January 27, 2009

Patina



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patina

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–noun 
1. a film or incrustation, usually green, produced by oxidation on the surface of old bronze and often esteemed as being of ornamental value. 

2. a similar film or coloring appearing gradually on some other substance.
3. a surface calcification of implements, usu. indicating great age

Also, patine 

calcification
石灰化


PDVD_010 
Whenever the night drags, the hero simply stops time and wanders the aisles stripping the freeze-framed female customers (as pneumatic a bunch as those Michael Bay cherry-picked to decorate Transformers) and using them as models for his sketch portfolio. 

Ellis works hard to gloss up this sicko conceit, applying a patina of winsome quirkiness as liberally as Mop 'n' Glo: The movie is too cute by half, made close to unbearable whenever Ben's narration [spews] glib pseudo-profundities about memory and temporal stillness. 


But the flaky humor of wage slaves serial-killing time is good, rude fun; the trompe l'oeil camera trickery creates a woozy sleepwalking effect; 

and Ellis (a fashion photographer who's collaborated with David Lynch) and cinematographer Angus Hudson shoot the immaculate rows of paper towels and canned veggies with an Andreas Gursky–like eye for symmetrical splendor. 

It's all so lovely, you'll want to go out at 3 a.m. to buy Cool Whip. 

flaky
–adjective
3. Slang. eccentric; wacky; dizzy: a flaky math professor.  


pigment
sepia
secretion of various cuttlefish
with whom the Spirit shares a troubled, sepia-[toned] history
dun 
The dun-[shaded] chromatic scheme seems part of the general [haplessness] 討債者 
beige  
but it seems like a [beige] raincoat in comparison to
tawny  
At 33, he has a tawny, domineering [fiancée] 
Mel Coplin finds himself the brother of tawny [blond] volleyball-playing twins.
drab 
ocher
the ochre beauty of [Barcelona] 【礦】赭石,赭土 
ruddle
What Rourke offers us, in short, is not just a comeback performance but something much rarer: a rounded, [raddled] portrait of a good man.【礦】紅土,代赭石 
tangerine 
celadon 
livid
swarthy
alabaster
a perfect alabaster [form], still taking blows from the sculptor's [chisel]. 
gilt
Everything is [gilt] or [silver], crystal or velvet or ivory.
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