#LonelyMovie or the Continuation of Our Brand and the Good Feelings It Produces

#LonelyMovie or the Continuation of our Brand and the Good Feelings It Produces A Senior Project submitted to The Division of the Arts Bard College By Theodore Rosen #LonelyMovie or the Continuation of our Brand and the Good Feelings It Produces A Senior Project submitted to The Division of the Arts Bard College By Theodore Rosen #LonelyMovie or the Continuation of our Brand and the Good Feelings It Produces A Senior Project submitted to The Division of the Arts Bard College By Theodore Rosen #LonelyMovie Artist Statement Artist’s List: Stevie Wonder Mario Bowser Cartoon Network Jack Link’s Takashi Murakami Gatorade Taco Bell Cheesy Gordita Crunch Baja Blast Cinnamon Delights Locos Tacos Cory Arcangel Josh Kline Laura Owens Katherine Bernhardt Kalup Linzy Kanye West Ariel Pink Lil Uzi Vert Nina Simone Ratchet & Clank The attempt to recapture a kind of “pure” way of seeing in art, like how a child might approach something (PROUST, -suki), and how in execution that turns into something far more sinister than innocent, because u can’t just shove yourself back into that state of being, you look like the hulk in child world The Bro Painters of the 2000s: Dan Colen, Dash Snow (photographer), Joe Bradley, Nate Lowman, Joe Bradley, a lot of that was also about living in spaces and a forced state of immaturity Sometimes I have to inhabit things I’m suspicious of, like those painters or that childlike point of view Long Diner Menus with almost every cuisine under the sun on them John Maus Daft Punk Rihanna Drake Lil’ Peep Trippie Redd Cardi B Lil’ B Waka Flocka Flame The way hip-hop specifically as a contemporary music genre so seamlessly communicates engaging with music on the internet in the way that the borders of a song are more loose and malleable Odd Future Frank Ocean’s “Channel Orange” Andy Warhol What do the 14 year olds of today enjoy? What did I enjoy as a young person? Say, from the formative ages of 9 to 15? What would I think if I were in that age range today? Abstracify that!!! Those Keep Calm and Carry On shirts that have probably gone out of style by now Ed Hardy The Jersey Shore Reunion where Mike the Situation keeps talking about how he’s going to court for tax evasion in really vague terms When I was younger I used to cry a lot thinking about the moment in the Spongebob Squarepants movie where they cry while singing the goofy goober theme song Hayao Miyazaki Katamari Damacy Kid CuDi Kurt Cobain Joni Mitchell’s “Hejira” Ann Hirsch Ellsworth Kelly The Beatles Haim Steinbach Mike Kelley Paul McCarthy Cosima von Bonin David Hammons Glenn Ligon Henry Taylor Todd Rundgren Guitar Solos Metal Heavy Metal Black Metal Death Metal Speed Metal Thrash Metal Internet Subcultures of the past ten or so years Seapunk Normcore Witch House Soundcloud rap Dirty Style? Is that right? Instagram Monster-based games for children (Digimon, Yu-Gi-Oh, Pokémon, Creepy Freaks) “7-Rooms of Gloom” by the Four Tops Ryan Trecartin Bjarne Melgaard Darren Bader Sarah Charlesworth Philip Guston Mariah Carey Celine Dion Missy Elliott Lauren Cornell Kynaston McShine Massimiliano Gioni Grimes Lana Del Rey Donna Summer Giorgio Moroder Martin Kippenberger Cindy Sherman’s Instagram Elon Musk Donald Trump Facebook The question of whether or not art should be intending to help people, or simply communicate with others, or maybe it should be more internal, about working something out that’s personal and intimate, or… Oliver Laric Elaine Sturtevant David Guetta Bernie Sanders Hillary Clinton Donkey Kong Wario Waluigi Boo Luigi’s Mansion Fortnite Scammer gets scammed video genre YouTube comps of footage set to music I’d watch when I was little Repo Man Ren & Stimpy Mickey Mouse R. Crumb (creep in retrospect) Jimmie Durham Kendrick Lamar Kingdom Hearts Brian Eno Julia Holter Oneohtrix Point Never Elliott Smith Fiona Apple OutKast Jimi Hendrix “Weird” Al Yankovic My Uncle Alan playing me a vhs tape compilation of all the great Michael Jackson videos Alan showing me Beatles parody the Rutles on dvd Adam Sandler Rob Schneider Vince Vaughn Ben Stiller Will Ferrell Seth Rogen Jonah Hill Bro Painters = Bro Comedy Actors Dia Beacon Steve Roggenbuck Rupi Kaur Marvel Movies Expanded Universe Young Thug When I was little I was really into animals and I wanted to be a vet Chris Burden Death Grips Puppet Works Brie Chicago, Illinois Brooklyn, New York Ottsville, Pennsylvania Los Angeles, California Sebastopol, California Jordan Wolfson (kind of a villain) Princess Peach Pope.L Patti Smith Prince Tina Turner Sly and the Family Stone Sufjan Stevens Astrology Garbage The act of cleaning Hygiene Amateurism Skidoo! The Big Lebowski The Scary Movie series EDM movies such as Spring Breakers, Good Time, Mandy, We Are Your Friends, Nicolas Winding Refn movies, Enter the Void, all problematic and by and large terrible, but a predominant trend in contemporary cinema, involving psychedelic and neon color schemes with anhedonic camera work and focus on sinister drug use and partying lifestyles Tauba Auerbach Jacolby Satterwhite Mary Heilmann Michael E. Smith Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn Peggy Ahwesh Dave McKenzie A. Sayeeda Moreno Wade Guyton Trenton Doyle Hancock Cao Fei Rachel Harrison Mariko Mori Terence Koh Robert Rauschenberg John Baldessari Abbas Kiarostami “A Taste of Cherry” Judd Apatow Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island Frankenfish Creature from the Black Lagoon Jaws Howard the Duck Comedy The Oscars Adult Swim Anime South Park Family Guy The Simpsons Making things via means that are accessible to everybody Fusion-Era Miles Davis My Friends and Family, specifically thinking about how to be better to them A general sense of brokenness and disorderliness in the way stories are told and worlds are built Inclusivity Making things expressly FOR kids and not about them from a distance Feelings Fear Shame Guilt Sadness Love Joy Euphoria Tierra Whack’s “Whack World” Raw Tuna Richard Hamilton Ray-Man Marcel Duchamp Lady Gaga Psychedelia Gummy Candy CREDITS: Written, Directed, Produced, Soundtracked, Curated, Edited, Revised and Activated by Theodore Rosen, who is still under the impression that he’s not an egomaniacal control freak. Part 1 MOM - Footage sourced from: Dagoba Heavy Metal Festival, 3D rendering of heart for medical purposes, Frankenfish a SyFy original film Part 2 DOG FARTS - Starring Lily and Teddy as BubbleBerry and BlossomPossum, footage of birds from the falconry showcase at the Rhinebeck Steampunk festival. Part 3 GRINDLEGRUMPS SHOWZ - footage of water from a free relaxing water video on YouTube, music from there too, one of the only time’s it’s not my soundtrack Part 4 BBBP Prerecorded Live Stream - Lily and Teddy again, thanks also to Diana Elizabeth Mouette and Jose Maria Marquez Stefani for letting me utilize the star power of their dogs for my own creations, lots of still images that are decontextualized, let’s keep it that way Part 5 MS. CASINO - Starring the inimitable Cluno Bruno as Ms. Casino, who ad-libbed about the entire scene, amazing, also Julian Dime who plays NarMar and Brandt who played the HatBoy, shot in the basement of 89 Broadway in Tivoli, using 3D public domain footage as well as 3D renderings of people harvesting the pink slime often used in fast food burgers, and news footage of a “suspicious” playground fire in New Jersey with no victims Part 6 EDN - Footage of a Renaissance fair, shot by my friend Alejandro Montalvo “Alex” Hardy off of my tv, improptu, while hanging out after eating BBQ, soundtrack “I Have a Dream” by ABBA Thanks to: Peggy Ahwesh, Louis Rosen, Charlotte Maier, Ephraim Asili, Dave McKenzie, Scarlett Sinay, Lisa Krueger-Chandler, Brandt Rhode, Cluno Bruno, Alejandro Montalvo Hardy, Matteo Waldinger-White, Julian Dime, Catalina Bulgach, Suki Sekula, Emily Tomasi, Williamsburg Vintiques, Jason Sinay, Diana Elizabeth-Mouette, Jose Maria Marquez Stefani, Lily & Teddy, the city of Los Angeles, Ruth Turk, Aaron Turner, and all the free stuff you can download off of YouTube

Chionactis occipitalis

Number of Pages: 12Integrative BiologyGeological Science

Chionactis palarostris

Number of Pages: 5Integrative BiologyGeological Science

On the Dynamics and Structure of Three-Dimensional Trans-Alfvenic Jets

Three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamical simulations of strongly magnetized ``light'' conical jets have been performed. An investigation of the transition from sub-Alfv\'enic to super-Alfv\'enic flow has been made for nearly poloidal and for helical magnetic fields. The jets are stable to asymmetric modes of jet distortion provided they are sub-Alfv\'enic over most of their interior but destabilize rapidly when they become on average super-Alfv\'enic. The jets are precessed at the origin and the resulting small amplitude azimuthal motion is communicated down the jet to the Alfv\'en point where it couples to a slowly moving and rapidly growing helical twist. Significant jet rotation can contribute to destabilization via increase in the velocity shear between the jet and the external medium. Destabilization is accompanied by significant mass entrainment and the jets slow down significantly as denser external material is entrained. Synchrotron intensity images satisfactorily reveal large scale helical structures but have trouble distinguishing a large amplitude elliptical jet distortion that appears as an apparent pinching in an intensity image. Smaller scale jet distortions are not clearly revealed in intensity images, largely as a result of the relatively small total pressure variations that accompany destabilization and growing distortions. Fractional polarization is high as a result of the strong ordered magnetic fields except where the intensity image suggests cancellation of polarization vectors by integration through twisted structures.Comment: 27 pages, 11 figures, AASTeX, to appear in Oct 20 issue of ApJ, postscript versions of Figures 5 and 6 are available at this URL http://crux.astr.ua.edu/~rosen/tralf/hr.htm

3D Structures on Relativistic Jets

The properties of wave-like helically twisted normal mode structures on steady relativistic jets are summarized. Wave speeds are a function of the wavelength and less than the jet speed. However, normal mode interference can lead to both stationary and superluminal phase effects. A maximum pressure fluctuation criterion suggested by numerical simulations of axisymmetric relativistic jets is used to find the maximum asymmetric jet distortions and velocity fluctuations. Cyclic transverse velocity fluctuation can lead to variation in the flow direction on the order of the relativistic beaming angle. Resulting variation in the Doppler boost factor can lead to significant brightness asymmetries as helical structures twist around the jet beam. Growth of these structures is reduced as the jet density, Lorentz factor or Mach number are increased. Maximum jet distortion is reduced as the Lorentz factor increases and this suggests a reduction in mass entrainment or other non-linear disruptive processes that influence the morphological development of radio sources.Comment: to appear in Life Cycles of Radio Galaxies, ed. J. Biretta et al., New Astronomy Reviews; 8 pages, including 3 figure

The Effect of Expansion on Mass Entrainment and Stability of Super-Alfv\'enic Jets

We extend investigations of mass entrainment by jets, which previously have focused on cylindrical supermagnetosonic jets and expanding trans-Alfv\'enic jets, to a set of expanding supermagnetosonic jets. We precess these jets at the origin to excite the helical mode of the Kelvin-Helmholtz (or KH) instability, in order to compare the results with predictions from linear stability analysis. We analyze this simulation set for the spatial development of magnetized mass, which we interpret as jet plus entrained, initially unmagnetized external mass. As with the previous simulation sets, we find that the growth of magnetized mass is associated with the growth of the KH instability through linear, nonlinear, and saturated stages and with the expansion of magnetized material in simulated observations of the jet. From comparison of measured wavelengths and wave speeds with the predictions from linear stability analysis, we see evidence that the KH instability is the primary cause for mass entrainment in these simulations, and that the expansion reduces the rate of mass entrainment. This reduced rate can be observed as a somewhat greater distance between the two transition points separating the three stages of expansion.Comment: 18 pages, 6 figures, AASTeX, to appear in Nov 1 issue of ApJ (vol 543), postscript versions of Figures 3 and 5 are available at http://crux.astr.ua.edu/~rosen/supcon/rh.htm