June 2011
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May 2011
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Bibio - Anything New
Great summer record from...
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April 2011
7 posts
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TV on the Radio - Will Do (Additional remix...
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“And if I die—God forbid—I would like to go to heaven to ask somebody in charge up there, ‘Hey, what was the good news and what was the bad news?’”
- Kurt Vonnegut
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Words I Forget: Trompe-l'œil
Trompe-l’œil is an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects appear in three dimensions.
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March 2011
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“If you owned a telescope that would open up the entire universe for you would you try to find reason for not looking through it? […] I dare you all, test your strength: Open a book.”
- Chuck Jones via Letters of Note
February 2011
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The Social Network - 2/5
Kind of way too long.
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An Excerpt from The Stranger by Albert Camus
Marie came that evening and asked me if I’d marry her. I said I didn’t mind; if she was keen on it, we’d get married.
Then she asked me again if I loved her. I replied, much as before, that her question meant nothing or next to nothing—but I supposed I didn’t.
“If that’s how you feel,” she said, “why marry me?”
I explained that it had no importance really, but, if it would give her pleasure,...
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Guillermo del Toro’s Amazing Creatures : The New Yorker
A great, long, New Yorker piece about Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy, Pan’s Labyrinth).
Some quotes:
On working with source materials:
“It’s like marrying a widow. You try to be respectful of the memory of the dead husband, but come Saturday night … bam.”
On script writing and The Shining:
“You’re reading, ‘Danny rides his...
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Howlin’ for You - The Black Keys
The Black Keys music video for ‘Howlin’ for You’ is a fantastic faux grindhouse trailer.
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Watchnialler9:
So it turns out James Blake’s Wilhelm Scream is a cover too. Feeling a little duped.. He borrowed it from a James Litherland tune which his dad produced.
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Hear Great Upcoming 2011 Releases Now
The Strokes - Under Cover of Darkness (Single) [Youtube]
Toro Y Moi - Underneath the Pine [Urban Outfitters]
Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will [Rolling Stone]
…And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Tao of the Dead [Spinner]
Words I Forget: Skeuomorph
A skeuomorph is a derivative object which retains ornamental design cues to a structure that was necessary in the original. Skeuomorphs may be deliberately employed to make the new look comfortably old and familiar, such as copper cladding on zinc pennies.
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“I’ve never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as...”
– Stanley Kubrick’s Acceptance of the DW Griffith Award