November 2010
Werner Herzog Film: Cave of Forgotten Dreams →
3D doc about the caves at Chauvet. I always use those specific images from those specific caves to talk about the shortcomings and deficiencies of 2D reproduction, and what makes them genuine image magic.
And I’d prefer that 3D film didn’t try to capture it either. But if anyone, Herzog. If anything is going to be captured, better to be captured by Werner Herzog.
benjaminpalmer:
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“Back in January, I wrote about an Iranian nuclear scientist who was killed when...”
– News to me, and pretty amazing news, really. Two more Iran nuclear scientists attacked with bombs - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
“If you’re fifteen or so, today, I suspect that you inhabit a sort of endless...”
– William Gibson, Book Expo America 2010 Luncheon Talk (via kenyatta)
“For decades in art circles it was either a rumour or a joke, but now it is...”
– via culled, Modern art was CIA ‘weapon’, Frances Stonor Saunders, 1995.
“The real reason Apple offers free engraving is to weaken the secondary market....”
– Alex: “Clever take on why Apple offers free engravings. Makes total sense but I personally never made the connection.” (via arainert)
Wall Street, investment bankers, and social good :... →
File under duh, but still, at least the articles are being written. No one recalls that the first ever car bomb was on Wall Street, back in 1920, and that the rhetoric behind it wasn’t *so* very different from this (albeit at a higher pitch with a broader base.)
(Ok, it was a horse drawn wagon, not a car, but still. Still.)
dachesterfrench:
Good piece in the New Yorker about the dubious...
"War would be a lot safer, the Army says, if only... →
“Modern memory is, above all, archival. It relies entirely on the materiality of...”
– from Between Memory and History, Pierre Nora (via kenyatta)
“By all means, fight. Turning the other cheek isn’t required of love. Swords...”
– source unknown (via plsj)
Me: Everyone wants my fucking time today.
Evan: Well, don't start a company!
Up with which we will not put →
bobulate:
K. David Harris, linguist and film subject, answers, “what is lost when a language dies?”
When we lose a language, we lose centuries of human thinking about time, seasons, sea creatures, reindeer, edible flowers, mathematics, landscapes, myths, music, the unknown and the everyday. …. Each language is a unique expression of human creativity. We would be outraged if Notre Dame Cathedral...
“Wanna run for president? Quit your job, find a hot Hollywood reality-show...”
– Sarah Palin’s Media Strategy: Meghan McCain Praises Her - The Daily Beast (via apsies)
“How Do I DELETE the Picutres Taken During Dance? I was trying out the Kinect...”
– How Do I DELETE the Picutres Taken During Dance?
“Nielsen disclosed today that its online measurement system has been...”
– This is perfectly understandable UNLESS your business is 60 years old, and the web is 15 years old, and THIS IS YOUR ONLY JOB.
Nielsen Reports Under-Counting ‘Unique Visitors’ by 5% - Advertising Age - Digital
“Eli Roth has signed on to produce two horror projects for Cross Creek Pictures...”
– Eli Roth to Produce CLOWN
“Usage is like oxygen for ideas. You can never fully anticipate how an audience...”
– 1.0 Is the Loneliest Number — Matt Mullenweg (via Instapaper)
“Usage is like oxygen for ideas. You can never fully anticipate how an audience...”
– 1.0 Is the Loneliest Number — Matt Mullenweg (via Instapaper)
“But what’s left as we move from the indutrial to the post-industrial? At St...”
– The Makers of Leeds (via Instapaper)
“Wall Street is basically dedicated to eliminating jobs or outsourcing jobs in...”
– David Korten (via azspot)
Hard-Coding Bias in Google "Algorithmic" Search... →
Not endorsing this, btw, but interested in the thing for the AOCA.
It is well-known that the top-most algorithmic link enjoys a large share of search traffic — 34%+ according to Chitika. Meanwhile, even the second link gets less than half as many clicks — less than 17%. If these figures apply equally to Google’s hard-coded links, then every time Google puts its own link first, it takes a...
