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
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.
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.
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”).
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”).
“It was a terrible kiss, shockingly bad; Margot had trouble believing that a grown man could possibly be so bad at kissing.”
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/12/11/cat-person
We should call this what it is: the automation of selling out.
via The Baffler: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-problem-with-muzak-pelly
These are the companies that have presented themselves as hip, huge, harmless . . . In fact, they are ruthless and as hungry for profit . . . They’re shark-like. Just eat up everything, take all of the world’s creations. Digitize them and offer them back to humanity either for free or for an incredibly low price. And don’t pay, or massively underpay the creators, and just kick back and put your feet up, and know that if Greg from Deerhoof doesn’t like it, well that’s fine, because there are a million other people lined up behind Greg who are perfectly happy to volunteer their music to exactly such a scheme in hopes of doing something besides being a barista their whole life.
Russia’s strongman president has many Americans convinced of his manipulative genius. He’s really just a gambler who won big.
via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/01/putins-game/546548/
These are the companies that have presented themselves as hip, huge, harmless . . . In fact, they are ruthless and as hungry for profit . . . They’re shark-like. Just eat up everything, take all of the world’s creations. Digitize them and offer them back to humanity either for free or for an incredibly low price. And don’t pay, or massively underpay the creators, and just kick back and put your feet up, and know that if Greg from Deerhoof doesn’t like it, well that’s fine, because there are a million other people lined up behind Greg who are perfectly happy to volunteer their music to exactly such a scheme in hopes of doing something besides being a barista their whole life.
After Pat Dollard’s life started falling apart, he went to Iraq and filmed a pro-war documentary while embedded with the Marines, leading some to call him the anti–Michael Moore.
via Vanity Fair: http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2007/03/dollard200703
These are the companies that have presented themselves as hip, huge, harmless . . . In fact, they are ruthless and as hungry for profit . . . They’re shark-like. Just eat up everything, take all of the world’s creations. Digitize them and offer them back to humanity either for free or for an incredibly low price. And don’t pay, or massively underpay the creators, and just kick back and put your feet up, and know that if Greg from Deerhoof doesn’t like it, well that’s fine, because there are a million other people lined up behind Greg who are perfectly happy to volunteer their music to exactly such a scheme in hopes of doing something besides being a barista their whole life.
To say an episode sums up the entire ethos of this show would be a bold claim, but this would be that episode. Get set as Damian sits down with Michael Alago; founder of the original Dead Boys' Fan Club, booker at the Ritz, and A & R guy (who sign
via Audioboom: https://audioboom.com/boos/3395181-episode-37-michael-alago-nyc-music-legend-a-r-talent-buyer
These are the companies that have presented themselves as hip, huge, harmless . . . In fact, they are ruthless and as hungry for profit . . . They’re shark-like. Just eat up everything, take all of the world’s creations. Digitize them and offer them back to humanity either for free or for an incredibly low price. And don’t pay, or massively underpay the creators, and just kick back and put your feet up, and know that if Greg from Deerhoof doesn’t like it, well that’s fine, because there are a million other people lined up behind Greg who are perfectly happy to volunteer their music to exactly such a scheme in hopes of doing something besides being a barista their whole life.
The Disaster Artist: Directed by James Franco. With Dave Franco, James Franco, Seth Rogen, Ari Graynor. When Greg Sestero, an aspiring film actor, meets the weird and mysterious Tommy Wiseau in an acting class, they form a unique friendship and travel to
via IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3521126/?ref_=nv_sr_1
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: Created by Amy Sherman-Palladino. With Rachel Brosnahan, Alex Borstein, Michael Zegen, Marin Hinkle. After her husband leaves her, young mother of two Miriam “Midge” Maisel discovers that she has a talent for stand-up comedy. Co
via IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5788792/?ref_=nv_sr_1
The children of South Park claim to have seen Mr. Garrison lurking around town and they’re frightened. The town comes together to make the President go away.
via South Park United States: http://southpark.cc.com/full-episodes/s21e10-splatty-tomato
Society & Culture · 2019
via Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-butterfly-effect-with-jon-ronson/id1258779354?mt=2
Join bestselling author Jon Ronson as he traces a very strange butterfly effect. A teen in Brussels had an idea – to make porn free and easy to stream online. The consequences of that idea are mysterious, delightful, surprising, and sad. This 7-part series takes you on a journey to places you’ll never expect.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri: Directed by Martin McDonagh. With Frances McDormand, Caleb Landry Jones, Kerry Condon, Sam Rockwell. A mother personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter’s murder when they fail to catch the
via IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5027774/
Join bestselling author Jon Ronson as he traces a very strange butterfly effect. A teen in Brussels had an idea – to make porn free and easy to stream online. The consequences of that idea are mysterious, delightful, surprising, and sad. This 7-part series takes you on a journey to places you’ll never expect.
