{"id":51843,"date":"2016-08-07T07:02:03","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T07:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=51843"},"modified":"2016-08-07T07:02:03","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T07:02:03","slug":"sunday-surprise-damages-and-house-of-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=51843","title":{"rendered":"Sunday surprise: Damages and House of Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; two opening credit sequeces that rhyme, also sheep &#038; starlings ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>As you know, I&#8217;m interested in twinnings of various sorts &#8212; the sound twinnings we call rhyme, visual twinnings in films we call graphic match, the contrapuntal twinnings of melody in canons and fugues, the twinnings when history &#8220;rhymes&#8221; &#8212; oh, and the ever popular plagiarism.  Recently I&#8217;ve been watching the TV show <strong>Damages<\/strong> &#8212; an old friend is in it &#8212; and having the eerie feeling every time the opening credits rolled that they were just like the opening credits from <strong>House of Cards<\/strong>. So I thought I&#8217;d look them up, and see if they&#8217;d been put together by the same team.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>Damages:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HEB7p-XqQp0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>House of Cards:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IOSqyGal6zA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t get as far as finding out who put them together, but I did run across a blog post by <strong>Alicatte <\/strong>from 2013 titled <a href=\"http:\/\/alicatte.tumblr.com\/post\/43319769154\/house-of-cards-opening-deja-damages\">House of Cards Opening: Deja Damages<\/a> which more than amply vindicated my far less detailed intuition.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>And while it&#8217;s still Sunday, let&#8217;s take a look at another couple of videos that have some twinning to them.  A friend of mine, <strong>Bob Crosby<\/strong> &#8212; ecological engineer <em>par excellence<\/em> &#8212; of <a href=\"http:\/\/biorealis.com\/\">Biorealis<\/a>, posted them on a private group with the fake names I&#8217;ll give you above each one:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>An aerial view of the American electorate being herded by corporate media pundits&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tDQw21ntR64\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>An EEG video of neurons forming a thought..<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M1Q-EbX6dso\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Have fun..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; two opening credit sequeces that rhyme, also sheep &#038; starlings ] . As you know, I&#8217;m interested in twinnings of various sorts &#8212; the sound twinnings we call rhyme, visual twinnings in films we call graphic match, the contrapuntal twinnings of melody in canons and fugues, the twinnings when history [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,24,627,739,286,946,1005,1,259],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-cognition","category-doublequotes","category-nature","category-series","category-sunday-surprise","category-tv","category-uncategorized","category-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51843"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51900,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51843\/revisions\/51900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}