JOHNNY'S BLOG - 2

  CAMOUFLAGE  -  A  MYSTICAL  CURTAIN Camouflage is a defense or tactic that organisms and objects use to blend into their surroundings, making them difficult to see . It relies on coloration, patterning, or shape to conceal presence, either to hide from predators or to ambush prey. Camouflage, also called cryptic coloration , is a defense mechanism or tactic that organisms use to disguise their appearance, usually to blend in with their surroundings. Organisms use camouflage to mask their location, identity, and movement. A species’ camouflage depends on several factors. The physical characteristics of the organism are important. Animals with fur rely on different camouflage tactics than those with feathers or scales, for instance. Feathers and scales can be shed and changed fairly regularly and quickly. Fur, on the other hand, can take weeks or even months to grow in. Animals with fur are more often camouflaged by season. The arctic fox , for example, has...

"THE  MOON  IN  THE  GUTTER" (La Lune Dans Le Caniveau) -  A  1983  FRENCH  MOVIE  The Moon in the Gutter is a 1983 French drama film directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix. It was entered into the 1983 Cannes Film Festival . The film stars Gérard Depardieu , Nastassja Kinski , and Victoria Abril in the lead roles. An obsessed dockworker (Gérard Depardieu) meets an unreal beauty (Nastassja Kinski) in a red sports car. The Moon in the Gutter is a love triangle composed of a working-class man and two women of opposite economic classes. The writer watched this film at the International Film Festival held in Bombay in 1983. I was impressed by the special effects, especially the psychedelic color bottle floating in the sea, which was new to films of that era. It is very atmospheric and colorful.  The visual effects are really fabulous. From the director of Betty Blue and Diva , The Moon in the Gutter is very much style over substance, pro...

  "A VISION IN A DREAM"   -  SAMUEL TAYLOR  COLERIDGE                           Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) was an English poet, philosopher, and literary critic. Alongside William Wordsworth, he helped launch the English Romantic movement with Lyrical Ballads. He is best known for the dreamlike poem Kubla Khan or A Vision in a Dream and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The excerpts from Kubla Khan /A Vision in a Dream -   A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw; It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora . Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight ’twould win me, That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome! those caves of ice! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware! B...