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Werner Herzog’s approach to documentary filmmaking. – By Leo Robson – Slate Magazine
Werner Herzog’s approach to documentary filmmaking. – By Leo Robson – Slate Magazine Herzog’s advice to students at his Rogue Film School—where he teaches how to pick locks and forge shooting permits—is “read, read, read, read, read, read, read—if you do not read, you’ll never be a filmmaker,” but he isn’t interested in talking about…
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theweekmagazine: Quinoa, a grain-like superfood, has become so popular in Western markets that Bolivians can no longer afford to eat it. Instead, they’re turning to cheap, processed foods, raising concerns about malnutrition in a poor country where it has long been a problem. For centuries Bolivians lived off quinoa, and it was “little more than…
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huntedandgathered-blog: Jon-Kyle Mohr
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DC Women Kicking Ass: RIP Geraldine Ferraro
DC Women Kicking Ass: RIP Geraldine Ferraro dcwomenkickingass: Geraldine “Gerry” Ferraro, the first woman to run on a major party presidential ticket, died yesterday. She was 75. Women had run for president in the past (I have an aunt who has a button she saved from when Shirley Chisolm ran in 1972) but no woman…
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iwdrm: “Monday, we burn Miller … Tuesday, Tolstoy … Wednesday, Walt Whitman … Friday, Faulkner … and Saturday and Sunday, Schopenhauer and Sartre. We burn them to ashes and then burn the ashes. That’s our official motto.” Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
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On the wall are Penn’s ten game design rules, and it’s these that form the structure of the brainstorming process. There’s no sense that the team is just picking genres and trying to come up with new spins on old ideas. Instead, there’s a sort of organic, industrial design approach – they start by considering…
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Popular Mechanics reported in 1949 that “computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.” Mr. Smarty Pants. Austin Chronicle. 24 February, 1995.
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Color Wheels
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Tania Bruguera launches Immigrant Movement International
> > >> TANIA BRUGUERA LAUNCHES IMMIGRANT MOVEMENT INTERNATIONAL >> Creative Time is pleased to join the Queens Museum of Art to announce Tania Bruguera’s Immigrant Movement International, a long-term art project in the form of an artist-initiated, socio-political movement. Bruguera will spend a year operating a flexible community space in the multinational and transnational…
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Space workers can be oddly unsuited to anything else. I went to Titusville’s small airport to meet Robert Bial, who runs a plant that refurbishes aircraft landing gear. He is planning to hire up to 60 mechanics from the shuttle programme, but told me that a recent job fair at KSC was acutely depressing. An…