First of the last Space Shuttle launches, The Big Picture
The new generation of drones have their merits. But flying robots, no matter how advanced, can’t measure up to the courage and commitment of a pilot who is risking her life for the sake of the mission.
Praying Tibetan monks seen through flames, distorted by the heat shimmer above the mass cremation of victims of the earthquake in Yushu County on April 17, 2010. (AP Photo)-Yushu Earthquake, 12 days later; The Big Picture
One melancholy thought occurs as my fingers glide and flow over the surface of this astonishing object: Douglas Adams is not alive to see the closest thing to his Hitchhiker’s Guide that humankind has yet devised.
The iPad Launch: Can Steve Jobs Do It Again?(http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1976935,00.html) (via Instapaper)
Gruber posted a link to this memo from David Mamet to writers of the now-defunct The Unit, but I think it applies to about 95% of the dramas on TV today:
BUT NOTE:THE AUDIENCE WILL NOT TUNE IN TO WATCH INFORMATION. YOU WOULDN’T, I WOULDN’T. NO ONE WOULD OR WILL. THE AUDIENCE WILL ONLY TUNE IN AND STAY TUNED TO WATCH DRAMA.
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ANY TIME ANY CHARACTER IS SAYING TO ANOTHER “AS YOU KNOW”, THAT IS, TELLING ANOTHER CHARACTER WHAT YOU, THE WRITER, NEED THE AUDIENCE TO KNOW, THE SCENE IS A CROCK OF SHIT.
That last line is modern TV’s biggest problem. So many shows spend half their runtime with unneeded and uncomfortable exposition in order to explain to the lowest-common-denominator audience member every little thing that is going on.
Finally, I pulled up Mamet’s wiki entry, and loved this line in reference to his distinct, natural style of script writing:‘When asked how he developed his style for writing dialogue, Mamet said, “In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to wile away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, based solely on our ability to speak the language viciously. That’s probably where my ability was honed.”’
Fucking awesome.
Tank Man, Pomona College Magazine
Market Cap, AAPLinvestors
PodCamp Nashville 2010 Presentation, camerondaigle.com
And finally, someone figures it out.
13, Bankrupt
08, Bankrupt
05, Bankrupt
At the beginning of 2001, I began taking pictures of recently abandoned offices, and the things people had left behind.Bankrupt, Mr Toledano
This project was more than photography for me. It was economic archeology.
