Shaun McGill recounts his two decade experience and history with mobile computing devices, beginning with the Psion PDA and ending with the iPhone 5. His essay is both oddly specific to his personal relationship with devices and generically broad to the industry as a whole. It’s a long read, but worth it.
I can’t quite place my finger on what I love about this photo, but there’s something very-”Being John Malkovich” about it. Attributed to Harry Burnett while Yale Puppeteers were working in their theater, Teatro Torito, on Olvera Street in Los Angeles, California, circa 1931. The photo was taken by Harry Burnett at Cal Tech in [...]
Like most of today’s best and memorable advertising efforts, the slogan was conceived by Portland’s Wieden + Kennedy in 1988 for the global sneaker brand. It’s hard to imagine Nike without the swoosh or the slogan, as all three make-up an unbeatable holy trinity. [via highsnobiety]
“The assassination is well-covered in classical texts, but until now, researchers had no archaeological evidence of the place where it happened. Now, archaeologists have unearthed a concrete structure nearly 10 feet wide and 6.5 feet tall that may have been erected by Augustus, Julius Caesar’s successor, to condemn the assassination. The structure is at the [...]
On one side of the debate is Richard Wrangham, an anthropologist at Harvard, who claims that hominids became people, like you or I, by mastering fire and learning to cook food over it some 1.8 million years ago. Other anthropologists and archaeologists believe humans learned to control fire only 12,000 years ago. That’s a pretty [...]
“Now it can said: Raiders is the least of the quartet, despite its early 80s novelty, coming at the tail-end of the ‘70s American Renaissance when filmmakers brought modernist revisionism to Hollywood genre. Raiders is preferred by those who refuse to take Spielberg (and pop culture) seriously. It’s actually less elegant than the widely disliked Kingdom of the Crystal Skull which [...]
GQ Magazine sat down with just about everyone and anyone who helped make Cheers to ask them the secret to creating one of TV’s funniest and most endearing sitcoms of all-time.
If you’re at all intrigued by the history and material science behind the iPhone’s glass screen, which was invented by Corning in the 60s, you may want to read this lengthy story in Wired. Apple was suddenly demanding massive amounts of a 1.3-mm, chemically strengthened glass—something that had never been created, much less manufactured, before. [...]
1. The entire run of official James Bond films are available in a Blu-ray box set for $150. The DVD version is $100. 2. Sadly, Sean Connery refuses to participate in the 50th anniversary promotion of the franchise. It’s not like he owes his entire career to playing the iconic spy or anything, though. 3. “Fifty years ago, at the [...]
Slashfilm got its hands on the first trailer for Brian Helgeland’s Jackie Robinson biopic ‘42‘, which stars Harrison Ford as Dodger’s executive Branch Rickey and Chadwick Boseman as the legendary ballplayer (who also played Floyd Little in the Ernie Davis biopic). It remains to be seen how this stacks up against the under-appreciated HBO flick [...]
