Literate Consumers and the Synthetic Real

These assessments produce a critical bind. On the one hand, high cultural models of distinction valorizing critical distance (Huxtable) and critical approaches presuming a clarity with regard to social relations in previous historical periods (Sorkin) keep culturalcriticism tied to a past moment by which the commercialism and simulation of the present day will always be wanting. On the other hand, defending the commercialism and simulation of cultural artifacts and practices simply because they are popular inadequately presumes that their popularity is itself the mark of a democratizing potential. Another way of approaching the implications of immersion as a cultural logic is to acknowledge something like a literacy on the part of consumers and spectators when they participate in immersive and simulated environments. In the case of films, one site of literacy is the intertextual

The credit sequence in The Game also foregrounds the status of immersion as at a trope for cinematic spectatorship. The film opens with a series of infinitely receding puzzle pieces that break apart and come out toward the spectator while a digital zoom pulls the spectator's look further into the span of the shot accompanied by the sound of breaking glass. There is a long lineage in U.S. film history of self-reflexive representations of spectatorship invoking the sense of breaking through the cinema screen to recover the real presence in the absent nature of the recorded image (to invoke Metz’ s analyses of cinema as an 'imaginary signifier').'B Films from Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show (Edison, 1902) to The Purple Rose of Cairo (Allen, 1985) feature characters who step into the film screen and the diegetic world of the film (to varying degrees of success). While the credit sequence in The

ryday life is mediated through computers. A 1995 cover of a speci

Immersion in the Virtual Ornament: Contemporary “Movie Ride” Films.

The mass ornament is the aesthetic reflex of the rationality to which the prevailing economic system aspires.

-'The Mass Ornament' (1927)

Computerized special effects are becoming the norm in contemporary Hollywood cinema. These effects are most notable when most spectacular, for example, the running Gallimimus dinosaurs in Jurassic Park (Spielberg, 1993), the menacing shadows over Washington D.C. in Independence Day (Emmerich, 1996), the fluid morphing in The Matrix, and the reconstruction of ancient architecture in Gladiator. Computer graphic images (CGIs) are also used for more mundane purposes such as eliminating wires supporting stunt actors, and erasing unwanted scratches, shadows, telegraph poles, and sound boom

原本就对发箍超级有好感的我，在看到QUEEN B的发箍后完全沉迷~~~

现在每次到FORVER 21去逛都粘在饰品区，把每个发箍都试一遍，没得救了~~~~~~特别是蝴蝶结缎带如果再加上是桃红色，那就必买了~~~~~

    昨天和朋友相约去汝矣岛看樱花，大概之前已经约了一个星期了，好不容易等到周末，怀着那么点期待的心情……

    最近首尔的天气那是相当的好，阳光明媚，不过周末出行的人也好多，地铁上人挤人，大家都是一个方向，在汝矣岛站下。好不容易挤到下车，已经一身是汗，原本好的心情也差不多被消磨了一半，哎，原来我期待的周末就是这么，加上前一天学校去北汉山爬山，累的死去活来，腰酸背痛脚抽筋，那是个惨~~~

    果然是人超级人，大家挤着走，哎，说是看花不是说是看人，拍个照都被淹没在人潮中~~~~

    一条路也就差不多一样，所以走了大半就看不下去，回家！！不过越走到后面人越少，韩国人大概也这样，觉得看到后面也就没什么好看的，樱花哪都可以看，不过是来凑个热闹……

    逛了一天，大家都饿得不得了，好不容易选定个地方吃饭，简直不堪回首，哎，想多难吃就有多难吃，这样的饭还卖6000每个人，伤心，反正我们4个是边吃边抱怨，得出的结论就是已经凡是和黄太鱼有关的都不能点，伤心啊，吃了等于没吃~~~

最近对于“花样”完全빠져，超级喜欢，对于花样的热情那是从高中起就没减过

漫画版 动画版 电影版 台湾版 日本版 韩国版……

出于对原著漫画的热爱，对于大银幕 小银幕都始终如一

虽然对于日版FINAL有那么点失望，但毕竟结局是好的~~~~~

SS501-내 머리가 나빠서(꽃보다 남자-OST)

내 머리는 너무 나빠서

너 하나밖에 난 모르고

다른 사람을 보고 있는 넌

이런 내 마음도 모르겠지

   前段时间去乐天看电影，哎，为了赶到早上的电影，一大早就爬起来，结果到电影院才发现其他人都没到~~~~~~~~~困~~~~

   本来想看《twilight》,结果没早上的，哎~~~~ 本来《地心游记》也超级想看，据说在国内上的是3D，结果一问在韩国没3D，是普通版，顿时失望~~ 没办法，只能看普通版了（看完觉得还不错，但如果是3D的话，那视觉效果应该好10倍，超级喜欢矿山车那段）~~~

   很早入场完全没事情做，结果发现《霜花店》的超级大海报，超级兴奋，马上拍了照~~

    今天无意中看到以前高中的贴吧，好怀念在南高的3年～～

    居然大家现在还在“飞纸”，好怀念啊！想起我们以前下课的时候，全校都围在走廊上把卷子、草稿纸做成纸飞机往楼下扔，呈半包围型的7层楼的走廊上密密麻麻的全是人，纸飞机漫天飞舞，这就是传说中的“六月飞雪”，超级壮观～

    这个好像是从我们那届开始的呢，现在已经成了南高的传统，虽然背学校严打中～

    还有就是晚自习下课全部人站在走廊上大叫，当时我们教室在2楼，往上望，黑压压的一片，全是人，那感觉超级震撼，好怀念啊～～

    当然这种时候教务处的老师就开始拼命抓人，赶学生，被抓住自然少不了被骂……

    现在偶尔和朋友一起回忆起高中那3年，大家还是一样激动的说，一种熟悉的感觉，仿佛才毕业……

    上次把日记翻出来，自己看都觉得超级好笑呢，以前的同学、以前