December 2010
44 posts
Watchvia everything is terrible.
WatchClip from Frederick Wiseman’s High School. Related.
WatchA+ short film, Twist & Blood, from Poland, screening at Slamdance 2011.
Nature's Spoils →
Katz was on his way to the Green Path, a gathering of herbalists, foragers, raw-milk drinkers, and roadkill eaters in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains.
WatchAlso screening at Slamdance 2011.
What does procrastination tell us about ourselves?... →
You may have thought, the last time you blew off work on a presentation to watch “How I Met Your Mother,” that you were just slacking. But from another angle you were actually engaging in a practice that illuminates the fluidity of human identity and the complicated relationship human beings have to time.
Arsenic Aliens →
“It’s like if you or I morphed into fully functioning cyborgs after being thrown into a room of electronic scrap with nothing to eat,” he said.
Sundance 2011 Lineup →
The upcoming Sundance Film Festival is taking shape with the titles programmed for its non-competition slots unveiled today following the announcement of its competition sections yesterday.
Note: I (J.G.) will be in Park City from Jan 19 - 28, let’s hang out!
Raymond Chandler 2010 →
In a rundown apartment house, located in a bleak part of Hollywood, the mystery of Ronni Chasen’s murder deepened Wednesday night when a man police say they believe was connected to the publicist’s killing shot himself around 5:30 p.m., as officers got ready to serve a search warrant.
200 Years in 4 Minutes →
Via the BBC, Hans Rosling examines the correlation between income growth and life expectancy in 200 countries over the last 200 hundred years in an amazing animation.
Colonel Roosevelt →
Not even a point-blank bullet to the chest fired by a would-be assassin weeks before the election — miraculously blunted by the rolled-up text of a speech he was about to give in Milwaukee, and indeed did give — could slow him down.
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