September 16, 2011
It's full of ponies.
On the eve of the show's second season debut, My Little Ponies creative director and former showrunner Lauren Faust was kind enough to grant a retrospective interview looking back at season 1.
(Previously, previously and previously.)
Carl Jung
Carl Jung: Taking inner life seriously. An eight-part series on the thought of Carl Gustav Jung from the Guardian's How to Believe series (previously.) Jung's relationship with his patient, student, and rumored lover Sabina Spielrein, and his mentor Sigmund Freud is the subject of a new film, "A Dangerous Method." [Via] [more inside]
The Saint John’s Bible
Saint John’s Abbey and University today announced the historic completion of The Saint John’s Bible, the only handwritten and illuminated Bible commissioned by a Benedictine Monastery since the advent of the printing press more than 500 years ago.You can explore this beauty online. NPR ran a story on the The Saint John’s Bible back in 1995. A short documentary about the Bible. The Library of Congress's online exhibition.
PONPONPON de floor
Did you watch Pon Pon Pon and find it a little too drab for your liking? Pon de Floor just not colorful enough for you? Well, you'll be happy to know they've been combined together. Warning: it's catchy, and slightly NSFW. [more inside]
Mimes speak!
Mime is an art. Mime is a craft. Mime is movement as complex as moonwalking, or as simple as nodding one's head to say yes. Often I've heard mime defined as non-verbal communication. (a negative term) I prefer to define it simply: Mime is visual communication.
The basic techniques of Mime are explained by YouTube videos.... [more inside]
Happy Owain Glyndwr Day!
Not a lot of people know that today is Owain Glyndwr Day. "Welsh prince Owain Glyndwr led a successful people's rebellion against England's iron-fisted rule in the early 15th century and arguably became the most famous and highly regarded figure in Welsh history." [more inside]
Jean-Jacques Beineix's "Diva"
The French romantic thriller “Diva” dashes along with a pellmell gracefulness, and it doesn’t take long to see that the images and visual gags and homages all fit together and reverberate back and forth. It’s a glittering toy of a movie... This one is by a new director, Jean-Jacques Beineix... who understands the pleasures to be had from a picture that doesn’t take itself very seriously. Every shot seems designed to delight the audience. - Pauline Kael, 1982 [more inside]
Stop Forwarding That Crap To Me
Theme Park Piracy
An unauthorized Angry Birds theme park has opened in China. There is also a Blizzard-themed park called Joyland.
Second Class Male / Time to Go
The Observer ran a series of columns by Richard Geefe, a writer whose work was interrupted by his promise to himself and his editors that he would kill himself before the end of November 1999. First, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, and the posthumous twelfth. Reaction in The Independent. [more inside]
YouTube times infinity
Fela Soul
Amerigo Gazaway combined the music of Fela Kuti and De La Soul to create Fela Soul. All the tracks along with liner notes and album commentary are available free for download here. [more inside]
Straight guy for gay marriage
Why A Heterosexual, Married, North Carolinian Father Of Three Cares About LGBT Equality. Married father of three boys writes eloquently about the reasons why he opposes the proposed constitutional amendment banning any legal relationship recognition for same-sex couples. The amendment goes before voters in May primary election, when heavy Republican turnout is expected. Meanwhile Senator Goolsby says that it is all about "empowering voters" "so no activist judge is able to decide on his or her own what marriage is." [original]
Do the feet touch the ground?
The Zoöpraxiscope was an invention by Eadweard Muybridge, an English landscape and travel photographer, and eccentric.
He was the man who made Pictures move and was commissioned to try and capture the movement of horses and later produced his famed studies on movement which are now being collected online;
Male nudes and Female nudes. (previous) NSFW.
He was the man who made Pictures move and was commissioned to try and capture the movement of horses and later produced his famed studies on movement which are now being collected online;
Male nudes and Female nudes. (previous) NSFW.
The [Queue] Is Present
Marina Abramovic's 2010 MoMA exhibit, "The Artist Is Present" (previously) meets 1980s Sierra adventure games. (No word yet on whether the game has made anyone cry.)
Thoughts from the creator.
I did put a keycam on my rotorhead
$20 SAIT
Walther PPK
Kitteh! **GAME OVER**
Happy Flash Friday!
Haven't been addicted to a flash game in a while? Take on Swords and Potions, where you tackle the under-appreciated other side of the RPG universe: being a shopkeeper! There's a lot to this game, so here's the wiki if you need help, and don't worry about your productivity- turns take time to regenerate so you can't get stuck playing all day.
Declining Cycads: one is the loneliest number
Cycads are an odd bunch of plants. Abundant in the Jurassic period, these old-timers have not evolved much, and are either all male or all female (dioecious), where the the overwhelming majority of plant species are now cosexual (hermaphroditic or monoecious). Some of these plants are still prolific, but there are some rather solitary specimens, including Encephalartos woodii, the loneliest plant in the world. [more inside]
Code, misery, euphoria
“It’s misery, misery, misery, misery, euphoria.” (NYMag) Code kids break out of basement.
Love the photos.
Old Usenet
Feeling nostalgic? olduse.net is Usenet, updated in real time as it was thirty years ago. Also available over NNTP. [more inside]
Trust Issues
Hartwick College, a small school in New York's Catskills, is the beneficiary of a trust that “could ultimately shatter the nation’s financial structure.”
Straw Hat Riots
While courts say you can wear them in a snowstorm if you want to, yesterday was the last acceptable day to wear straw hats unless you're willing to offend someone and risk your life. Top hats and Sheath Skirts might be risky too.
"A new space for writers to share, read and sell"
One Religion coming up. Would you like God with that?
Varieties of irreligious experience - modern believers "may not accept the idea of God as an actually existing entity, so arguments for atheism will not disturb them"
To My Someday Daughter
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