Sometimes I wish I’d studied to be an engineer. Watch these kids pull off an amazing feat ;^)
Kids grow up to be engineers
28 Friday Sep 2007
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in28 Friday Sep 2007
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inSometimes I wish I’d studied to be an engineer. Watch these kids pull off an amazing feat ;^)
27 Thursday Sep 2007
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Wall animation worth viewing. Let me know what you think. It’s a “poor man’s Plimpton” but one which crosses over into the real world in ways that leave you scratching your head in wonder.
25 Tuesday Sep 2007
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inFiona interpreted by Janeane Garofalo lip-synched by Chris Glass.
Quoted: This was a joke that was spawned by a post on a blog, write me for the story, I’m too tired to spill it.
[tags: video, Fiona Apple, music, funny, thepugetnews]
The new Razr2 commercial by director Michael Gondry is great.
[tags: razr, motorola, Michael Gondry, video, advertising, thepugetnews]
Quoted: A novel about the affair between Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Borthwick Cheney.
[tags: news, books, Frank Lloyd Wright, thepugetnews]
A collection of writers’ rooms.
[tags: books, writing, thepugetnews]
25 Tuesday Sep 2007
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This one goes out to the folks who read “Against the Day” with me. It’s the best review of the novel I have read to date, exposing the great faults and the dizzying underlying talent at the same time. It comes as little surprise that a review this well-written wasn’t written anytime near the books release. This sort of understanding can only come from serious time invested.
VQR: Back to the Future: On Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day
[Tip of the hat for finding this one goes to the Marginal Revolution blog. Thank you!]
18 Tuesday Sep 2007
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inI love these. Classic literature in the shape of cigarette boxes. Great for kids!
[tags: books, literature, thepugetnews]
Just what I’ve always wanted! A map of fetishes. If yours isn’t on here, you must be really twisted!
[tags: data, visualization, fetish, thepugetnews]
With lack of real estate a real problem, Londoners are burrowing down instead.
[tags: London, architecture, thepugetnews]
18 Tuesday Sep 2007
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inI’m not even sure what movie this is from but it’s pretty nifty in that “Barbarella” kind of way. Might be a bit racy if you work at a bank.
Ellis from hemaworstje on Vimeo.
Located via the always excellent Coudal Partners RSS feed.
16 Sunday Sep 2007
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inA collection of many interesting quotes from Alan Greenspan’s new book, “The Age of Turbulence.”
Quoted: Venice, I realized, is the antithesis of creative destruction. It exists to conserve and appreciate the past, not create a future. But that, I realized, is exactly the point. The city caters to a deep human need for stability and permanence as well as beauty and romance. Venice’s popularity represents one pole of a conflict in human nature: the struggle between the desire to increase material well-being and the desire to ward off change and its attendant stress.â€
[tags: blogs, Alan Greenpsan, books, thepugetnews]
A NYT piece about Ayn Rand’s influence on well known capitalists, including Alan Greenspan.
Quoted: Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged,â€a glorification of the right of individuals to live entirely for their own interest, influenced Alan Greenspan and others.
[tags: business, books, news, thepugetnews]
15 Saturday Sep 2007
“Juno” – From the makers of “Thank You for Smoking,” a film about a young girl who gets pregnant and her attempts to find appropriate parents for the child.
“Great World of Sound” – Part deception, part reality. A pair of producers audition real people dreaming of being music stars.
13 Thursday Sep 2007
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inEven (especially) as a color-blind person, I am intrigued by this – it’s a list of top grossing movie poster colors broken down by rating. You can see that as you move from G rating to R rating movies, the colors become much more black and fleshy.
Quoted: Speak Up is an open forum to discuss matters related to Graphic Design.
[tags: movies, design, film, rating, thepugetnews]
11 Tuesday Sep 2007
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in“Architecture of Authority” author Richard Ross interviewed. An interesting project to photograph physical spaces that force us to negotiate institutions.
Quoted: An online magazine, published weekdays.
[tags: news, architecture, thepugetnews]
These are great. Fictitious company t-shirts from movies, etc. I love the Amity Island shirt (Jaws) and Might Mick’s Boxing (Rocky).
Quoted: t-shirt designs which are inspired and pay homage to some of the most memorable places, corporations and companies in 20th century fiction.
[tags: shopping, shirts, clothing, fun, thepugetnews]
The Guardian takes a look at blogs through the lens of Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language.”
Quoted: From the Orwellian point of view, it is the violence the internet does to the English language as much as its challenge to the journalistic infrastructure that is the biggest anxiety.
[tags: blogs, writing, George Orwell, thepugetnews]
Michiko Kakutani reviews the newest book on the Bush administration. This one looks a bit frightening and worth reading.
Quoted: A chilling new book provides an inside account of the Bush administration, revealing its obsession with expanding presidential power and its arrogant unilateralism.
[tags: Michiko Kakutani, books, thepugetnews]
I searched for this program on TV and haven’t been able to find it running anytime soon. There’s a nice introductory video on this page though.
“Saved by the Wrecking Ball” is the controversial story of Mies Van Der Rohe’s Farnsworth House.
[tags: Mies Van Der Rohe, architecture, thepugetnews, tv]