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≡Koyaanisqatsi
Sunday, March 16, 2008
I watched Koyaanisqatsi this weekend. It’s got a lot of cool footage and overall it was worth watching. But part of the problem with the message (that we live a “crazy life,” a “life out of balance”) is that it’s so dependent on the soundtrack.
A lot of it made me think of those time-lapse videos [...]
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008
A slideshow of the dented, crumpled, and/or burning wreckage of expensive/exotic cars.
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Wednesday, March 5, 2008
A tour of a 100-square-foot house owned by Jay of the Tumbleweed Tiny House Company.
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Tuesday, March 4, 2008
I watched the Woody Allen film Sleeper this past weekend and still can’t get over the scene with the giant food.
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Tuesday, March 4, 2008
About 20 years ago, The Orb released “Little Fluffy Clouds,” a great tune that samples a hilarious interview with Rickie Lee Jones and the music of Steve Reich. A friend of mine shared a worthy parody, “Grey Clouds.”
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Tuesday, February 5, 2008
A strong critique of The King of Kong. Interesting bit of controversy there. I still loved it.
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Monday, February 4, 2008
Video mash-up of political candidates talking about “Change” (ugh) + David Bowie’s song, “Changes.”
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008
I grow to love Ill Doctrine more with every post, like his take on the Clinton/Obama handshake controversy.
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Sunday, January 20, 2008
Uncounted: The New Math of American Elections is a new documentary about voting manipulation and the disastrous state of our polling systems. The trailer strikes a balance of citizen activism and paranoia that I usually get a kick out of.
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Sunday, January 13, 2008
When Bela Fleck gets an idea for a song that he can’t develop completely at the time, he calls himself and leaves a voice mail.
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Sunday, January 6, 2008
Paul Festa left a comment that his film, Apparition of the Eternal Church (trailer), will be playing in Athens, Georgia on January 30, and showing across the south in the following week. I’ve got it on my calendar.
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Saturday, January 5, 2008
A video montage of almost all the uses of Turbo Boost in the Knight Rider television show. I used to watch Knight Rider religiously. [via waxy]
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Monday, December 10, 2007
Geometry of Circles is a series of animated shorts that appeared on Sesame street in the late 1970s, with music by Philip Glass. Someone put together four of the Geometry of Circles videos for your enjoyment on YouTube. [via lined & unlined]
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Sunday, December 9, 2007
Yesterday I stumbled on the I Want to See That! podcast—wherein Ben Brown and Katie Spence review upcoming movies they haven’t seen. Ill-rehearsed and delightful to watch.
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Saturday, December 1, 2007
The Web that Wasn’t: Alex Wright talks about precursors and alternatives to the web we know.
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Sunday, November 25, 2007
I’d never thought to look for it before, but I wish I had: interviewer Charlie Rose has an amazing online archive.
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Thursday, November 22, 2007
A video of lions vs. crocodile vs. water buffalo. Really cool multi-species rivalry. [via dooce]
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007
There’s going to be a movie version of The Surrogates, starring Bruce Willis (see my review of The Surrogates). I really, really liked the comics, especially because I haven’t found a lot of decent scifi. Very cool book—I hope those Hollywood folks treat it kindly.
By the by, the publishers of The Surrogates, Top Shelf Productions, [...]
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Monday, November 19, 2007
“I’ve never found a girl at a museum… but I do look because the kind of girls I like theoretically should show up there.” -Woody Allen
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Monday, November 19, 2007
Is it me, or is there subversive body language in this Apple promo video? I was watching the iPod Touch guided tour, and I noticed that our friendly host keeps moving his head left and right, as if to express disagreement. It’s incredibly distracting.
≡Helvetica, the film
Friday, November 9, 2007
Just got back from the local Helvetica screening (presented by AIGA-Atlanta, sponsored by the Art Institute of Atlanta). It was good, but not great. Pretty cool for a relative noob like myself to see Helvetica’s role in design over the past half-century. But I wish there was a little more nitty-gritty talk about how it [...]
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Thursday, November 8, 2007
Jimmy Carter: Man from Plains. I like Jimmy (I got my picture taken with him down in Plains, like thousands of others). But from the trailer, I’m not sure if that movie will be really interesting or dreadfully boring.
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Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Air Guitar Nation is a recent film about the U.S. Air Guitar Championships. Could be a lot of fun. Reminds me a bit of The King of Kong, what with the whole rivalry-within-a-niche-culture thing.
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Saturday, November 3, 2007
I’ve never watched the show before, but after reading this article about The Wire, I think I need to track down a few episodes. [via andrea harner]
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007
A few days ago I watched La Jetée (on Google Video). It’s almost entirely composed of still photographs, just a half-hour science fiction montage with narration. Not bad.
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Monday, October 8, 2007
The Museum of Reading has the entire Bayeux Tapestry online with explanatory notes. And on YouTube there’s a pretty sweet semi-animated version that scrolls across the latter half of the 230-foot tapestry.
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