January 2012
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“There’s your dog; your dog’s dead. But where’s the thing that...”
– — Gates of Heaven (1978)
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June 2011
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Alain de Botton On Love →
From within love, we conceal the haphazard nature of our lives behind a purposive veil. We insist that the meeting with our redeemer, objectively haphazard and hence unlikely, has been pre-written in a scroll slowly unwinding in the sky. We invent a destiny to spare ourselves the anxiety that would arise from acknowledging that the little sense there is in our lives is merely created by...
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May 2011
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“Great paintings shouldn’t be in museums. Have you ever been in a museum? Museums...”
– Bob Dylan (via justement)
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“It’s interesting. Once you start shooting without film lights, and you go twenty...”
– Lighting (lack thereof) on the set of Tree of Life, directed by Terrence Malick (via youmightfindyourself)
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The Complete Jerry Seinfeld →
Fantastic design and always funny.
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“Our lives take on significance because as we decline we notice our society is...”
– Ian McEwan
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“Donald Trump said he will run as a Republican, which is surprising because I...”
– Seth Meyers
April 2011
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The Philosophy of Insomnia
Sleepless duty, pure thought, or bitter truth? Several decades ago, the philosopher Clément Rosset wrote, “Of all the questions known to philosophy, that posed by Cioran is without doubt the most grave and most serious: Is an alliance between lucidity and joy possible?” A philosophy in love with truth confronts cruel facts: Lies abound, innocents suffer, everyone dies, and the universe doesn’t...
T. 1912
Presented by Wordless Music:
“T. 1912 is a site-specific staged audience experience conceived by visual artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster for the Guggenheim rotunda.
At the core of the installation, Gavin Bryars’ large symphonic piece The Sinking of the Titanic (1969) will be performed by the Wordless Music Orchestra. This approximately 45-minute conceptual work, composed long...
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On 'The Tree of Life' VFX
One of the big differences on The Tree of Life was the source material, as Glass explains. “The script, if you can call it that, was really more like a set of notes that he has written and built up over some 35 years. He has been working on this project since the ’70s. And we actually have negatives that he shot in the 1970s that we incorporated into the movie. So it really becomes a lifting of...
January 2011
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El Perro Del Mar - Candy
Just rediscovered this...