Global Wahrman

This is the personal journal of Michael Wahrman.

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Eric Cantor, the One Ring of Power, and my Virginian High School

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Part One Once upon a time, I attended the The Collegiate Schools in Richmond, Virginia, a somewhat prestigious private high school in the...
Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Comments on the Daily Variety Article about Rhythm and Hues

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There is an interesting article in the Daily Variety about the cash crisis and related issues at Rhythm & Hues. You can read it here: ...
Monday, February 4, 2013

Simulation of Classic Solari / Split Flap Sign Technology

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[Update: 2/4/2013 The Solari company is online, one just needed to know their correct name.  "Solari di Udine".] As we slam head...
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Thursday, January 31, 2013

The Esoteric Knowledge and the Hollow Earth

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At Global Wahrman, we plan to reveal the hidden knowledge, sometimes known by the elect as the esoteric knowledge. Of course, not ever...
Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Ancient Computer Animation Artifacts and Homer Simpson

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In this post we discuss a very early use of computer animation in the mainstream, before the tsunami of computer animation we are all suffe...
Sunday, January 27, 2013

Early 18th Century British Underworld Slang

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The Thieves Cant (or language) is a work written sometime between 1690 and 1720 by one B.E. Gent in London. It purports to be a dictionar...
Saturday, January 26, 2013

Photograph Demonstrating the Permanence of High School

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New York Magazine  has an excellent essay on the subject of whether or not we ever really leave High School.   Its a topic of great interes...
Friday, January 25, 2013

The Explanation in Cinema: A New Synthesis

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[1/27/2013  It turns out that The Departed has a fabulous, nearly canonical example of an Explanation, in a different scene.   That scene ca...
Thursday, January 24, 2013

Why Are So Many Pioneers of Computer Animation Chronically Unemployed?

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Needs to be revised. The people that I know in computer animation, who can be said to pioneer the field, fall into a number of categorie...

The Amazing Planetarium Museum

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In our post-sputnik world, the 1950s and the early 1960s, the US Government funded the creation of planetariums throughout the country to ...
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