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Nicholas Cage Faces Off

Also: As Outras Faces de Nicolas Cage [facebook]

Looks good Mr Luhrmann and will hopefully wash the bad taste of Australia out of everyone’s mind.

Got a Kindle recently and haven’t been online or blogging as much because of it. Here’s a fun link to compensate.

• Cloak of invisibility: Engineers use plasmonics to create an invisible photodetector
• How Pixar’s Toy Story 2 was deleted twice, once by technology and again for its own good
• Read Every Line of Dialogue Rihanna Says in Battleship
• Scarlett Johansson On The Ridiculous, Sexist Portrayals Of Superheroines
• The end of drug discovery?
• This INSANE Graphic Shows How Ludicrously Complicated Social Media Marketing Is Now
• SpaceX Dragon, first private ship to the ISS, launched successfully
• How do you cook a unicorn? Chef Anthony Bourdain’s got the recipe
• Andre the Giant: The Greatest Drunk on Earth

• Has the Art Market Lost its Mind?
  

  The week after The Scream sale, a sale of postwar and contemporary art took in $388.5 million at Christie’s and a sale of Impressionist and modern art garnered $266.6 million at Sotheby’s. Souren Melikian of The New York Times said it was a week of blockbuster art sale profits that “conclusively proved that the disconnect of the art market from the broader economy is now radical.”

• The Value of Facebook: A Time Capsule
• Is Fashion Ready for a New Aesthetic?
• Too Hot for TED: Income Inequality
• Andromeda’s majestic spray of billions of hot stars
• Dear Einstein, Do Scientists Pray?

I made a film about baseball once

Legendary documentarian Ken Burns sits down for this 5 minute short film and give us his take and methodology on approaching storytelling.

Having a job is a blessing. Doing something you love is a blessing. Even if the people are… miscreants.

Eric Kelly is a four time US amateur boxing champion who had to hang up his gloves after taking a pool cue to the eye on a night out.

He now trains Wall Street bankers how to box at the Church Street Boxing Gym in New York using one the classic approach to teaching: barraging them with verbal abuse and insults in order to toughen them up.

This is a short film about famed artist John Baldessari. It is narrated by Tom Waits. This short film needs no more prompting for you to watch it.

Dunno much about this guy, but I like. Sasaki Mokoto (b. 1971) is a Japanese photographer whose latest work titled “Tokyo Layers” involves shooting the city at night while in motion and using multiple exposures and the results are refreshingly new.

I hope that we get a feel of the fact that we are living in passage of time and also the individual life, city and society are formed by accumulation of time from an unusual viewpoint once again.

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