Video from the just-about-to-be-released (or maybe just-released?) Massive Attack album, Heligoland. The way things have been going lately, it's looking pretty much like a documentary to me. (You might want to go here and watch it at a size bigger than I can embed.)
2.08.2010
quote of the day
Well, yesterday, actually:
"Leni Riefenstahl would puke."
- Lindsay Beyerstein (commenting on on the Focus on the Family Super Bowl ad.)
2.06.2010
2.05.2010
quiz wrap-up
A pattern is starting to emerge as BWolf goes two-for-two for the win (see what I did there?).
Mr. 24 is indeed a young Sean Connery, competing in the 1953 Mr. Universe contest. The story goes that during the event a fellow contestent told him of upcoming auditions for a touring production of South Pacific and suggested he try out for it. The rest, as they say, is history.
To wrap it up, here's a solo pic (which would have been the final clue had we not had a winner).
Mr. 24 is indeed a young Sean Connery, competing in the 1953 Mr. Universe contest. The story goes that during the event a fellow contestent told him of upcoming auditions for a touring production of South Pacific and suggested he try out for it. The rest, as they say, is history.
To wrap it up, here's a solo pic (which would have been the final clue had we not had a winner).
2.04.2010
what they can do
The first video below is the short film, Nuit Blanche from Spy Films, directed, co-produced, and and photographed by Arev Manoukian. For me, it's a visually beautiful, technically stunning, but otherwise predictable piece of filmmaking. However, I suggest that you watch it for a couple of reasons. First, you may well have a different opinion of it than I, but, more importantly, it'll give you a solid context for appreciating the second video, which is a brief "making of" featurette.
After watching that second video, consider how confident you can be of the "reality" of pretty much anything you see on film, video, or the internet.
And what that means.
Nuit Blanche
The Making of Nuit Blanche
After watching that second video, consider how confident you can be of the "reality" of pretty much anything you see on film, video, or the internet.
And what that means.
Nuit Blanche
The Making of Nuit Blanche
2.02.2010
quiz update
It looks like the latest quiz has generated what is, by the standards of this blog anyway, quite the response. So, in an attempt to milk it for all it's worth, rather than just providing the answer, I thought I'd follow up with a few clues.For today's clue, I'll confirm that commenter Catti is indeed correct in the identification of contestant #24 as the person of interest.
But unless I'm missing some extremely subtle allusion, Catti's "for the win!" isn't actually an identification of the person. So, barring Catti returning to prove me wrong by explaining what I'm missing, I'm considering the quiz still in progress.
There'll be one more clue in a day or two if necessary.
Have at it.
2.01.2010
is this why we can't all get along?
By a rather circuitous series of links, I recently found myself reading a blog post by the photographer Clayton Cubitt from May of last year. In said post, Mr. Cubitt relates a hypothesis by one, "Lovely Silvia, the crazy Transylvanian I met in Berlin" concerning the elimination of the "difficult moments between humans."You can read her proposal here (it'll open in a new window). (While there are no pictures, it could be considered somewhat NSFW if your boss or an unsympathetic coworker happens to be looking over your shoulder while you're reading it.)
My first reaction, of course, was a reflexive "Fuck yeah!" Followed a few moments later by a somewhat less reflexive "WTF?" For as much as I'd like to believe that Silvia had, in fact, discovered the secret to the end of human conflict, it wasn't at all clear to me why this might be the case. What mechanism was she proposing? How and why exactly was this supposed to work? (I long ago learned the hard lesson that there is rarely a causal connection between wanting something to be true and its actually being true.) Was this in any way related to the reason that Mr. Cubitt referred to her as the "crazy" Transylvanian?
On the other hand, there is nothing short of the ultimate, ever-elusive goal of world peace at stake here. If there is any possibility, however small, that Silvia might be right, wouldn't it be irresponsible in the extreme not to at least test her hypothesis. In fact, I'd go as far as to say that adherence to the scientific method pretty much demands it.
So, in the interest of science, harmony, and world peace, how about it ladies?
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