In yet another wonderful turn on the intellectual rights front, here’s a note from Moby:
hi,
i’ll keep this brief.
this portion of moby.com, ‘film music’, is for independent and non-profit filmmakers, film students, and anyone in need of free music for their independent, non-profit film, video, or short.
to use the site you log in(or on?) and are [...]
Believe it or not, the complete opposite can be housed within the same word. These are exposed by removing a single letter, hardly in deep disguise but unnoticed all the same. Simply remove the letter in bold to reveal the contradictory word.
charm
seven
whole
slaughter
resign
feast
stray
friend
covert
From the excellent Words Fail Me, by Teresa Monachino.
Liz Kuball does a short interview of Raúl Gutierrez, one of my favorite blogger-photographers. Raúl writes about photography, travel, parenting, and much more. Here is a bit from the interview:
You never realize how much a finger can feel until you have a paper cut and after all those deaths I had a thousand paper cuts.
It is [...]
Yesterday someone arrived at this blog typing the following search:
“where are the departed dead?”
There is a story behind that.
Readers of this blog will know that one of the first things I started doing here were mixtapes. I only got two done, and then I didn’t get around to posting more. Today I learned about Muxtape. Raul mentioned it, you shouldn’t miss his first online mixtape. I found this one pretty interesting. Notice that you can subscribe to [...]
My advice is always to make a lot of art; to make a lot of art, then look at what you have made and then think about what you have done. If you think first, you will never do anything or you will do something boring.
Dave Hickey
I first read about soalstalgia in Wired. The word was coined by philosopher Glenn Albrecht, after studying the sadness and sense of loss felt by those who experience environmental change at home, to the point where they no longer feel they know they place where they have lived. Albrecht himself describes it as “the homesickness [...]
What will be more fun and interesting: watching the Oscars live on TV or reading Jason Kottke’s live blog on the Oscars?
I haven’t seen most of the movies and I don’t have cable television at home, so Kottke will have to do. I don’t think I’ll miss much.
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