The new Netflix documentary
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal carries an unorthodox tagline for a nonfiction film: Starring Matthew Modine. The award-winning actor, best known for his fictional roles in
Full Metal Jacket,
Vision Quest and
The Dark Knight Rises, plays William Rick Singer, whose academic-coaching business was a front for an elaborate cheating and bribery scheme to get the children of wealthy parents into universities that included Harvard, Georgetown and Stanford. Although
Operation Varsity Blues has plenty of talking-head interviews with real-life witnesses and participants in the scam, most of the players were not available for filming.
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In modern times, photography is ubiquitous. Nearly everyone has a camera in their pocket at any given time, sharing photos and posting them to the Internet at a staggering rate never seen before. Yet what we take for granted today has a long, often strange history, with many detours along the way into the truly odd. One of these is the pursuit of the idea that photographs can be taken of mental images, pictures taken directly from the mind, and here we get into a truly strange phenomenon that is still discussed and debated to this day.
What is now known as “thoughtography,” also called “psychic photography,” is in essence the concept that images from the mind can be projected outward to be imprinted onto photographic film or plate, or even other objects such as paper and even stone. Basically, it is the idea that mental images can be preserved upon certain medium just as surely as any other photographic process, and while it may seem far-fetched the concept has been around f