You know
how in every period piece these days there's that CGI shot of the city in ye olde times, with mud streets and famous buildings under construction and smoke rising from chimneys and old fashioned carriages and steam boats on the river?
Not exact matches
Wade Roush over at Xconomy had an insightful
piece recently on
how we're
in a lull
period.
«I can not see
how a $ 10,000 investment held over a 10 - year
period could incur $ 2,300
in transactions - tax charges if the transactions tax were set at 0.1 % per trade, as stipulated
in Davidoff's
piece.
You can figure out the three most important
pieces of information gathered by timing contractions:
how long the contractions last,
how far apart they are, and what type of rest
period you have
in - between the contractions.
To determine
how SGD affects these processes, the research team outplanted small
pieces of lobe coral on the reef flat
in areas with a range of SGD and measured the changes
in size over a six - month
period.
There's much discussion about
how the film is supposedly a game changer,
how it's more
in tune with the current zeitgeist as opposed to the traditional narrative strengths and linearity of a
period piece like The King's Speech.
It's been quite awhile since a broadcast network has managed to sell viewers on a
period piece set prior to the 20th century, so the fact that ABC is even considering this series, which takes place
in 1895 and revolves around the first luxury hotel
in New York, is proof of
how much pull executive producer Shonda Rhimes has with the American Broadcasting Company.
You won't find much subtlety
in the solid
period -
piece drama «Marshall,» but you will find plenty of crowd - pleasing courtroom theatrics, some wonderful performances from the main players — and yes, all sorts of reminders of
how far we've come
in terms of race relations since the early 1940s, and
how very, very far we still have to go.
James Badge Dale, Ethan Embry and William Forsythe lead the cast
in this morally conflicted
period piece which yearns to reminds us
how wonderful the western genre is, but ultimately finds itself lost on the frontier.
Who we want to win: Though it could be a close one between Tim Burton's cinematic realization of the beloved stage show Sweeney Todd and the staid
period piece Atonement
in the category of Best Costume Design, there's no getting around
how much we're still thrilled by Burton's wacky designs after all these years.
Thus, for Parker's defining installation of the suspended fragments of a blown - up shed, Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View (1991), we're given both a personal and a political context behind the
piece: the effect on the artist of living
in London during a
period of IRA bomb threats; her initially ambivalent attitude towards the army — whom she subsequently worked with to blow up the shed — and
how she felt about the event itself.
We have years of expertise
in how best to restore
period pieces, please do get
in touch if you would like to discuss a project.