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Where the Garbage goes

sgt.serenity — Wed, 29 May 2013 13:14:05 -0800

I wonder where the garbage goes ? (slyt)

Danger Zone: On Archer's Underground Comix Roots

Room 641-A — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 10:40:54 -0800

Charles Bock examines how underground comics helped give rise to TV's Archer and reviews the series in a post-Sideshow Bob world. (First link contains NSWF embedded YT videos.)

WHAT IS

mysticreferee — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 18:47:34 -0800

What is the Internet anyway? What is Internet, anyway? What is the Internet? What is the Internet, really? BONUS SHOW PLUG: Well if it's OK with the HAWK!

Challah.

roomthreeseventeen — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 09:02:28 -0800

Daniel's Bar Mitzvah Save the Date (SLYT)

The Beatles Performing Shakespeare

nickyskye — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 06:02:11 -0800

The Beatles Performing Shakespeare. In 1964, the Fab Four added another art under their belt — live theater — when they performed Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” in color, to the sound of shouting hecklers (scripted, part of the play) and someone yelling “Go back to Liverpool!” (unscripted, decidedly unshakespearean).

The Fact of the Matter?

FatRabbit — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:06:01 -0800

On September 24th Radiolab posted a new episode, The Fact of the Matter. It included a segment titled Yellow Rain. Radiolab's website says that it's "a detective story from the Cold War, about a mysterious substance that fell from the sky in Southeast Asia at the end of the Vietnam war." Robert Krulwich's interview with two of the segment's guests has prompted outrage at his treatment of them. One of the guests, writer Kao Kalia Yang, talked with Hyphen Magazine.

The Maker

Queen of Spreadable Fats — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 20:53:22 -0800

The Maker. A gorgeous short stop-motion animation about a creature who has only one important mission (SLYT) Find the animator at this website. (Might remind you just a little of Ladyhawke)

A Bend in the River

rageagainsttherobots — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 10:07:31 -0800

Explore the subtext of the London Skyline through a journey down the Thames with Caryl Phillips and an exquisite photographer.

Nothing's changed

mysticreferee — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 11:21:00 -0800

The Smiths are never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever going to reunite - ever. See also: ... never, ever, ever, ever ... even if a vegetarian Coachella happens. ... ever, ever, ever ...

An American woman no longer has a private image to tell her who she is, or can be, or wants to be."

roomthreeseventeen — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 07:41:36 -0800

In 2008, Nebraska decriminalized child abandonment. Within just weeks of the law passing, parents started dropping off their kids. But here's the rub: None of them were infants. Twenty-two of the children were over 13 years old. The Atlantic explores why not wanting kids is totally normal.

Would it spoil some vast eternal plan?

roomthreeseventeen — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 12:51:35 -0800

The Osmonds' 1974 Fiddler on the Roof medley (SLYT)

A photographic essay on modern day Slavery

HopStopDon'tShop — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:16:12 -0800

Lisa Kristine, a photographer, gives a thoughtful and very moving talk on the extent of modern day slavery in this TEDx talk. The photos she shows are absolutely beautiful and the bare-bones stories behind them are exceptionally hard to hear at times. The group she is working with, Free the Slaves, seems to be doing a lot of good work and working on real solutions for the people involved (such as the one example she gives where the slaves that were freed carried on doing the same work, the only work they had ever known, but rent the quarry themselves and are now the recipients of the profits etc). She has published a book with these photos as well and it's available on her website.

'like a sort of soul-compass after I was dead.'

the man of twists and turns — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 13:03:57 -0800

Last November, the Mayor Gallery had an exhibit of Sylvia Plath's sketches. (via)

Cassavetes gets a bang up haircut

Isadorady — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 01:53:03 -0800

In 1982 Actor/Director John Cassavetes gave up a long weekend to star in a film student's short. The end product, The Haircut, is a charming, nearly magical, story of a man going for a haircut and getting much more. The director,Tamar Simon Hoffs, had a daughter Susannah who played in a band then called The Bangs, later The Bangles, who appear near the finish.

Nuclear Waste

NotSoSiniSter — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 13:39:14 -0800

Matt Stroud, Wrote an amazing article on The Verge: Wasteland: the 50-year battle to entomb our toxic nuclear remains

Lagos: dystopia now

Colonel Panic — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 09:39:14 -0800

Well-stamped passport leave you feeling jaded? Think Lagos, NIGERIA: Flash Violence, 3rd largest city by 2025, Paul McCartney? Do you relish in telling tales of travel to hellish places? Maybe there's a place you havent been, so choked with people, pollution and poverty you will feel ashamed to discuss it. Paul McCartney couldn't hack it. It sent his band On The Run. Ok still not dissuaded? Know before you Go

The Spear: a controversial painting in South Africa

HopStopDon'tShop — Wed, 23 May 2012 15:32:57 -0800

The Spear, a painting by South African artist Brett Murray is causing quite a stir. The painting is the subject of an attempted ban by the South African president, Jacob Zuma, according to the article and a general accusation of racism by the ANC leadership which has led at least one interesting response in the blogosphere.

Suppose a human and The Hulk were cylinders...

latkes — Thu, 03 May 2012 20:08:41 -0800

The physics of the Hulk's jump.

Tax Me, for F@%&’s Sake!

dfm500 — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:35:08 -0800

Stephen King on taxing the ultra-rich... including himself. An engaging -and colorful- discussion on taxes for the ultra rich.

Is Beauty Boring?

hubs — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 07:56:19 -0800

18-year-old, Florence Colgate, has been blessed with what has been deemed the most naturally beautiful face in England. Florence, @flo245 on twitter, is the winner of a contest, beating out 8,000 other contestants, for having a nearly perfectly symmetrical face, based on ratio figures that were collected by researchers. Statistically speaking, there are two main universal keys to beauty for which there is persuasive evidence: facial symmetry and ‘averageness’. According to David Perrett: "The answer lies not in fancy geometry but in two basic relationships: whether the left side matches the right (symmetry), and whether the proportions match those with which we are most familiar (normality or ‘averageness’). That beauty should lie in averageness is paradoxical, because we tend to think of ‘average’ as mundane. Sure, the most beautiful faces do not have average proportions, but nonetheless learning what is ‘normal’ for the faces around us is a powerful force in defining what for us is beautiful."(previously) This proves itself when you look at the hundreds of comments at the at the Daily Mail and Huffington Post which refer to Colgate as “boring”, “average”, and “bland”. And if you are wondering how you might measure up, there's an app for that.

Gas Leak at North Sea Platform

indices — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:26:18 -0800

A potentially dangerous situation is developing off the coast of Scotland. An off-shore drilling platform is leaking substantial quantities of gas contaminated with hydrogen sulphide. Much as here, the comments thread is as interesting as the post at The Oil Drum itself.

NPR decides to be "fair to the truth".

asavage — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:50:52 -0800

The beginning of the end of "he said, she said" journalism? NPR decides to be "Fair to the Truth" instead of simply reporting both sides of an issue.

Music billboards on the Sunset Strip from 1974-75. (SLFlickr, but oh what a Flickr!)

Senor Cardgage — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 16:31:28 -0800

Music billboards on the Sunset Strip from 1974-75. (SLFlickr, but oh what a Flickr!) An amazing series of photos scanned from 35mm slides and negatives of music-related billboards on the fabled Sunset Strip from 75-75. A beautiful collection of artwork incorporating more than just promotional flats and album blow-ups. I believe some of these are even painted by hand. Enjoy!

Gordotronic.com

ktrain — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:32:44 -0800

Gordotronic.com launched across the interwebs.... Seattle artist and record producer Gordon Raphael (The Strokes, Regina Spektor) has launched an all encompassing website featuring his own unreleased albums (7 of them) , Interviews, Art, and Video.

“There are so many books. Always so many. They collide in my mind.” - Colum McCann

Fizz — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 06:06:02 -0800

The Millions 2011: A Year in Reading. With 72 participants naming 214 books, it’s safe to say this has been our biggest and most high profile Year in Reading yet. Our participants included the current Poet Laureate, a longtime candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature, the reigning winners of the IMPAC and Pulitzer Prizes, two authors of books named The New York Times’ 10 Best of 2011, a recent inductee to the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame, and more Pushcart winners than I care to count. We also recognize that it’s becoming easier than ever to rely on algorithms and lists for one’s book recommendations – and while there are some treasures to be found through such means, there is nothing quite like the warmth of an actual human being’s testimony to vouchsafe your next reading choice. We hope that these articles have turned you on to new writers – authors of books selected by others, or authors of the articles themselves. A Year in Reading: Rachel Syme, Elissa Schappell, Mark Bibbins, A.N. Devers, Buzz Poole, Ellis Avery, Belinda McKeon, Brooke Hauser, Kevin Brockmeier, Jean-Christophe Valtat, Natasha Wimmer, Nuruddin Farah, Matthew Gallaway, Jane Alison, Jeff Martin, Garth Risk Hallberg, Kevin Hartnett, Emily St. John Mandel, Jacob Lambert, Patrick Brown, Parul Sehgal, Christopher Boucher, Denise Mina, Alex Shakar, Brad Listi, Hannah Nordhaus, Daniel Orozco, Ward Farnsworth, Edie Meidav, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Vann, Siddhartha Deb, Yasar Kemal, Mona Simpson, Alex Ross, Dennis Cooper, Jami Attenberg, Edan Lepucki, Emily M. Keeler, Mark O'Connell, Carolyn Kellogg, Rosecrans Baldwin, Bill Morris, Chris Baio (Vampire Weekend), Hamilton Leithauser (The Walkmen), Mayim Bialik, Philip Levine, Adam Ross, Emma Straub, David Bezmozgis, Charles Baxter, Amy Waldman, Nathan Englander, Duff McKagan, Deborah Eisenberg, Chad Harbach, Geoff Dyer, Benjamin Hale, Hannah Pittard, Scott Esposito (Conversational Reading), Michael Schaub, Michael Bourne, John Williams (The Second Pass), Dan Kois, Nick Moran, Colum McCann, Eleanor Henderson, Ben Marcus, Jennifer Egan, Stephen Dodson (Languagehat),