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Joshua Waitzkin’s childhood playing chess was depicted in one of my favorite films, and a minor classic in my mind, Searching for Bobby Fischer. Joshua quit playing chess when he was still young, went on to study Tai chi chuan, won a world championship in martial arts at 27, and wrote the book The Art of Learning. Fascinating guy with particular insights into cultivating a passion for learning.
Nothing wrong with sitting slack jawed before the zombie box and letting a movie dictate its terms to you, but on occasion it’s fun deconstructing a flick. Here are 50 open course classes that’ll turn you into an obnoxious movie snob in no time at all.
“Thanks for the wild turkey and Passenger Pigeons destined to be shit out through wholesome American guts.” It’s not exactly the prayer you recite with Grandpa Love It or Leave It sitting across from you at the feasting table, but beautiful in its Burroughish way and apropos this particular day. — Noticed and noted thanks to strange|beautiful.
Hair extensions on horses work surprisingly well, but after digging through the gallery my favorite piece has to be the defeated fat guy in a hamster cage. I also like the neato little pop-ups in the navigation menu. — Noticed and noted thanks to Scene360.
Written by Christoph Benda. It’s in German so I can’t follow the narrative, being English only, but clever ideas transcend language. The novel is set up as a physical book. As you turn the pages one half is dedicated to a Google map representing the action. — Noticed and noted thanks to Super Colossal.
if you fancy yourself a student of film then this site is a great resource. I’ve always thought you can’t possibly know a movie, be intimately familiar with a movie and have a muscular opinion about a movie, until you’ve watch the flick multiple times.
For example, the first time I watched The French Connection I thought it was an okay movie, nothing special, but passable entertainment. The second time I watched Popeye Doyle hammer home his justice I thought it sucked, a boring, dated piece of seventies screen trash. The third time I watched the film I was high, it was after midnight, I paid more attention to the Doritos in my lap then the action on the screen, and I feel asleep during the Third Act. So that was a wash, but the fourth and fifth time I consumed the movie I thought it was brilliant, and that’s where I stand today on the matter of the French Connection.
All this is to say, listening to movies sans visuals will give you another perspective and perhaps reorient you to the strengths and weaknesses of the film. Start with a classic I imagine works beautifully as an audio only experience and let me how it goes. Listen to a Movie noticed and noted via Fresh Arrival.
Todd lays down the tenets of his slow blogging approach. There’s much to appreciate and admire here. Patience and a deliberate vision are not virtues Economy nurtures.
Basically, and adjusting for inflation, the current outlay of cash is larger than the Marshall Plan, the Louisiana Purchase, the Race to the Moon, the S&L Crisis, the Korean War, The New Deal, the Invasion of Iraq, the Vietnam War, and NASA combined. So it’s historically incomparable, or, put in Gothic terms it’s a fucking ravenous demon unleashed by the unrepentant Lords of StreetWall. Noticed and noted thanks to Heart Explosion.
Nice to see one of my favorite movies, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, make the list, and while we’re on the topic of lists here’s the 25 best Comic Book battles as voted on by readers of Comic Book Resources. Sad to see Coleman versus Franken did not make the cut.
You probably already knew this by education or intuition, but science says let your letters breath, or go rural not urban in managing your typographical space.
I wouldn’t use them, but I might display them prominently enough to leave the impression I do. Get a pair at Atypyk. Noticed and noted thanks to DesignBoom.
Grab it at Amazon for $20 off the usual price. Noticed and noted thanks to Kevin Church
Just in time for Thanksgiving I’ve found some old greeting cards. Hard to imagine they’d send these to each other, but different times, different sensibilities. You might have to click the pictures for a cleaner look.
Jason Campbell’s X-Files comic rings true if you’ve ever watched the show.1.
The lesson you may apply here is a healthy dose of skepticism is best served with a humble awareness your knowledge of the world is most likely flawed in fundamental ways. In a related note, the Telegraph looks back at 140 years of UFO photos (in three parts).
These Adam Koford drawings are old by Internet Standard Time (IST), but they are new to me and very clever. I included two examples of his work below, but be sure to check out his complete Flickr Set if you haven’t seen them before.1
Photo by Ian Langworth (I think). More pictures of pathetic looking wet cats at this link, noticed via Mixx.
Coould be you’ve seen this already as the information hit Boing Boing, but if you’re a fan of either artist, or fashion yourself a student of American history, then dash over to Aquarium Drunkard to listen to the MP3s of the sessions. A joy listening to them collaborate on such classics as “That’s Alright Mama”, “Ring of Fire”, “You Are My Sunshine”, “Walk the Line,” and many more.
I have not come across this type of website navigation before.1 I am not the warm nougat center of the Internet of course so my observation doesn’t mean this is the only, or the first, example, but it’s new to me.
Visit Eric Chan’s site, and if you have a Mac with Sudden Motion Sensor you can slap and tilt your way around his site.2 Visit the instructions page for more details. The process is a little more involved than visiting his site and bitch slapping your computer, and I wouldn’t want this to be a default method of Internet navigation, but I find it neat nonetheless.
For those following along, I got all gooey over Aja Wests’s Full Frontal Freelance site first. Being the slut I am, I soon fell for Cameron Kenley Hunt’s silky smooth website 1. I am now firmly in the love bag for Questionable Characters 2. Check out the screenshot (click for zoom) or better yet visit Ben and Frank’s site.
Beautiful look and a wonderful idea. How deliciously fun yes. I also concur with Ben when he wrote,
“Designers complaining about particular fonts or bad typography annoy the hell out of me. There are much more important things to worry about.”
Indeed there are. Suppose the integral word here is complaining. I do not advocate repressing one’s frustrations and annoyances, which usually leads to a condensed, highly agitated toxic mixture of bitter emotion that manifests in regrettable and ill timed behavior. However, emoting annoyance with a heathy and humble dash of education is always more preferable to everyone involved than the - “You fucking idiots suck balls” - method of communicating frustration.
I believe the lowast enjoys a fine serif while the middot prefers the company of a sans-serif, or so they tell me. #
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