Tag Archives: time

Reality is an Emergency

Posted on Dec 9, 2015 by Jeff Watson

The following is an edited version of my remarks delivered to close the Fall 2015 run of “Reality Starts Here” (CNTV-101), a foundational class attended by all first-year students at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Designed as both a … Continue reading →

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Whatever space and time mean, place and occasion mean more

Posted on Oct 22, 2015 by Jeff Watson

“Whatever space and time mean, place and occasion mean more. For space in our image is place, and time in our image is occasion.” – Aldo van Eyck, Place and Occasion

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“It was one of the most interesting fads of the night, or at least the early part of the night.”

Posted on Jul 4, 2014 by Jeff Watson

R. A. Lafferty’s crisply-written short story, “Slow Tuesday Night” (1965), envisions an oddly-familiar world of frenetic hustle where up-to-the-second “trend indicators” chart the fates of fads, fortunes, and families. A mini-masterpiece of time distortion science fiction, this classic short story … Continue reading →

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Radiation cats and atomic priesthoods: the Human Interference Task Force

Posted on Jun 21, 2011 by Jeff Watson

The question of how to mark the places where we store nuclear waste such that people in the distant future won’t do things like build towns or nurseries or farms on top or inside of them is one of my … Continue reading →

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The Lion Man of the Hohlenstein Stadel is 32,000 years old

Posted on Jun 4, 2011 by Jeff Watson

Everything that has happened since the time of Augustus Caesar takes up only 6.25% of the time that has passed since the Lion man of the Hohlenstein Stadel was made. A lion headed figure, first called the lion man (German: … Continue reading →

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Khronos Projector

Posted on May 4, 2009 by Jeff Watson

From Henri Bergson’s The Creative Mind: An Introduction to Metaphysics: …let us imagine an infinitely small piece of elastic, contracted, if that were possible, to a mathematical point. Let us draw it out gradually in such a way as to … Continue reading →

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Zbigniew Rybcynski – Nowa Ksiazka (1975)

Posted on Sep 25, 2008 by Jeff Watson

See also: Tango, Zbigniew Rybcynski

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