natecooper.net

I love the beginning of this trailer. I hear the movie is good as well…

While the story in the above video is somewhat interesting, what I find more fascinating is the library workers interviewed for the piece. Seeing their meticulous organization and preservation work all while wearing fancy little doctor’s coats is kind of neat. The zeal with which they prepared the work and the giddiness I sense for their discovery of the hidden picture in the cardboard slats is very endearing.

I guess I have a soft spot for collectors. Many of my best friends (and myself) could be considered pack-rats and it makes one wonder where the line between obsessive collector and archivist really is drawn. There’s a sort of joy in seeing people who are clearly competent and really enjoy their job. The way the girl with the green hair in the video looks lovingly to the patch collector is quite nice.

(via The NY Public Library Blog)

Pictured above is among the more radical of interesting new takes on bedding design from an article on weburbanist.

I myself prefer the hammock but all of them present interesting ideas and something to think about considering how much time we (human beings) spend on average in bed over a lifetime.

To describe the fun of using Poladroid really just pales compared to experiencing it. This little bitty app closely replicates the experience of using a Polaroid camera. Not only does it take any picture you drop onto its funky camera icon and convert it into a Polaroid-like photo with faded colors and that classic white border. It also actually makes you wait for the photo to “develop”.

As you sit there staring at the little mini picture slowly come into focus through the brown developer you can actually use your mouse to grab and drag the images so as to “shake” it. When my roommate asked me if the shaking makes the photo develop faster; I replied “I don’t know! Just like a real Polaroid!”

This is a must see random app.

(via hrrrthrrr)

I wonder how my recent arab-fetish fits into my desire to remake my room with all of these comfy pillows. I am totally in love with all of the decor in these photos. Click on the pic for more.

(via style-files)

I wonder if bored police officers do such things with finger prints. Many more pics when you click on the pic.

(via baekdal.com)

13 people have won an Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and a Tony Award

Interesting. I would trade them all for one Kennedy Center Honor.

It’s amazing that up until this point Happy Accidents has escaped me. It’s been out since 2000 and stars Vincent D’Onofrio and Marisa Tomei. On the surface this is a sort of quirky, cute indie romantic comedy produced by IFC when there really was a sort of thing called “independent film” in the U.S. To some extent this would be enough for me. On a deeper level, however, Happy Accidents follows a line of logic concerning the nature of time-travel and the question of emotion and memory that started in 1962 with a little french film called La Jetee.

That film, perhaps my favorite short film, is probably the best known from French director Chris Marker and is shot entirely as a series of photo stills. It is a sort of pre-pc powerpoint presentation with no moving action. It relies on a narrator to drive the story. Despite this form it manages to tell a complex and moving story of a man who is sent back from a dystopic future to the present day. He and the woman develop a relationship which is doomed by his future overlords who do not him to disturb the time-line. (spoiler) This eventually causes his death — witnessed by himself as a child.

If this sounds familiar to you it could be perhaps because La Jetee is the basis for the 1995 Terry Gilliam film 12 Monkeys and (more…)

Fascinating project by Nina Katchadourian hundreds more photos on her site. I like the idea making poetry out of book spines.

(via A Cup of Jo)

Click the pic for more photos. Kind of an interesting installation from a layout perspective.

(via badbanana)