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Mad Men Theme Song - Enoch Light original sample

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:57:38 -0800

Mad Men Theme Song - Enoch Light original sample

"For those of us who see film as an anthropological artefact (ha!), this application of filmic..."

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:13:54 -0800

“

For those of us who see film as an anthropological artefact (ha!), this
application of filmic “qualities” is a very interesting trend. … Even though
it’s commonly recognized that visual images can be manipulated, the look of
a home movie, classroom film or “roll the clip” sports report film is still
something that communicates authenticity to audiences.

I know that in the preservation of 16mm film, many question why we worship
grain and all of those quaint qualities that accompany the gauge. The
answer is simply that we are not just preserving the information being
profered in the film, but the nature of its production.

”

- Elena Rossi-Snook, on film grain and its removal (or addition!) in archival (or “archival”!) works [AMIA-L] (the rest of her post is worth reading)

New favorite clip from 30 Rock: Stone Mountain

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:06:00 -0700

New favorite clip from 30 Rock: Stone Mountain

Skunk Gets Head Stuck in Peanut Butter Jar - KTLA [thanks noah!]

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:29:48 -0700

Skunk Gets Head Stuck in Peanut Butter Jar - KTLA [thanks noah!]

Ask MeFi: Lentils!

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:38:26 -0700

Ask MeFi: Lentils!:

What delicious lentil dish can I make tonight?

Tweet forwarded by @estherbester

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:32:01 -0700

sweetCupcake: "We do not inherit the land, we borrow it from our children" -
American Indian Proverb. I love it :)

Original Tweet: http://twitter.com/sweetCupcake/statuses/5180436775

"In fact, lack of ethnic diversity may have much to do with what allows these places to be..."

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:51:06 -0700

“In fact, lack of ethnic diversity may have much to do with what allows these places to be “progressive”. It’s easy to have Scandinavian policies if you have Scandinavian demographics.”

- The White City | Newgeography.com

why is this on regretsy? I LOVE IT [Regretsy – Kentucky Frilled...

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:24:41 -0700

why is this on regretsy? I LOVE IT [Regretsy – Kentucky Frilled Chicken]

ONE MONTH FROM TODAY: The Great Los Angeles Walk 4

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:54:52 -0700

ONE MONTH FROM TODAY: The Great Los Angeles Walk 4:

14 miles, 8 hours, plenty of stops! From Downtown to the ocean

MeFi: Creative Destruction-Hollywood Division

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:38:59 -0700

MeFi: Creative Destruction-Hollywood Division:

Will the future of cinema be live or remixed? “There is a level of panic in Hollywood I haven’t seen for a while.” So begins USC Professor Jon Taplin, also a producer of films by Martin Scorsese….

アホな走り集

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:43:20 -0700

アホな走り集

Traveltalks - 1935 Los Angeles "Wonder City of the West"

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:10:52 -0700

Traveltalks - 1935 Los Angeles "Wonder City of the West"

MeFi: Steve Jobs interview

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:26:05 -0700

MeFi: Steve Jobs interview:

I’m 100% sure that if it hadn’t been for Mrs. Hill in fourth grade and a few others, I would have absolutely ended up in jail. A timeless and fascinating 1995 interview with Steve Jobs.

Not homesick

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

It’s been so long since I lived in Paris that I doubt anyone would believe me if I said that I missed it even now. And yet I still do, like today, when it’s clear outside after a few days’ rain here in Los Angeles; the dampness and the scent of cigarettes outside make me miss that other city, and terribly so.

The older I get the more I realize that my experience isn’t typical. The Junior Year Abroad is a hoary cliché, and that’s another reason why it’d be easy to scoff at my wistful sighs and cliché-filled yearnings. But it can’t be denied that going abroad, and being forced by necessity to deal with the world in a truly engaged manner, causes one to experience things more vividly, so is it any surprise that the short 10 months I spent in France loom larger in my mind than my 25-odd years of living where I’ve otherwise always lived?

Maybe if I attended to each day with the same kind of attentiveness with the world around me, as familiar with it as I may be, I’d come to better appreciate that too.

MeFi: Raise Thumb. Close One Eye. Squint.

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:27:56 -0700

MeFi: Raise Thumb. Close One Eye. Squint.:

The eyeballing game: compare your best attempts at several instinctive everyday tasks - determining a point of convergence, bisecting an angle, finding the midpoint of a line - against…

Leave it to a show that famously employs an unusually high...

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:01:45 -0700

Leave it to a show that famously employs an unusually high number of women writers to capture—more vividly than anything I’ve encountered save Norman Mailer’s short story “The Language of Men” and, obliquely, John O’Hara’s “Graven Image”—the unrelenting, low-level competition and consequent posing, the miscues and jarringness, the monotonous lack of intimacy that characterize a good deal of the conversation among middle-class American males. And leave it to television to enshrine correct Americanese. (via Mad About Mad Men - The Atlantic (November 2009))

MeFi: Alfred Hitchcock on The Tomorrow Show

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:48:08 -0700

MeFi: Alfred Hitchcock on The Tomorrow Show:

“Long thought to be lost or destroyed, this complete recording of one of the few hour long interviews of Alfred Hitchcock has been found.”

"Yesterday, All those backups seemed a waste of pay. Now my database has gone away. Oh I believe in..."

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:57:00 -0700

“Yesterday,
All those backups seemed a waste of pay.
Now my database has gone away.
Oh I believe in yesterday.

Suddenly,
There’s not half the files there used to be,
And there’s a milestone hanging over me
The system crashed so suddenly.

I pushed something wrong
What it was I could not say.

Now all my data’s gone and I long for yesterday-ay-ay-ay.

Yesterday,
Need for backup seemed so far away.
Seemed my data were all here to stay,
Now I believe in yesterday.

Anonymous”

- Slashdot Hardware Story | Server Failure Destroys Sidekick Users’ Backup Data

Ode To Joy

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:10:24 -0700

Ode To Joy