Poetry of Ideas: The Films of Charles Eames

Schrader, Paul

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“…Do we trust that our sampling is statistically reliable? There is a famous physics film developed by the former editor of Scientific American Phillip Morrison along with the famous husband-wife team of designers, Charles and Ray Eames, entitled Powers of Ten [17]. The movie starts with a couple having a picnic in Grant Park in Chicago near the shore of Lake Michigan.…”

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Space: The Re-Visioning Frontier of Biological Image Analysis with Graph Theory, Computational Geometry, and Spatial Statistics

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Every biological image contains quantitative data that can be used to test hypotheses about how patterns were formed, what entities are associated with one another, and whether standard mathematical methods inform our understanding of biological phenomena. In particular, spatial point distributions and polygonal tessellations are particularly amendable to analysis with a variety of graph theoretic, computational geometric, and spatial statistical tools such as: Voronoi polygons; Delaunay triangulations; perpendicular bisectors; circumcenters; convex hulls; minimal spanning trees; Ulam trees; Pitteway violations; circularity; Clark-Evans spatial statistics; variance to mean ratios; Gabriel graphs; and, minimal spanning trees. Furthermore, biologists have developed a number of empirically related correlations for polygonal tessellations such as: Lewis’s law (the number of edges of convex polygons are positively correlated with the areas of these polygons): Desch’s Law (the number of edges of convex polygons are positively correlated with the perimeters of these polygons); and Errara’s Law (daughter cell areas should be roughly half that of their parent cells’ areas). We introduce a new Pitteway Law that the number of sides of the convex polygons in a Voronoi tessellation of biological epithelia is proportional to the minimal interior angle of the convex polygons as angles less than 90 degrees result in Pitteway violations of the Delaunay dual of the Voronoi tessellation.

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“…This form of addressing the viewer is described by the American film director Paul Schrader as 'information-overload' where the viewer is given more information than she can possibly process. 23 This effect -as has already been mentionedis the consequence of an editing process, which in the case of House: After Five Years of Living is executed by both, the 'fast cutting' technique and the 'dissolves'.…”

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“…Commissioned first by the University of Georgia Art Programme and developed later by the Engineering School at the UCLA, the purpose of this course was to reduce the gap between different disciplines. 34 The course employed new learning techniques, which delivered the highest amount of information to the audience in the minimum time possible. 35 The Eameses, Nelson, and Girard developed a complex system of presentation in which film was complemented by other types of information, such as narration, slides, graphic panels, music, and even smells injected inside the room [5].…”

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Screening House: film and material representations of the Cold War’s anxieties

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2022

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In 1955 Charles and Ray Eames gathered more than three hundred photographs of their Case Study House #8 in the Pacific Palisades to produce the experimental film House: After Five Years of Living. The film is a visual exploration in which craft and found objects contrast with the mass-produced industrial structure of their house, but also a constant tension between the frantic acceleration of its images and moments of slow pace.Proceeding from a close reading of House: After Five Years of Living, this article analyses its film and editing technique to proposes how domesticity becomes a screen. This means, an ideological surface promoting the cultural, social, and economic changes of the Cold War period, while simultaneously screening out (obscuring) its anxieties, preoccupations, and fears in its mode of visual representation. In the film, the Case study House #8 exposes and covers, promotes and disguises, veiling some preoccupations and motivations while exhibiting an alternative reality.

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“…It won an award at the 1954 Edinburgh International Film Festival, and has been categorized as one of their ''toy films'', 3 where they focused on and respected everyday, often overlooked subjects, for what they were, whether machine or craft based. In some ways they have been seen as working as scientists, with a sort of sophisticated play method.…”

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Intensification and Intimacy

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2009

Architectural Theory Review

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Poetry of Ideas: The Films of Charles Eames

Cited by 13 publications

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Space: The Re-Visioning Frontier of Biological Image Analysis with Graph Theory, Computational Geometry, and Spatial Statistics

Space: The Re-Visioning Frontier of Biological Image Analysis with Graph Theory, Computational Geometry, and Spatial Statistics

Screening House: film and material representations of the Cold War’s anxieties

Intensification and Intimacy

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