February 2012
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Kurt Vonnegut on the Daily Show, circa 2005
Kurt Vonnegut: I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can't help thinking that. And this engineer knows exactly what he or she is doing, and why and where evolution is headed.
Jon Stewart: I always felt in your writing that you were both admiring of man but disappointed in him.
Kurt Vonnegut: Yes, well, I think we are terrible animals. And I think our planet’s immune system is trying to get rid of us and should.
Jon Stewart: Kurt Vonnegut, if I may, it's sad to see you lose your edge.
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“It’s hard when you ask the audience to go on a different trip than the one they...”
– Francis Ford Coppola, in an insightful interview with The Talks
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Moby's LA Architecture Blog →
Yes, the musician, DJ and electronica artist also likes taking architectural photos on the side. From his first post:
new york has big architecture. paris has grand architecure. most cities have big, grand, old, and well documented architecture. l.a has idiosyncratic weirdness. sometimes beautiful. sometimes strange. sometimes painfully banal. so when i walk/drive around l.a i’ll take pictures...
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Werner Herzog on Chickens →
Roger Ebert once said, in an open letter to Werner Herzog:
It is safe to say you are as admired and venerated as any filmmaker alive—among those who have heard of you, of course.
This basiclaly sums up why I am so willing to listen to Herzog talk about chickens. His Germanic drawl is utterly captivating, even when discussing poultry.
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WatchArtist and engineer Bartholomaus Traubeck has made a record player that plays slices of wood from trees instead of vinyl. The cross-section marking the wood’s age acts as the grooves on a record, creating different tunes depending on how old or young the tree is. Just like a normal record, you can also scratch it, as exemplified in the video above. From The Huffington Post:
HuffPost Arts:...
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Early copy of "Mona Lisa" discovered in Madrid →
In case you haven’t heard, the earliest copy ever found of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” was discovered by the Prado Museum in Madrid earlier this week. From the Financial Times:
Art authorities at both the Louvre and the Prado have accepted that the picture is not merely a copy but was painted by a key pupil in the same studio. Its composition, they say, developed...
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“If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best...”
– George Bernard Shaw
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