Dodger Stadium, 8/27/2013. Cubs 3, Dodgers 2.
Great game. Bottom of the ninth, tying run on, Puig at bat. Table was set for walk-off drama, but it wasn’t meant to be.
Went to LACMA yesterday and checked out the James Turrell retrospective. Unbelievable stuff. He uses light and space to create fully immersive experiences, playing with afterimage phenomena like this and this.
Rather than explain further, here’s a video that does an admirable job at summing things up in under six minutes:
The retrospective is taking place in three museums around the world. Don’t miss it. It’s air conditioning for the mind. If you’re in LA, here’s the ticket info.
PS: Look what he’s doing with the Roden Crater.
The one with all the nurses in the Psycho house with a strangler on the loose. This one gave kids nightmares for years.
Season 3 episode 17, based on a story by Ethel Lina White and written for TV by James Bridges. Director: Joseph M. Newman. Host: Alfred Hitchcock. The cast: Dana Wynter, T.C. Jones, Louise Latham, John Kerr, E.J. André, Stephen Roberts, Cathie Merchant, John Willis, Lew Brown & Len Hendry. Original air date: 15 February 1965.
“Today is August 15, 2013. Today is my 60th birthday. Today is the last day of my life. Today, I committed suicide. Today, is the first day this site is active, but it will be here for years to come.” — Martin Manley
Yesterday, on the morning of his sixtieth birthday, Martin Manley committed suicide just moments after launching a website that chronicles his entire life. The site is split into individual sections, with content ranging from photographs, art, philosophy, social commentary, and even GPS coordinates.
Two marriages, no kids, a poker fetish, an out-of-control fedora collection, a lifelong battle with insomnia, a love of symmetry, an obsession with numbers, a fondness for sand-to-stars analogies, a 23-year-old wallet, and even some written fiction, among other things. Guess I ain’t the only one. Well, maybe now I am.
I found his page on Synesthesia especially fascinating. I totally do that, along with other quirky association thingies. For instance, just the other day I was telling M that beef stroganoff tastes like The Dick Van Dyke Show.
Regardless of how you feel about the complicated topic of suicide, you’ll find Mr. Manley’s honesty and logic difficult to shrug off. I only wish he’d had a chance to read Under Angels before he turned sixty. As a guy who proposed to his second wife with a crossword puzzle, he’d certainly have appreciated Pete’s own dark journey.
RIP at last, kind sir.
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UPDATE 8/18/2013: On Friday night, Yahoo took Martin’s site down, declaring it violated terms of service. His sister has asked them to put the site back up, and for good reason.
I figured such a thing could happen, so I nabbed the files early Friday and have them archived. Fortunately others on the web had the same foresight. So regardless of what Yahoo decides to do with Martin’s site files, his site will live on forever on other domains. Anonymous has set up the mirror site here a http://martinmanley.org/
Via TED, filmmaker Andrew Stanton (“Toy Story”, “WALL-E”) has made you laugh and cry. Here he shares what he knows about storytelling, starting at the end, and working back to the beginning. Contains graphic language. =full bio=
Documentary telling the story of how Pan American World Airways kickstarted the jet-age and shrank the globe. Real-life ‘Pan Am girls’ recall a high-life of luxury and glamour; rubbing shoulders with celebrity passengers, international romances and having to wear the now infamous girdle. Stars of the jet-age such as Robert Vaughn and Mary Quant remember the food, fashion and girls that made them regular Pan Am passengers.
Pan Am’s success was largely due to its visionary founder Juan Trippe, who transformed a small mail carrier in to a global airline, pioneered flights for the masses and helped create the Boeing 747 jumbo jet.
Honor Blackman narrates the story of how Pan Am conquered the skies and left a legacy of affordable travel and a much smaller world.
