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≡ Category: Books, Literature | ≅ 2 Comments
In 1965, the editor of The Nation asked Hunter S. Thompson to write a story about the Hell’s Angels Motorcycle Club, as they’re officially known. The article quickly led to a book deal, and, the next year, the Gonzo journalist published Hell’s Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs. Reviewing the book for [...]
≡ Category: Art, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ 1 Comment
Lucian Freud, distinguished artist and grandson of Sigmund Freud, died yesterday at the age of 88. The painter was best known for his contributions to figurative art and his uncompromising portraits, which The New York Times has collected in an impressive online gallery. Freud was also known for his rigorous (some would say cruel) demands on his [...]
≡ Category: Film, Random | ≅ Leave a Comment
Jeff Smith, an independent filmmaker from Indianapolis, must have spent quite a bit of time going through hundreds of movies to come up with his final montage of 120 movies containing the line “You just don’t get it, do you?”. If you want to invest some time as well, try to guess the movies first [...]
≡ Category: Random | ≅ Leave a Comment
As if your Twitter, Google +, and RSS feeds weren’t overwhelming enough, you can now watch a time lapse video of a year’s worth of The New York Times — in 12,000 screenshots. Enjoy, and try not get dizzy. via Gizmodo Related Content: Gay Talese: Drinking at New York Times Put Mad Men to Shame Hard [...]
≡ Category: Google, History | ≅ 3 Comments
During the final days of World War II, the United States dropped devastating atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. More than 65 years later, Hidenori Watanave, an associate professor of Tokyo Metropolitan University, has created a digital archive to preserve the memory of the Hiroshima bombing. A complement to the Nagasaki archive launched in 2010, the Hiroshima Archive layers historical resources [...]
≡ Category: Film, Music, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ 1 Comment
Being John Malkovich director and longtime Beastie Boys collaborator Spike Jonze has directed yet another music video for the band: A high-concept sci-fi extravaganza that features zombies, GI Joe action figures, and, as usual, a soundtrack with a pretty decent hook. The song is called “Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win,” and the [...]
≡ Category: Comedy | ≅ 21 Comments
Actor Jim Meskimen has appeared in his fair share of films — There Will Be Blood, Frost/Nixon and Magnolia, to name a few. But he’s perhaps best known for his work as an impressionist comedian. He does the voice of George W. Bush, and Morgan Freeman too. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. In his latest [...]
≡ Category: Film, Literature | ≅ 3 Comments
Combine Franz Kafka’s 1915 novella The Metamorphosis (get free etext here) with Frank Capra’s 1946 classic film, It’s a Wonderful Life, and what do you get? A rather remarkable absurdist short film. Directed by Peter Capaldi, Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life won an Oscar for Live Action Short Film in 1994, plus a BAFTA Award for Best Short [...]
≡ Category: Film, Science | ≅ Leave a Comment
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/6974132[/vimeo] Rob Shaw’s dark animated short The Machine was voted Best Film at last week’s Robot Film Festival in New York City.  The movie starts on what looks like a standard boy-makes-machine, machine-runs-amok, boy-kills-machine trajectory, but veers nicely off-course and ends on a note much more Sartre than Terminator. (Battlestar Galactica fans will see the twist coming from a mile [...]
≡ Category: Animation, Science, Technology | ≅ Leave a Comment
In his 2007 New Yorker essay on performance artist Chris Burden, the critic Peter Schjeldahl wrote that most of Burden’s oeuvre consisted of “powerful works that deal ingeniously with aesthetics and ethics of power.” Schjeldhal added that “you needn’t like them to be impressed,” and then described some of Burden’s more infamous pieces: He spent five days in [...]
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