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...message that we needed to improve our software," says Pocket PC group manager Phil Holden. His new device promises better handwriting recognition than the Palm, easier-to-read text, an MP3 player, a voice recorder, a fully functional Web browser and instant access to e-mail, even for AOL users. Down the line, an experimental device called MiPad has made some promising breakthroughs in voice recognition. PDAs you talk to? Even the CEO might be able to handle that...
Helfrich, however, insists he's showing off these photographs not to boast but to document the era of free love. "At first glance you might think it's bragging, but if you read any of the text, you realize it's not." Text, for example, such as "It made her happy to give me pleasure. It made her ecstatic to pleasure me outdoors." And "I remember screwing in the ladies room at a Stuckey's." But Helfrich insists he took--and kept--these pictures not to document conquests but because of his love for photography. Says he: "I've taken...
...personal documentary, working on a project involving his current boyfriend, male friends and family. He has switched to shooting color slide film, popular with photographers due to its rich saturation of colors. At the end of the semester he plans to construct a multimedia slide show including photographs, text and music, promising that it will be powerful and emotional. Although his sexuality and gay relationship will still be the focus of the project, he reflects, "I never thought my sexuality would be so integrated into my work. I'm still kind of closeted in way, it's still very personal...
...story being told, have the first and last word over how that story is to be staged? Or does that power fall to the director, the man or woman who is to bring the playwright's story to life? Is the theater a cousin of literature, where the text retains the right of ultimate authority, or does it exist in a different realm, one where the particulars of visual experience can take precidence over the sacredness of words...
...more interesting approach can be found in some of theater's most famous theoretical literature. French playwright and critic Antonin Artaud argues in his seminal work The Theater and its Double that the theater has too long been dominated by text, the director has too long been slave to the author. Theater is not literature, he argues, and it should not pay undue homage to the authority of written words. Theater is a unique set of experiences based fundamentally in space rather than letters. As such it has a visual language all its own, a language which cannot be notated...