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Op de vierde donderdag van november, gisteren dus, vieren de Amerikanen Thanksgiving Day: een reden om grote afstanden af te leggen teneinde met de verenigde familie kalkoen en pecantaart te eten. Maar die volksverhuizing is nog niets vergeleken bij Chinees Nieuwjaar, doorgaans in onze maand februari. Er vindt dan een ware veldslag plaats om treinkaartjes, want de naar schatting 130 miljoen plattelandsbewoners, die in de grote steden spijkerbroeken stikken en anderszins de kost verdienen, willen dan allemaal tegelijk naar huis.

De documentaire Last Train Home van de Canadees-Chinese cameraman-regisseur Lixin Fan, begint met een fascinerend beeld van een massa met gekleurde paraplu’s op het stationplein van Guangzhou, het oude Kanton. Treinreizen is in China altijd een licht chaotische activiteit, maar het duwen en trekken, de door politiemannen uit de mêlee bevrijde vertrapten, het gezeul met wat bij ons wel bekend staat als ‘turkentassen’: de film laat het allemaal in extenso zien.

When we tell you that there are teaching moments in every film that could get a conversation started about science, we really do mean every film. We can prove it too. We’re not afraid to put our money where our mouth is: HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE. Here’s a film about magic that takes place in a fantastical land where anything seems possible and Muggle science feels misguided and trivial… or so you thought. Dr. Roger Highfield, the Science Editor of The Daily Telegraph and BBC Commentator, wrote a book in 2002 called The Science of Harry Potter that covers many of the “teaching moments” that could get a conversation started using the brilliant world of J.K. Rowling.

A voodoo doll must find the courage to save his friends from being pinned to death.

Canon’s much-ballyhooed but not universally welcomed 5D Mark II also (and this is a new thing for SLRs) operates as a high-def videocam. There are two videos linked from The Online Photographer and they are mind-bogglingly, jaw-droppingly beautiful. But it won’t work for you. The pictures you take with this camera will almost certainly look great with little effort, while your videos will require huge effort and probably still end up lousy.

It's more than that: His team of engineers and scientists have created the first digital movie camera that matches the detail and richness of analog film. The Red One records motion in a whopping 4,096 lines of horizontal resolution—"4K" in filmmaker lingo—and 2,304 of vertical. For comparison, hi-def digital movies like Sin City and the Star Wars prequels top out at 1,920 by 1,080, just like your HDTV.

Michael Wesch is a cultural anthropologist and media ecologist exploring the impacts of new media on human interaction.

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