Kris Nolte

he totally went for it! pretty awesome.

soupsoup:

inothernews:

Hader is insane.

glynnis:

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Amelia: style icon.

optimisto:

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good call brian, need to start doing this myself.

Jon Stewart on Rick Sanchez

“By the way, 9 meters in English is?”

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ostermayer:

bostonbigpicture:

Earthquake in Chile

documentary:

Lonely Boy is a 1962 cinema verite documentary about former teen sensation Paul Anka. The film takes its name from Anka’s hit song, Lonely Boy, which he performs to screaming fans in the film. This short documentary is also unique for its use of hand-held cameras to record intimate backstage moments.
Co-directed by Roman Kroitor and Wolf Koenig, this National Film Board of Canada production won a Canadian Film Award as top film of the year and was nominated at the BAFTA Awards for its best short film prize.

the full video is available here.

the highlights for me: how frank everyone is in discussing how paul anka was marketed (his nose job, careful hair styling, etc), the interactions with the camera crew (“can you re-do that kiss? we didn’t catch it!”, a hilarious moment with anka and a club owner), and the very ending, where anka and his entourage hint at the real reason they enjoy being famous and on the road (teenage girls).

British authorities have apparently started take cues from A Clockwork Orange to punish youngsters.

In January it was revealed that West Park School, in Derby in the midlands of England, was “subjecting” (its words) badly behaved children to Mozart and others. In “special detentions,” the children are forced to endure two hours of classical music both as a relaxant (the headmaster claims it calms them down) and as a deterrent against future bad behavior (apparently the number of disruptive pupils has fallen by 60 per cent since the detentions were introduced.)

One news report says some of the children who have endured this Mozart authoritarianism now find classical music unbearable. As one critical commentator said, they will probably “go into adulthood associating great music—the most bewitchingly lovely sounds on Earth—with a punitive slap on the chops.” This is what passes for education in Britain today: teaching kids to think “Danger!” whenever they hear Mozart’s Requiem or some other piece of musical genius.

Read/Listen here

szymon:

the airplane clothes hangar… literally

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glynnis:

Cookie splash! v2 (via Siebe)

cab calloway- reeferman

kinda tempted to do this for my recital…

A perfectly backwards approach towards education reform. Surprised I haven’t heard about “school gardens” sooner.. A neat concept I guess, but maybe something best left for early childhood to instill the habit and work ethic of growing food, while leaving pre-college as a time for more heavy critical thinking.. Naturally grown (that is, real) food’s important, and should be more highly advocated, but not to the exclusion of learning about the rest of what the world had to offer.

not generally a maddow watcher, but this seems like pretty legit/scary commentary..

rachel maddow-on the tea party and the proposal to re-instate literacy tests

peetypassion:

JDS architects: experiencing the void

architecture turned into enjoyment and participation.
instead of contemplating the void of the guggenheim museum’s central space, JDS architects have proposed an experience which sees a trampoline net spiraling down the institution’s rotunda. this idea plays on frank lloyd wright’s original scenography for the guggenheim in which he envisioned patrons visiting the exhibition from the top, downwards.

how to: victory gardens

awesome…a spot-on deconstruction

makenosound:

Charlie Brooker gives a quick how-to on reporting the news.

heatherwis:

Well I guess no one on the internet fucking likes salad, so here’s some pug bread. I didn’t make it, no idea who to credit this to, but I’m definitely gonna replace the broccoli with pugs now.

lifeofbk:

paulscheer:

This is one of the best things I’ve seen in a long time. Check out this ridiculous violent and amazingly insane intro video for an Alaskan College Hockey Team.

This is most violent polar bear I’ve ever seen.

This is absolutely amazing.

neat idea the from Times’ Well Blog

(via Letters of Note)

In November of 1905, an enraged Mark Twain sent this superb letter to J. H. Todd, a patent medicine salesman who had just attempted to sell bogus medicine to the author by way of a letter and leaflet delivered to his home. According to the literature Twain received (p1,p2,p3,p4), the ‘medicine’ in question - The Elixir of Life - could cure such ailments as meningitis (which had previously killed Twain’s daughter in 1896) and diphtheria (which had also killed his 19-month-old son). Twain, himself of ill-health at the time and very recently widowed after his wife suffered heart failure, was understandably furious and dictated the following letter to his secretary, which he then signed.

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Nov. 20. 1905

J. H. Todd 
1212 Webster St.
San Francisco, Cal.

Dear Sir,

Your letter is an insoluble puzzle to me. The handwriting is good and exhibits considerable character, and there are even traces of intelligence in what you say, yet the letter and the accompanying advertisements profess to be the work of the same hand. The person who wrote the advertisements is without doubt the most ignorant person now alive on the planet; also without doubt he is an idiot, an idiot of the 33rd degree, and scion of an ancestral procession of idiots stretching back to the Missing Link. It puzzles me to make out how the same hand could have constructed your letter and your advertisements. Puzzles fret me, puzzles annoy me, puzzles exasperate me; and always, for a moment, they arouse in me an unkind state of mind toward the person who has puzzled me. A few moments from now my resentment will have faded and passed and I shall probably even be praying for you; but while there is yet time I hasten to wish that you may take a dose of your own poison by mistake, and enter swiftly into the damnation which you and all other patent medicine assassins have so remorselessly earned and do so richly deserve.

Adieu, adieu, adieu!

Mark Twain

The House is Black by Forough Farrokhzad

A fascinating poetical film assembled in the mid 60s by a young Iranian woman to explore the lives of those suffering from leprosy. Watch in full screen since the quality’s pretty rough.  More info below…

Part 2

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Google Video description:

The House is Black (Persian: خانه سیاه است, Khaneh siah ast) is an acclaimed Iranian short film directed by Forough Farrokhzad. The film is a look at life and suffering in a leper colony and focusses on the human condition and the beauty of creation.[1] It is spliced with Farrokhzad’s narration of quotes from the Old Testament, the Koran and her own poetry. It was the only film she directed before her death in 1967. During the shooting she became attached to a child of two lepers, whom she later adopted. Although the film attracted little attention outside Iran when released, it has since been recognised as a landmark in Iranian film. Reviewer Eric Henderson described the film; “One of the prototypal essay films, The House is Black paved the way for the Iranian New Wave.”

Maidstone Young Bird National Pigeon Race, Maidstone, Kent, 13th September 2008

also from Simon Robert’s We English

dailymeh:

Since I get bored with pastoral landscapes pretty quickly, this is probably the picture I like the most from Simon Roberts’s We English: the cheery yet muted colors, the geometry, the lonely old man in the lower right. While I’m kind of ambivalent about many of these pictures, there’s one part of the project I can’t commend enough: the exemplary website. There’s no flash to be seen, the navigation is easy, every image in the book is there, large, without watermarks, and there’s a lot of information (a blog, and so on), but it doesn’t overwhelm you.

Those may seem obvious, but unfortunately, photographers’ websites often look or feel like it’s 1997.

frontline: a class divided

a fascinating lesson/social experiment conducted in 1968 by a ballsy 3rd grade teacher in response to martin luther king jr.’s assasination. the most important and fascinating videos i’ve seen. definitely take the time to watch the whole thing. it’s interesting to see the original experiment tested on a group of adults 20 yrs later.

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tmblg:

Fishing Show Bloopers

makenosound:

Sluice, 2009, one in a series of beautiful feathered sculptures from Kate MccGwire.

jamesdevito:

jyk:

ADAM SCHATZ^^

^^THOMAS WHITE

^^SAMER GHADRY

glynnis:

Auto-Tune the Science.

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ilovelacrymosa:

bubble pop!

glynnis:

Mayo Clinic atrium piano, charming older couple… (via joannagoddard)

I think I’ve posted this before, but I just came across it again.  If this is what life at 90 is like, sign me up.

snow kiting…brilliant!

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dailycrack:

Hall & Oates - She’s Gone

First off, John Oates has an all-time great mustache.  Hall & Oates did it big in the late 70s and early 80s.  Everything else has came back from that time, so let’s bring back John Oates’ mustache.  So the last couple of days i’ve been stuck and a hall & oates state of mind.  I really want to go to a karaoke bar and do the whole catalog.  The song featured above is one where John Oates takes more a singing role and sings about a lost lover.  They truly go for it here and it’s lovely 80s ballad cheese, enjoy.

-schwing

Everybody’s high on consolation
Everybody’s trying to tell me what’s right for me
My daddy tried to bore me with a sermon
but it’s plain to see that they can’t comfort me

Sorry Charlie for the imposition
I think I’ve got it, got the strength to carry on
I need a drink and a quick decision
Now it’s up to me, ooh what will be

Chorus:
She’s Gone Oh I, Oh I’d
better learn how to face it
She’s Gone Oh I, Oh I’d
pay the devil to replace her
She’s Gone - what went wrong

Up in the morning look in the mirror
I’m worn as her tooth brush hanging in the stand
my face ain’t looking any younger
now I can see love’s taken her toll on me

She’s Gone

Think I’ll spend eternity in the city
let the carbon and monoxide choke my thoughts away
and pretty bodies help dissolve the memories
but they can never be what she was to me

She’s Gone

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kjohnstone:

tropicanastasia:

acarolena:

soupsoup:

Hakuna Matata

I literally GASPED when I saw this.

hilariously absurd jazz opera from japan (apparently from a mid-80’s TV special)

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glynnis:

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Pisa Pushers remains my favorite group on flickr to date.  If I ever go to Pisa, you can bet that I will come away with plenty of photos like this one.

betterbox:

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soupsoup:

ladymisskate:

Dear Santa,

Still waiting.

I’m getting impatient dude.

Love, Kate

neat article by Roger Sandall, check it out

(via Arts and Letters Daily)

Marco Breuer Spin (C-813)

25th., September 1967

Dear Sandra,

When I called in this, my manager’s office, a few moments ago I was handed my very first American fan letter - and it was from you. I was so pleased that I had to sit down and type an immediate reply, even though Ken is shouting at me to get on with a script he badly needs. That can wiat (wi-at? That’s a new English word which means wait).

I’ve been waiting for some reaction to the album from American listeners. There were reviews in Billboard and Cash Box, but they were by professional critics and they rarely reflect the opinions of the public. The critics were very flattering however. They even liked the single “Love You Till Tuesday”. I’ve got a copy of the American album and they’ve printed the picture a little yellow. I’m really not that blond. I think the picture on the back is more ‘me’. Hope you like those enclosed.

In answer to your questions, my real name is David Jones and I don’t have to tell you why I changed it. “Nobody’s going to make a monkey out of you” said my manager. My birthday is January 8th and I guess I’m 5’10”. There is a Fan Club here in England, but if things go well in the States then we’ll have one there I suppose. It’s a little early to even think about it.

I hope one day to get to America. My manager tells me lots about it as he has been there many times with other acts he manages. I was watching an old film on TV the other night called “No Down Payment” a great film, but rather depressing if it is a true reflection of The American Way Of Life. However, shortly after that they showed a documentary about Robert Frost the American poet, filmed mainly at his home in Vermont, and that evened the score. I am sure that that is nearer the real America. I made my first movie last week. Just a fifteen minutes short, but it gave me some good experience for a full length deal I have starting in January.

Thankyou for being so kind as to write to me and do please write again and let me know some more about yourself.

Yours sincerely,

(Signed, ‘David Bowie’)

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thanks jeff!

soupsoup:

rillawafers:

this is why they hate us. (via marco)

neighborhoodr:

randomnyc:

Times Square, 1950.

(via Walk in New York)

Amazing, no?

anyone else see a pair of eyes? (click through for full res)

cool!

‘Kazuki Takamatsu mixes traditional and modern techniques. From one hand he uses gouache, hand painted monochromed based objects whilst from the other hand he uses “Depth Map” a technique where every pixel on the object is a shade of gray that is proportional to its distance from the object looking at it. The match of these two techniques give a real sense of surrealism and astonishing depth.’

betterbox:

the beautiful night of depth by kazuki takamatsu

systems:

tobia:

betonbabe:

JENS REINERT

“UNTERFÜHRUNG”, 2003