January 2012
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While many studies show that secular Americans don’t fare as well as the...
– The Washington Post
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December 2011
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video + post by erica hampton:
This past summer was Xander’s first here in L.A. I’m so use to Mike taking video of everything we do that I forget to take video on my own. While digging through old clips and trying to put little videos together I realize that my video footage stash is lacking! We did so many cool things over the summer, Disneyland, Universal City, camping in the mountains, La...
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via NoFilmSchool
In the case of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, because EPIC was used, the look-around image could be increased to roughly a 20% pad… The ability to take advantage of ample look-around space becomes a key component in reframing and stabilization (which are techniques being adapted by more filmmakers and more departments)…
Is re-framing supposed to be a bad thing? I do...
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via expose-the-light:
New wonder-drug could give us all super-memory… Read more
Yes, please. I would take this in a minute - I have a terrible memory.
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I mean, when you’re 27 making a movie, it’s a different thing than when you’re...
– David Fincher, via the girl with the fincher tattoo
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If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a...
– - Narrator, via Fight Club
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We can always be sure of one thing—that the messengers of discomfort and...
– - Christopher Hitchens, via ned hepburn
Hitchens may have been a raging douche when it came to the Iraq war - or occupation, or what ever the hell you want to call what we did over there during the last 10 years - but!, in his defense, when it came to Religion he was spot on and full of the most...
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An interactive installation by Keiichi Matsuda and James Alliban
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We’re all born wanting the freedom to imagine a better and more beautiful...
– - Matt Taibbi
I’m reblogging this because a) it’s still relavent, b) it’s been a month since Taibbi first posted the above, and a lot has changed in the occupation movement, and c) last time I checked, it’s still f&#@ing relavent.
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With this defense authorization act, Congress will, for the first time in 60...
– - Al Franken, azspot, asie, via spytap
What the fuck are they doing? What the fuck are WE doing?! What the fuck is wrong with our country right now?
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1) Driving home from work just after a storm. 2) Having a pre-birthday dinner at Zach’s Cafe. 3) Opening up the newly-arrived Horizon Bound on a Bicycle book by Eyvind Earle. 4) Another late night at the office. 5) Erica taking a 4x5 photograph of me on my birthday… I didn’t have much say in the matter. 6) Reading the card Erica hand-made for me. 7) Going for a relaxing...
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first spotted via spytap:
crooked indifference:
The Voyager probes are two of mankind’s greatest achievements, if you ask me. Right now, this symbol of all of humanity has traveled so far from Earth, that light itself takes 16.2 hours to travel the distance.
It is entering into unknown scientific territory, where we have only guessed what the universe has in store.
Go forth, little one, for...
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When I first met him, Jez was referring to the project as the Occupy Wall Street...
– Michelle Dean, The Struggle For the OWS Archives
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1) Rachel, Erica’s sister, showing off her adorable puppy Genesis - her little squished face was so cute it stopped Erica in her tracks. 2) Kicking field goals in Onsted. 3) Xander doing his best The Shining. 4) Trick or Treating with Dylan, Mandy, my Mom, James, Erica and Xander. 5) Dropping Xander off at school. 6) Flying out of Oakland. 7) Erica sometimes likes to fall asleep whilst...
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House Speaker Boehner orders CSPAN's cameras... →
spotted via lee:
Cory Doctorow, boing boing
House Speaker John Boehner’s office ordered CSPAN to switch off its camers during a fellow Congressman’s scathing dressing-down over the Speaker’s refusal to entertain further debate on unemployment benefits. The Speaker asserts…
You know you’re in trouble when you don’t want anyone watching. Side note: Isn’t this our government?...
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I’m not a student of politics. I played a politician. I have no interest in...
– Martin Sheen, spotted via eric mortensen
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