Koloman Moser
source: victorianvanilla: Koloman Moser, 1901.
The future happened a long time ago, we just don’t remember.
ugly yahoo ads
@vinebox is not taking these new ugly yahoo ads lightly. I like it.
I read, I heard…
I read in the paper that my brothers are being thrown from rooftops blindfolded with their hands tied behind their backs for violating sharia law. I heard the crowds stone these fallen men if they move after they hit the ground. I heard it’s in the name of God. I heard my pastor speak for God too, quoting scripture from his book. Words like abomination popped off my skin like hot grease as he went on to describe a lake of fire that God wanted me in. I heard on the news that the aftermath of a hate crime left piles of bodies on a dance floor this month. I heard the gunman feigned dead among all the people he killed. I heard the news say he was one of us. I was six years »
manticipation isn’t a word
that time andy samberg was a complete savage re: the guys choice awards
Honestly Andy Samberg is such a treasure.
Thank you for being you Andy
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The Pitch Meeting for Animaniacs – The Toast
The Pitch Meeting for Animaniacs – The Toast
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THE ANIMATOR: Animaniacs will not make sense to them now. It will make the world make sense to them later.
[Silence, but for EXEC #1’s barely-breathed ‘narf’]
THE ANIMATOR: In the past there were no divisions between children’s and adult entertainment. Everyone sat ’round the kerosene lamp reading The Leatherstocking Tales and everyone at the trading post made the same puns. But in our PG-13 age, who’s going to introduce your daughter to essential Americana, if not the Godpidgeon?
EXEC #2: I mean, maybe she doesn’t need to know about organized crime just yet?
THE ANIMATOR: Cultural literacy is an Always food, my friend.
EXEC #2: You’re saying that ten years from now, a young person will watch The Godfather or read Freud for the first time and realize that the Viennese shrink archetype in their »
I’m a fucking webmaster
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Want to Know What Facebook Really Thinks of Journalists? Here’s What Happened When It Hired Some.
Want to Know What Facebook Really Thinks of Journalists? Here’s What Happened When It Hired Some.
Takeaways from Michael Nunez’s amazing article about Facebook’s inhouse journalists:
1) Facebook literally keeps their in-house journalists in a conference room in the basement.
2) That “Trending” box on your Facebook feed has its content determined by real live humans, not algorithms.
3) Most of the journalists working on the “Trending” box are in their late twenties or early thirties, and graduated from the Ivy League or schools like NYU.
4) These journalists all work at Facebook as independent contractors, and not Facebook employees.
5) The Trends section avoids linking to World Star Hip Hop, The Blaze, and Breitbart.
Inside “Emojigeddon”: The Fight Over The Future Of The Unicode Consortium
Inside “Emojigeddon”: The Fight Over The Future Of The Unicode Consortium
Emails seen by BuzzFeed News reveal an emerging tension at the Unicode Consortium — the 24-year-old organization that was established to develop standards for translating alphabets into code that can be read across all computers and operating systems.
The series of frustrated messages show a deepening rift between those who adhere to the organization’s original mission to code old and obscure and minority languages and those who are investing time and resources toward Unicode’s newer and most popular character sets: emojis, a quirky periodic table of ideograms and smiley faces that cover everything from bemused laughter to swirling, smiling piles of poop. The correspondence offers a peek behind the scenes of the peculiar and little-known organization that’s unexpectedly been tasked with building what some see as the »
Scanning artists de-loot stolen Egyptian treasure from a German museum
Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles, an Iraqi/German artistic duo, covertly scanned a famous looted Egyptian treasure, the Bust of Queen Nefertiti, from its contested perch in Berlin’s Neues Museum.
The hi-rez 3D file is now free to download and print – the artists have printed their own full-size epoxy resin replica.
The original is the crown jewel of the Neues Museum, but Egyptian curators have long agitate for its repatriation to Egypt – it was looted from an Egyptian site in Amarna in 1912 by German archaeologists. The artists have donated their replica bust to the Cairo museum.
The Neues Museum is believed to have made its own scan of the bust, but it does not share 3D models of its collection as a rule, and has a generally guarded posture towards such »
Someone getting to meet Carl Sagan on a cruise
This makes me happy because A, imagining Carl Sagan on a cruise is a delight, and B, this wonderful woman is so happy to meet him.
Becoming a story artist
Ive been getting an influx of messages from students asking me what they can do to become a story artist. I decided to put together a list of a few basic things to get you started on the journey. There is much more that goes into making a good story artist but these are just some of my personal suggestions to start.
First, I always like to suggest some reading material. Here are few books that really helped me wrap my head around a few ideas:
- Visual Story– Bruce Block
- Story– Robert Mckee
- The 5C’s of Cinematography– Joseph Mascelli
- Save the Cat-Blake Snyder
- On Filmmaking– Alexander Mackendrick
Next i’d suggest watching as many movies as possible. Studies from the greats Kubrick, Spielberg, Hitchcock, Coen Brothers, Kurosawa, or whoever else you find yourself drawn to. When I say study, I »
Technology is fueling wealth concentration
Technology doesn’t just replace jobs on the assembly line, but any job where work can be automated. As a result, workers have less leverage for a raise. Companies have less loyalty to their communities. And more and more wealth and income is concentrated at the very top.
President Obama (via azspot)
Real talk from the President that more people should be talking about.
This is Fine
Adult Swim commissioned KC Green to animate his legendary “This is Fine” comic, and the results are amazing. Watch the full video HERE!
Perfection.
Steven Soderbergh’s Completely Useless Wrap Statistics For ‘The Knick’ Season 2
The tales of Steven Soderbergh‘s efficiency are legion, but you might make the mistake in thinking he takes an industrial view of filmmaking. Instead, his approach is a product of his years in the game, a process to get the best results without any wasted time or resources, and a method that keeps things interesting for the ensemble of actors he works. But never has this been as pronounced as in the making of “The Knick,” Soderbergh’s superb Cinemax series, which has seen him direct, edit, produce, and act as his own cinematographer across two full seasons.
Story Credit: IndieWire Exclusive: Steven Soderbergh’s Completely Useless Wrap Statistics For ‘The Knick’ Season 2
Photo Credit: Mary Cybulski
“Actors love working with this guy, because they’re not sitting around all day waiting for the set to be lit,”
The Daily Life Of Gods
The Daily Life Of Gods, by Alexey Kondakov, Ukrainian artist
source: boredpanda
Stories are how we bond
“Telling stories is how we explain the world to one another, and back to ourselves.“
Read more of The Telling
Even if you haven’t been through something as unsettling as watching your father begin to transition into a rightful female identity, or coming to terms with a parent’s lifelong addiction issues, everyone knows the relief of sharing something long-guarded. It’s impossible to form lasting bonds with other human beings without communicating deep things about yourself to one another — in fact, it’s the primary way we bond. By sharing these experiences on the Internet, those of us who have been through immense trauma or distress have the ability to connect with others all over the world who have been through the same thing. The countless emails, messages, DMs, texts and other technological forms of communication I »
Made some buttons for a film
Made some buttons to support a little film I just heard about. You probably haven’t heard about it though…
Sound creative advice
There are people who walk on eggshells out of fear, but there is a second type of person who literally distributes eggshells for other people to walk on. Try to imagine how I feel about this second person, who is the negative space around which the exploratory, human work of creativity is allowed to take place.
This is what I would tell you, and you can take this advice or not take it. Its truth is not dependent on your willingness to believe it, so your reaction isn’t super relevant. But goes like this: you will be an observer – that is to say, not a creator – forever, until the day you find a way to stop using creative people as a proxy for your own stunted drives. You can emerge from this cocoon you’ve made, or you can die »
Rally for American Muslims Against Isis
This is my adorable, brave, intelligent father yesterday at the rally he organized, American Muslims Against Isis. #peaceformuslims (at Times Square – 42nd Street)
Islamophobia comes from ignorance, misunderstanding, and lack of empathy. This guy rules, obviously. He is courageous and amazing. But boy, I wish there were people like him -everywhere-.
I visited home last week. My family lives in Cranberry, a little suburb of Pittsburgh that has rapidly developed, population-wise and economically, in the last decade. 28,098 people reside there, and 94% of them are white. 3% of them are Asian. There are 351 black people in the entire township, and 107 “other race”. (data from http://cranberrybusinesshub.org/217/Demographics) It is noticeably homogeneous to me, almost creepily so, but that is because my daily norm is living in Boston – not exactly a pillar of racial harmony, »
