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ENTERTAINMENTpage 17 Technique • Friday, October 6, 2006 • 17 ENGINEERING ETHICS? THE BIGGESET LOSERS Caroline Whitbeck visited campus Oct 7. marks the 90th anniversary ENTERTAINMENT to discuss the role of ethics in the of the legendary 222-0 football engineering world. Page11 game against Cumberland. Page 27 Technique • Friday, October 6, 2006 EEL V R R E I E W S Kutcher delivers action- Image courtesy of Warner Independent Pictures’ Many of the scenes of Michel Gondry’s new film, The Science of Sleep, packed thrills in Guardian take place in the dreams of Stephane, (Gael Garcia Bernal). By Beena Bhuiyan-Khan Despite the initial bumpy relation- swimmer. One has the opportunity Contributing Writer ship with his trainer, both he and to witness the vast amount of physi- The Science of Sleep Randall develop a mentor-mentee cal, mental and emotional strength Get ready to delve into a world relationship after they find out that needed to be part of the CGRS. The of fear, strength, courage, and heart they are both at the school for the film also provides insight on the amazes, confuses stopping suspense when you watch psyche of a person, for we realize the The Guardian, released Friday the roots of the motivation to continue By Daniel Griffin dry, who served as both author and 29th. Directed by Andrew Davis with something that is grueling and Contributing Writer director, has established a comfort- (who also directed The Fugitive) exhausting and demanding. able place in cinema to brandish his and starring Kevin Costner and The Guardian does a good job of Most people recognize director outlandishly funny and thoroughly Ashton Kutcher, this movie takes selling the CGRS to the public, but Michel Gondry’s e nt e r t a i n i n g you through a brief yet thorough T HE GUARDIAN at the same time, it does not let the name as being style. tour of what it is like to be part a audience forget the selling point. The attached to vari- The Science United States Coast Guard Rescue Cast: KevinTHE G Costner,UARDIAN Ashton film also turns slightly fantastical in ous music videos, of Sleep revolves Swimmers (CGRS). KutcherCast: Kevin Costner, the end when the character of Ben with artists rang- around an imagi- In the movie, Ben Randall (Cost- Director: Andrew Davis Randall is turned into a figure of ing from Bjork to native protago- Ashton Kutcher THE SSCIENCE OF SSLEEP nist Stephane, ner), a legendary rescue swimmer, RunningDirector :time: Andrew 136 Davisminutes. Christ (savior, rescuer, and fisher) The Chemical is sent to teach in an elite training and into an enigma analogous to the Brothers. Cast: Aurelia Petit, Miou who moves to school for future rescue swimmers Running time: 136 min. yeti or abominable snowman. Yet two years Miou, Alain Chabat, Paris to start a job after losing his crew in a devastating Rating: PG-13 The plot also has the necessary ago, with the Charlotte Gainsbourg, Gael that his mother explosion. With his unorthodox love story—actually it has two of release of the Garcia Bernal has secured for and grueling techniques he filters them, with quite different endings, popular Eternal him-a job that he Director: Michel Gondry thinks has him the class and is left with a dozen or and the movie also laces in a bit of Sunshine of the Running time so students with the qualities that same reasons—lost crew, proving needed comic relief to go with the Spotless Mind, : 105 min. painting art for a he believes are needed to be a rescue to themselves that they can live up serious nature of being a member Gondry devel- Rating: R calendar but in- swimmer. to the memory of their friends and of the CGRS. oped directorial stead puts him on One of these students, Jake their own expectations. The special effects in the film clout that only motion pictures can a measuring board to monotonously Fischer (Kutcher) sets himself apart The movie provides a unique deliver. as the fittest, fastest and slickest. insight to the mind of a rescue See Guardian, page 21 With The Science of Sleep, Gon- See Sleep, page 19 Not just for Jack O’ Lanterns anymore Book immortalizes NY murals,tags Every weekend in October Grafitti book features artist interviews and over 100 color images the Pumpkin Festival at Stone Mountain Park celebrates By Kenneth Baskett fiti, ranging from images on a small all that is grand about the Senior Staff Writer section of a wall, to huge murals seasonal orange squash. Visit stretching many blocks. Stonemountainpark.com for “An exuberant burst of color The pictures in this book are more information. suddenly appeared on this ghostly the result of fifteen years’ worth of street in an otherwise drab neighbor- travel to the Bronx, Harlem, Spanish Unlucky 13 thrills hood. It stopped me in my tracks,” Harlem, the Lower East Side, the writes Peter Rosenstein, author of East Village and Brooklyn. at haunted house the new book Each photo- Tattooed Walls, of graph has a cap- A new haunted house opened his life-changing tion explaining yesterday behind Town Center Mall in Kennesaw. Coupons experience with a ...Rostensetin has the context or on www.13storieshauntedho graffiti mural on signif ic a nce use.com will get you in for an the Lower East made it his mission of the mural Side of Manhat- written by Ar- unlucky $13. tan over a decade to document the gentine-born ago. expansive and ever- journalist, actor Local artists Since then, changing world of and art director Rosenstein has Isabel Bau Mad- Photo courtesy of University Press of Mississippi create market made it his mis- street art in New den. This colorful photo appears on page 119 of Tattooed Walls. “Los Mucha- sion to document In addition On Monroe Drive, paintings, York. chos” likely refers to the area homeboys of NY’s East Village. photographs, leatherware, toys, the expansive and to the photo- antiques, jewelry and more ever-changing graphs, t he graffiti as a legitimate art form. Rosenstein has had plenty of are available at the Midtown world of street art in New York. “As book features an interview with These writings go a long way to practice putting street art on film, Promenade. From 10 a.m. to 4 I stood back and admired the colors legendary artist and political activist explaining the current state of graffiti and it shows. Somehow, he is able p.m. on Saturdays local artists and composition, I could not help James De La Vega, a commentary as art and illustrating the mentality to capture not only the image of the get together to offer this unique but lament the transient nature of from the artist Chico and a foreword and passion of those who make it mural, but the emotion and meaning shopping experience to the murals,” Rosenstein said. by artist and gallery owner Stefan their way of life. However, the main the artist put into it as well. community. Call 770-913-3978 Tattooed Walls contains over a Eins, one of the first in the broader focus of Tattooed Walls is definitely for more information. hundred color photographs of graf- art world to recognize and promote the art, and here the book shines. See Grafitti, page 18 18 • Friday, October 6, 2006 • Technique ENTERTAINMENT Diet book proves upsetting, unfulfilling Grafitti from page 17 By Sarah Gilbreath her application to graduate school number of calories for her readers, several different kinds of exercises In addition to the simple tags used Contributing Writer — that is, her father gave her all the which is particularly amusing con- for the dorm room. Each routine to claim turf, the art contains memo- facts and told her to rewrite them in sidering that in the previous chapter requires minimal space and no ad- rials to fallen loved ones, religious For a young, naive freshman her own words and publish the thing, she had written out a detailed set ditional equipment. In the interest expression, warnings to police and entering Tech, several things can so she could at least say that she was of equations to find out how many of giving the book a fair shot, I got messages of political unrest. These be terrifying: the prospect of living a “published author.” Not only is calories you should be consuming down on my floor and tried several artists serve as the spokesmen for away from home, having to make Oz preten- daily (I of these exercises. While I did find their respective cultures. new friends, taking hard classes, tious, but should two that I was already familiar with, The styles used by these street art- and so on. But by far the scariest she aims the a pp a r- others were completely foreign and ists range from cartoon to abstract to and most publicized specter is the book solely at e n t l y made no sense. In one, Oz instructs trompe l’oeil, a technique meaning Freshman 15. So many rumors and women, mak- eat 1057 the reader to lie on the floor, face up, “deceives the eye” that dates back urban legends surround the concept ing no men- calories and put his or her legs straight up in that it would seem that merely set- tion of men a day. the air. Then he is to move to a sitting ting foot in a quad would result in at all (aside C a n position, with his legs still in the air, ...the art contains the instant osmosis of hundreds of from a list of you even balancing on his tailbone.

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