Inferno (pronounced [inˈfɛrno]; Italian for "Hell") is the first part of Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem Divine Comedy. It is followed by Purgatorio and Paradiso. The Inferno tells the journey of Dante through Hell, guided by the ancient Roman poet Virgil. In the poem, Hell is depicted as nine circles of suffering located within the Earth; it is the "realm...of those who have rejected spiritual values by yielding to bestial appetites or violence, or by perverting their human intellect to fraud or malice against their fellowmen."[1] As an allegory, the Divine Comedy represents the journey of the soul toward God, with the Inferno describing the recognition and rejection of sin.[2] - Wikipedia
Today's Hyperallergic article, Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Otherworldly Photographs of Movie Theaters was received with much interest. It begins :
The question that Hiroshi Sugimoto asked himself in 1976, as a 28-year-old photographer influenced by Zen Buddhism, sounded a bit like a koan: What happens if you shoot a whole movie in a single frame? To discover the answer, he smuggled a large-format camera into the rundown St. Marks Cinema in Manhattan’s East Village and set it up at the back of the theater. The exposure time was the full length of the film; the only light used was that from the running projector. The resulting photograph gave him the answer he wanted: The gleaming white screen looked like a portal to another dimension.
The day delivers what the day delivers. Following on from the previous post, from the Chordettes of TAR to Hakuin, to the TARettes, today we've been recalling certain ushers and usherettes from the picture theatres of 1950s and 60s Bendigo - the Lyric, the Princess and the Plaza.
Plaza, Bendigo (1938)
'Plaza Jack' (Jack Campbell), with his braces and torch, often seen riding his simple old bicycle to and from work, was the best known of these local cinema guides.
Princess Theatre, Bendigo "...was compared to Melbourne's finest theatres and even the theatres of Drury Lane in London. But in 1963, after being sold to American Oil Company Amoco, it was torn down to make way for a service station and car park."
Just a few years later, your correspondent also achieved that inner admission, as a 35mm film projectionist.
P.T. -1966-
Theatre of the Actors of Regard
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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something... LOGOS/HA HA
Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun. (1968)
The theme du jour continues through to midnight when SBS screens the Danny Boyle sci-fi sun-seekin' thriller Sunshine. Quite a 24 hour ride!
Theatre of the Actors of Regard
detail
A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something... LOGOS/HA HA
