December 2011
Movies playing in NYC this weekend that I’m interested in seeing:
Carnage
A Dangerous Method
Eames: The Architect & The Painter
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Margaret
Pina
A Separation
Shame
The Skin I Live In
Movies playing in NYC this weekend that I’ve seen and recommend:
The Artist
The Descendants
Hugo
Into The Abyss
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Melancholia
...
The Wealth Gap Between Congress and Voters Is... →
eldinire:
Both The New York Times and The Washington Post have separate reports today about the widening wealth gap between members of Congress and the people they represent. Almost half of all Congresspeople are millionaires and their median net worth has climbed to $913,000, compared to $100,000 for the rest of America households. According to the Post, that number drops to $725,000 when...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-25) →
Cliff Martinez (5)
Chromatics (1)
Kavinsky (1)
College (1)
Riz Ortolani (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Watchericmortensen:
Online Sales of Louis C. K. Special Cross $1 Million Mark
Louis C. K. explained that he would use $250,000 to pay for the special (as he has said previously), spend another $250,000 in bonuses to people who work for him and give $280,000 to five charity organizations: Fistula Foundation, which works with women injured in childbirth; Green Chimneys which gives outdoor and animal...
“When I was 18, I spent one night trying to paint LATE AGAIN in big silver bubble...”
– Banksy
Necessity being the mother of invention and all.
Or, don’t miss the exact move you should make when it’s staring you right in the face.
(via brycedotvc)
Jospeh Gordon Levitt Quotes YouTuber Re: TDKR
hitrecordjoe:
#TDKR I would post this even if I weren’t in it.
And to quote the YouTuber who uploaded it…
“Christopher Nolan also created a great movie called The Prestige…
The Pledge (Batman Begins): Shows you something ordinary, asks you to inspect it to see if it is normal. But of course it isn’t.
The Turn (The Dark Knight): Takes the ordinary something and makes it extraordinary. But...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-18) →
Man In Gray (11)
Jay-Z & Kanye West (9)
tUnE-yArDs (9)
Toro Y Moi (8)
Real Estate (8)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-11) →
Toro Y Moi (10)
Jay-Z & Kanye West (8)
Shark? (6)
Water (6)
Real Estate (6)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Speed of Light Lingers in Face of New Camera →
soupsoup:
More than 70 years ago, the M.I.T. electrical engineer Harold (Doc) Edgerton began using strobe lights to create remarkable photographs: a bullet stopped in flight as it pierced an apple, the coronet created by the splash of a drop of milk. Now scientists at M.I.T.’s Media Lab are using an ultrafast imaging system to capture light itself as it passes through liquids and objects, in...
It costs the U.S. more than $70 million a year to... →
“People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a...”
– Banksy (via thenewavengers, angwe & moorehn)
