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Feb
8th
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Paul Prolux’s films of the 2000s [vimeo] is a wondrous seven minute montage. Although there are some notable exceptions, it includes much of the good with just enough of the bad to wrap the last decade into a messy little package. It reminded me of a few that I’d forgotten about when I was making my collage of the 00s last month, too.

What I think I like most about it, though, is how well the monologue from There Will Be Blood holds up musically to the rest of the soundtrack.

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This is another joke masking a true terror for us—we’re doing the last season of the show now, and this season is where you get your answers. And we’re not waiting until the last episode—the answers start coming fairly fast and furious right out of the gate. But in a lot of ways, the storytelling this year is just us telling people that they were wrong.

Damon Lindelof, as part of a long, awesome interview along with Carlton Cuse, J. J. Abrams, Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, Bryan Burk (of Alias, Lost, Star Trek, Fringe, and FlashForward).  [GQ-1/GQ-2]

(via alicetiara, whose endorsement of Fringe I’ll happily second if only for the campy X-filesish fun.)

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Ad Report Card has long considered the melding of practical sales pitch with uplifting emotion the holy grail of advertising, and here’s a prime example. Frankly, I’m getting a little of sick of Google doing everything right.
Seth Stevenson, “The best and worst Super Bowl ads.” [slate]. The other smart thing that Google did with these ads was releasing them to the internet weeks ago [youtube] so that people who had already seen them [snarkmarket] could tell everyone else around them at the bar to watch how commercial showing nothing by internet searches could make them cry in just about thirty seconds.
Feb
7th
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Hamish Hamilton collected &  published the readings and performances by Amy Wallace-Havens, Bonnie Nadell, Gerry Howard, Colin Harrison, Michael Pietsch, Don DeLillo, Zadie Smith, George Saunders, and Jonathan Franzen  from the 23 October 2008 event for David Foster Wallace at NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts in the current issue of Five Dials. (via daringfireball)

Hamish Hamilton collected &  published the readings and performances by Amy Wallace-Havens, Bonnie Nadell, Gerry Howard, Colin Harrison, Michael Pietsch, Don DeLillo, Zadie Smith, George Saunders, and Jonathan Franzen  from the 23 October 2008 event for David Foster Wallace at NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts in the current issue of Five Dials.

(via daringfireball)

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Let’s try not to think about how well documented this apparently widespread phenomenon is and just appreciate that dogs love Law & Order, too.

Let’s try not to think about how well documented this apparently widespread phenomenon is and just appreciate that dogs love Law & Order, too.

Feb
6th
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Wildbirds & Peacedrums. Neumo’s.

Wildbirds & Peacedrums. Neumo’s.

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an out of focus keeper from last night’s st vincent show. more online now [flickr] and on lineout later.

an out of focus keeper from last night’s st vincent show. more online now [flickr] and on lineout later.

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Feb
5th
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Surprise Antarctic Scotch! Might make a polar expedition more sensible. [the Lede, photo by nzaht.org]

Surprise Antarctic Scotch! Might make a polar expedition more sensible. [the Lede, photo by nzaht.org]

Feb
4th
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I love the pictures that Adventure Schoolers are sending back from the edge of the country. [twitpic]

I love the pictures that Adventure Schoolers are sending back from the edge of the country. [twitpic]

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Feb
3rd
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Oscar Snubs: Why the Wild Things Aren’t Nominated [Vanity Fair]

I really liked Wild Things (and, while we’re confessing, Away We Go, too), but Michael Hogan is right that the biggest problem with the movie was that there was no way that it could live up to the incredible Arcade Fire scored tear-jerking joy and nostalgia overload trailer (which was maybe the best two minutes of advertising produced all year).

That said, even if the slowly paced sad movie didn’t work for you (I can accept this), I can’t comprehend how those phenomenal monsters didn’t merit a visual effects mention. Maybe it’s the same set of arcane rules that kept Karen O out of contention for her original songs.
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G# minor forever, right? [last.fm]

G# minor forever, right? [last.fm]

Feb
2nd
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These LOST Posters [Mattson Creative] are SO good. (via slog)

These LOST Posters [Mattson Creative] are SO good.
(via slog)

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hours of fun with venn diagrams.

hours of fun with venn diagrams.

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In 1983 he found 21 places in Washington state with noise-free intervals of 15 minutes or more. By 2007 there were three. (One of them is Olympic National Park, which he is trying to save, and he will not reveal the names of the others, arguing that they are protected by their anonymity.) Whom can we blame? People, and planes. Hempton claims that, during daytime, the average noise-free interval in wilderness areas has shrunk to less than five minutes.
Newsweek, via maura. See also this old article by David Owen about the war on light pollution. [newyorker]
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Jan
31st
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oh, hello, new season/series of Skins started last week. [E4.com via alexgarcia] #missuseries1 (p.s., Series 1 and 2 are available to watch instantly [netflix])