maraid has quite a collection of vintage russian matchboxes on flickr. and other stuff too!
I learned from her page that Laika’s original name was Kudryavka, or “Little Curly”. sheesh. As if she wasn’t tragic enough already.
Brazil is a technically a Christmas movie.
It’s up there with Die Hard as one of the best.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Birthday Wish
Today is the day that Carl Sagan passed away fifteen years ago. Here’s a quote of his I’d like to pass along:
The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there’s little good evidence. Far better it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
– “In the Valley of the Shadow”, Parade, 1996
If anyone ever looked death in the eye, it certainly was you Carl. Thanks for setting the bar.
Eclipse Shots From Rocky Butte
Three shots from last nights eclipse at the Rocky Butte Natural Area in Portland.
December 9 was the birthday of Russian political philosopher, Peter Kropotkin (1842 – 1921) – the “Anarchist Prince”, whose ideas of Mutual Aid outline an alternative to Darwinian ideas of cutthroat competition as the driving force behind evolution.
In the 1870s and 80s Kropotkin was a traveling revolutionary, moving through Europe organizing and agitating for socialist causes. He settled in England, and only returned to Russia after the Revolution…
“Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.” ― Peter Kropotkin, In Russian and French Prisons
Photo, c. 1900
John Smith, “The Girl Chewing Gum” 1976
How smart-asses and directors see the world.
This does not get old.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
jstn:
Ice Cube Celebrates The Eames
“Before I did rap music I studied architectural drafting.”
Ice Cube plays his nerd card and his cool card at the same time.
(Source: http://jstn.cc/)
Every year Nick does a special reblog post for his birthday. This year it’s donating $5 to Archive.org for every reblog. Very cool.
oats:
Reblog to donate $5 to Archive.org — I (oats) will donate $5 for each reblog of this picture and the complete message below up to $1,500 to the Internet Archive. (sponsored by my side project Airborne LCDs)
Relevant Links: must include with your reblog!
- About the Internet Archive
- First Tumblr Home Page saved on the Internet Archive from 5 Jan 2007
- sponsor FLIR Star SAFIRE and L-3 WESCAM and Avalex
- More Information (why I’m doing this, reblog status, etc)
- Wikipedia Page on Internet Archive
Here’s video of Jupiter, just rotating on its axis is all.
(h/t NASA APOD)
(Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)
For now, editing is a commodity and less a craft
Millions upon millions of people now have access to really good video editing tools, but that doesn’t make them an editor. Earning a paycheck doesn’t make you an editor either. I’ve met “professionals” who have full time jobs that can’t cut their way out of a paper bag. And then I meet kids in school or college that just blow me away with their sense of timing.
….
Long term, the craft of editing is probably stronger than ever. Now that the tools are in the hands of the many, we’ll discover some new folks who just blow us away with their storytelling skills. But short term, many long time professionals could get hurt when editing decisions are based on price alone and not the skill of the artist. Like anything else, with storytelling you generally get what you pay for.
– Walter »
Stanley Kubrick, George C. Scott, Peter Sellers, Christiane Kubrick, & Weegee during the filming of the pie fight scene that was cut from Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) (via)
I will never get tired of seeing these photos.