February 2012
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via kenyatta:
The FJP (I pronounce that like like ‘The Wu’) posted Rob G. Wilson and Kirby Ferguson’s “Everything is a Remix: The Matrix” earlier today which shows how much of the iconic imagery of The Matrix was created by aping scenes from the classic 1995 anime Ghost in the Shell.
Also, I just posted a photoset about how the classic Fritz Lang film ‘Metropolis’ actually owed it’s signature...
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“Today, unelected judges cast aside the will of the people of California who...”
– - Willard Mitt Romney (via paxamericana)
This is where I would put a comment talking about how it’s important to understand that the Constitution is really old and must be interpreted to apply to situations hundreds of years later.
Also, where is marriage in the Constitution? (via somepolitics)
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Great interview with David Fincher - pt 2
via thrashyerface, by Alex Billington
Billington: What are the defining factors found in this project and this story, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, that made you decide to direct it?
Fincher: With this movie [Dragon Tattoo] - do I need to make another serial killer movie the rest of my life? No. But I hadn’t seen these two people [Mikael & Lisbeth]. I hadn’t been asked to direct… A love...
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“Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of...”
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- Jeremy Knowles, discussing the complete lack of recognition Cecilia Payne gets, even today, for her revolutionary discovery.
It’s been a year since I first posted this, but today TimeHop reminded about Cecilia Payne and I thought that qualified as an automatic reblog.
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“IFP’s unique year-long mentorship program supports first-time feature directors...”
– via NoFilmSchool, IFP’s Independent Filmmaker Labs
On this weekend’s to-do list: finish filling out the application for IFP’s documentary lab program. I’m really just at the stage now where I need a lot of help with sound design, which I mentioned recently here. But, of course, the attention of...
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Watchvia emily richmond
There really is something special about being the only person around during a beautiful sunset… multiply that feeling by whatever the appropriate number is for floating alone in the middle of unmoving ocean, and I don’t think I could imagine a greater feeling of being exactly where I want / am supposed to be. I don’t know if I’m quite ready to brave a...
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Anonymous reveals Haditha massacre emails
occupyallstreets:
Anonymous have unveiled their second major release for this week’s installment of FuckFBIFriday. Their target this time around is Frank Wuterich, the US Marine that admitted to killing Iraqi civilians — and received no jail time for his crime.
Early Friday afternoon Anonymous began circulating news that the website for Puckett and Faraj, the high-profile attorneys that...
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Susan G. Komen Foundation Also Stops Funding... →
In addition to pulling funds from Planned Parenthood for The Susan G. Komen Foundation also decided to stop funding embryonic stem cell research centers making it fully transparent the organization has evolved from non-political non-profit to a partisan advocacy organization.
That means the loss of $3.75 million to the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, $4.5 million to the University...
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“There is no stability in this world. Who is to say what meaning there is in...”
– Virginia Woolf in The Waves, quoted by the excellent American Roulette, via mills
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Live in Los Angeles? Have a TAP card?
drinkthe-koolaid:
Congratulations, you’re screwed.
Recently, and with as little publicity and fanlfare as possible, Metro changed the way TAP cards work. There are no more monthly passes, now they’re good for 30 days from the date you activate it. So what does this mean? Well most users will end up having to purchase at least one more “monthly” pass every year to cover the leftover days.
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“An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who...”
– Martin Luther King Jr., via ZADI DIAZ
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19th Century Russian Melody by the Tacianu...
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January 2012
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“The schism between content creators and platforms like Kickstarter, Tumblr and...”
– - Yancey Strickler, a founder of Kickstarter | The Danger of an Attack on Piracy Online, via courtenaybird, via rachelfershleiser …
The Internet isn’t real to them yet.
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“Save for the technology, little about film schools has changed since 1929. They...”
– Jonathan Zimmerman, via carolinestreet
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Watchvia ftom film:
In the midst of moving apartments, Erica found that we still have piles and piles of stickers, plus a box full of pins, and, lastly, a Kinko’s sleeve of film flyers!
We’re making care packages and mailing them out to *anyone* who simply emails their mailing address to info@FToMfilm.com - free of charge. Help us run out of stock!
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Great interview with David Fincher - pt 1
via thrashyerface, by Alex Billington
Billington: What are the defining factors found in this project and this story, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, that made you decide to direct it?
Fincher: With this movie [Dragon Tattoo] - do I need to make another serial killer movie the rest of my life? No. But I hadn’t seen these two people [Mikael & Lisbeth]. I hadn’t been asked to direct… A love...
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“There are things one loses in giving up God, and they are not insignificant....”
– Good Minus God: The Moral Atheist - NYTimes.com, via nick douglas
via rickwebb : The redemption is a big part of my thinking about atheism. The thing is, though, we can’t really know, in life, if “god” forgave us. We only know it after we’re dead. And the stone cold hard fact is an atheist and a...
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