Art

The Twilight Zone: The Night of the Meek

12.25.2010

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Serling’s holiday classic starring Art Carney. Part 1 of 3. Fifty years old this year; original air date 12.23.2010.

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Bob Dylan – Little Drummer Boy

12.24.2010

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Liquid sculpture by Shinchi Maruyama

12.21.2010

Check out Shinchi Maruyama’s interview on The Morning news.

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Jingle Bell Rock

12.20.2010

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Doodling in Math Class

12.17.2010

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Need Company?

12.13.2010

Need Company? by Jace D. Albao (b. 1969) Gary had two problems. The first problem was that he lived in a crappy apartment with nobody to talk to besides the faceless girls on the other end of the pay-per-minute phone calls. The second problem was that he hated his job as a garbage collector. One [...]

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Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly sing the classic ‘Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy’ as performed by David Bowie and Bing Crosby

12.13.2010

And if that made no sense to you: You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

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Waiting for Sue

12.11.2010

Waiting for Sue by Jace D. Albao (b. 1969) It happened at the top of a very tall bridge. Three women — a brunette, a blonde, and a redhead — were waiting for Sue. “Is she on her way?” the brunette asked, holding the gun on the blonde and the redhead. “I don’t think I [...]

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The Golden Triangle

12.08.2010

A couple people have recently asked me about the golden triangle. Also known as the sublime triangle, the golden triangle is an isosceles triangle in which the two longer sides have equal lengths and in which the ratio of this length to that of the third (smaller) side is the golden ratio. In the diagram [...]

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Birth to ten years old in one minute

12.06.2010

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video A time lapse of Natalie; one photo taken (as near as possible to) every day from her birth until the age of ten. RELATED: Noah’s six-year time lapse.

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Golden Triangles

12.02.2010

Rolling hard in our unwashed matching Golden Triangle shirts.

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David Foster Wallace’s personal files

12.01.2010

NEWSWEEK takes a tour through the just-released archives of David Foster Wallace. Included in the collection are some of his teaching materials, some heavily annotated books from his personal library, an unfinished novel called The Pale King, and a creative writing assignment about an anthropomorphic tea kettle he penned when he was nine. While many [...]

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A Sound of Thunder

11.30.2010

The Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury (b. 1920) The sign on the wall seemed to quaver under a film of sliding warm water. Eckels felt his eyelids blink over his stare, and the sign burned in this momentary darkness:

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Fibonacci Furniture by MSTRF

11.30.2010

My like-minded buddy Farzan Nemat is an excellent furniture designer, producing all his pieces on the Golden Ratio and Fibonacci Principle. He’s got some killer new pieces over in his store. Check ‘em out.

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Rod and Robby

11.29.2010

The legend Rod Serling with Robby the Robot, who made an appearance in the Twilight Zone episodes “Uncle Simon“, “The Brain Center at Whipples“, and “One for the Angels“. TIMELY AND RELATED: Robby played alongside Leslie Nielsen in “Forbidden Planet“.

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Leslie Nielsen RIP

11.28.2010

We’ve lost a great one. Leslie Nielsen has died at 84. The laughs that he gave us were in their own genre. From Airplane! to Police Squad to the Naked Gun series, nobody did deadpan like that guy. I’ll never be able to look at his face without laughing. Not even if I was at [...]

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