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Benedict Cumberbatch IS Julian Assange:
Benedict Cumberbatch IS Julian Assange: Preview of Major WikiLeaks Movie | The Nation http://ow.ly/n5J3O http://ow.ly/i/2DWc1
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Jesus of Siberia | Vice
Deep in Siberia’s Taiga forest is Vissarion, a cult leader who looks like Jesus and claims to be the voice of God. He’s known as “the Teacher” to his 4,000 followers, who initially seem surprisingly normal. Over time, however, their unflinching belief in UFOs and the Earth’s imminent demise made…
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3D visual forensic facial reconstruction of a Neanderthal face in front of your eyes
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions One of the coolest visualization techniques to come along in recent years is the careful forensic reconstruction of likely facial features of deceased people from their bony remains, based on subtleties in bone structure and the knowledge of what each variation means, on average.…
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Photos of New York City Inside the Grand Canyon Contrast Emptiness and Density
At the end of 2012, Swiss photographer Gus Pedro took a trip to the United States, and was met with a paradox. When he visited New York City, he found density in all its glory. But when he followed that up with a trip to the Grand Canyon, he was…
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Genetics: Scientifically Sanctioned Palm Reading | Thought Catalog
Genes are an odd, potent figure. They’re primal yet with an intelligence that exceeds us, as if divine or advanced super alien. The body, we imagine, is stupid, always needing to be told what to do by our “selves” (there are of course proponents of body knowledge but those are…
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Britain Legalizes Gay Marriage | Huffington Post
Britain has legalized gay marriage after Queen Elizabeth II gave her royal stamp of approval. House of Commons Speaker John Bercow told lawmakers that the royal assent had been given Wednesday – the day after the bill to legalize same-sex marriage in England and Wales cleared Parliament. The queen’s approval…
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Article: The Rise of People Living Alone Has Led to More Sustainable Cities
Whatever you want to call people living alone — some go with solos, others singletons — the fact is there’s a lot more of them than there used to be. In 1950, solos accounted for about 9 percent of all U.S. households; today that figure is roughly 28 percent. As…
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Beautiful Steps
Originally posted on sigrun hodne studio: Beautiful steps #4, by the artist duo L/B, belongs to a series featuring different sets of stairs in unusual locations and positions. In Beautiful steps #4 a wide spiral stair case is suspended from the ceiling so that is floats in the air, L/B:…
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How to Spot Propaganda
propaganda (n.) 1718, “committee of cardinals in charge of Catholic missionary work,” short for Congregatio de Propaganda Fide “congregation for propagating the faith,” a committee of cardinals established 1622 by Gregory XV to supervise foreign missions. The word is properly the ablative fem. gerundive of Latin propagare (see propagation). Hence,…
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Irrationality: Factual Fictions
irrational (adj.) late 15c., “not endowed with reason” (of beats, etc.); earlier (of quantities) “inexpressible in ordinary numbers” (late 14c.); from Latin irrationalis “without reason,” from assimilated form of in- “not, opposite of” (see in- (1)) + rationalis “reason” (see rational). Meaning “illogical, absurd” is attested from 1640s. via etymonline.com Karl Jaspers‘ General Psychopathology was one of the first psychiatric studies…
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Painters Painting – New York Art Scene (1940-1970)
Probably THE definitive documentary about the history of New York City’s art scene, from the beginning of World War II to the height of the Vietnam War era. Emile de Antonio was a Marxist filmmaker who mostly directed political documentaries about subjects ranging from the Kennedy assassination to the Weathemen.…
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How does he do it?
Originally posted on Flowers and More: Flowers and More View original post
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Super-Sizing Movie Monsters
Originally posted on The Dish: http://youtu.be/x0G6mXiA33Y Wesley Morris was impressed by Pacific Rim‘s scale: Del Toro is a dreamer. He’s a visionary. If you give him a pile of money to make enormous robots fight enormous monsters at the end of civilization, he will work to make Pacific Rim a movie that makes you…
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Pseudo-Modernism
An interesting entry from Alan Kirby at the British magazine Philosophy Now. Very well worth the read, and I hope it will spawn a few thoughts from me on the Society of Control. Let’s see what happens. …Postmodernism conceived of contemporary culture as a spectacle before which the individual sat powerless,…
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Terriers: A Crime Show That’s Not About Dogs
Originally posted on ColorTheBooks Blog: No one really watched Terriers, created by Ted Griffin in 2010, and I have no idea why. I recently watched it not knowing what to expect from the TV show, of course the name didn’t help to clarify. It is one of the best crime…
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