Sentences with phrase «black monolith in»

Africa has had a rare yet distinct place in popular science - fiction, from the opening scenes of Stanley Kubrick's iconic 2001: A Space Odyssey, depicting the mysterious appearance of a black monolith in the cradle of civilization, to the recent success of Neill Blomkamp's debut movie District 9, a multi-layered allegory on South Africa's recent internal and external tensions.

Not exact matches

He correctly points out that the Miami Cubans represent no monolith - they are too often portrayed in the media as knee - jerk anti-Communist Republicans - but he fails to grasp fully the community's views on a whole range of pressing social matters, including its relations with blacks, whites, Haitians, and recent Central - American immigrants.

Their bus windows were blacked out, so the bus looked like the monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey, just this black blob on four wheels, and people were running, like the apes in the movie, just wanting to touch it.

The fantastic narrative structure jumps from a pre-historic era, when apes first discovered using bones as tools and as weapons, to a futuristic space - age when man discovers proof of intelligent alien life in the form of a gigantic black monolith on the moon.

In 2001, a similar black monolith has been found beneath the moon's surface.

A giant black monolith, also discovered on Earth by the protohumans earlier in the film, looms in this crater.

We are to rediscover this black monolith again in the film.

As digital and virtual networks infiltrate our everyday lives and subjective experiences, our relationship with technology manifests less as the fear of invasion by mysterious foreign forces, and more as an intimate grappling with newly mediated realities of time, space, and interpersonal relationships — i.e., less as the black monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey, and more as the metaphorical «black mirror,» the small, hyperconnected screen prone to catching us in moments of accidental self - contemplation.

In ratifying a resolution to issue a moratorium on charter schools, the NAACP — despite its storied history of defending the civil rights of black and brown people in America — has made the same mistake that the majority has made about us for years: Assuming (wrongly) that black folks are a monolitIn ratifying a resolution to issue a moratorium on charter schools, the NAACP — despite its storied history of defending the civil rights of black and brown people in America — has made the same mistake that the majority has made about us for years: Assuming (wrongly) that black folks are a monolitin America — has made the same mistake that the majority has made about us for years: Assuming (wrongly) that black folks are a monolith.

Here in Brazil, ereaders are not a black monolith but are still a very uncommon piece of hardware.

12th August 2014 - Today, Warner Brothers and Monolith Productions released a brand new Shadow of Mordor Story Trailer in which Talion sets out to rage war against Sauron's servants, The Black Captains, who... Read More

In recent years, Whitten's best known body of work has been the ongoing Black Monoliths series, begun in the 90s, which uses acrylic and mixed medium to create mosaics of black artists, writers, and political thinkers such as Jacob Lawrence and Malcolm In recent years, Whitten's best known body of work has been the ongoing Black Monoliths series, begun in the 90s, which uses acrylic and mixed medium to create mosaics of black artists, writers, and political thinkers such as Jacob Lawrence and MalcoBlack Monoliths series, begun in the 90s, which uses acrylic and mixed medium to create mosaics of black artists, writers, and political thinkers such as Jacob Lawrence and Malcolm in the 90s, which uses acrylic and mixed medium to create mosaics of black artists, writers, and political thinkers such as Jacob Lawrence and Malcoblack artists, writers, and political thinkers such as Jacob Lawrence and Malcolm X.

In this session, Faith Smith (Associate Professor of African and Afro - American Studies and English) will discuss Jack Whitten's Black Monolith VIII (for Maya Angelou)(2015), acquired by the museum in 201In this session, Faith Smith (Associate Professor of African and Afro - American Studies and English) will discuss Jack Whitten's Black Monolith VIII (for Maya Angelou)(2015), acquired by the museum in 201in 2016.

WHITTEN OFTEN GAVE REVERANCE to African American intellectuals and cultural figures in his work, including his mentors for whom he made «A Salute To Norman Lewis in Red, Black, Green» (1980), «Spiral: A Dedication to R. Bearden» (1988), and «Black Monolith IV For Jacob Lawrence» (2001).

This one looked like the black monolith that was dropped from the sky in the opening sequence of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, and I asked: «What's that?»

Six Columns (2006) by John McCracken is a grid of gleaming black pillars based on a drawing from the 1970s; while Untitled (yellow)(1966), by his contemporary Robert Grosvenor, suspends a similar minimalist monolith in mid-air.

The relationship between the self - portraits from primeval forests and the «Prism» of human civilization may have similarity with the tension depicted in the scene where the black geometrical monolith appears in front of people and animals in the natural scenery in the movie «2001: A Space Odyssey».

Also included in the show, which travels to the Metropolitan Museum of Art later this year, are works from Whitten's «Black Monoliths» paintings series, which pay homage to Ralph Ellison, W. E. B. DuBois, and others through abstract portraits.

In the 1990s, Whitten concertedly separates figure and ground through color, as is evident in Black Monolith II and VibrationIn the 1990s, Whitten concertedly separates figure and ground through color, as is evident in Black Monolith II and Vibrationin Black Monolith II and Vibrations.

This painting, part of Whitten's «Black Monolith» series, honors Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man, a book that parallels a story of a young black man's search for identity with «the struggle of the nation to define itself in the tumultuous years of the early Civil Rights Movement.&rBlack Monolith» series, honors Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man, a book that parallels a story of a young black man's search for identity with «the struggle of the nation to define itself in the tumultuous years of the early Civil Rights Movement.&rblack man's search for identity with «the struggle of the nation to define itself in the tumultuous years of the early Civil Rights Movement.»

22 Here, as in the case of his Ralph Ellison homage, Black Monolith II, Whitten's effort to represent visual elements of his experience comes in the form of a stark separation between figure and ground.

In Black Monolith V: Full Circle (2014), Whitten honors the writer Amiri Baraka, whose work addresses topics like black liberation and white raBlack Monolith V: Full Circle (2014), Whitten honors the writer Amiri Baraka, whose work addresses topics like black liberation and white rablack liberation and white racism.

Kara Walker's racially charged gouaches in sepia tinged hues act as a sarcastically delicate counterbalance to Terence Koh's white chocolate monoliths; Tino Sehgal's harmonic narrative «This Is Propaganda,» performed by a female guard, adds an air of the ethereal to an otherwise politically heavy - handed section of the exhibition; artist team Tim Noble and Sue Webster's «Black Narcissus» (2006) draws us back into the corporeal with their penile and phalange inflected shadow - cast portraiture; and Cindy Sherman's work from the early 80s shocks with its carnal ferocity.

In an adjoining space, Naama Tsabar installed Closer, a white monolith with an embedded microphone and cello that is played by reaching one's arm inside of the wall cavity, and the black and bordeaux variations of her Robert Morris-esque felt / carbon paintings, which are fitted with guitar strings (and hooked to amps).

Artists Conversations: Bradford Young by Sara Salovaara BOMB Magazine «Black Nationalism, rural Brooklyn, faces, and monoliths» encapsulates the subjects and symbols of filmmaker Bradford Young «s «Bynum Cutler,» a three - screen video installation on view at Bethel Tabernacle AME Church, the «God» in the recent exhibition «Funk, God, Jazz, and Medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn.»

IN ADDITION TO SHOWCASING HIS SCULPTURES, «Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1963 - 2016» will unite for the first time the artist's celebrated Black Monolith series, works that pay tribute to black cultural figures such as W.E.B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, John Coltrane, Ralph Ellison, and fellow artist Jacob LawrBlack Monolith series, works that pay tribute to black cultural figures such as W.E.B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, John Coltrane, Ralph Ellison, and fellow artist Jacob Lawrblack cultural figures such as W.E.B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, John Coltrane, Ralph Ellison, and fellow artist Jacob Lawrence.

Jack Whitten, 1939 - 2018 Black Monolith, II: Homage To Ralph Ellison The Invisible Man, 1994 Acrylic and mixed media on canvas: molasses, copper, salt, coal ash, chocolate, onion, herbs, rust, eggshell, razor blade 58 x 52 in

I have just completed another in my series of Black Monolith paintings, this one honors the rock n» roll master, Chuck Berry.

Some monkey hits another on the head with a leg bone, and jumps up and down in front of a strange, black monolith, and wallah!

There's an old joke that all phones now are «big black slabs» that simply aspire to look like the monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

In addition to an OLED display, the device is said to have a 5.8 - inch screen that will make it look like «a smooth black monolith,» with very few visual interruptions to its design.