Morpheus doesn’t actually say the words “What if I told you…?” in the 1999 film. But you get the drift. Use this meme when you’re about to blow someone’s mind with a banal fact or bust a silly myth.(Courtesy: Warner Bros.)
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Another Morpheus gem that isn’t directly quoted in the movie. In the story, a glitch is a change in the simulation, which the people in it recognise as some kind of déjà vu. In the real world, ours, it’s when something complicated is going on (at work, in a relationship, with your finances) and you just can’t figure it out.(Courtesy: Warner Bros.)
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Those ghastly dreadlocked twins from Matrix Reloaded (2003) play their part in an epic chase and fight scene. They think as one but attack with the power of two. A perfect meme for you and your best buddy or tribe, when you’re all part of a hive mind, annoyed or triggered by the exact same things.(Courtesy: Warner Bros.)
Agent Smith, Neo’s arch nemesis, is a vicious computer programme designed to keep the Matrix working and the machines in power. He has few lines. But this one, comes right after an unsuspecting Thomas Anderson is captured and demands his phone call. Smith causes Anderson’s mouth to seal shut. It makes for a great threat. Particularly when you’re about to block someone, or when you’re sick of your own device.(Courtesy: Warner Bros.)
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Surely there will be times in your life when you’ve finally got it figured out. When freshman worries have faded away, first-day jitters have passed, when you’ve turned a corner and overcome heartbreak, bankruptcy or life’s usual challenges. That day this meme, of Neo effortlessly anticipating and thwarting the Agent’s every move (because he is The One) will come in handy.(Courtesy: Warner Bros.)
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Modus Vivendi (1000 people – 1000 Homes), 2000: In this self-portrait, a work of mixed media on canvas, Kallat appears as a swaggering, bespectacled juggler of heart and brain. The painting is an exploration of selfhood in the city of Mumbai, where he grew up and lives. The individual, lost in the multitudes, wanders in a state of perpetual disorientation, as reflected in the work. The radiating streaks of red, orange and green, reminiscent of thermal imagery, were achieved by texturing the canvas with layers of paint or canvas and then peeling off some parts to attain the desired visual effect.
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Sheer delight: While out surveying the remote Phoenix Islands Archipelago, Schmidt Ocean Institute scientists captured rare footage of a “glass octopus”, named so because it is completely see-through. What one does see when one shines a light on it is its optic nerve, eyeballs, and digestive tract. Even though this species has been known to science since 1918, scientists were forced to study about this animal through specimens found in the guts of predators, before this sighting.
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Herald / Harbinger is a permanent public art installation by Ben Rubin and Jer Thorp. It broadcasts the sounds of the Bow Glacier cracking and breaking 200 km away, to the centre of Calgary, one of Canada’s largest cities, almost in real time. The sounds and imagery shaped by data from a glacial observatory are broadcast through 16 speakers and seven LED arrays.
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Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022): The movie explores the many dimensions of parenthood and love through the story of a Chinese-American immigrant named Evelyn Wang (played by Michelle Yeoh) who, while struggling to run a failing laundromat business, uses her newfound powers to travel across multiple realities to save the world and work on her strained relationships with her loved ones. It’s a family drama that’s fast-paced, funny and, above all, tackles earnestly the idea of healing from intergenerational trauma.
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At first sight: For centuries, sunspots were thought to be Mercury passing across the Sun. By the early 17th century, with the invention of the telescope, astronomers could get a clearer look. In 1610, Galileo Galilei (who first used the telescope to observe space) in Italy and his British contemporary Thomas Harriot identified these as spots on the Sun. Seen here are 35 drawings of sunspots created by Galileo between June 2 and July 8, 1612.
