Category: Art
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Space marines. Space marines. Space marines.
UK toymaker Games Workshop has been criticised for asserting a trademark claim to the phrase 'space marines'. The claim emerged when it was used to get an American ebook about the futuristic soldiers taken off Amazon. Science fiction writers have called the firm "absurd" for saying it has a trademark to the use of the term…
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Writers vs. Readers
People are divided in two categories: readers and writers. If you are a writer, you should try to be a good one. If you are a reader, you should... Well, I do not care. I am a writer.
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Argo vs. "Oscars" 1-0
Some movies are just GOOD movies. [1] Some other movies are made FOR winning the Oscar. [Valia] The former are the ones you enjoy watching (e.g. Argo). The latter are the ones that say something already said before. Movies you feel like enjoying, can't be sure if you REALLY liked them though (e.g. Lincoln). And…
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Art, "art", Nazis, drawing a line...
Prosecutors in Poland have opened an investigation into reports that a Swedish artist used ashes from the Nazi death camp at Majdanek in a painting. [1] Our modern civilization has turned everything into a pulp. Artists just provoke, without caring for aesthetics, without conveying anything from within their soul, without love, without feelings. A line…
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Nobel prizes, literature, ideology, prejudice
Declassified documents of the Swedish Academy for Nobel nominations, show that the quality of ones work is not the sole criterion on which its members decide. During the analysis of the candidates for the year 1962, it is revealed that Graves was rejected (as Schueler revealed) because even though he had written several historical novels,…
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