Only 325 days until Broadway's Hilton Theater hosts the first preview of
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, a $40 million musical directed by Juliet Taymor with music and lyrics by Bono and The Edge of U2. Investors hope it will fare better than
another big-budget pulp adaptation.
posted by Joe Beese
on Feb 25, 2009 -
35 comments
..."imagine a painter who could, like Vermeer, capture the quality of light that a camera can, but with the color of paints...scanned with an ordinary office scanner"....Katinka Matson is cofounder of the brilliant and very readable ezine,
Edge. Her
digital art is featured there. Thumbnails of her 40
flowers. 12
flowers. Five
flowers. Red
anemone.
posted by nickyskye
on Jun 27, 2007 -
44 comments
edge.org publishes its annual question posed to its members. edge.org is an online sort of a digital roundtable for really smart
& famous types;
a flameless metafilter for the intellectually arrived.
Once each year, a global question is posed to its noteworthy members. This year's ?? is: Suppose GWB has appointed you National Science Advisor and then asks you "What are the pressing scientific issues for the nation and the world, and what is your advice on how I can begin to deal with them?"
Their's a boatload of interesting, insightful, sometimes humorous pieces written by a bunch of people. F'rinstance: Kurzweil on
cloned tissue spare parts, Clifford Pickover on
quantum dots, but among the most insightful is
Alan Alda (who knew?!)
posted by Fupped Duck
on Jan 6, 2003 -
29 comments
What Now? is a question answered by a number of a number of scientists and science writers at Edge.org, which asked them to point their vision towards the world to come.
Bruce Sterling assesses the probability of certain outcomes of strife between America and the Middle East.
Richard Dawkins writes about what we stand to lose if we are faced with a new Dark age.
Freeman Dyson offers chilling thoughts regarding his memories of joy while listening to the bombing of London as a teenager in London in 1940. Amongst those, and many other answers are statements
focusing on education, decentralization of resources, the power of consumerism, and a number of technological and social solutions. While it is important to look backwards for reasons, it's just as important to look forward. What will the future bring, and how can we act to shape that future?
posted by bragadocchio
on Oct 14, 2001 -
23 comments
