kottke (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Higgs boson and the Enchantment Under the Sea dance orig. from Oct 21, 2009 * Q: Wha? A: These previously published entries have been updated with new information in the last 24 hours. You can find past updates here . Tags: post updates
kottke (Free subscription) | yesterday
I would like to thank this week's RSS sponsor, The Masters of Professional Studies in Branding at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. This is a new graduate degree program that will begin in fall 2010 focused on the study of "the art and science of branding". More details about the program are available here and here . They are having an open house tomorrow (that's Saturday) at SVC in Chelsea...
kottke (Free subscription) | yesterday
From 1971, a critique of Sesame Street from The Atlantic . Nonetheless, and in spite of all its successes, I feel very strongly that Sesame Street has aimed too low, has misunderstood the problem it is trying to cure, and will be a disappointment in the long run. I also feel that it has misunderstood the nature and underestimated the opportunities of its chief subject, the three R's, and its medium,...
kottke (Free subscription) | yesterday
There was a short CG special effects sequence in Star Wars (the Death Star explanation at the Rebel briefing); here's how it was made . Tags: movies Star Wars video
kottke (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Denver Post followed high school graduate Ian Fischer as he enlisted in the Army, went through training, left for Iraq, and returned home; the photos tell quite a story . Tags: photography
kottke (Free subscription) | yesterday
The movie rights to Dave Eggers' Zeitoun have been purchased by Jonathan Demme, who wants to make an animated movie out of it . Tags: books Dave Eggers Jonathan Demme movies Zeitoun
kottke (Free subscription) | yesterday
That's not precisely true, but my book reading is down to a trickle of what it used to be. Most of my reading happens online for kottke.org and when I'm through with all that, the last thing I want to do is tuck into a book, no matter how good it is. But what I really haven't been doing is talking about the books I've read or am interested in reading if I had the time. Oh, there have been a few mentioned...
kottke (Free subscription) | yesterday
Larry Granillo explores how the Yankees' World Series victories have been covered by the New York Times through the years. Tags: baseball journalism Larry Granillo New York Yankees NY Times NYC sports
kottke (Free subscription) | yesterday
Researchers have been able to create new human senses of a sort ...and to cross-pollinate two different senses in order to, for example, see with your tongue. With Arnoldussen behind me carrying the laptop, I walked around the Wicab offices. I managed to avoid most walls and desks, scanning my head from side to side slowly to give myself a wider field of view, like radar. Thinking back on it, I don't...
kottke (Free subscription) | yesterday
From Largehearted Boy, a roundup of lists of best music of the 2000s . Tags: best of lists music The 2000s
kottke (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Temporarily recreating the Berlin Wall orig. from Nov 05, 2009 Cartoon girls I wanna nail orig. from Feb 07, 2008 The evolution of skateboarding orig. from Nov 04, 2009 * Q: Wha? A: These previously published entries have been updated with new information in the last 24 hours. You can find past updates here . Tags: post updates
kottke (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Timelapse video of a trip from Denver to Singapore and back again . I made a time lapse video of a weekend trip I did to singapore by hanging a point and shoot around my neck, taking a snapshot every couple minutes/hours. Tags: timelapse travel video
kottke (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Fabio Viale makes unusual marble sculptures, like this skull that looks like it's made out of styrofoam. (via this is that ) Tags: art Fabio Viale
kottke (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
This did unsurprisingly well when I posted it to Twitter , so I've archived it here for posterity. This is Carrie Fischer and her stunt double taking a nap under the Tatooine suns during the filming of Jedi. Tags: photography Star Wars
kottke (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Berliners! Artist Martin Butler is trying to find 33,000 people to recreate the Berlin Wall for the 20th anniversary of the Wall's fall. The idea is to form on the 9th of november 2009 -- the night the Wall fell 20 years ago -- a line of people that will recreate the Berlin Wall with their physical presence, marking the path where the wall once stood. Thousands of people will form a human chain that...
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