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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

130.

This is a 2007 science fiction film about a retiring University Professor who claims to be a cro-magnon who has survived for 14,000 years. The entire film is set in the professor's house during his farewell party, with the plot advancing through intellectual arguments between Oldman and his fellow faculty members.

The film was made on a budget of $200,000, and was screened at many film festivals. However something related to the distribution of the film is unique, with the producers actually thanking a particular community/group. What is unique?

Answer(Highlight):
Film producer Eric D. Wilkinson thanked users of BitTorrent, who distributed the movie without express permission, saying that it has lifted the profile of the film beyond the financier's expectations, while encouraging fans to buy DVDs or donate.

Saturday, December 8, 2012

129.

This is a picturization of a particular phrase, popularized by Stephen Hawking. Other metaphors describing the circular cause and consequence of the same problem are the "chicken and egg " problem and the Munchausen Trilemma. 

Some space above the topmost turtle has been blanked out. Give funda.


  

128. Tribute to Brazil's Le Corbusier

Who wrote this:

I am not attracted to straight angles or to the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. I am attracted to free-flowing, sensual curves. The curves that I find in the mountains of my country, in the sinuousness of its rivers, in the waves of the ocean, and on the body of the beloved woman. Curves make up the entire Universe, the curved Universe of Einstein.


Answer(Highlight):
Oscar Niemeyer