There’s a Kickstarter going on right now to get a giant coffee table book made of the band’s early days. Seems like $75 is a bit spendy, but then again that’s probably the typical going rate for a big, beautiful, one-of-a-kind coffee table book. Any music history or Pixies fan will probably want this.
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I’ve been dying to get a first glimpse of Gravity ever since the movie was in development and there were all kinds of crazy rumors swirling around it, like it would essentially be a single tracking shot in the vein of that famous scene (original doesn’t appear to be on YT) from his excellent Children [...]
Yes, Roland Kelts is ostensibly writing about the ins-and-outs of translating Japanese author Haruki Murakami from his native tongue into English. But, even within that narrow literary chore are several interesting nuggets about the cultural literary (and otherwise) differences between Japan and America. It’s nearly impossible to find just one nugget worth pulling out, but [...]
“A brilliant American financier and his exotic wife build a lavish mansion in the jungles of Costa Rica, set up a wildlife preserve, and appear to slowly, steadily lose their minds. A spiral of handguns, angry locals, armed guards, uncut diamonds, abduction plots, and a bedroom blazing with 550 Tiffany lamps ends with a body [...]
Betaworks describes itself as “a company that builds companies,” but really it’s a start-up incubator and the most interesting media technology company at the moment. Lately, it has scooped up a bevvy of smaller companies. We know they are working on a Google Reader replacement. It bought the much-maligned Digg last year and gave the [...]
A slice of David Foster Wallace’s now-legendary Kenyon College commencement speech gets turned into a great short film by The Glossary. In 2005, author David Foster Wallace was asked to give the commencement address to the 2005 graduating class of Kenyon College. However, the resulting speech didn’t become widely known until 3 years later, after [...]
Meet Charles Ramsey, who just provided the next news interview destined to become autotuned. I’ve already seen this posted everywhere today, so Ramsey is blowing up. Not only is he a master interviewer, but he helped rescue three Cleveland girls that were kidnapped back in 2003. While Amanda Berry, Michele Knight and Gina DeJesus can [...]
Reddit was one of Y Combinator’s first successful start-ups back in 2005. Now, the site, which appropriately bills itself as the front page of the Internet, has become one of, if not, the most influential sites in the world because it’s a community, but also “the crib sheet for weary bloggers who need to hit [...]
We’ve already heaped plenty of praise on NPR’s Chana Joffe-Walt, not necessarily for her name — which is definitely gnarly — but because she’s so damn good at what she does. Anyway, The Atlantic looks at the unusual and awesome names of NPR correspondents: But can you still make it in the radio business with [...]
Hint: It hasn’t been going well for him. At all. During Iverson’s prime, teammates accepted Iverson’s unique style, be it hangovers during some practices or his trademark single-arm sleeve. His response to a question in 2002 about missing workouts became iconic: “We’re talking about practice.” As long as his game was sharp – he was [...]
