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• 2009-11-23

  TED Prize-winner and best-selling author Karen Armstrong launched the Charter for Compassion on November 12th, 2009.

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  I affirm the Charter for Compassion. Please consider affirming it if it speaks to you, too.

• 2009-11-19

  

  RIP JC. We’ll miss you – you and your zany red hair.

• 2009-11-18

  

  Yep, some days it feels like this. Lord I love this city.

  (via mmlooze)

• 2009-11-16

  Ooooh. I guess there’s a trailer, too. Boy I hope the whole film is shown in triptych-form.

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  Excerpt from The BQE - a film by Sufjan Stevens

  Bravo, Mr. Stevens. Bravo. Can’t wait to see the rest.

• 2009-11-14

  

  Film Still, Le Petit Soldat (1960) – Jean-Luc Godard

  Compared to his meticulous Alphaville, Le Petit Soldat looks like it could have been shot using a Sony PortaPack. Of course it was too early for a PortaPack, but I still have suspicions that it was at least partially shot on video equipment. The frame rate appears much closer to 30fps than 24fps. I also hold this belief despite evidence to the contrary: IMDB lists 35mm as the source medium, and the script includes the line “cinema is reality at 24 frames per second”.  What a trickster if he was recording that line at 30 frames per second. Whatever he used, it didn’t hinder the power of this shot.

• 2009-11-13

  

  arielk:

  “For each unique visitor it receives, Temporary.cc deletes part of itself. These deletions change the way browsers understand the website’s code and create a unique (de)generative piece after each new user. Because each unique visit produces a new composition through self-destruction, Temporary.cc can never be truly indexed, as any subsequent act of viewing could irreparably modifiy it.

  Eventually, like tangible media, Temporary.cc will fall apart entirely, becoming a blank white website. Its existence will be remembered only by those who saw or heard about it.”

  Zach Gage, on his project, the self-deleting website Temporary.cc.  Via today and tomorrow.

• 2009-11-08

  

  Last summer I had the distinct pleasure of attending an Anna Halprin-inspired dance performance, choreographed specifically for one of Portland’s public fountains – a fountain designed by her husband, Mr. Lawrence Halprin.  For me, the experience sparked an interest in their relationship as spousal collaborators: the two met while in school at the UW Madison (my Alma Mater), and Mr. Halprin’s interest in design grew from an experience at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin East, located in Wisconsin’s driftless region (a personal favorite).

  Lawrence Halprin passed away on October 28th, 2009, survived by his wife Anna and a jaw-dropping body of landscape architecture. I pray for more marriages of dance and landscapes.

  (via NYTimes)

• 2009-11-06

  

  Jaap Scheeren (via andyinabox)