December 2010
41 posts
mills: Questions about Fighting →
mills:
One of the fundamentally false qualities of most narrative fiction -literary or cinematic- is its typically episodic structure. Because neither in prose nor in film can time be presented in its full, ceaseless fluidity, it is corralled into “scenes”; it is because we narrate our own lives…
yvynyl:
Findlay Brown - Promised Land
Ryan McGinley-inspired NSFW music videos shot in gorgeous retro TV video tones in the desert with hot babes, set to sexy neo-soul jams. Um, yes. Totally titillating and absolutely bloggable. Directed by Matthieu Tonetti.
Pick up the limited edition 10” gold colored wax of this song + remixes from Record Makers. Stream ‘em digital here.
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I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say that Bundick is one of the most...
– Jason Baxter, of The Stranger! and U.S.F on Chazwick Bundick, aka Toro Y Moi
CNN: British company is building sail powered... →
evsboats:
Very interesting enterprise. Considering that bunker-fuel-burning container ships are a leading cause of air pollution, this project is good news. Small ships, though, only 9000 tons, smaller even than some of the largest sail-powered cargo ships of 100 years ago. The rig is an old idea, a configuration called DynaShip designed in the 1970s by a German engineer named Willhelm Prolss....
La Blogotheque - Yellow Ostrich
Pitchfork Reviews Reviews: fuck tha world →
pitchforkreviewsreviews:
on valentine’s day, me and my ex-girlfriend emily went to dinner at this restaurant in williamsburg and then after dinner we took a cab home and as we’re going over the williamsburg bridge in the cab, she says she feels something and reaches into the crevice in between the back of the seat and…
THE WORLD IS DRUNK.
nedhepburn:
Kim Kardashian is famous and they picked the 2022 World Cup to go in a place where alcohol is against the law. The Black Eyed Peas are playing the superbowl and Eminem is up for record of the year.
Leslie Neilsen took the easy way out.
How an 11-Year Old Girl Convinced Lincoln to Grow... →
theatlantic:
In what has to go down as one of the all-time great moments of political image consulting, an 11-year old girl suggested to a fresh-faced Abe Lincoln that he grow a beard. And then he did. The website Letters of Note even has copies of the girl’s letter and Lincoln’s response. Beyond being the cutest historical footnote of all time, Ms. Grace Bedell, had some solid reasoning...
Sunday passed and Monday came, and a crowd of visitors thronged the house....
– G.W. Putnam chronicles Charles Dickens’ visit to America in “Four Months with Charles Dickens” (The Atlantic, October 1870).
Read the whole story here.
(via theatlantic)