You Will Be Assimilated

Via thedailywhat: TV Promo of the Day: First look sneak peek...

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:46:18 -0700

TV Promo of the Day: First look sneak peek trailer for Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s An Idiot Abroad — a documentary series featuring beloved round-headed buffon Karl Pilkington traveling around the world and hating every minute of it.

The show is scheduled to begin airing this September on Sky1. International air dates have yet to be announced.

[videogum.]

All Things Amazing

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:03:08 -0700

All Things Amazing

The Cure, “From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea”

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:17:04 -0700

The Cure, “From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea”

Does Language Influence Culture?

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:40:49 -0700

Does Language Influence Culture?:

Via dalasverdugo, via dihard:

Pretty interesting article in the WSJ ~~today~~. Basically says that language profoundly influences how we see the world. Some examples:

Russian speakers who have more words for light and dark blues are better able to visually discriminate shades of blue.

An aboriginal community in Australia doesn’t use terms like “left” and “right”, and instead uses north, south, east and west for directions. As a result they have greater spatial orientation.

People who speak languages that drop the agent of causality, for example “the vase broke itself” versus “John broke the vase,” don’t often associate blame for events.

One group who uses the words “few” and “many” in favor of actual number words have difficulty keeping track of exact quantities.

English speakers see time on a horizontal plane, with the best years ahead and the past behind us. Whereas Mandarin speakers see new events emerging like a spring of water, with the past above and the future below.

Here’s a bit more on the research. Pretty interesting!

Letter from Campbell’s Soup Company to Andy Warhol, via...

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:40:34 -0700

Letter from Campbell’s Soup Company to Andy Warhol, via Letters of Note

Via delacroix, via piratekitten

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:10:16 -0700

Via delacroix, via piratekitten

Christiane Högner’s Lo-Fi Sofa. Cozy-looking. Via...

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:44:56 -0700

Christiane Högner’s Lo-Fi Sofa. Cozy-looking.

Via swissmiss

That’s Greta Garbo there with the [MGM?] lion. Via all...

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:50:16 -0700

That’s Greta Garbo there with the [MGM?] lion.

Via all things amazing

World War II Today: Follow the War As It Happened

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:41:00 -0700

World War II Today: Follow the War As It Happened:

“World War II Today presents what happened on the day, seventy years ago. It focuses on individual incidents and experiences, rather than attempting a complete narrative history. So the history of the Second World War emerges with the progress of time.”

(HT to apatientboy, as usual.)

Via delacroix, via hyperlove, via designismymuse Sigh. Do...

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:53:00 -0700

Via delacroix, via hyperlove, via designismymuse

Sigh. Do want.

Via Wooster Collective

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:42:00 -0700

Via Wooster Collective

Via We Heart It; original source unknown, even to TinEye.

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:30:19 -0700

Via We Heart It; original source unknown, even to TinEye.

Via yellowblog, via imgfave

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:20:12 -0700

Via yellowblog, via imgfave

Klaus Kinski on Werner Herzog

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:32:00 -0700

“Herzog is a miserable, hateful, malevolent, avaricious, money-hungry, nasty, sadistic, treacherous, cowardly creep…he should be thrown alive to the crocodiles! An anaconda should strangle him slowly! A poisonous spider should sting him and paralyze his lungs! The most venomous serpent should bite him and make his brain explode! No—panther claws should rip open his throat—that would be much too good for him! Huge red ants should piss into his lying eyes and gobble up his balls and his guts! He should catch the plague! Syphilis! Yellow fever! Leprosy! It’s no use; the more I wish him the most gruesome deaths, the more he haunts me.”

“His speech is clumsy, with a toadlike indolence, long winded, pedantic, choppy. The words tumble from his mouth in sentence fragments, which he holds back as much as possible, as if they were earning interest. It takes forever and a day for him to push out a clump of hardened brain snot. Then he writhes in painful ecstasy, as if he had sugar on his rotten teeth. A very slow blab machine. An obsolete model with a non-working switch — it can’t be turned off unless you cut off the electric power altogether. So I’d have to smash him in the kisser. No, I’d have to knock him unconscious. But even if he were unconscious he’d keep talking. Even if his vocal cords were sliced through, he’d keep talking like a ventriloquist. Even if his throat were cut and his head were chopped off, speech balloons would still dangle from his mouth like gases emitted by internal decay.”

“Nobody is going to buy the book if I say nice things about you, Werner.”

Via

Previously: Werner Herzog on Klaus Kinski

Via dailymeh: The Oatmeal on caffeine, which is an adenosine...

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:21:15 -0700

Via dailymeh:

The Oatmeal on caffeine, which is an adenosine antagonist.

Via alessandromartins, via Twist - Fotografia

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:40:48 -0700

Via alessandromartins, via Twist - Fotografia

Stuff No One Told Me

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:23:57 -0700

Stuff No One Told Me

thedailywhat: Invisible Book Shelf of the Day: The “Self Shelf”...

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:43:22 -0700

thedailywhat:

Invisible Book Shelf of the Day: The “Self Shelf” from DutchByDesign.

Standard shelf masquerading as a Magritte-referencing book entitled Ceci N’est Pas Un Livre. Comes in three colorways (yellow, blue, red).

[holycool.]

Dostoevsky suicide fears for station

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:49:12 -0700

Dostoevsky suicide fears for station :

Via abbyjean:

A new metro station named after the famously gloomy Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky has opened in Moscow despite fears it could attract suicides. The station, called Dostoyevskaya, is decorated with brooding grey and black mosaics that depict violent scenes from the 19th-century writer’s best-known novels. One mural re-enacts the moment when the main character in Crime and Punishment murders an elderly pawnbroker and her sister with an axe.

Another shows a suicide-obsessed character in The Demons holding a pistol to his temple. If that was not enough to darken the mood, shadowlike characters are shown flitting across the cavernous new station’s walls and a giant mosaic of a depressed-looking Dostoevsky stares out at passengers.

James Plumb’s cluster chandelier, discovered via Le ...

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:51:00 -0700

James Plumb’s cluster chandelier, discovered via Le Divan Fumoir Bohémien.