In the shadows cast by the giant letters “HOLLYWOOD” on a barren hill outside Los Angeles, Thomas Harper Ince built the first standardized studio in […]
Month: April 2025
Pirates of the Caribbean: A Rhapsody on the Sea of Deconstruction and Reconstruction
When Hans Quartermain’s orchestral music exploded among the waves of the Caribbean Sea, and Captain Jack Sparrow stepped on the wreckage of the mast and […]
Rewriting the world in the name of humanity
Under the dome of Florence’s Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, Brunelleschi’s invention of perspective transformed human visual experience into a mathematical formula. The dome […]