April 2011
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Everything I know about William and Kate I learned... →
Thanks Kristen.
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“The politics of our time are deeply embedded in this idea of individualism which...”
– Adam Curtis in an interview about ‘It Felt Like A Kiss’
slavin turned me on to ‘It Felt Like a Kiss’ the other day partly b/c we were attending Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More (Punchdrunk also produced ‘Kiss’) and partly b/c of my current obsession with the way...
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Chunking (psychology) - Wikipedia, the free... →
Chunking means to organize items into familiar manageable units.
In cognitive psychology and mnemonics, chunking refers to a strategy for making more efficient use of short-term memory by recoding information. More generally, Herbert Simon has used the term chunk to indicate long-term memory structures that can be used as units of perception and meaning, and chunking as the learning mechanisms...
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“Sasha Grey is my spirit animal.”
– There were zero search results for this phrase so I thought it needed to be out there.
Watchronen-v:
FIRST WEEKLY VIDEO:
HOW TO COOK BEEF STROGANOFF AND FIGHT OFF A NINJA
made with Josh Greenfield and Casey Donahue.
* Special thanks to the legendary Vic Armstrong for teaching me how to do stuff like this!
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French Hours →
French hours are simple: If every single person on the set agrees, you can film a movie without lunch breaks. They serve food (just as much, and probably croissants too) all day long. People eat when they can. The production never slows down.
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Gothamist interview with Steven Moffat, Executive... →
When you’re crafting an episode, do you map them all out or does it just flow?
I’m very strict, I only write a script in order. I will never even let a line of dialogue or plot idea go until I get to it in the script. I worry that if I do, I won’t have the strength to discard it. You always have to be alive with the script, you always have to be saying, I could change the...
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“Mathematics are very little understood by the way it is taught in schools. Most...”
– Manuel Delanda
“Another critical factor may be the almost magical ability of humans to combine...”
– Gary Marcus: The Birth Of The Mind: How A Tiny Number Of Genes Creates The Complexities Of Human Thought
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David Eagleman and Mysteries of the Brain : The... →
Time isn’t like the other senses, Eagleman says. Sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing are relatively easy to isolate in the brain. They have discrete functions that rarely overlap: it’s hard to describe the taste of a sound, the color of a smell, or the scent of a feeling. (Unless, of course, you have synesthesia—another of Eagleman’s obsessions.) But a sense of time is threaded through...
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“If there’s not a consumer demand problem, then what is the source of the...”
– Laura Martin on the “Unbundling” of Music
WatchAni Up - Animated Gif Mashup
Crossposted from HSA. This is my favorite video of 2011 so far. Music video made from 894 animated gifs. Produced at Evan Roth’s Animated Gif Mashup workshop at this year’s Video Vortex.
I’ve been digging on animated gifs lately, especially music videos made from them.
(by Evan Roth)
Hey, web series folk, let's make a list to end all... →
lizlet:
So a reader asked if a list of “successful” independent web series existed anywhere — with success defined as the series being sold to a major distributor, making real money through independent distribution, and/or leading to a deal for the creators to do a larger project based on the series. I…
Evolution of Language Takes Unexpected Turn →
It’s widely thought that human language evolved in universally similar ways, following trajectories common across place and culture, and possibly reflecting common linguistic structures in our brains. But a massive, millennia-spanning analysis of humanity’s major language families suggests otherwise.
Instead, the language seems to have evolved along varied, complicated paths, guided less by...
“I think the next century will be the century of complexity.”
– Stephen Hawking in January 2000
“How many location-based companies can you have? When you’re 24, restaurants and...”
– Mark Suster (via soupsoup)
thematically related: Anil Dash on The Importance of The Health Graph
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“Project A will eventually cost about a million dollars and produce value of...”
– Tom DeMarco: “strict control is something that matters a lot on relatively useless projects”
via m. migurski / snippets
“We’re really stoked to take the curation features to the next level with...”
– Emmy Award-Winning Internet Fame Professors Debut New Video Service, VHX
via I DON’T LIVE HERE
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WatchNYC drive, via Google Street view
a video of “driving” around New York City assembled from frames of Google Map’s Street View tool. More here.
(by Chris Devers)
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“It’s funny, in a way. We used to make mixtapes from the radio. Now, we make...”
– Songza Attempts to Reinvent Net Radio Despite Heavy Competition | Evolver.fm
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