June 2012

Reggie Watts at TED 2012

06.30.2012

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Perhaps the coolest thing I’ve ever seen. Artist Reggie Watts mashes up language, inflection, melody, absurdly profound truths, humor, and wicked grooves in this captivating piece. Just watch.

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Vive chasing his ball under the Hollywood sign

06.29.2012

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Blade Runner — watercolor edition — part 1 (teaser)

06.29.2012

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video From YoutTube: This animation is made of 3285 aquarelle paintings and form the very beginning of my paraphrase on the motion picture Blade Runner (1982) by Ridley Scott. The sound is borrowed from the original movie.

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Sun dunk

06.28.2012

Hey, San Pedro! (Source: internet)

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Vive barking at the Hollywood Bowl

06.27.2012

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video I realize this is pretty uneventful. What you don’t see is the first thirty seconds of it. Weird. Vive and I had been hanging out at the top lot above the Bowl for a good hour or so before heading back to the [...]

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When Harry Met Sally (1989) — restaurant orgasm scene

06.27.2012

I actually re-read this script a few months ago. Still excellent after 23 years. Written by Nora Ephron RIP. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

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Ray Bradbury: Story of a Writer (1963)

06.26.2012

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video A half-hour television documentary about Ray Bradbury (1963) by David L. Wolper. Included is Bradbury’s “Dial Double Zero,” a short story about intelligence within a telephone system.

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Day at Night: An interview with Ray Bradbury

06.25.2012

Do what you love; love what you do. Not just the activity itself, but the results of it. “I don’t think life is worth living unless you’re doing something you love completely, so that you’re waking up in the morning and wanting to rush to do it. If you’re doing something mediocre, if you’re doing [...]

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Squeakie caught in the fence

06.25.2012

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Happy 100th birthday, Alan Turing.

06.22.2012

Pssst! In honor of Alan Turing’s 100th, the Kindle version of Under Angels will be FREE until midnight. GET IT HERE. For those unfamiliar with the synopsis, Under Angels is a ghost story about a WWII codebreaker who gets driven to suicide. The tale takes place in an extension of Alan Turing’s universe, and all [...]

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