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Таблица Сивцева для проверки зрения (скачать и распечатать - PDF, А4) (Fri, 22 Mar 2019)
Таблица Сивцева — наиболее распространённая на территории бывшего СССР таблица, применяемая для проверки остроты зрения. Таблица названа в честь Д. А. Сивцева, советского офтальмолога (1875—1940), который разработал её в 1925 году. В этой таблице содержатся строки печатных букв (всего 12 строк + 3 дополнительных), размер букв уменьшается от строки к строке в направлении сверху вниз.
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Снова про учебники. Четырехлетний кошмар под названием «Окружающий мир» (Fri, 22 Mar 2019)
Честно скажу, данный предмет был ненавидим не только дочерью, но и мной. И, считаю, что немалую роль тут сыграл учебник, а особенно рабочие тетради к нему. Итак, «Окружающий мир». Автор учебника Плешаков А. А.
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Научить бережливости нужно смолоду (Wed, 20 Mar 2019)
В 1968 году мне стукнул 1 год и родители отвезли меня к деду с бабкой, в городе они жили на квартире, работали, по вечерам учились, а с маленьким ребенком это было тяжеловато. Но я не в обиде был, ибо дед-фронтовик любил меня сильно, порол в меру и учил уму разуму, и так безотрывно, до школы. А в школе уже, как каникулы, я сумку в зубы и к деду с бабкой на электричке, до третьего класса с кем нибудь из взрослых, а потом сам.
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Неизвестное в строении лимфатической системы (Fri, 15 Mar 2019)
Строение лимфатической системы человека долгое время казалось загадкой. Было известно, что она состоит из крупных и мелких сосудов, подобных кровеносным, и лимфатических узлов. По ним циркулирует лимфа — белесая жидкость, содержащая большое количество иммунных клеток. Переплетение этих сосудов долгое время представлялось анатомам хаотическим.
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Лимфатическая система человека и её значение. Лекция Ольги Бутаковой (Fri, 15 Mar 2019)
Лимфа — это межклеточная жидкость. Омывая клетки организма, она доставляет в них необходимые вещества, а клетки в свою очередь отдают ей все лишнее: продукты жизнедеятельности и токсины. С током лимфы по мельчайшим капиллярам, а затем по более крупным сосудам этот «мусор» поступает в своеобразные фильтры — лимфатические узлы, где в значительной степени обезвреживается.
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Русские типы на дореволюционных открытках (Fri, 15 Mar 2019)
Подборка этнографических открыток из серии «Русские типы». Были выпущены в начале 20 века. На фото представлена жизнь русской деревни, крестьянский быт, традиционная одежда.
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Общество и коллектив — главные воспитатели ребёнка (Thu, 14 Mar 2019)
Даже ряд литературных произведений и снятых в позднесоветский период художественных кинофильмов, посвященных проблеме воспитания подростков демонстрируют нам очень серьезную проблему, выглядевшую парадоксальной: в абсолютно благополучных семьях, где родители занимали высокое положение в обществе, были людьми этим обществом уважаемыми, дети вдруг переставали ценить авторитет родителей, брать с них пример и скатывались в откровенно антисоциальное поведение.
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От электромагнитного смога до электромагнитного хаоса. К оценке опасности мобильной связи для здоровья населения (Thu, 14 Mar 2019)
За последние 25 лет произошло глобальное изменение электромагнитной обстановки на Земле, связанное с широчайшим использованием беспроводной связи населением, что значительно изменило ситуацию искусственного электромагнитного загрязнения внешней среды и методологию оценки рисков для здоровья всех групп населения.
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Сказка: Кошачий кошмар наяву (Thu, 14 Mar 2019)
Сказка Кошачий кошмар наяву (в избушке Бабы-Яги). Автор Роман Седов.
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Насилие на экране провоцирует жестокость? (Wed, 13 Mar 2019)
В начале 60-х годов психолог Альберт Бандура решил выяснить, склонны ли дети имитировать агрессивное поведение взрослых. Он взял огромную надувную куклу-клоуна, которую назвал Бобо, и снял фильм, как взрослая тётя его ругает, лупит, пинает и даже бьёт молотком. Потом он показал это видео группе из 24 дошкольников. Второй группе показали видео без насилия, а третьей вообще ничего не показали.
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Filtrate (Fri, 22 Mar 2019)
Filtrate In this new project laying bare the omnipotent power of technology in our personal lives, Californian director Mishka Kornai challenges the traditional narrative short by combining it with performance art, original costume, still photography and urban exploration. The film’s leading characters are five visually unsettling non-terrestrial beings living in segregated sections of an underground bunker. Their outward appearance, which took the film’s costume team six months to build, resemble creatures made of party streamers, cardboard polyhedrons, humanoids in gilded or aristocratic dress, and a malformed quadruped with a beaded face. These extraordinary creatures’ only interactions take place on a digital interface. Using alien runes they either swipe, like, sort or rate each other from afar. “The seemingly benign and even desirable filtration of the information we consume every day is creating environments and communities that are successively smaller and more homogenous,” Kornai comments.  Filtrate’s sterile subterranean setting, shot in Montréal’s subway system, acts as a visual counterweight to the film’s kaleidoscopic grouping of characters. “Montréal’s metro system was the central inspiration for the project. The design of the costumes, the shot choices, and even the structure of the story itself were all shaped by it,” the filmmaker explains.  Kornai’s public profile rose in 2018 after directing John Legend’s music video, A Good Night, which was commended for being entirely shot on the Google Pixel 2 phone. As well as founding the LA smartphone filmmaking collective Pickpocket, Lucas continues to show his dedication to guerrilla filming projects by shooting Filtrate on an iPhone 7. The pioneering director comments, “The digital spaces we inhabit today are increasingly personalized as technology improves to serve our individual desires.”
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Portrait of a Place: Southside Forever—A Motion Picture of Black Chicago (Wed, 20 Mar 2019)
Portrait of a Place: Southside Forever—A Motion Picture of Black Chicago In a compassionate documentary on one district’s battle against violent crime, director Rodney Lucas illustrates life and death in his hometown of Chicago. Featuring the voices of community champions and activists, “this project is a reclamation of black narrativization,” the South Side Chicago native comments.  Lucas entrusts the heart of his film to the city’s residents who have often had to tolerate sensationalist or demeaning narratives promulgated by the media. Working with directors of photography Kassim Norris and Brenton Oechsle, Lucas is able to “creatively humanize the plight and delicate rawness that makes Southsiders one of the most resilient tribes in the fight against systematic oppression,” the filmmaker explains. A vox pop-style voiceover accompanies visuals that shift from abandoned retailers to a crowded barbershop, and an ostentatious Mercedes Benz to an unpretentious community church. Lucas’s film nods to the idea that the warmth and vitality of his hometown is alive in the community, and not the underfunded public infrastructure that houses them.  The multitalented creative proudly styles himself as “Director, Producer, Janitor”, having previously worked as a bathroom attendant while homeless in New York City. Lucas has dedicated his life to empowering disenfranchised communities by “capturing them with a level of sensitivity and depth not often seen in documentary,” says the director. “As a native son, Southside Forever is my soul on film,” he continues.  The film’s rhythm and tonality owes a lot to Lucas’s extensive career as a rapper under the moniker F.Stokes—historically billed alongside legendary artists Nas, Mos Def, Pusha T and Ghostface Killah. An ode to black Chicago, penned by Lucas, elevates the film’s closing scenes by extolling the virtues of Chicago’s South Side. By addressing common misguided assertions on his hometown, Lucas hopes that one day Southsiders will have the opportunity to make their excellence known.
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Baloji: Zombies (Thu, 14 Mar 2019)
Baloji: Zombies For hist latest self-direct video, Congolese-Belgian musician Baloji has created a visual declaration about the zombie-fying effects of communication technology. In this two-part music video, which he also wrote, art directed and styled, we first travel to a Kinshasa nightclub where the hypnotizing blue glow of cellphone screens compete with the dancefloor’s neon lights. Despite the presence of a playful selfie stick dance routine and comical crown forged of phones, this is a baldfaced commentary on today’s digital culture.  The Lubumbashi-born Baloji, who also produced this high-octane film, wanted to critique through satire what he calls the "self-imposed isolation"  encouraged by mobile technology. “My phone as an extension of my right hand was an interesting angle to address some of the themes that fascinate me,” he says. "We have an almost carnal relationship with our phones." Moving from the club at nighttime to the street in daytime, a pensive trash-heap merman, spirit gods made of bottle lids and condoms, and an imaginary despotic politician are just a few of the characters that make up the video’s chaotic mise-en-scène. Baloji’s seemingly eclectic music tastes collide, slide and morph into each other as Africa’s biggest influencer injects afro beat with dance and funk, while also combining traditional tribal rhythms with clickbait-worthy lyrics.  Talking about the visuals that inspired the film, Baloji explains: “I was reminded of a photograph by John Stanmeyer of migrants on a shore in Djibouti—raising their phones in the air to try and catch a signal. This picture illuminates our relationship with our phones.”  Baloji’s self-taught visual artistry earned him the Best Concert prize at the 2018 D6BELS Music Awards in Belgium. This 14-minute music video gives the multi-talented musician and artist an opportunity to breathe life into his electrifying stage performances and set design. The film's soundtrack is taken from Baloji’s 2018 album 137 Avenue Kaniama, which will be re-released by Bella Union as a one-track mixtape, called Kaniama: The Yellow Version, on May 3.
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Men of Maize (Tue, 12 Mar 2019)
Men of Maize Under the tutelage of a Guatemalan shaman, creative directors Ashley Cimone and Moya Annece and New York-based director Anthony Prince explore the steadfast preservation of Maya culture in the face of centuries of Spanish colonization.    The Brooklyn-born filmmaker—who is also a classically trained dancer—brings his love of movement and abstraction to the fore by weaving ethnographic footage of Guatemala from the 1930s to the 1980s, with like-for-like scenes of the communities who live by the country's Lake Atitlán today.   Men of Maize is a flipbook that cycles though images of Catholic paraphernalia and Mayan iconography—creating a visual allegory of how ancestral traditions are preserved through assimilation into modern life.   Shaman Luis Ricardo Ignacio Ventura, this documentary film’s spirit guide, uses the legend of Popol Vuh—the Mayan creation story about the first humans, who were made of corn—as a way to explain the unbreakable bond between the descendants of the Maya and their ancestor’s rituals.
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Katanga: The Female Slum Boxers of Kampala (Sat, 09 Mar 2019)
Katanga: The Female Slum Boxers of Kampala Directors Robert Mentov and Dwight Jantzi bring us this honest retelling of the life of Ugandan Helen Baleke and the makeshift group of girls that she trained to protect their homes in Katanga, Kampala's largest slum. After being assaulted on the way to school at the age of 16, Bakele was sent to Katanga’s Rhino Boxing Club to help her regain her confidence and learn how to protect herself. What no-one could predict however was that the gym’s leaking roof, frequent flooding and rudimentary equipment would prove no barrier to Bakele becoming Uganda’s first competitive woman boxer.  The directors, who frequently turn to analog processes to create their work, used 16mm, Hi8 and digital film while on location in Katanga, weaving between the different formats to create a series of connected impressions of the volatile yet resilient nature of everyday women. Mentov and Jantzi explain: “We spent several weeks with Bakele and the rest of the boxers in order to collaborate on a narrative level and tell the most honest story possible through their eyes.” With full-frame close-ups and aggressive competition footage, Mentov and Jantzi capture the endless fount of physical and emotional power that Bakele and her group of female boxers possess. Bakele comments: “We are mothers, we are daughters. Before we suffered but now we fight back.”
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Raw Materials: Carolee Schneemann (Fri, 08 Mar 2019)
Raw Materials: Carolee Schneemann Multidisciplinary artist Carolee Schneemann was no stranger to controversy. Actively creating work since the late 1950s, she rocked the art world with her 1964 film Meat Joy, a visceral celebration featuring half-naked dancers moving in orgiastic reverie with raw meat and fish.  Since then the Pennsylvania native has continued to break new ground across disciplines, both shocking and enrapturing audiences with her conceptually remarkable and visually compelling performance, photography, installation and video art. It will not soon be forgotten the moment in 1979 when during the performance Scroll, Schneemann pulled a text from her vagina and starting reading it out loud.  As with all her work, her paintings, which she continued to make later in life, are a cacophonous and colorful expression of the themes of freedom, desire, cosmic laughter, and the power of creative transgression; many hang or lean against surfaces in the eighteenth-century farmhouse where she lived. This is also where some of her most provocative works were either conceived or created, including Fuses (1967), a film she shot of her and partner having sex under the watchful eye of her cat, Kitch. Over the years her countryside home in Upstate New York acted as a muse of sorts for Schneemann, informing her work as well as providing a spot for her to conceptualise and create. Inspired by the ever-changing light, the seasons and landscape around her, she explains: “My job is to extract whatever is constant and accept whatever might not be my wishes.” As part of the pioneering group of feminist artists that included Judy Chicago and Rachel Rosenthal, Schneemann's legacy is far-reaching and she has inspired the likes of Cindy Sherman, Helen Chadwick, Marina Abramović, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Matthew Barney and Lady Gaga. Changing forever the perceptions of the female body and gender politics, Schneemann razed a path over the male-dominated art-establishment landscape, without asking for permission to tread.  Awarded the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Biennale in 2017, Schneemann is being much-remembered this week, as the formidable artist has passed away at the age of 79. We are proud to present her last recorded interview, this intimate profile by director Clara Cullen made earlier this year, as part of our Raw Materials series and commissioned for International Women's Day, which shows the true art legend discussing her process and the inspiration behind her work. Ananda Pellerin, Senior Editor, Nowness
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Photographers in Focus: Richard Billingham (Fri, 01 Mar 2019)
Photographers in Focus: Richard Billingham Tobacco-tinged wallpaper and battalions of porcelain dolls are some of the scenic tropes that connect Richard Billingham’s most acclaimed photographic work to his debut feature film, Ray & Liz. Most notably, the raw, polychromatic detail of his 1996 photobook Ray’s a Laugh (1996), which endeared international audiences to his post-industrial West Midlands home. Speaking of his early work, Billingham comments: “It was made in a bubble. It's got an innocence about it. Maybe one of the strengths is that innocence.” Ray & Liz is an extension of this body of work, offering a intimate look at life in the council estate of his childhood, and saw Billingham win Best Debut Director at the British Independent Film Awards 2018. For the latest episode in our Photographers In Focus series—which supports the cinematic release of Ray & Liz—director Jess Kohl gets up close and personal with Billingham. “Childhood is of real significance to him," says the UK native. "It’s a consistent theme he returns to, and aims to make sense of through his work.”  Ray & Liz not only unearths, but breathes new life into his parents' daily life, which is a recurring theme throughout his work. While touring his hometown of Cradley Heath with Kohl, Billingham expresses his desire to commit it all to screen: "It's not like my childhood was any different from other people's. There are lots of kids living in the same way, but I just wanted to show what the world looked like from somebody that had lived it.” Ray & Liz opens in London and at selected cinemas across the UK from 8 March 2019 through New Wave Films.
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Between the Clock and the Bed (Thu, 21 Feb 2019)
Between the Clock and the Bed Delve into the proto-existentialist ideas and psychological themes of Norwegian artist Edvard Munch’s work via the minds of musicians Patti Smith and Charlotte Gainsbourg. Touring an exhibition of the nineteenth-century artist's work, Between the Clock and the Bed, held at the Munch Museum in Olso, the artists take time out from their performances at the Øya Music Festival last summer to take in the 38 paintings on show. “Munch was convinced that in order to be able to fully express yourself artistically you have to be alone," says Nikita Mathias, an art historian at the Munch Museum. "You have to be an outsider, you need a certain distance to society in order to be able to describe what’s going on there.” Director Kasper Häggström explores the themes of loneliness, love, sexuality, grief and death – all major elements in Munch’s work. Working with ten performers at the 2018 Øya Music Festival in Oslo, Häggström combines guided tours of the exhibition with interviews and behind the scenes footage of the performers, drawing parallels between the work of the artist and the musicians.
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Remember the Rain (Tue, 19 Feb 2019)
Remember the Rain Add two parts Haitian spirit to one part Canadian pride, fry off garlic and diced tomatoes. Sprinkle family and friends to taste….  Montréal-born photographer Xavier Girard Lachaîne makes his directorial debut in a film revealing food as the umbilical cord connecting the Haitian community in his home city to their cultural roots in the Caribbean.   The protagonists of the fledgling director’s project are the parents of High Klassified, Shash’U and Yung Gayance—three Haitian Canadian music producers and creators shaking up Montréal's sound. Lachaîne explains: “the young, creative music scene of my generation is a melting pot, a result of the clash of past and present cultures, immigration and adaptation. I feel that we are witnessing the birth of a new wave of beautiful creators with whom I grew up.”  This film knits home recordings and interviews together in a way that makes Haitian aesthetics a pressure cooker of church mass, dance, and close-ups of steaming food and jumbled hands. In Montréal Haitian homes, nostalgia resides on the tip of the tongue—with cooking that has all the aromas of ancestral lands and zest of spirit.   Working with cinematographer Ménad Kesraoui under the collaborative name Duo Necki Tera, Lachaîne takes a full-flavored look at the histories and dinners of Haitian households that have enriched Canada and fueled the creativity of naturalised or second-generation Canadians. As reflected in the creole saying "remember the rain that made your corn grow"—from which the project takes its title—Xavier says, “My work focuses on cultural identity and the confrontation between who you think you are and where you are from.”
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Afterlight (Tue, 19 Feb 2019)
Afterlight Director Littichai Siriprasitpong collaborates with choreographer and dancer Dujdao Vadhanapakorn to create a performance piece that questions the roots of identity. Screened alongside a live performance during the Bangkok Biennale in 2018, the film explores colonial mentality and western influence in East Asia. The film is as much about the performance as it is the space: the East Asiatic Company Building is a vacant and crumbling memento marking over one hundred years of European trade and cultural influence in Thailand. Bangkok-based filmmaker Littichai comments, “in consequence of globalization and the absence of awareness of our cultural backgrounds, Thai culture is more mixed and baffled than ever.“ "My intention as a director is to be as much of an observer of the performance as possible. Ultimately, the project is to capture her performance in its truest form possible.”
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Cathedrals (Fri, 15 Feb 2019)
Cathedrals Get lost in the 2D version of a new virtual reality film by digital artist Rick Farin. Multidisciplinary artist Gaika, who provided original music for the film, is our oracle and guide, as we find ourselves on a reflective journey down a de-evolutionary path, “retracing the bell curve of technological advancements, and questioning the materiality of our devices and minds,” LA-based Farin says. Presented with a sensory-stimulating world where computer and nature are synthesized together on a cellular level, we encounter a myriad of mutated anthropological sites: the caves of Lascaux, a Gothic Cathedral, a primeval forest. “These locations have been infected by a neural-net generated virus,” Farin explains. “Trained on religious iconography and images of microchips, they have produced digital dioramas in which one can revere the symbiotic relationship between technology, thought and nature.” Farin, who has a Bachelor of Architecture from Cooper Union in New York, says that throughout his studies he was "very interested in the intersection between technology, fiction, and architecture. I was never into the making of buildings but rather the creation of cinematic, fictional worlds. Architects are all science fiction writers." He is currently taking an MA in Fiction and Entertainment at the SoutherN California Institute of Architecture, where he's working on an immersive project.   Created in association with the Royal Academy of Arts, Cathedrals is a response to Invisible Landscapes, an extensive program at the London institution’s Architecture Studio exploring experimental interventions and the impact of emerging technologies on architecture and society. As its final act, ‘Imagination’, the program will focus on the work of pioneering architectural practices—Gilles Retsin Architecture, ScanLAB Projects, Keiichi Matsuda and Soft Bodies—examining the relationship between virtual and augmented-reality technologies and physical space—how it shapes the way we look at the world around us, both now and in the near future. Invisible Landscapes is at the Royal Academy of Arts until 1 April. Dates and tickets to Gaika's Heaters 4 The 2 Seaters tour are available here.
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Private View: Doug Aitken – Don't Forget to Breathe (Thu, 14 Feb 2019)
Private View: Doug Aitken – Don't Forget to Breathe Known for his innovative installations—and the films he creates of his pieces—regular NOWNESS contributor Doug Aitken offers a view of his latest work Don’t Forget To Breathe, which is currently tucked away in a 1960s abandoned strip mall in Hollywood. The installation, on show to coincide with Frieze LA, focuses on human connection, or the lack thereof, as digital life takes over. The illuminated figures of three individuals—one standing, one sitting, one lying down—are glimpsed in empty shell of a former store, frozen as if time has stopped.  Light bounces from figure to figure, both connecting and alienating them from each other. “The atmosphere of the desolate storefront presents a possibility that a chapter of capitalism has completed its life cycle and we are entering the next era where the screen world mirrors the physical one,” says California-based Aitken. "The artwork explores the juxtaposition of the physical landscape and the light speed technological connectivity we now live in." Don’t Forget To Breathe is on view until 17 February 2019, at 6775 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles
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LoveSick: Maverick (Thu, 14 Feb 2019)
LoveSick: Maverick Australian-born, US-based director Cara Stricker’s latest film centers on a girl experiencing the heartbreaking dissociation of destructive love and gaslighting—the term that's come to mean a form of intimidation or abuse that causes a victim to question their own instincts and sanity. Model Abbey Lee plays Maverick, a woman on the edge of sanity who is forced to confront herself and her femininity to see beyond her ex-lover's manipulation, played by actor Rhys Coiro (The Walking Dead). Speaking about the project, Stricker says she is driven by a desire to ensure "a generation of women see themselves represented in film," showcasing the "strong and complicated individual characters they are. Through Maverick I hope to create and share an intimate portrait of what it means to be female—to create a dialogue about gender, identity and art."
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