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Crashing: Created by Pete Holmes. With Pete Holmes, George Basil, Jamie Lee, Artie Lange. A New York comic is forced to make a new start for himself after his wife leaves him.
via IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5037914/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Faces Places: Directed by JR, Agnès Varda. With Agnès Varda, JR, Jeannine Carpentier, Clemens Van Dungern. Director Agnes Varda and photographer/muralist J.R. journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.
via IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5598102/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Former Louisville athletic director Tom Jurich leveraged big deals and big-time basketball to build the university into a sports powerhouse, only to watch it burn amid charges of excess, exploitation and corruption.
Brad’s Status: Directed by Mike White. With Ben Stiller, Austin Abrams, Jenna Fischer, Michael Sheen. A father takes his son to tour colleges on the East Coast and meets up with an old friend who makes him feel inferior about his life’s choices.
via IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5884230/?ref_=nv_sr_1
An Intercepted podcast bonus: James Risen’s full interview with Jeremy Scahill.
via The Intercept: https://theintercept.com/2018/01/03/all-the-news-unfit-to-print-james-risen-on-his-battles-with-bush-obama-and-the-new-york-times/
Darkest Hour: Directed by Joe Wright. With Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ben Mendelsohn, Lily James. In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler, or fight on knowing that it
via IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4555426/?ref_=nv_sr_1
“Jamison has done an exceptional job curating this volume, selecting essayists who are diverse in ideas and experiences, and essays that …
Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33413904-the-best-american-essays-2017?from_search=true
A rare court case exposes the all-too-common horror of online harassment.
via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/how-one-womans-digital-life-was-weaponized-against-her/
No idea is too daring for Nathan Fielder as he thinks outside the box to help small business owners make it in a competitive world.
via Comedy Central: http://www.cc.com/shows/nathan-for-you
What’s at stake when you marry for love?
via Harper’s Magazine : https://harpers.org/archive/2018/01/the-newlyweds/
Overflights, mapping fiber-optic networks, “strange activities.” Moscow’s West Coast spies were busy.
via Foreign Policy: http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/12/14/the-secret-history-of-the-russian-consulate-in-san-francisco-putin-trump-spies-moscow/
China is taking the idea of a credit score to the extreme, using big data to track and rank what you do—your purchases, your pastimes, your mistakes.
via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/age-of-social-credit/
Obey Giant: Directed by James Moll. With Pedro Alonzo, Mr. Brainwash, Robbie Conal, Laura Dawn. The life and career of street artist, illustrator, graphic designer, activist, and founder of OBEY Clothing, Shepard Fairey.
via IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt7179102/?ref_=nv_sr_1
2h | Unrated
via IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3908142/
Dora played the game as only a natural can. Soul surfing— surfing for the sheer art and pleasure of it— was his church long before the term was coined, and his passion for worship was equaled only by his drive to create and sustain a lifestyle that gave him the liberty to live free to seek thrills, spontaneous adventure, waves, and wonder, wherever he could find them.
Murder on the Orient Express: Directed by Kenneth Branagh. With Paapa Essiedu, Yassine Zeroual, Asan N’Jie, Michael Rouse. When a murder occurs on the train on which he’s travelling, celebrated detective Hercule Poirot is recruited to solve the case.
via IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3402236/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Dora played the game as only a natural can. Soul surfing— surfing for the sheer art and pleasure of it— was his church long before the term was coined, and his passion for worship was equaled only by his drive to create and sustain a lifestyle that gave him the liberty to live free to seek thrills, spontaneous adventure, waves, and wonder, wherever he could find them.
The Exception: Directed by David Leveaux. With Ella Holland, Jai Courtney, Karin Leclercq, Anton Lesser. A German soldier tries to determine if the Dutch resistance has planted a spy to infiltrate the home of Kaiser Wilhelm in Holland during the onset of
via IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4721124/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Photographic graffiti via camera gun!
This guy can secretly project graffiti onto other people’s photos with his gun camera (or “image fulgurator”).
Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi: Directed by Rian Johnson. With Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley. The Star Wars saga continues as new heroes and galactic legends go on an epic adventure, unlocking mysteries of the Force and sh
via IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2527336/?ref_=nv_sr_2
Photographic graffiti via camera gun!
This guy can secretly project graffiti onto other people’s photos with his gun camera (or “image fulgurator”).
Meitu’s apps are changing what it means to be beautiful in the most populous country on earth.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/12/18/chinas-selfie-obsession
Photographic graffiti via camera gun!
This guy can secretly project graffiti onto other people’s photos with his gun camera (or “image fulgurator”).
Police in the UK check two suspicious men and seem to have had all the good reasons to do so
via YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeqfixbzMBA
Ali and Morgan fight over the xylophone (age: 11 months). Ali makes one last attempt at the end with a sneak attack.
via YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv-qmjT8ZPI