Thursday, September 20, 2012

"Take it easy. Nothing you do matters as much as you think. Your greatest achievements aren’t yours..."

"Take it easy. Nothing you do matters as much as you think. Your greatest achievements aren’t yours...": “Take it easy. Nothing you do matters as much as you think. Your greatest achievements aren’t yours at all, they’re accidents and jokes. You’re a puppet, the universe does the work, and it gets the most done when you’re moving the least. Surrender, flow, relax. Don’t be hard on yourself, don’t put pressure on yourself, life is just a chain of experiments and results, and you’ll be perfect when you’re dead.”

- Dan Harmon (via nevver)

TV: Great Job, Internet!: West Wing cast reunites to make you feel safe (and vote)

TV: Great Job, Internet!: West Wing cast reunites to make you feel safe (and vote):






Offering a wave of early-'00s nostalgia America didn't know it needed, The West Wing cast has reunited to remind us all just how intellectual and idealistic political discourse can be when it's not real. The four-minute video of swelling strings, banter, and walk-and-talks is an endorsement for Bridget Mary McCormack, non-partisan candidate for Michigan's Supreme Court and sister of Mary McCormack, The West Wing's Kate Harper. Mary McCormack collected her former costars for the video, which couches the endorsement in the larger issue of voters failing to complete their ballots. As the presidential campaign crawls to its spiteful peak, Martin Sheen's sonorous Einstein quote just makes politics seem so inviting again. Joshua Malina bouncing his tennis ball, Allison Janney thoughtfully removing her glasses, Bradley Whitford yelling, it's a political culture we can understand. And while Aaron Sorkin wasn't involved, the dialogue is ...

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Saturday, September 15, 2012

dorkhole4prez:kittehkats:Cooper, the Cat...

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Cooper, the Cat...
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Cooper, the Cat Photographer
Cooper, a normal house cat from Seattle, has recently become one of the world’s most talked-about photographers after his owners tied a timer-controlled camera around his neck, which takes snaps of his day-to-day adventures.
His brilliant career began last year, when his owners, Michael and Deirdre Cross decided to attach the tiny camera in order to answer the question that plagues all cat owners – “where does my cat go all day?” It started out as a fun geography experiment, but when Cooper came home the first day, and they saw the amazing photos they were completely blown away. Michael and Deirdre realized it wasn’t about where their furry pet went all day, but about how beautiful and lush their neighborhood looked from a feline’s perspective.
The mini camera around Cooper’s neck takes photos every two minutes, revealing everything that he sees. Whether it catches other cats, one of his many hiding places, his owners, or the big blue sky, the camera revealed some pretty amazing shots and practically made Cooper a star. It also helped his owners understand more about their pet, for example, they noticed Cooper spent a lot of time looking at the back door, and realized a lot of his time was spent looking for a way to get inside. So they got a cat flap and noticed he was much happier.
Read more at http://www.odditycentral.com/news/feline-photographer-offers-a-cats-eye-view-on-life.html#wumtwzKrPkrd3LsR.99
This is so cool. 

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“I like things that have passed through human hands. Things...

“I like things that have passed through human hands. Things...:



















“I like things that have passed through human hands. Things that have been touched. Such things are charged with emotions that are capable of revealing themselves under certain, extremely sensitive circumstances. I collect such objects, surround myself with them and in the end I cast such ‘fetishes’ in my films. That’s also the reason why I don’t like computer animation. Virtual reality doesn’t have a tactile dimension. Objects and figures created on a computer have no past.”
Jan Švankmajer (born September 4, 1934)

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Film: Newswire: The third Before Sunrise movie is already done filming

Yessssssss.

Film: Newswire: The third Before Sunrise movie is already done filming:






Although Ethan Hawke recently denied reports that the long-rumored third Before Sunrise movie was already filming, saying that his recent meeting with director Richard Linklater in Greece was just about "developing ideas" and "not really worth talking about," it turns out that this was just a lot of words—beautiful words that can make for engrossing all-night conversation, but words that so often just get in the way of people saying what they really mean, you know? So now, in the light of day, we awake ready to confront the truth: Linklater, Hawke, and Julie Delpy have actually already shot the film, wrapping "late last night" in a whirlwind of heady conversation and pointing cameras at that heady conversation. As hinted, Delpy and Hawke's perfectly complementary yet maddeningly hesitant lovers Celine and Jesse will find themselves wandering through Greece this time, once again discussing where their lives have led ...

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