Culture
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The Acid Lounge – Ongoing Playlist
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Dance, groove, travel, work, repeat. The master playlist for The Acid Lounge. Music on this playlist reflect scope and vibe of The Acid Lounge, spanning genres and moods. While lots of tracks that appeared on “classic” Acid Lounge radio broadcasts on Radio1190 KVCU are on the list, those classic playlists have not been comprehensively collected…
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The 42nd Annual Telluride Film Festival
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I had a great time attending this year’s 42nd annual Telluride Film Festival. Although I didn’t get to see as many films as I ultimately wanted, the rest of my time was spent on beautiful hikes and excursions with my family and Miho. A few quick reviews of the films I did manage to see…
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The 41st Annual Telluride Film Festival
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This year, I attended the 41st annual Telluride Film Festival. In order of preference, here’s a quick overview of my festival this year, with a few remarks. Program Guide (PDF) Opening Announcement (PDF) Birdman Easily the best movie of the festival. Birdman was technically excellent, well acted, with an interesting, surreal, otherworldly story. I’m still…
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Johnny Express
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Cute video, from Alfred Imageworks. It’s 2150 There are all sorts of Aliens living throughout space. Johnny is a Space Delivery Man who travels to different planets to deliver packages. Johnny is lazy and his only desire is to sleep in his autopilot spaceship. when the spaceship arrives at the destination, all he has to…
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Listening: MIXED BY Kastle via Thump
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I’ve been obsessed with this mix lately, as it’s been providing a perfect background soundtrack to preparations for my next adventure… Happy listening. MIXED BY Kastle by THUMP. I’m also using this post as an experiment for embedding geo coordinates with each post, and generating a summary map of all geocoded posts. [geo_mashup_map]
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Listen: Little People – Youth & Progress DJ Mix
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A fitting first post as I move back to Boulder for the winter – I’m loving Little People’s somewhat old “Youth & Progress’ DJ Mix. It’s been re-posted as a lead up to his new album, Youth & Progress. From the DJ: “Here is an old DJ mix which i put together for the launch…
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Dolby Atmos and the Sound Design in “Gravity”
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Gravity is definitely one of my favorite movies of the year, and I’ve seen it three times, in three different formats: Telluride Film Festival, Dolby 3D Image, Dolby 7.1 Channel Sound NYC AMC Loews Lincoln Square, IMAX Image, Dolby 7.1 Channel Sound NYC AMC Empire 25, RealD 3D Image, Dolby Atmos Sound The best presentation…
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The 40th Annual Telluride Film Festival
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Last week I attended the 40th annual Telluride Film Festival. Out of the hundreds of movies that played during the festival, here are my brief thoughts on the ones I saw: The Big Lebowski The Big Lebowski is a classic film, and one of my favorites. It played at the Elks Park outdoor cinema the…
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Tattoos At The South Pole
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Each and every tourist group we get here at the south pole has their own personality – some of them are quiet and burnt out after a long ski journey. Some of them are jubilant and exited to be here after a relaxing plane ride. Some of them speak english, some dont. And some like…
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Spoolhenge, Antarctica
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About a half mile grid north of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, there’s a strange, frozen monument: Spoolhenge. Originally these giant spools housed the cables and pipelines that now wind their way through, around, and under the south pole station. When the supplies were offloaded from the spools, these empty monsters were stacked up on…
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Photoessay: Megablocks Make Up China’s Gilded Age
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Recently developed areas of Beijing surrounding its former imperial core are riddled with megablocks, where huge swaths of land are handed over to developers and fashioned into towering apartment high-rises interwoven with malls and public spaces. Once built, they form distinct urban islands, bounded by grand avenues and further hemmed in by large highways that…
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Shooting for Joios at Saks Wine Tasting
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Today I took a few pictures at Saks Fifth Ave in NYC for Joios, a new app. A few shots.. Joios is a food & drink community and process, built to empower exploration and discovery. We connect people: eaters, drinkers, producers, vendors, experts and amateurs. They’re drawn by the opportunity to find exciting flavors collaboratively,…
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Here’s What I’ve Been Listening To Lately: EOS!
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Great mix from EOS on TheFuture.fm, my new favourite mixtape site.. EOS – Change is Good! Mix Dubstep, Progressive House
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Infographic: It Can Wait – Don’t Text While Driving
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Great infographic today from the It Can Wait campaign against texting while driving. I’m certainly in support of this campaign. AT&T’s “It Can Wait” campaign focuses on educating the public – especially teens – on the dangers of texting and driving: Those who send text messages while driving are 23 times more likely to be…
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Mix of the Day: Feed Me’s BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix
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While I’m working all day, I usually listen to electronica mixes. Lately my favourite website to find new mixes is TheFuture.fm – and today, I found a great new BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix by Feed Me. Essential Mix is one of my all time, long time favorite radio shows, and is hosted by the…
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The 39th Annual Telluride Film Festival
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Over labor day weekend I attended the 39th annual Telluride Film Festival. This was the fourth or fifth time that I’ve gone to the festival, and it was a great time, as always. Below is a wrapup of a few of the notable movies I saw: Rock N Roll Highschool The day before film festival…
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Living in Tiny Spaces with Genevive Shuler
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After being out of NYC for a month or so now, I’m actually missing it just a little bit. This video made me a little nostalgic of squeezing into a tiny apartment.. such simplicity. “To me 300 square feet seems like a palace,” Genevieve Shuler said. The 33-year-old administrative assistant has been living in an…
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Dieter Rams: Ten Principles for Good Design and World Receiver T 1000
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While helping unpack boxes in my parent’s new house today, I noticed they own a Braun coffee maker. Although I’ve probably drank coffee from this maker for years, I never noticed that it was a Braun product – and I love that. The design is so simple and useful, it blends right in. I’ve been…
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Interactive Mapping: Trulia’s Local Commuter Map
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I love this new mapping tool from Trulia. Based on your current location, it calculates the average commute time to your destination, based on multiple traffic factors. The use of the Google Maps API is great!. Thanks for the heads up, Mark Wilson. In addition to commute times, Trulia’s maps also feature lots of other…
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Movies in Bryant Park are.. Psycho!
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Summer is here, and with it come outdoor movies. There are outdoor cinemas all over NYC, and one of the more prominent ones is the Monday Night Movie in Bryant Park, smak in the middle of Midtown Manhattan. Although I didn’t stay for the entire presentation of Alfred Hitchcocks’s “Psycho” last night, I had a…
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The New Twitter Bird Logo Explainer Is A Nod to the Pepsi Logo PDF
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Is the explainer video illustrating the new Twitter bird logo a nod in the direction of the imfamous Pepsi logo design PDF? Seems like it. The new Twitter logo is a slight departure from the original – and I love their explanation of how the lines were derived. Our new bird grows out of love…
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The Art of Crafting a Leica Camera
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Great video from Leica highlighting the meticulous craftsmanship that goes into each Leica Camera: Watch the making of the Leica M9-P »Edition Hermès« — Série Limitée Jean-Louis Dumas, introduced in Berlin at the “LEICA – DAS WESENTLICHE” on May 10, 2012. This limited edition is a celebration of the friendship and collaboration between Jean-Louis Dumas,…
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A Vertical Forest in Milan is Actually Being Built!
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I’ll take three, please. Construction has already started on a pair pf buildings in Milan, Italy that incorporate massive planters on the outside of the building which will give homes to about 900 trees and shrubs. This vertical forrest is supposed to help air quality in Milan. Interesting to see such a lofty, concepty project…
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Interface of the Day: Levitating Orbs Make Tactile UI
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This takes the cake for user interface of the day.. week… Just a concept, but by levitating orbs, Jinha Lee allows users to intuitively manipulate a hybrid physical/virtual interface: Jinha Lee, from the Tangible Media Group of the MIT Media Lab, in collaboration with Rehmi Post, has been playing with the idea of manipulating real…
