April 2, 2015 Page 3 Destination: Art Holds Special Reception Destination: Art held a special reception on February 28th for featured artist Richard Stephens. Destination: Art is a newly opened non-profit studio and gallery featuring South Bay artists, located at 1815 W. 213th Street, Suite 135 in Torrance. Destination: Art Councilwoman Heidi Ashcraft (center) with her husband Dan and Margaret Lindsey, Destination: Art President and Studio Artist. will be holding an open house on April 2nd from 11am – 2pm showcasing the works of Larry Manning, a pastels painter, and Dolores Garren, who specializes in oils. Photos Provided by Destination: Art.• (L-R) Holly Medbery, Destination: Art studio artist; Peggy Zask, formerly of Zask Gallery; and Margaret Lindsey, Destination: Art President and studio artist. Georgette Gantner, Redondo Beach Art Group, and Richard Stephens, Featured Artist of February at Destination: Art. David Wolfram, Torrance Artist Guild President, with Georgette Gantner of Redondo Beach Art Group. Looking Up from page 2 Film Review from page 2 showed that the corona was still especially hot, averaging well over 2,000,000°F.” The research team, and an accompanying tourist group of 40 people, observed from an open field about one mile east of the city of Longyearbyen, the 2,000-person capital. The temperature of +8° F at the onset of the eclipse dropped to -7° F at mid-totality. Pasachoff is working with atmospheric physicist Marcos Peñaloza- Murillo of Venezuela in interpreting the effects of how the abrupt shut-off of solar radiation cools and shocks Earth’s atmosphere. Williams College student Allison L. Carter (class of 2016) not only took images of the partial phases and the corona with a Nikon digital camera mounted on a Tele Vue telescope but also set up measuring devices to record temperature and pressure every 30 seconds. Other scientists in the expedition included Ronald Dantowitz of the Clay Center Observatory in Brookline, Massachusetts; Vojtech Rusin of the Tatranska Lomnica Solar Observatory in Slovakia; and Aristeidis Voulgaris and John Seiradakis of the Aristotle continually saddening but powerful watching. He is caught by a homeless man and sold to a dog-fighting trainer, who submits the dog to such despicable acts as beatings and other tortures to invoke his more beastial and primal anger. These painful-to-watch events ultimately lead to Hagen, now teeth baring and snarling, finally revolting along with a city’s worth of canine comrades, in a third act that best resembles Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds and the city-takeover stylings of The Rise of the Planet of the Apes, where the film moves from social commentary to a type of exploitive-horror. White God’s emotional moments and truths are heart-breaking in their display, as Mundruczó never shies away from showing the brutalities that Hagen endures at the hand of the more evil pawns of empowered society, the “white gods” that hold the power over those without any. The sometimes painful events showing Hagen’s dog training and turn from innocent to aggressor stand out as the director’s statement on social unrest–that the indignities of the minority can only endure for so long before boiling over into revengelike upheaval. Perhaps the film’s weaker, or rather, less stimulating component comes from its familiar structure outside of the draw of featuring live dogs to tell the story. But there is so much fire and kinetic friction from the very start that it’s fully rewarding to see when the dogs break free, charging full speed through the abandoned streets of Hamburg, terrorizing pedestrians and taking revenge on the film’s earlier antagonists. Here though, things resolve a bit too easy, in a final sequence that could have invoked even further boundary-pushing; though the entire journey of grueling emotional highs and lows will still leave audiences stunned. White God should be considered essential viewing; past its excitement and successful gimmick of following a real dog’s life, the social issues, while still hitting familiar notes, realize an empathy in us all that makes its point: until we can all live together in society, things might get a little rough. White God opens in Los Angeles at the Landmark Theater this weekend. For our exclusive interview with Director Kornél Mundruczó, check out www.cinemacy.com. • University in Thessaloniki, Greece. Amateur astronomer Michael Kentrianakis of New York City and eclipse map-maker Michael Zeiler were also part of the team. The event was Pasachoff’s 61st solar eclipse and 32nd total solar eclipse. “All the eclipse fans, some of whom will join us in Indonesia next March, are looking forward to the August 21, 2017, total solar eclipse whose path of totality will sweep across the United States,” he noted. Lunar Eclipse April 4 In the early morning hours of Saturday, April 4, Southern Californians will have their own chance to see an event not quite as rare as the Svalbard solar eclipse, but well worth watching—a total eclipse of the Moon, when the Moon’s orbit carries it directly into Earth’s shadow. Unfortunately, most of us will be sleeping, at least in the early part of the eclipse. The full Moon’s left edge will begin to darken at 3:15 a.m.as it enters the umbra, or full shadow; and maximum totality occurs at 5:00 a.m. At 6:44 a.m., the setting full Moon will have just emerged from the umbra. Happy viewing! •
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