1/30/10
3 Interesting Things From Fast Company
1. Pic of Carlos Slim's planned Art Museum/ Office in Mexico City. It looks like one of those middle school math projects where you draw a bunch of lines on a grid at slightly different angles to make a curved object.
2. 11 Green Initiatives at Walmart. Interesting how large of an impact they can have by adopting policies. Local produce!?
3. Article on New Songo, the "most ambitious instant city since Brasilia"
2. 11 Green Initiatives at Walmart. Interesting how large of an impact they can have by adopting policies. Local produce!?
3. Article on New Songo, the "most ambitious instant city since Brasilia"
1/28/10
1/26/10
Courtroom Drama
1. Primal Fear -- w Richard Gere, set in Chicago. Great Ed Norton performance. Can't believe I hadn't seen this earlier.
2. Reversal of Fortune -- on Alan Dershowitz defending an upper crust guy "Claus von Bulow" (Jeremy Irons) accused of murdering his much wealthier wife. Really great.
2. Reversal of Fortune -- on Alan Dershowitz defending an upper crust guy "Claus von Bulow" (Jeremy Irons) accused of murdering his much wealthier wife. Really great.
1/17/10
2 Dark Films On Netflix Watch Instantly
1. World's Greatest Dad - one of my favorite Robin Williams performances in a while
2. Big Fan - unsettling and really interesting; Patton Oswalt is great
2. Big Fan - unsettling and really interesting; Patton Oswalt is great
1/5/10
New Adam Haslett Book Union Atlantic Feb 9
I really liked his short story collection from 2002--You Are Not A Stranger Here--and have been waiting for something new since then. Here's an excerpt from his first novel about a rogue banker, synching with the financial crisis:
Union Atlantic
For some more on the short stories, here's an interview in the Atlantic from 2005.
Union Atlantic
For some more on the short stories, here's an interview in the Atlantic from 2005.
12/29/09
Some Recent Vanity Fair Articles
Although the style is fluffy these are worth reading
1. Goldman Sachs
2. Large Hadron Collider
3. British Aristocracy
4. Meryl Streep
1. Goldman Sachs
2. Large Hadron Collider
3. British Aristocracy
4. Meryl Streep
12/28/09
Great wired article on the fall of the guy who created duke nukem
link
This reminds me of the documentary stone reader (not sure if I've mentioned on here before)--about writers who turn out one great novel and can't duplicate that success (focuses on forgotten writer Dow Mossman... really interesting).
Also this TED talk by Elizabeth Gilbert touches on the same subject--how our culture has moved to put too much pressure on individuals to be creative/inspired/productive rather than thinking of creativity as partially a random process.
This reminds me of the documentary stone reader (not sure if I've mentioned on here before)--about writers who turn out one great novel and can't duplicate that success (focuses on forgotten writer Dow Mossman... really interesting).
Also this TED talk by Elizabeth Gilbert touches on the same subject--how our culture has moved to put too much pressure on individuals to be creative/inspired/productive rather than thinking of creativity as partially a random process.
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