Catching up with this gaudily eccentric space opera months after its commercial cremation, I'm not remotely surprised by its failure, but I was unexpectedly beguiled by the film's obsessive world building and a rogue streak of romanticism that I wouldn't trade for a dozen stencil-cut Marvel movies.
Aurore is experienced and slightly obsessive about building tech businesses, either as a cofounder or investor.
As an act of obsessive world-building, closely imagined, scholarly, dense, scrupulous, it's hard to think of anything comparable to it other than J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle Earth.
We were grateful to receive early funding from the eScience project ("Molecular Standards for the Grid"[7]) but have been somewhat frustrated by the top-heavy concentration on CPU performance, bulk storage of un-semantic data and almost obsessive concentration on building middleware.
As the last episode of the season nears, let's hope for a new relevance for the thus-far underused Ghost Army, perhaps, or a destiny for Wyatt's cult beyond Ford's obsessive story-line-building, or the reappearance of sidelined characters like Dolores's father, Lee Sizemore, or Armistice, the woman bandit with the serpent tattoo.
TheSkimm founders Danielle Weisberg and Carly Zakin talked about building an obsessive audience.
9 25 AM – 9 45 AM Coming Soon! 9 45 AM – 10 05 AM Building an Obsessive Audience with Danielle Weisberg and Carly Zakin (theSkimm).
At first it does not seem to make sense that an artist who began with the collective, improvisatory and ephemeral medium of Happenings should devote himself to anything as exacting or obsessive as the invention and building of these familiar yet freakish quasi-functional sculptures.
Especially in its outstanding catalog, this exhibition delivers everything anyone could want to know abut the relatively invisible, characteristically obsessive subculture of female body-building.
