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1) Had to make a run to the ER at 3 in the morning on account of kidney stones :( it was a little scary when Erica was in so much pain and the doctors weren’t sure why. 2) Racing around the fields inside Joshua Tree! 3) Erica taking large-formats of the sunset… also, it was very cold out despite the bright sun. 4) Xander getting embarrassed. 5) Stopping to enjoy and take photos of an...

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the-star-stuff: 10 Facts you Probably Didn’t Know about Living in Outer Space During one day you will experience 16 sunrises. The sun rises and sets every 90 minutes in low Earth orbit, making it really hard to sleep well due to the absence of normal day/night cycles. You will grow taller. Without the compressive force of gravity, your spinal column expands and you grow taller, usually by...

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1) Lan laughing hysterically at… something - I wish I could remember what; maybe he’ll remember, I’ll have to show him this. 2) Going out for a group lunch at Chilly John’s in Burbank for Sean’s last day at work. 3) Erica picking out her ass-kicking shoes for her upcoming hearing in Michigan. 4) Playing with amazing cameras and lenses far outside of my personal-budget...

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8bitfuture: Printable solar cells could turn anything into an energy source. A team at MIT has developed a process to ‘print’ solar cells onto almost any surface. Using chemical vapour deposition, the process uses “abundant organic molecules” to convert about 2 percent of the available energy into light. Typical solar panels are around 12-17% efficient, but the team thinks 10% efficiency...

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Ben Franklin Is Rolling in His Grave

Yesterday the House rushed through a vote on CISPA — the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. CISPA supporters in the House were so rattled by mounting opposition to their creepy bill — more than 1 million people told them to ditch it — that they passed the legislation before our outcry could spread… read more

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1st spotted via Zadi Diaz, via chickmakesflicks: For the past week, women’s media has pretty much been dominated by talk of Lena Dunham’s new show “Girls.” But newsflash! There’s other crap going on! Like the fact that this year’s prestigious Cannes Film Festival features absolutely zero films by women. That’s right: of the 23 films up for Cannes’ Very Important Palm D’Or Award, zero were made...

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shortformblog: Recap: Wal-Mart executives accused of major cover-up A case which could damage a huge company’s rep: New allegations of a massive bribery and cover-up, orchestrated by Wal-Mart International to protect Wal-Mart de Mexico executives, surfaced in the New York Times over the weekend. Former executive Sergio Cicero Zapata spent more than 15 hours with Times reporters, detailing his...

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“Why is non commercial public expression considered criminal?”

– Shepard Fairey

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The apparent end of public education as we know it...

via Mark Maynard We’ve talked at length on this site, over the past several years, about the coordinated campaign to dismantle public education in the United States. Sadly, Michigan is often at the forefront of this national conservative movement. Images of pregnant teenage girls being arrested as they try to keep their schools from closing and boys picketing outside of their schools, demanding...

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via Creative Mornings Chicago on Vimeo 2011/06 Creative Mornings with Jim Coudal - Our speaker at the first Chicago/CreativeMornings was wonderful Jim Coudal. The event was generously hosted Gravity Tank in the heart of Chicago. Neenah Paper was our lovely sponsor. Mig Reyes is the event host. A big thank you to the team over at Coudal, especially Steve Delahoyde for taping and editing the...

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shortformblog: U.S. DOJ files first round of criminal charges related to Gulf Oil Spill Evidence reportedly destroyed by ex-BP employee: Former BP engineer Kurt Mix was arrested today, charged with two counts of obstruction of justice for allegedly destroying evidence requested by federal investigators. The charges are the first to be filed by the U.S. Department of Justice, related to the 2010...

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spytap: Mr. Gaspin said that this year he and his 13-year-old son decided to try out the AMC series “The Walking Dead.” Hooked by the first two episodes, they set aside an hour at 9 each night to watch the first two years, hour by hour, which Mr. Gaspin had collected through every means available — some episodes from Netflix, some from iTunes, some recorded on the family DVR. “We learned a new...

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6 Filmmaking Tips from David Fincher

tyrannosaurpaddock: 1) “What you learn from that first [film] - and I don’t call it ‘trial by fire’; I call it ‘baptism by fire’ - is that you are going to have to take all of the responsibility, because basically when it gets right down to it, you are going to get all of the blame, so you might as well have made all of the decisions that led to people either liking it or disliking it. There’s...

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spotted via portable - the animals by angeline gragasin Director Angeline Gragasin created The Animals with an all female executive level production team: something that is oddly and sadly a rarity in the industry. Along with Gargasin (also lead actress) was Caitlin Doughty (writer) Rachel Wolther (producer), Meredith Zielke (DP), Meredith Ries (Production designer) and Abby Walton (Costume...

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via rgbd: We continue to collect point cloud streams from the brightest minds in creative coding, computational art, and new media. With each new participant the pool grows richer, toward its eventual publishing as a generative dialogue. I’ve been going through the archives of RGB+D since seeing this reply on Vimeo via James George, who’s amazing work I’ve been following now...

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