Archive for February, 2008

I am, obviously (?), a sucker for field recordings of any stripe. But this is fantastic.

I don't know that much about Weegee, but I obviously know of him, and the first few pages of this archive have some fantastic photography.

This looks interesting. Maybe someday I will learn how to use it.

I really really really hope that this is an official organ of the Obama campaign. McCain, Clinton and Hillary are falling victim to the meme gap. Edit: They caught up.

Listing of locations dispensing free NYC condoms.

Critique of various ULTIMATE Tuesday infographics. Interestingly doesn't discuss much of the content of the data being presented by different news outlets. eg, NYTimes is very conservative with their delegate count, but CNN is, well, profligate.

Handheld video footage of the Crystal Skull teaser trailer. It sure looks like an awesome two minute long movie, hopefully the rest of it will work out too. via cp.

NERD TIME.

A well-written, interesting, and dare I say it (I do!) sort of nerdorable nytimes blog about biology. Of course, its interesting biology, like how T-Rexs made out (maybe). All my exes are T-Rexes. Google says no one has typed that before.

Carrie snapped this during a shoot she was doing for us (Housing Works) in our Long Island City warehouse, using Paul's camera.

"Way down in some lonesome valley. Way down in some lonesome grove / Where the small birds does whistle, their notes to increase"

"In other words, instead of just being about cooking, it will be about everything that interests me. But I will arrange the use of chance operations so that cooking comes up more than anything else."

All kinds of superlative commentary but no one says that they're gonna need a bigger boat. But they are, probably.

Interesting combination of css3 and php to reveal bitmap images when you highlight a block of text.

Liz channels Robert Mitchum for her stint with Glamocracy, with the help of Moriah

This is sort of hilarious. I can't tell if it's because everyone is in the middle of saying something, or the fact that Robert Bork got such a huge amount of space.

“How does this work?”
“Oh I’ve seen one of these things. Yeah, yeah yeah. Okay, you’ve got to push this thing in I think and twist it.”
“Don’t force it don’t force it!”
“She’s right, my little friend. This contraption is in fact a weapon of mass destruction. Casanova plans to turn it against the city tonight at midnight.”
“Hey, something’s happening. Something’s happening.”
“Okay, very good. Now, on the wall to your left you should see two toggles side by side.”
“Oh, woah, ‘toggles’? What do you mean? You talking about switches?”
“I see them, Captain.”
“Thank you. Flip the first toggle.”
“Flipping.… (she flips it)”
“Excellent work. Now flip the—”
“Jolly good work, team! Jolly good!”
“Will you just—!…Over there, please.”
“Of course. Sorry.”
“Now flip the second toggle.”
“Do as he says, Bowler. The man knows what of he speaks.(Bowler flips the second toggle.)”
“Captain, I’m just gonna ask you directly: Do you know billionaire Lance Hunt?”
“It’s me. (Shoveler looks positively shocked) Naw, I’m kiddin’ with you. I’ve always wanted to do that.”
“What’s next?”
“I just told you, flip the second toggle.”
“…Again?”
“What do you mean?”
“Flip the toggle twice?”
“No, no no no, don’t do that. Just flip it again, now. One time. Flip it.”
(to Furious) “Does he understand what I’m asking?”
“Hold on a second. Captain, exactly how many toggle flips ‘in toto’ are involved in this entire procedure?”
(starting to really panic as the machine begins humming) “I just…it’s—Seven!”
“‘Seven’?”
“Flip it!”
“Seven?”
“Hold the phone. Everybody, hold the phone. You phrased that incorrectly. We need to know how many toggle flips are needed, not counting the gratuitous toggle flip you may have asked ” for in a moment of panic.”
“Flip it!!”
“I—”
“Okay, you know what? You know what? Could we just start again? Is there some sort of like, reset button on this thing?”
“No you little freak there’s no button for resetting. Flip the switch lady. Don’t stare at me. Lift your left arm. Flip it, you moron!”
“Woah!”
“You’re a moron!”
“I am not a moron.”
“You’re a moron!”
“Woah, woah!”
“Flip the switch!”
“Do not call her a moron, that’s not cool.”
“Thank you.”
“I will do it! I’ll do it!”
“Flip the switch lady! Don’t look at me like that!”
“It’s this one, yes?”
(Raja flips the second toggle a second time, and the machine kicks in.)
“Uh oh. Wrong switch.”
(A beam comes out of the machine which basically fries Captain Amazing into a man-shaped carbon chunk.)
“Everybody heard me say ‘reset button’, right?”
“Oh my God. Oh my God, we killed him.”
(from his spot on the other side of the room) “What do you mean ‘we’? I was right here.”

"Captromancy is a type of divination which is practiced by placing a poppy bud upon hot coals, and taking predictions from the subsequent movements of the bud itself." Saw this guy with Chris Forsyth and Tetuzi Akiyama last night. Fantastic.

"...And wash away the rain."

The fly swoops down onto Burroughs's plate of cookies. "Terrible,'' Burroughs exclaims, attempting to backhand the fly into oblivion. "William, that's my pet fly!'' cries Cronenberg. "Julius, I told you not to bother people. Not everyone likes flies.''