The things that get lost just because the timing wasn't quite right.
Above is a short documentary on the amazing films Stanley Kubrick spent thousands of hours working on, including a biography of Napoleon that he claimed to have read 500 books in preparation for and a film about the holocaust, that he never made.
The things that get lost just because the timing wasn't quite right.
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British artist Robin White specializes in crafting sculptures of fairies dancing in the medium of stainless steel wire. More pictures here.
Poet Charles Bukowski reflected on the soul crushing decade he spent at a 9-5 job that one time in a 1986 letter to a friend: Hello John: Weird Al has some brief remarks about online commentary: Magisterial film critic Rachel Acks of Sound and Nerdery survived Transformers Four by getting hammered while she watched. Trenchant observations scrawled in real time include "things explode - who cares why" and "now team Man Pain is having a dick waving contest over Tessa on the alien spaceship." From her review: I had this one moment, midway through my second beer (bless you, Alamo Drafthouse, without your alcohol I would not have survived) where I almost, almost convinced myself that no actually, Michael Bay is totally a genius, and this is his never-ending art project to hold a mirror up to movie-goers across the globe and prove that no matter how low you think the lowest common denominator is, actually you need to pick your shovel back up and keep digging. It was like he was laughing, Bella Lugosi-style, deep and evil and amused, at the incontrovertible proof that we are a culture in only the most bacterial of senses, unquestioningly throwing money at anything rancid so long as it came coated with the appropriate amount of bright orange glitter. And I almost laughed with him for a moment as my sanity cracked and bent. The story of the Boy Who Lived continues in J.K. Rowling's latest short story about Harry Potter, which you can read for free here.
Salvadore Dali once illustrated Alice in Wonderland. Enjoy.
Via the good people at Open Culture: the oldest song in the world. In the early 1950s, archaeologists unearthed several clay tablets from the 14th century B.C.E.. Found, WFMU tells us, “in the ancient Syrian city of Ugarit,” these tablets “contained cuneiform signs in the hurrian language,” which turned out to be the oldest known piece of music ever discovered, a 3,400 year-old cult hymn. Anne Draffkorn Kilmer, professor of Assyriology at the University of California, produced the interpretation above in 1972. (She describes how she arrived at the musical notation—in some technical detail—in this interview.) Since her initial publications in the 60s on the ancient Sumerian tablets and the musical theory found within, other scholars of the ancient world have published their own versions . . . you can hear a different lyre interpretation of the song by Michael Levy below, as transcribed by its original discoverer Dr. Richard Dumbrill. |