June 7, 2018
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The 'Killing Me Softly' Story - made a worldwide hit by Lauryn Hill and the Fugees, it starts with a Don McLean concert in Los Angeles ... [more inside]
How Single-Take Shots Invaded Franchises
seamless one-shot sequences are starting to appear in movies like ‘Black Panther’ and ‘The Last Jedi.’ And, of course, it turns out that they aren't seamless at all: they just look that way. [more inside]
Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooals
"Officially, Bondy is in Île-de-France, the broader Parisian region. To most in France, though, it is in the northern swath of the banlieues, a label that is both a euphemism and a stigma: places with large, working-class, nonwhite communities, synonymous with riots and social strife, thought of as breeding grounds for crime and terrorism. It is here, amid the tower blocks of the Parisian banlieues, that France finds its soccer players: hundreds who go on to Clairefontaine, the national training center, dozens who go on to play professionally at home or abroad and, this summer, the select few who will represent France at the World Cup in Russia." (Lire en français)
Sarah Palin guesting as Tina Fey, but even more awkwardly
#ChurchToo
The fact that there are abusive leaders in the evangelical church is utterly, unremarkably unsurprising. Where there are men in power, there will be men abusing it. What separates #ChurchToo from #MeToo are the power dynamics (at the intersections of gender, race, and sexuality) entrenched in evangelical purity culture, a sex-obsessed, white Christian moralism. [more inside]
God Will Always Bless Sweethaven
Sweethaven, the ramshackle provincial seaport which was the setting for 1980's Popeye, persists to this day. On the island nation of Malta, the set from the film still stands and has been repurposed into the theme park of Popeye Village. It is much more welcoming to visitors today than as it was depicted in the film.
Still Life with Hairballs, Part Deux
¿Quién es un buen chico?
There’s hardly anyone who can argue with the popular saying ‘money doesn’t grow on trees’, well, maybe except for this special canine. A clever [Colombian] dog named Negro managed to secure himself a seemingly endless supply of treats, by paying for them with leaves. (BoredPanda, and a few more pics at TheDodo)
Ane r yu ky, o oa, yu ky, ni?
You're a busy person. You don't have time to listen to a whole 4-minute song in its entirety. Thankfully, there's the EveryOtherBeat YouTube channel, consisting of songs with every other beat removed. Enjoy precisely one-half of hit songs such as Smooth Criminal, Seven Nation Army, Bring Me To Life, or (of course) All Star. What a time savings!
Only minimal damage has been caused to the gallery by the exploding fish
Fire at London’s Hayward Gallery as rotting fish artwork explodes. The installation, "Majestic Splendor" by Lee Bul, was a commentary on the ephemeral nature of beauty. The symbolism is now, perhaps, even more apropos now than when it was removed from the MoMA for for filling the gallery with a terrible stench. A closeup of a detail of the artwork, pre-explosion. A scientific explanation of the reasons the piscine masterpiece exploded.
A priceless haul. A crack team of thieves. A plan that can’t fail.
In other reddit news
Norman is an AI that is trained to perform image captioning; a popular deep learning method of generating a textual description of an image. We trained Norman on image captions from an infamous subreddit (the name is redacted due to its graphic content) that is dedicated to document and observe the disturbing reality of death.
Democratize Access To Capital
“The rally came days after the Trump administration announced it would roll back the Volcker Rule, which since 2014 has prohibited banks from using their accounts to conduct risky, speculative trading, in an effort to avoid another financial meltdown like the one that threw the country into a recession in 2008.” The Public Banking Movement comes to NYC (Common Dreams) “The Wall Street banks that are holding the public’s money are actively harming New Yorkers, harming New York communities, harming the planet, etc.” Progressive Groups unite to push for a Public Bank in NYC. (Mic) What is a Public Bank and how could it do better for California? (Truth Out) How Germany’s Public Banks funded their green revolution. (Guardian)
Solve the Internet
Art is the Flower. Life is the Green Leaf.
150 years of Charles Rennie Mackintosh. From sci-fi libraries to steampunk tearooms, his dazzling creations made Glasgow a design paradise. [more inside]
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