The lampshade that drives its owners mad: Strange truth behind 20th century’s most disturbing object The lampshade’s current proprietor […] won’t keep it in his home and says that, even now that it’s here, safely in storage, he feels more at ease when he knows the shade is shut away in its white cardboard box. […]
Category Archives: cool stuff
Blocks and lines
Monday, October 18, 2010
James Elkins: How to Look at Mondrian He wasn’t especially careful with his repainting, which is a clue to how closely he expected people to look. Art historians have noticed his change of mind, and it has been said that before the early 1920s, Mondrian thought of his compositions as part of an infinite plane, […]
Zap, pow, boom
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Margaret Atwood & Ursula K. Le Guin – Space Canon […] they’ve evidently been friends for years. […] Le Guin works very comfortably under the mantle of science fiction, having penned some of the classics of the genre, while Atwood waffles, preferring to stay in the mainstream literary conversation. With respect to SF, Le Guin […]
Good advice for anyone.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Kieron Gillen’s Workblog >> On Leaving RPS What they don’t tell you is that they don’t pick the writers randomly. From that mob of people who want to be games journalists, they can pick. And, because these are not stupid people, they pick the best available. They’re not going to pay for better writing, but […]
Counting cards on The Price is Right
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
TV’s Crowning Moment of Awesome “She says, ‘He got it right on the nose.’ ” ‘Has that ever happened?’ “And she says, ‘No.’ “I said, ‘Holy shit.’ ” And then [Drew] Carey remembers what happened next: “Everybody thought someone had cheated. We’d just fired Roger Dobkowitz, and all the fan groups were upset about it. […]
Treasure Island
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Treasure Island: How TV serials achieved the status of art This is the final season of Lost, and while new dramas will continue to find both enthusiastic fans and critical acclaim, it is hard to avoid the feeling that something important is winding down. After all, the great dramas of the last decade are great […]
Still on the case
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Sinead O’Connor: ‘There should be a full criminal investigation of the pope’ Sinead O’Connor is still singing. And she’s still speaking out against abuse — only now her 1992 stunt on “Saturday Night Live” almost seems prescient as the Roman Catholic Church faces a growing catalog of complaints about child sexual and physical assault by […]
Punk Rock Mathematics
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
The Philosophy of Punk Rock Mathematics – Technoccult interviews Tom Henderson 1) People use the average Joe’s poor mathematics as a way to control, exploit, and numerically fuck him over. 2) Mathematics is the subject in which, regardless of what the authorities tell you is true, you can verify every last iota of truth, with […]
Classical music in a can
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Triumph of the Cyborg Composer “I can understand why it’s an issue if you’ve got an extremely romanticized view of what art is,” he says. “But Bach peed, and he shat, and he had a lot of kids. We’re all just people.”
