IMAX Deception

A little investigating turned up the news that IMAX and some theaters have started marketing IMAX’s new digital theater projection system as an IMAX-branded experience, despite it being nothing like what most people think of when they hear the word IMAX. It’s difficult to see how that’s not a deceptive and unfair business practice by IMAX and AMC — especially when they’re charging an extra $5 for it.

Full TechDirt.com Article

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You Are What You Eat

We purchase refrigerators the way we fill them: out of necessity—to preserve the milk; to keep the greens from wilting. But from the right vantage point, an open fridge is the perfect staging grounds for a discussion of consumption. And if the aphorism holds true—if we really are what we eat—then refrigerators are like windows into our souls. It’s that sentiment that’s at the heart of Mark Menjivar’s inventive exploration of hunger, “You Are What You Eat,” for which he photographed the contents of strangers’ refrigerators. As you can see, whether it holds neatly ordered rows of labels-out condiments or zip-locked stacks of shot-and-gutted buck meat, there’s almost certainly a narrative to a fridge’s arrangement.

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There are a lot of Texas refrigerators in this collection, it’s easy to spot the Mrs Baird’s Bread bags.  Oh, and the frozen snake is darn interesting.

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