#heirarchy

[zwoelffarben]

Fuck it, I'mma do a close reading of just twenty seconds of the film They/Them.

These are the first two thing we see after the title card anounces the film has properly begun.

The Fourteen Campers

Four of the Six Camp Councilors

Let's start with just these two shots which in combination are about seven seconds long. One of the things the film's gonna have themes about is heirarchy, and these shot establish the existing heirarchy between the campers and councilors, but the heirarchies within each of the two groups.

Starting with the campers, there are fourteen campers in the line up, and about half of them are actually significant characters with roles in the story rather than extras filling up space in the camp rooster. You can't really guess which ones because there's almost no visual hierarchy between them. They are all relatively equally framed. Let's draw some circles and you'll see what I mean. Which group do you think is the group of important characters?

1

2

If you answered 1, you're incorrect. If you answered 2, you're also incorrect. For both, I circled a mix of important and unimportant characters, but they both look like a reasonable cast. Even the two entirely in the backgound that I didn't circle at all are visually distinct enough to be darkhorse candidates for important characters after considering their obscurred so heavily by their position in the shot. The campers aren't differenciated here: They are standing on equal footing with each other.

Now, contrast that with the councilors.

The first thing you might notice is that the councilors take up a lot less space individually and as a group because there are fewer of them. But, look at the building their on, and how massive the film makes it out to be, taking up two thirds of the frame and even then, spilling out. even if their are fewer councilers, and they collectively take up less space, the building their standing on, which can be understood to represent their institutional power as the camp's councilors dwarfs the scale of the campers who more than triple their number. You immediately get the sense that the staff is the group holding all the power in the relationship.

And then within the staff, there's an existing heirarchy:

The only person standing is the man, who stands at the most central and highest position taking up twice as much space. The three women each sit on the steps in ascending seniority (The woman on the porch is the most senior, and the woman sat on the lowest step is brand new that year.) You can very clearly get an impression of the power dynamics at play in the group through proxemics which will be reenforced throughout the film.

But that's not the end of it. They're positioned around the outside of a large double door: There's room for two people between the left two councilors and the right two. The composition has left enough room for two whole people there.

Enter the next shot.

Cut to black. The center of the black opens up, and slowly and confidently one man walks out from behind those double doors, and for the first time in the scene, the camera follows him down the steps toward the campers.

This Man is Owen.

I don't need to tell you he's in charge.

#they/them #analysis #film analysis #power dynamics #heirarchy #sorry about the gif quality #I'm not a gif maker #if anyone wants to make a better one #I'd happily replace it

[opendirectories]

#open directories #triangle #heirarchy #data #information #knowledge #wisdom

[chungieart]

Do y’all remember bubble chairs? . . . #graphicdesign #typography #illustrator #photoshop #adobecreativecloud #adobesuite #graphicdesigner #artwork #designportfolio #heirarchy #typographyposter #y2kdesign #y2kgraphicdesign #90svibes #y2kvibes (at Dallas, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmPkeZCpuL0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#graphicdesign #typography #illustrator #photoshop #adobecreativecloud #adobesuite #graphicdesigner #artwork #designportfolio #heirarchy #typographyposter #y2kdesign #y2kgraphicdesign #90svibes #y2kvibes

[nikihawkes]

Book Review: The Will of the Many by James Islington

Title: The Will of the Many Author: James Islington Series Hierarchy #1 Genre: Fantasy Rating: 4.5/5 stars! The Overview: The Catenan Republic – the Hierarchy – may rule the world now, but they do not know everything. I tell them my name is Vis Telimus. I tell them I was orphaned after a tragic accident three years ago, and that good fortune alone has led to my acceptance into their most…

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#2023 new releases #book #book review #book reviews #books #fantasy #fantasy books #heirarchy #James Islington #niki hawkes #the obsessive bookseller #will of the many

[cantkeepupwiththejoneses]

Ugh to new things

Today I am ending a thing. It is a baby of mine but I am having to put it to rest. When I am the only one working and putting the thought and emotion into a thing and the other party has decided to, idk, disappear, or disengaged to the project. You know, when you have that group project and there is that one person that does all the work and you have those that decide to just ride the coat tails of the hard working individual. And again I find myself as a slave to the whole group. Maybe I should start a blog? Anyways, on to the next project that I won’t have to expend so many of my resources to the point of ache. Even at the age/season I am in, I am still having to weed out those that don’t mean well to me without the expense of my person. I mean who at this ripe old age would have to put up a boundary to someone, who is so self centered with a whole family, has disregarded my work...ahem i mean worth. I have never seen so clearly some one try to use me as a stepping stone.  When even in this day and age a person in the same financial bracket, same culture, same environment, can take the value of a person and attempt to reduce it so that they may be above and beyond all those that they deem their circle.

#friendship #work #project #grades #school #blog #old #age #money #heirarchy

[immaculatasknight]

The Plastic Professor

#Jordan Peterson #Toronto #WEF #elitism #globalism #friendly fascism #rebranding #oligarchy #heirarchy #social control

[vizthedatum]

Self-love is important but it's not everything

I know I've been doing a lot of self-love but my life isn't all about that - it's everything.

Everything.

That means... I don't have to stop having all sorts of relationships, doing my inner work, figuring out my career, working on and enjoying my hobbies, and serving others when/if I can... and that doesn't mean I don't get to still have my insecure feelings or my feelings of self-criticism! I refuse to bury *anything* down anymore. I can prioritize self-love, and I can also acknowledge that there doesn't need to be a consistent hierarchy of needs to be in this world.

Obligatory note, Todd Baratz does add this:

"Everyone is obsessed with self-love as if it is some secret elixir or the holy grail to a challenge free life. ⁣

Love yourself first, more, and better? ⁣

Yes self-love is important but relational love, our participation in the world and more is actually what makes life satisfying. ⁣

Of course - love yourself. Don’t confuse this for me saying “self love isn’t important.” It can be but it’s not the solution our current mental health/pop psych trend would suggest. ⁣

Deepen this story."

#todd baratz #self-love #self love #self care #relationships #community #life #healing #culture #society #needs #heirarchy

[snapbackdad]

Bell Hooks quote wallpapers made in the western philosophers app

#bell hooks #oppression #heirarchy #racism #sexism #philosophy #philosophy quotes #quotes #wallpapers #activism

[toribaxley]

#emphasis #heirarchy

[heyitsme-god]

ooohoooo The other hierarchy this one is mine :]

#godposting #angels #cherubs #archangels #heirarchy #heavens hierarchy

[rileyaarris]

#sci fi fantasy #scifiart #hand made #artists on tumblr #original art #diagram #projection #galaxies #interdimensional #merfolk #jellyfish #cosmic angels #inspiration #illustration #drawing #artwork #illustrators on tumblr #heirarchy #alienart

[wqueens7]

SelfieSonnet (8-26-22) poetry-prose hierarchy I am living in a fictional world Where around me is accreting a tale A masterpiece of life’s slowly unfurled (Yet I self-sacrifice writing po’ms stale) I have always enjoyed reading stories Swashbuckling nonsense of derring-do Or un-ambitious drunks & their whories (& I think there’s a hierarchy too) For the stories I read, wrapped in covers (By which I’m told these books should not be judged) Fiction & theory are my true ’druthers (From writing poetry I can’t be budged•) So pity this oddball, so compulsive Who continues with lit’rature cursive #selfiesonnet #poetry #prose #heirarchy •(To poetry I was dragged &/or nudged) (at 48Th Avenue Stairs) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChvW37cO0jB/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#selfiesonnet #poetry #prose #heirarchy

[mumblesplash]

he's not even that light impulse is just really strong

#[elsewhere skizz is hit with a sudden inexplicable compulsion to teach the whole server about maslow's heirarchy of needs] #my art #tangotek #impulsesv #hermitcraft #taken completely by surprise by how much fun i'm having with the ambiguously-on-fire hair #random thing but i've actually been putting effort into drawing *fewer* fabric folds recently #it's one of those things i get like. stuck in #and i want to Simplify the Shapes #but do u guys understand. tango just has digitigrade vibes #vital to his character that he be able to scamper and clamber at a moment's notice #honestly the idea of designing shoes for nonhuman feet is super interesting #i defaulted to pseudo-claws cuz like..that's what they'd be used to using for traction? at the very least seems rude to remove that option

[timwrightt]

#new world order #breakdown #chart #heirarchy #illuminati #royal bloodlines #corporations #list #nations #financial groups #secret socieities #religious institutions #world #government #truth #facts

[evenaworm]

#chestnut draws #I have a terrible feeling that somebody else already made a joke like this. like possibly an actual newspaper cartoon #but this came to me of my own imagination so I made it anyway #inspired by my googling of the heirarchy of chef hats #comics #image has alt text!

[elegantzombielite]

"The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them."

Chinua Achebe, writer and professor (16 November 1930-2013)

#athoughtfortoday #chinua achebe #dominance #Heirarchy #Appearances can be deceptive