopign to show the big unveil within the end of this week (more likely next week however with the way that work has been going lately).
As a side note of epic proportions, I will be transfering this blog and all of it's contents to the new website so that I can keep all of my content in a more accessable place. and it is time for me to finally move everything. Wish me luck all of you!
I finally got everything sorted out and now have my old web address back. Seananand.com is once again mine! So I am now redesigning the website (with some major changes from what I had before) and am hopign to show the big unveil within the end of this week (more likely next week however with the way that work has been going lately).
As a side note of epic proportions, I will be transfering this blog and all of it's contents to the new website so that I can keep all of my content in a more accessable place. and it is time for me to finally move everything. Wish me luck all of you!
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Magic as a Metaphor...
Today, I was patrolling the web, somethign that I oft do while I am stranded at work and feeling bored and wishing that I could be actually typing up some fiction. I came across an article on Think Progress that bespoke of one of my all time favorite WB shows: Charmed.
You remember Charmed don't you? A snazzy early 2000's television show about three women who happen to be sisters, who manage to get a fantastical ability to cast magic and kick as as witches with the mythical "Power of Three"? It was many a person's "guilty" pleasure, or in my case an extreeme pleasure. I loved that show. It always had some sort of new problem with the sisters (one wound up leaving the show and a fourth sister to replace her was found) would have to come against and solve. the great thing about the show was that it was not jsut magic for magic's sake, it had problem solving, and often had rules in which power was used and abused and how it affected their lives.
That's the part I want you to note: How it affected their lives.
That really is the key sentance there at this moment. As I was sitting and reading this article, I came across the point of the article and I have to say that it was a valid point. the article, without ruining anything, stated that Charmed was a better show than this past season of True Blood, only for the simple fact taht when people used magic it had consiquences and real life application and didn't force a person to feel as if they had been cheated by the system. Now everyone knows that I absolutly love the show True Blood. though this previous season has been a total disaster. When the idea of witches were being introduced, I was glad. It was a little something extra for a show that had seemingly lost its way in the third season. I was however constantly dissapointed with the way that it was set up and this article articulated several of eth way that I had been disappointed and why a middling show which lasted over 8 seasons managed to do better with less.
Now don't get me wrong. I love the series True Blood, but the way they portrayed magic seems to be a growing trend in television and movies in this day and age. A lot of shows in what several people I know like to call "the before time", only because of how simple it used to be and the fact that they were original ideas, seems to have been lost in teh mix up of how they portray magic. Shining - yet partially silly in their antics - examples will include Sabrina the Teenaged Witch (based off of the popular Archie comic of the same name) and Bewitched (some of the Golden Age of Television at it's finest). These were shows that in the span of a half-hour, gave you a problem, someway that magic tried to fix it, and the consiquences of using magic when it might not have been neccessary were revealed. At the end of the show, everything was cleaned up and everyone had a good laugh and all was back to normal until next week when another zany problem revealed itself.
Not really a decent example, but in those shows, even though the timeline was not clear, the characters seemed to grow, or even partially mature as they used magic and dealt with the consiquences. Shows that took that growth style of magic having consiquences are Shows like HEX, a british television show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, heck even Dark Shadows did it as well as my favorite show Charmed. All these shows showed the pluses and minuses of using magic and how power can change a person (or in some cases like the first two examples, a comedic value with a moral at the end).
True Blood made it so that I was not impressed with what was going on. I could have cared less with eth Magical subplot of the whole show (though on a side note, this particular season made me want to vomit a little...). The whole reason I bring this up is that tonight, there is another show called "Secret Circle" which is airing on the CW which made me wonder what kind of show it is going to be. Mind you, it too is based off a series of novels. In this case, it is a series of Young Adult books that are quite interesting.
Needless to say I can't wait, and tomorrow, when it comes on, it shall be TiVoed and then watched.
You remember Charmed don't you? A snazzy early 2000's television show about three women who happen to be sisters, who manage to get a fantastical ability to cast magic and kick as as witches with the mythical "Power of Three"? It was many a person's "guilty" pleasure, or in my case an extreeme pleasure. I loved that show. It always had some sort of new problem with the sisters (one wound up leaving the show and a fourth sister to replace her was found) would have to come against and solve. the great thing about the show was that it was not jsut magic for magic's sake, it had problem solving, and often had rules in which power was used and abused and how it affected their lives.
That's the part I want you to note: How it affected their lives.
That really is the key sentance there at this moment. As I was sitting and reading this article, I came across the point of the article and I have to say that it was a valid point. the article, without ruining anything, stated that Charmed was a better show than this past season of True Blood, only for the simple fact taht when people used magic it had consiquences and real life application and didn't force a person to feel as if they had been cheated by the system. Now everyone knows that I absolutly love the show True Blood. though this previous season has been a total disaster. When the idea of witches were being introduced, I was glad. It was a little something extra for a show that had seemingly lost its way in the third season. I was however constantly dissapointed with the way that it was set up and this article articulated several of eth way that I had been disappointed and why a middling show which lasted over 8 seasons managed to do better with less.
Now don't get me wrong. I love the series True Blood, but the way they portrayed magic seems to be a growing trend in television and movies in this day and age. A lot of shows in what several people I know like to call "the before time", only because of how simple it used to be and the fact that they were original ideas, seems to have been lost in teh mix up of how they portray magic. Shining - yet partially silly in their antics - examples will include Sabrina the Teenaged Witch (based off of the popular Archie comic of the same name) and Bewitched (some of the Golden Age of Television at it's finest). These were shows that in the span of a half-hour, gave you a problem, someway that magic tried to fix it, and the consiquences of using magic when it might not have been neccessary were revealed. At the end of the show, everything was cleaned up and everyone had a good laugh and all was back to normal until next week when another zany problem revealed itself.
Not really a decent example, but in those shows, even though the timeline was not clear, the characters seemed to grow, or even partially mature as they used magic and dealt with the consiquences. Shows that took that growth style of magic having consiquences are Shows like HEX, a british television show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, heck even Dark Shadows did it as well as my favorite show Charmed. All these shows showed the pluses and minuses of using magic and how power can change a person (or in some cases like the first two examples, a comedic value with a moral at the end).
True Blood made it so that I was not impressed with what was going on. I could have cared less with eth Magical subplot of the whole show (though on a side note, this particular season made me want to vomit a little...). The whole reason I bring this up is that tonight, there is another show called "Secret Circle" which is airing on the CW which made me wonder what kind of show it is going to be. Mind you, it too is based off a series of novels. In this case, it is a series of Young Adult books that are quite interesting.
Needless to say I can't wait, and tomorrow, when it comes on, it shall be TiVoed and then watched.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
The New DC 52...
So I've been really excided about the new DC 52 reboot of the DC universe, and I have to say, after reading Superman, one of the Flagship titles, I was a little impressed with what I saw. A new superman (in jeans no less), who seems to have gone a little vigilante, and oh, I love how Lois Lane is with someone else for a friggin' change. it makes me secretly happy inside somewhere. I scrounged around and tried to find a few pictures of his new lovely "batman-eske" ways and foudn a wonderful artical over at Yahoo. the link is here. Go look! The images are full of fantastic!
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