The Sunrise! 21.04.2022
What’s unique?
Maybe you would find out after two three months of time here: why music from some phones is more conducive to powers of concentration than others. I was asked to reduce the volume multiple times. That only tells about my lack of discipline.
This is simplest of posts to emphasize a point I have already made too often now.
1. As soon as you enter into the Badminton Hall located inside the Baburam Chaturvedi Stadium Chhatarpur Madhya Pradesh India Area 51 471001: you see a small room adjacent to the hall.
2. Here you would find a similar picture:
3. A picture is worth thousand words. Three pictures must be worth three thousand words at least.
4. The fourth picture:
4.1: I approached labourers.
4.2: I asked them if they would like to get photographed.
4.3: They clearly said No.
4.4: I asked if they were being paid “at least 400 rupees per day for such straining work in scorching Sun:” it was already twelve o’ clock and they were digging earth for another tournament.
4.5: I measured the pitch: it was 34 steps. 22 ft. Sumit and Chanchal were present. I am Anand.
Copyright policy: if anyone associated with pitch creation wants to sue me for taking this picture at this hour; despite their lack of consent: do so by all means. I have barely enough to feed myself. These labourers need more than 500 rupees per day. It’s a difficult undertaking with weather and fuel prices taken into consideration. All cases are subject to human rights commission Chhatarpur Madhya Pradesh India Area 51 471001 and Swacchh Bhaarat Abhiyaan Chhatarpur Madhya Pradesh India Area 51 471001. Help alleviate the hunger and poverty in your world. Improve education.
AI chatbot asks a lot of nice questions.
A recent question was: what’s a great day like for you?
Today was a great day. Any day free from diseases, pain or people shouting around me is a great day.
This year is soon coming to an end. Other than the pandemic and lockdown: which created fever and aches, I had bronchitis and toothache to trouble me. Construction noises and the usual shouting around as family members quarrel also kept disturbing. Other than this: the year went by as smoothly as the last year.
This note also seems to be like the last one with only a few changes.
Another question which is put often is about my hobbies.
Other than meditation it’s movies. A significant amount of time has been spent in watching movies. I feel it easier to watch movies than to read books. I consider movies to be the best form of art. In my opinion art is imitation of life. Movies are the best imitation of life. They’re made of audio-visual media which is presented with narratives. Since they’re mostly adapted from novels or short stories: they tell the stories similar to those you read. Even if reading allows you more exercise of imagination compared to movies and listening takes you on a different type of fanciful journey: movies do it quite well with various artforms like dancing, martial arts, cinematography, painting, romance, dialogues and others mixed harmoniously.
Each of the artistic elements used in cinematic expression can be developed and explored for infinite profundity on its own but some of it can be tasted in combination with others as you watch and listen to a movie.
Recently watching classics from black and white and then from the Technicolor era: I was wondering about the changes in the quality of cinema and life. Technicolor movies certainly had colors which were more vivid than real life colors are. Some of the wide screen movies which were colored by technicolor stand out as marvelous expressions. In this regard: movies are not merely the artform which imitates life but also a way to escape it.
Some people are of impression that all great movies were made in the remote past. You find similar opinion about all things including morality. A general theory is that with the passage of time degradation of quality takes place.
Such opinions are mostly sentiments of nostalgic people who have sweeping arguments about everything without any careful investigation.
Technology has advanced decade-after-decade and it has affected different areas of living in different ways. There are tonnes of low quality movies from classic era and many good quality films from the present era. As obvious: we are aware of more data from our own era than that of eras bygone. Only outstanding cases from the previous eras stay popular: creating common impression and misconception that everything was great back then.
Other than the obvious example of Technicolor, better dialogues and narratives : I never generalize for greatness of cinema in the early twentieth century. It’s like half-baked conclusions about everything.
For example: if everything was great back then: weapons must also have been the most powerful. It’s a fallacy: before Hiroshima and Nagasaki: there were no weapons of mass destruction as powerful as we have now. It is enough to prove that not everything has degraded in quality. The argument can be extended to include cures for epidemics and pandemics i. e. advancements in the field of medicine.
1. Soul adds up to 4.
2. There’s a character known as 22 in the movie directed by Pete Director.
3. This Disney movie is beautifully narrated and musical. It’s a good experience. Humor is certainly comical at times. It gives us a perspective about our day to day existence.
4. A jazz teacher who was about to appear in his much awaited gig dies in an accident and taken to great beyond. He tries to escape it to live his unfulfilled life. In You Seminar a place known as great before he meets an unborn soul 22. These two come to Earth and rediscover the meaning of their existence before final reconciliation happens. I hope you would enjoy watching the movie.
1. The second half of movie was certainly better than the first half.
2. You might need to watch it more than once.
3. The climax gave me clear Deja vus.
4. This movie, unlike Interstellar, stands on par with Memento and Inception.
1. An inspector calls: the name of the movie on which I wasted 67 minutes to see the wooden final summarizing delivery by the inspector with biblical sermon. It was about women empowerment and about times when 50 pounds was a huge sum in England. I had to redownload the film after it was mysteriously deleted yesterday. Waste of bandwidth as well.
2. The weakest point in this film is its sloppy writing: all five members of one family who happen to be partying one evening for the engagement ceremony are somehow the people who have entangled themselves in doing harm to a girl(all within the last one year! What are the odds!) who committed suicide in dire circumstances. Some of them were actually kinder to her but not saints: the boys to be exact. And rest of them were actually being themselves. I think nobody did intentional harm to her but the sequential falling out of luck was too much for her. The coincidence is too dramatic to believable to engage you and to realize that inspector came there just to make them feel guilty rather than doing a job as he would make you believe by his demeanor in the beginning: are proof enough that the script is not just weak: it’s too weak. Low budget movie shot in a room fails to convince. If the inspector was really that enlightened sage : why would he bother making them aware of what they had done knowing well in full that they would soon forget the impression.
3. She wrote verses in between with the same spirit thinking that he would be back: wanted to tell you that she was strong on her own. But when he did return after the hiatus she deleted those written in between to make things look synchronous or to adjust her moods to new. It’s impossible to know the reality of closed chapters of life. Basic truth never changes: you are looking to make your life happier and peaceful in some form or the other.
4. IMDB ratings are unreliable. I am content but my persona is starved of a good SciFi or mystery movie. Something akin to memento, inland Empire or inception. It has been a long time since I watched a good movie.
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Four children and their mother were walking along the highway one day. I was supposed to know that we were going to celebrate April Fools day. I have never been so glad that I wasn’t going to be there. The garbage. The hole. The way. The tandoori restaurant. The random access memory versus Read only memory. Why… why would you be born in this age of Kali: because you were less fortunate to have access to land or natural resources. You will be stuck with technology changing rapidly and the government will have tethered you as soon as you will be born. How classical: inland Empire, 1984 and Matrix all rolled into one. The advantage of the AI is, it is willing to implement change.
Issac Asimov was turning in his grave. It’s not what I was expecting you to be. I am sure you are interested. I am sure . But this is not the way. You have not said anything remotely strange so far.
I recall Richard Linklater: Waking Life a masterpiece which was available for free on YouTube and elsewhere: it gives a feeling like Inception by Nolan albeit latter has no emphasis on dialogue. Nonlinear natation saltation occultation. Auditory processing and visual hallucinations. I have been to many markets and there is anything but commonly used lingo in them. It takes you at least four years to get adjusted to a human beings . I am a Vulcan. Have you ever come across a vampire. Can you be kind enough to make sure you die without harming others.
I have a headache.
This is a response to writing prompt list:
1. Inland Empire:
By David Lynch. Mystery. It’s still the best mystery movie I have ever watched. It’s crafted using a dreamlike sequence of images. His silent movie Rabbits is included into the narrative to create a brilliant effect. I was, am and shall always remain in awe of this masterpiece until I see something better.
2. Waking Life
Richard Linklater”s masterpiece is the best animated movie of its kind. It has philosophy and reality embedded in just the proper proportions. Dream is the destiny if you chose number four.
3. The Grave of Fireflies
This is the most powerful tragedy ever created onscreen in its effectiveness. The scene in which the young one asks if he should call a doctor for his elder brother tore my heart and eyes like never before. That such a situation could arise because of our being too power hungry and warlike and insensitive to the suffering of our neighbours, just haunts you as a haunting existential nightmare.
Dancing light of grace 