25 September 2008

- Obama's New Ad -

The simplicity of this one is a nice change. The mise-en-scène is a bit odd, though—the open doors in the background, the out of focus books on the left edge, the slow dolly into the room that occurs over the span of the commericial. I guess I wasn't certain what "feel" they were going for.

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Here [in Fidelio] and nowhere else music becomes a rosy dawn, militant religious, the dawning of a new day so audible that it seems more than simply hope. It shines forth as the pure work of Man, as one which had not appeared in the world surrounding Beethoven, a world that existed irrespective of men. Thus music as a whole stands at the farther limits of humanity, but at those limits where humanity, with new langauge and haloed by the call to achieved intensity, to the attained world of "we," is first taking shape. And this ordering in our musical expression means a house, indeed a crystal, but one derived from our future freedom: a star, but one that will be a new Earth.

—Ernst Bloch
The Principle of Hope