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Author Archives: Katherine Wikoff
The Weather Channel’s amazing new “Immersive Mixed Reality”
The Weather Channel this week introduced new technology that will add astonishing visual effects to their broadcasts. Check out this Co.Design article, with video, where you can see a demo in which the anchorman barely escapes being crushed by a … Continue reading
Homage in The Shape of Water – Monsters who like candy
Colonel Strickland, the cruel government agent who pulled the amphibious fish/man out of the river muck in South America, continually crunches on green (lime?) hard candy throughout The Shape of Water. Strickland isn’t cinema’s only early-’60s antagonist with a sweet … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Movies and film, Popular culture
Tagged candy corn, Colonel Strickland, green candy, homage, Norman Bates, Psycho, The Shape of Water
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Homage in The Shape of Water – Odessa Steps
The last movie we watch in my film studies class every spring is always whatever has won the Academy Award for Best Picture that year. This year we’re watching The Shape of Water. This is a really brilliant movie, and I … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Creativity, Movies and film, Popular culture
Tagged "Odessa Steps", homage, Odessa Staircase, The Shape of Water
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Fog rolling in off Lake Michigan
A foggy start to the day in Milwaukee yesterday morning. Looking east up State Street from the Grohmann Museum.
Posted in Life, Milwaukee, Nature, Photography
Tagged Downtown Milwaukee, fog, Lake Michigan, Milwaukee
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Mesmerizing music visualization
I’m reading paper drafts from students in my film studies course, and one of them is writing about baptism/assassination montage in The Godfather. I was pretty sure the music playing through that scene is Bach, but I looked it up … Continue reading
Hemmed in, but still a beacon
For decades Milwaukee’s favorite weather forecast has been the flame atop the Wisconsin Gas Building. It changes color and flashes to announce rising/falling temperatures, snow/rain, or a steady state (no change from current conditions). There’s even a little poem to … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, History, Life, Milwaukee, Photography
Tagged Downtown Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Milwaukee skyscrapers, Wisconsin Gas Building flame
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New Milwaukee Bucks arena changes color as light shifts
Street construction on my usual route to work has me driving past the new Milwaukee Bucks arena from different directions and at different times of day than usual. These literal shifts in perspective have led me to discover something kind … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, Life, Milwaukee, Photography
Tagged basketball, color, Downtown Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Milwaukee Bucks arena, sports
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