December 2009
15 posts
stoner films for the more discerning viewer:
Apocolypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola
Rosemary’s Baby, Roman Polanski
For All Mankind, Al Reinert
malfeasance:
theminchen:
2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick, 1968
Dead Man, Jim Jarmusch, 1995
Kicking and Screaming, Noah Baumbach, 1995
Paranoid Park, Gus Van Sant, 2007
Slacker, Richard Linklater, 1991
Spirited Away, Hayao Miyazaki, 2001
Stop Making Sense, Talking Heads, 1984
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“The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves...”
– Mark Weiser (via devilduck) (via wildcat2030)
WatchThis alternative physics (which Jung called synchronicity) is a physics of light. Light is composed of photons, which have no antiparticle. This means that there is no dualism in the world of light. The conventions of relativity say that time slows down as one approaches the speed of light, but if one tries to imagine the point of view of a thing made of light, one must realize that what is never...
“The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which...”
– Albert Einstein in accord with Arthur Miller
“Amidst the attention given to the sciences as how they can lead to the cure of...”
– John Maeda
“It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.”
– Niels Bohr
On Gentrification →
“Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols....”
– Oscar Wilde
WatchBoards of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy
Joseph Kittenger of the US Air Force free falls from 102,800 ft. (19.5 miles). The fall lasts for 4 minutes and 36 seconds and he reaches a peak velocity of 614 mph, nine tenths the speed of sound.
If you like ideas, take a look at Space... →
“I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for...”
– Arthur Miller