“The sumptuous age of stars and images is reduced to a few artificial tornado effects, pathetic fake buildings, and childish tricks which the crowd pretends to be taken in by to avoid feeling too disappointed. Ghost towns, ghost people. The whole place has the same air of obsolescence about it as Sunset or Hollywood Boulevard.” PeopleWholeFeelingsAgeStarsTakenAirEffectsBuildingHollywoodTownsCrowdsTricksGhostFakeSunsetDisappointedArtificialPatheticTornadoesBoulevardObsolescenceSumptuousGhost Town Book:Mass Identity Architecture: Architectural Writings of Jean Baudrillard Source: Mass Identity Architecture: Architectural Writings of Jean Baudrillard
“Falling stars are high examples sent To warn, not lure. Gross fancy says they are Substantial meteors; but that is not so. They are the merest phantasies of Night, When she's asleep, and, dimly visited By past effects, she dreams of Lucifer Hurled out of Heaven.” DreamPastNightFallHeavenStarsEffectsExampleFancyGrossLureLuciferMeteors Author:Alfred Austin
“The 3-D effects in "Star Wars" are so realistic, you can actually see George Lucas reaching from the screen and taking the money from your wallet.” WarStarsEffectsScreensReachingRealisticWallets Author:Craig Ferguson
“From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it. That the starry vault shall surcharge the heart with all rapturous marvelings, is only because we ourselves are greater miracles, and superber trophies than all the stars in universal space.” HeartStarsSpaceWonderGreaterWonderfulEffectsUniversalMiracleUnityInteriorsRespondingTrophiesVaultsMarveling Book:Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities Source: Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities
“The capacity for loving strangers, whether one thinks of them as fictional beings or stars one will never meet, is a profound reflection on the new consciousness whereby every individual leads his or life while aware of all the billions of other people on Earth. Perhaps it is a fantasy or a fallacy that we can feel for so many strangers. Perhaps it is a mask for selfishness. But no matter the modern stress on special effects, there isn't a sight in movies as momentous as shots of a face as its mind is being changed. And only movies have allowed that.” PeopleThinkingFeelsMindMatterEarthFilmFacesIndividualStarsConsciousnessFantasyModernSpecialEffectsChangedReflectionShotsCapacityHollywoodSightStressProfoundStrangerBillionsSelfishnessMaskFallacySpecial Effects Author:Edward Jay Epstein
“Authors may be divided into falling stars, planets, and fixed stars: the first have a momentary effect; the second have a much longer duration; but the third are unchangeable, possess their own light, and work for all time.” FirstsMayLightFallStarsEffectsPlanetsThirdsAll TimeFixedDividedDurationMomentaryAuthorshipUnchangeable Author:Arthur Schopenhauer
“My grandfather was a really, really tough no-nonsense factory worker who emigrated from Ireland in about 1900 to Bridgeport, Conn. He had a big effect on me. Those guys who took a great leap out into what they knew not were the ones who were the real stars, the real heroes.” RealBigsGuyStarsEffectsHeroToughWorkersNonsenseLeapFactoriesIrelandGrandfatherMy GrandfatherReal HeroesNo NonsenseFactory Workers Author:Brian Dennehy