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So I was reading
this, and thought it would make an interesting visualization for MeFi statistics. Pretty pictures inside.
posted to MetaTalk by Galvatron
at 4:48 PM on August 3, 2008
(54 comments)
Spy music! Whether it's
Lalo Schifrin's theme for
Mission Impossible, or
Jerry Goldsmith's theme for
Man from U.N.C.L.E., or the greatest of them all,
John Barry's iconic
James Bond theme, you know it when you hear it. Now, for my money, the best spy music in
recent years wasn't from a spy movie at all, but an animated superhero film: the action-packed
theme and soundtrack for
The Incredibles, in which the very talented
Michael Giacchino was clearly (and brilliantly)
channeling John Barry. And of course, you'll all want to head over
here and see what your fellow MeFiers have lately been doing with the genre.
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posted to MetaFilter by flapjax at midnite
at 7:18 AM on August 1, 2008
(54 comments)
For years,
Wired magazine has tapped a bevy of designers and artists in the tech field to craft detailed visions of futuristic objects for a monthly showcase at the close of each issue. Now, after
hinting as much in the July edition, it is clear that that the tradition of FOUND
has been brought to an end. What better way to say goodbye to this whimsical feature than by taking a look back at the full archived run of the series?
posted to MetaFilter by Rhaomi
at 5:42 PM on July 22, 2008
(29 comments)
In the summer of 1897, the Devil transported a
minor Decadent poet named Enoch Soames one hundred years into the future to see what posterity would make of
his work. The only witness to the affair was the parodist
Max Beerbohm, whose
account of Soames and his journey ensured that at 2:10 P.M. on June 7, 1997, some dozen pilgrims waited in the Round Reading Room of the British Museum
to see the poet appear...
posted to MetaFilter by Iridic
at 10:58 AM on July 22, 2008
(26 comments)
David Cerny:
frilly pink tanks,
babies climbing TV towers, and the president feeding slops to the director of the national gallery out of
giant asses. Why, this could only be the NEA gone awry!
Actually, it’s
Magic Prague, the land of
Franz Kafka and
Milan Kundera, and the artist, like the dissidents of past generations, would rather not do political art ,
political art. His latest sculpture ridicules the perverse situation in which the country finds itself post Havel: a place where right-wingers like
President Klaus and national gallery director Milan Knížák— a past collaborator with secret police, and worse,
completely idiotic and banal performance artist — prosper and rub shoulders at the expense of those with a conscience and good taste. Like
David Cerny.
This isn’t the freshest post, but I’ve been waiting to join Mefi for a long time, and today is the first day I can post.
posted to MetaFilter by gesamtkunstwerk
at 7:01 PM on April 9, 2004
(4 comments)
After 80 years, a complete version of Fritz Lang's
Metropolis has
been discovered in Buenos Aires.
posted to MetaFilter by Nathaniel W
at 2:27 PM on July 2, 2008
(81 comments)
Back in the 80s DiC produced a cartoon, aired in syndication and on ABC Saturday Mornings, called "
The Real Ghostbusters." Based on the popular action-comedy movie, it more-or-less continued the adventures of Ray, Egon, Winston and
Garfield Peter through seven seasons of supernatural shenanigans. It could have been a mere cash-in, but there was something more to it. It aspired to realism, at least as much as possible. It was story-edited by
J. Michael Straczynski, the creator of Babylon 5. (He also worked on
He-Man and
Murder She Wrote!)
This may explain the second season episode, written by
Michael Reaves and rife with Lovecraft references, in which the Ghostbusters face down the Cthulhu cult.
Part 1 -
Part 2 -
Part 3
posted to MetaFilter by JHarris
at 3:29 AM on June 25, 2008
(64 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)
Blackboards
were wiped after use: they were meant for immediate communication, not for record. Even as they were being used, their messages were continuously revised, erased and renewed. But when Einstein came to Oxford in 1931, he was already an international celebrity. After one of his lectures a blackboard was preserved and has become a kind of relic. It is the most famous object in this Museum.
posted to MetaFilter by Fizz
at 7:37 AM on June 12, 2008
(50 comments)
At least it will sound like I'm furiously busy as I fritter away the rest of the afternoon racing.
TypeRacing!
posted to MetaFilter by BoatMeme
at 12:51 PM on April 24, 2008
(90 comments)
Monsieur, you vill not speak disrespectfully of a member of ze family! It is a boon travelling companion, without which I do not function, I cannot operate. It has been with me for 21 years, zis thing, this chair!
Glenn Gould performed for 21 years seated in a folding card chair modified by his father to be height adjustable. That one
chair accompanied him around the world in support of each of his recordings and performances, and now resides on a pedestal at the National Library of Canada. Luckily, exact replicas of the skeletal, cushion-less chair
are available for only €990.
posted to MetaFilter by carsonb
at 10:00 PM on April 16, 2008
(20 comments)
28 Hours in Jyväskylä
Filmed at locations in and around Jyväskylä, a city in Central Finland. The idea was to show city life in a way that no-one normally experiences it - in time-lapse, often shot from roofs and masts. [
Shorter version on youtube]
posted to MetaFilter by gomichild
at 11:12 PM on April 14, 2008
(27 comments)
What is the iconic (or just "your favorite") dead-tree product catalog (listing of merchandise for mail-order sale) for your hobby, industry, or trade?
posted to Ask Metafilter by cadastral
at 9:23 AM on April 1, 2008
(73 comments)
Wearing an
old-fashioned diving suit,
William "Diver Bill" Walker worked in 14 feet of murky water beneath
Winchester Cathedral, digging out the old timber and peat foundations and replacing them with bags of concrete cement and concrete blocks. Staying
underwater six hours per day for five years (1906-1911), Diver Bill moved 25,800 bags of concrete and laid 114,900 concrete blocks, saving the Norman building from certain collapse.
posted to MetaFilter by chuckdarwin
at 2:40 PM on April 9, 2008
(38 comments)
If you had HBO in the 80's, you saw
this every night at 8pm. HBO put together a brief behind-the-scenes
featurette showing everything from the construction of the models to the composition of the music.
posted to MetaFilter by dr_dank
at 12:05 PM on March 15, 2008
(63 comments)
