Friday, September 16

Timothy L. Parrish - From Hoover's FBI to Eisenstein's Unterwelt: DeLillo Directs the Postmodern Novel - Modern Fiction Studies 45:3: DeLillo's readers thus find themselves in a critical bind. On the one hand, they delight in the virtuosity of his multimedia mimicry--his ability to transmit a range of media forms through his narratives seriatim. That the very success of his narrative mimicry leads readers to worry that he is an impersonator co-opted by the narrative forms that he replays suggests how difficult it is for DeLillo to succeed in being both innovative and in control of his fiction. 2 Confronted with a demanding and difficult writer like DeLillo, critics have understandably called upon influential postmodern theorists--Jean Baudrillard, Paul de Man, Gilles Deleuze, Linda Hutcheon, Fredric Jameson, and Hayden White--to provide a vocabulary for addressing the intellectual problems raised by DeLillo's fiction. 3
Timothy L. Parrish - From Hoover's FBI to Eisenstein's Unterwelt: DeLillo Directs the Postmodern Novel - Modern Fiction Studies 45:3: DeLillo's readers thus find themselves in a critical bind. On the one hand, they delight in the virtuosity of his multimedia mimicry--his ability to transmit a range of media forms through his narratives seriatim. That the very success of his narrative mimicry leads readers to worry that he is an iPublish PostPublish Postmpersonator co-opted by the narrative forms that he replays suggests how difficult it is for DeLillo to succeed in being both innovative and in control of his fiction. 2 Confronted with a demanding and difficult writer like DeLillo, critics have understandably called upon influential postmodern theorists--Jean Baudrillard, Paul de Man, Gilles Deleuze, Linda Hutcheon, Fredric Jameson, and Hayden White--to provide a vocabulary for addressing the intellectual problems raised by DeLillo's fiction. 3

Wednesday, September 14

How to you flatten a page out of a reading book if it's had water damage? - Yahoo! Answers: rewet the page, wipe the access water with a paper towel but let the page remain damp, close the book, and then put the book under something very heavy, leave it for about a day. this will cause the pages to redry and reform flat.

Tuesday, September 13

Salvaging Bad Audio: Unintelligible Speech

You first need to determine if you're a victim of Bad Recording Techniques. Poor microphone choice or bad mic placement can leave you with an audio track that's muffled or indistinct. The use of a camera-mounted microphone can result in the same symptoms. Happily, this is the easiest problem to fix, perhaps requiring only the judicious use of equalization and volume control to reduce the level of noise. Boosting frequencies around 2.5 KHz for men and 3.5 KHz for women with EQ will make the spoken word louder and will help it to cut through. Boosting frequencies around 6 KHz will increase sibilance (the "ssss" sounds in speech) and intelligibility, but it may also increase background noise and hiss, so a light touch is required.