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Stanley Kubrick's Boxes:
is it possible to get to understand such a man – and his extraordinary working methods – by looking through the hundreds of boxes he left behind?
posted to MetaFilter by carsonb
at 2:40 PM on August 2, 2008
(18 comments)
Please suggest helpful books on the grieving process for a twentysomething who just lost her mom.
posted to Ask Metafilter by CwgrlUp
at 10:31 AM on July 26, 2008
(15 comments)
Are there any good website where they analyze a movie thoroughly just as though you are in a film class (from cinematic, philosophical, psychological, etc. perspectives)?
posted to Ask Metafilter by clueless22
at 8:26 AM on July 25, 2008
(7 comments)
Cake Wrecks.
"When professional cakes go horribly, hilariously wrong." [
via]
posted to MetaFilter by kolophon
at 4:57 PM on July 22, 2008
(69 comments)
Conversation starters needed for married couple's date night. The wife is a bit introverted and needs some prodding to get a conversation started... if it doesn't include career, kids or family.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Anonymous
at 8:09 AM on July 11, 2008
(19 comments)
Blood on the Mountain;
part 2. In 1981 Randall Smith killed two hikers along the
Appalachian Trail and served 15 years for second-degree murder. Two months ago Scott Johnston and Sean Farmer were camping along the trail when a man walked into their campsite. It was Randall Smith. And he was carrying a .22.
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 9:34 AM on July 9, 2008
(76 comments)
What are some exceptionally well-performed audiobooks?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Ambrosia Voyeur
at 1:24 PM on July 7, 2008
(78 comments)
In a 2001 University of Houston study of 153 survivors of nearly lethal attempts between the ages of 13 and 34, only 13 percent reported having contemplated their act for eight hours or longer. To the contrary, 70 percent set the interval between deciding to kill themselves and acting at less than an hour, including an astonishing 24 percent who pegged the interval at less than five minutes.
A surprising
article about the nature, methods, and deterrence of suicide.
posted to MetaFilter by Who_Am_I
at 11:41 AM on July 7, 2008
(69 comments)
What creative process is used to make professional movie trailers and how long does it take? Do the people making the trailer see the whole movie and pick the clips they want? Who picks the music? Is a specialized company hired to make it? I want to know as much as you can tell me!
posted to Ask Metafilter by alitorbati
at 12:01 PM on July 2, 2008
(3 comments)
I'm looking for supernatural mysteries!
posted to Ask Metafilter by giggleknickers
at 1:48 PM on July 2, 2008
(24 comments)
Joss Whedon's latest project is a family affair.
Seems that Mr. Whedon got a little bored during the writer's strike and called up some friends and family to help him make a low-budget web-series:
The story of a low-rent super-villain, the hero who keeps beating him up, and the cute girl from the laundromat he’s too shy to talk to. Featuring Neil Patrick Harris as Dr. Horrible, Nathan Fillion as Captain Hammer, Felicia Day as Penny and a cast of dozens. Written by Joss Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, Jed Whedon, and Zack Whedon. Directed by Joss Whedon. Produced by David Burns, Michael Boretz, and Joss Whedon. Music by Joss Whedon and Jed Whedon. Lyrics by Joss Whedon, Jed Whedon, and Maurissa Tancharoen. Score and Orchestration by Jed Whedon.
Make sure to watch the trailer, and read
Joss' announcement. And if you're so inclined, there's an
official MySpace page, and a
fan page.
posted to MetaFilter by vertigo25
at 3:09 PM on June 29, 2008
(93 comments)
What's the best bluetooth headset out there these days? Preferred specs inside.
posted to Ask Metafilter by piro
at 9:45 PM on June 12, 2008
(3 comments)
It began when Mr. Klinsky threw in his two cents, a vague request that a poem he had written for and about his family be lodged in a wall somewhere, Ms. Sherry said, “put in a bottle and hidden away as if it were a time capsule.”
Sometimes when you make a simple suggestion about the remodeling of your $8.5 million 5th Ave. apartment, the designer goes a little
overboard. In an awesome way. Don't miss the
slideshow.
posted to MetaFilter by Who_Am_I
at 7:03 AM on June 12, 2008
(81 comments)
With all the
crystal skulls,
nazca lines and such at the box office these days now might be the ideal time to reacquaint yourself with the theories of
Erich von Däniken. What better way to do it than by watching
William Shatners Mysteries of the Gods (
Pt. 1,
Pt. 2,
Pt. 3,
Pt. 4,
Pt. 5,
Pt. 6,
Pt. 7,
Pt. 8,
Pt. 9,
Pt. 10)
(MULTI LINK YOUTUBE SHATNERFEST)
posted to MetaFilter by Artw
at 10:00 PM on June 10, 2008
(28 comments)
NURSE CHILD WANTED, OR TO ADOPT -- The Advertiser, a Widow with a little family of her own, and moderate allowance from her late husband's friends, would be glad to accept the charge of a young child. Age no object. If sickly would receive a parent's care. Terms, Fifteen Shillings a month; or would adopt entirely if under two months for the small sum of Twelve pounds. This kindly nineteenth-century advertisement had a hidden meaning. If a woman paid her adoption fee to a
baby farmer and handed over her infant, no one ever had to worry about that baby, ever again.
posted to MetaFilter by Countess Elena
at 4:23 PM on June 7, 2008
(38 comments)
In 1948,
W. Eugene Smith, best known for his
brutally honest war photography, traveled to Kremmling, Colorado to document the life of a small town country doctor. The result, a
splendid piece for Life magazine, has been hailed as one of the first photo essays of the modern photojournalism age.
posted to MetaFilter by Slarty Bartfast
at 10:00 AM on June 2, 2008
(13 comments)
Peculiar corpses: "
Incorruptibles remaining free of decomposition have baffled scientists to this day. These bodies are discovered in many different environments, including environments that would typically cause an accidental or deliberately preserved corpse to decompose rapidly." The photographed examples seem to all be associated with Christian faith. Hmm. "[At Oratorio di San Lorenzo] in Palermo, however, corpses are treated as characters in a play":
The Museum of the Dead, reassuringly less preserved.
posted to MetaFilter by nthdegx
at 4:25 AM on May 30, 2008
(67 comments)
I'm looking for something really freaky to put on the tv at the bar I work at; video imagery to really make some hipster indie rocker kids say wtf when they notice it playing in the background-"holy mountain" and svenmahers"alice" are my usual standbys, but I know you Mefites know just the thing to make a standard night watching post rock bands just a little stranger.what visuals would you use, remembering that the sound of the movie won't be heard--
posted to Ask Metafilter by donabean
at 11:46 PM on May 16, 2008
(75 comments)
Got any good short, silly one-liner jokes?
posted to Ask Metafilter by angryjellybean
at 9:51 AM on November 23, 2007
(97 comments)
What's going on with
these two relationship threads?
posted to MetaTalk by mudpuppie
at 8:26 PM on May 1, 2008
(100 comments)
I have lately been hooked on
Glengarry Glen Ross and
The Big Kahuna, small casts with stellar scripts and casting. What other dialogue-heavy films in this vein should I be watching?
posted to Ask Metafilter by porn in the woods
at 6:26 PM on April 27, 2008
(59 comments)
How can I cope with feelings of guilt over a friend's recent suicide?
posted to Ask Metafilter by MaryDellamorte
at 12:24 PM on April 27, 2008
(21 comments)
Awaiting autopsy, the newly deceased lies supine, naked, on a metal table. The head is positioned as if the closed eyes were looking straight up. The arms are at the side. The knees and elbows are straight. The ankles are bent forward, not to the side, at an angle of about 45 degrees. I have seen the bodies this way of persons I had known, persons I had spoken with the previous day. And sometimes a live patient, consulting me for a physical examination, will lie the same way on the examination table, naked, looking up, arms at his side; and my thoughts turn to the autopsy suite. I wonder if I will someday see him too lying this way, recently cold, and I wonder about the complicated awful predicament of the physician.
Short essays by Charles Bardes, M.D. on the practice of medicine.
An appreciation of Charles Bardes by Sven Birkerts.
posted to MetaFilter by Kattullus
at 7:29 AM on April 24, 2008
(15 comments)
Does anyone have experience with self-treatment as an adult with dyscalculia? I think I may have it, and that I've had it all my life. Whether or not that's so, are there any tricks to "rewiring" yourself?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Anonymous
at 5:17 PM on April 22, 2008
(7 comments)
