When I first saw a link to Dancing In Movies a week or so ago I wasn’t all that impressed: yes, someone had put a lot of effort into stringing together clips from nearly 300 films but I wasn’t getting a thrill from it. But now I’ve taken (several) further looks at it and I… Continue reading Dancing in Movies
Author: John
Untitled, 1971
A Work of Art, by Janet Malcolm: For many years my late husband, Gardner Botsford, kept a small black-and-white snapshot on his desk of a man and woman wearing shorts, walking one behind the other on a tennis court. I didn’t know who the couple were but assumed they were friends from Gardner’s life before… Continue reading Untitled, 1971
2001 remembered
Stephen Wolfram, on the legacy of seeing 2001: A Space Odyssey when he was eight years old: It’s hard for me to believe it’s been 50 years since I first saw 2001. Not all of 2001 has come true (yet). But for me what was important was that it presented a vision of what might… Continue reading 2001 remembered
Farewell, Saga
I was so pleased to see that after four seasons The Bridge stuck the landing_ so nicely. I’d half expected that the show would end with one of the leads killed off – very possibly having sacrificed themselves to save an innocent victim – but the writers resisted that temptation and instead showed us a… Continue reading Farewell, Saga
Two keyboards
Michael Lopp’s Two Keyboards at a Bar is just delicious: INT. EVENING. CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA. BJ’S RESTAURANT AND BREWHOUSE. A RECENT FRIDAY NIGHT The bar is full. Two keyboards sit at the bar: APPLE EXTENDED II and MACBOOK PRO. The front door opens, TOUCHBAR looks around, sees the two keyboards at the bar, grins, and heads… Continue reading Two keyboards
Justin Peters
Justin Peters is very good at making surreal images using stock photography. [Via Colossal]
Down the rabbit hole
It’s as if Brett Terpstra was looking over my shoulder, narrating my life: Some of us always follow the rabbit. It’s not because we want to. It’s just that the rabbit… 10 a.m., somewhere in Minnesota Sit down to write a blog post. It’s basically written already in my head, just need 20 minutes to… Continue reading Down the rabbit hole
Pure, Grade-A Nostalgia
It’s mildly alarming to contemplate how many years ago Ultimate Play The Game were ruling the ZX Spectrum gaming world. Jetpac, Knight Lore, Lunar Jetman: classics, every one. That said, I’d completely forgotten about Atic Atac introducing the Chicken-o-meter to the world of gaming: It’s entirely possible to look at many of these videos and… Continue reading Pure, Grade-A Nostalgia
Hank Bezos
The Onion informs us that Jeff Bezos Announces Customers Can Delete All Of Alexa’s Stored Audio By Rappelling Into Amazon HQ, Navigating Laser Field, Uploading Nanovirus To Servers: “[…] assuming you’ve trained for months in a full-scale model of our headquarters that you built in an old warehouse to plan your exact path through this… Continue reading Hank Bezos
Hunks Punch Lunks
Prompted by the release of the first season of The Professionals on Blu-ray a few years ago, Taylor Parkes reminds those of us who grew up in 1970s Britain of [just how strange mainstream UK TV got] as the nation turned to Mrs. Thatcher to save it from the foreigners and lefties who were responsible… Continue reading Hunks Punch Lunks