Michael Kohlhaas is a creaking, unyielding historical horse-opera that finds Mads Mikkelsen jutting his chin and staring endlessly into the middle distance as the resolute leader of a peasant revolt.
We've spent the past couple weeks staring endlessly into the trippy-ass beauty of Friends in Paris' video for "Waiting".
While staring endlessly at the stars, the spacecraft navigation camera caught high-speed dust particles smashing into its nearly 30-foot-long solar panels — allowing the researchers to study these tiny space missiles.
I think about all the scientists dedicating their lives to "figuring out the great frontier" and staring endlessly with new and improved equipment at the vastness, just hoping for a "sign of life".
With kids busy running to class, staring endlessly at computer screens studying or training hard for their school's athletics program, thinking about maintaining good eye health and safety may not be a top priority in their minds.
The press corps is seated at rows of "writing stations" up in the loge seats — reporters with heads bent over their Blackberrys, endlessly scrolling through messages, or staring at laptop screens and surfing the Web to take in the convention coverage of other news sites, some of it probably written by reporters three rows down, who are also scrolling and staring and surfing.
Like one of those recursive Escher drawings where a picture keeps on endlessly repeating itself like a mirror staring at itself in the mirror.
While video has been dramatically rising in popularity over the past few years, many users' primary form of content consumption has involved staring at a screen, scrolling endlessly down a newsfeed or reading endless threads of forum comments.
Lunchtimes can become a lonely affair, staring at your plate or endlessly rereading the text on your obligatory milk carton, and in the lab, where friendly banter eases the tedium of repetitive tasks, it might take some time to adjust to a solitary linguistic existence.
But the pantheistic moment was back when computing meant staring at blinking cursors and waiting endlessly for a line of teletype to start appearing, like Matthew Broderick in "WarGames," and it was before virtually all of commerce moved online and the Web became the digital mall without borders that it is today.
