Locals vs. Tourists posted on August 3rd, 2010
Eric Fischer maps Flickr pictures taken by city locals (in blue) against those taken by tourists (in red).
Here’s my town. Find yours.
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Aaron KOPFF
The Best Magazine Articles Ever posted on August 1st, 2010
The following are some dude’s Top 7 suggestions for the best magazine articles (in English) ever.
The full list can be seen HERE.
David Foster Wallace, “Federer As Religious Experience.” The New York Times, Play Magazine, August 20, 2006.
David Foster Wallace, “Consider the Lobster.” Gourmet Magazine, Aug 2004.
Neal Stephenson, “Mother Earth, Mother Board: Wiring the Planet.” Wired, December 1996. On laying trans-oceanic fiber optic cable.
Gay Talese, “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold.” Esquire, April 1966.
Ron Rosenbaum, “Secrets of the Little Blue Box.” Esquire, October 1971. The first and best account of telephone hackers, more amazing than you might believe.
Jon Krakauer, “Death of an Innocent: How Christopher McCandless Lost His Way in the Wilds.” Outside Magazine, January 1993. Article that became Into the Wild.
Edward Jay Epstein, “Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond?“Atlantic Magazine, February 1982. Diamonds, De Beers, monopoly & marketing.
MARILYN MINTER official trailer for “Green Pink Caviar” posted on July 30th, 2010
Sock Tease After Dark posted on July 29th, 2010
My latest film “Sock Tease” is having it’s World Premiere at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival August 18th, 2010, 7pm at the Bloor Cinema. Come out and be teased.
“You know, we can’t help the way we’re born. Moving to a new school can be a jarring experience, particularly if you are a sock. A tale of identity, sex and thread count. It only gets weirder.” - Toronto After Dark crew
Fuck Jeff Goldblum, man! posted on July 27th, 2010
This a re-post but too good to miss.
(1) Can James Franco possibly be for real? (2) If he is, then—just logistically—how is all this possible? He’s just flown back from Berlin this afternoon, he says, and he has a 35-page paper due tomorrow. Next weekend he has to shoot a student film, because in two weeks he’ll be flying out to Salt Lake City to start acting in a movie called 127 Hours, director Danny Boyle’s follow-up to Slumdog Millionaire, in which Franco will play a hiker who gets pinned by a boulder and has to amputate his own arm. Revisions are due soon on his book of short stories, which will be published in October by Scribner. He’s trying to nail down the details of an art show that will be based, somehow, on his recent performance on the soap opera General Hospital. Also, he has class every day, which—since he’s enrolled in four graduate programs at once—requires commuting among Brooklyn, Greenwich Village, Morningside Heights, and occasionally North Carolina.
Legacy posted on July 25th, 2010
The legendary electronic dance music duo Daft Punk are creating the soundtrack for the reboot of Disney’s TRON Legacy. Here is a taste of six instrumental bits they composed for the film.
The music is EPIC!
Play them off Keyboard Cat posted on July 24th, 2010
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and YouTube, the world’s largest online video community, today announced the distinguished jury for YouTube Play, a biennial of creative video presented in collaboration with HP and Intel and conceived to discover and showcase the most exceptional talent working in the ever-expanding realm of online video. The jury includes performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson; music group Animal Collective, featuring Deakin (Josh Dibb), Geologist (Brian Weitz), and Panda Bear (Noah Lennox); filmmaker Darren Aronofsky; visual artists Douglas Gordon, Ryan McGinley, Marilyn Minter, and Takashi Murakami; artists and filmmakers Shirin Neshat and Apichatpong Weerasethakul; and graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister, with Guggenheim Chief Curator and Deputy Director Nancy Spector serving as jury chairperson.
Since YouTube Play was announced on June 14, 2010, more than 6,600 videos have been submitted from around the world, attracting more than 2.6 million viewers to the YouTube Play channel to date.
reckoner posted on July 22nd, 2010
The Nature Sounds Player posted on July 20th, 2010
I want to listen to the warm crackle of a campfire on the beach as my cat purrs curled in my lap sheltering himself from the thunder.
Create your own soothing mix to read, write or meditate to.
