This sculpture by Walter Hancock memorializes railroad workers killed in the Second World War. It soars above the milling crowds in Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station. This is my grainy cellphone snapshot from this morning…
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From the category archives:
Miscellany
I’ve had few regrets since we cut the cord and looked to the internet and old-fashioned broadcasts for all our family’s TV-watching.
The one cable channel I really miss is Turner Classic Movies. The other day, watching a TV with no sound at the gym, I was captivated by the clips and photos in this TCM tribute to their “Star of the Month” Natalie Wood. Here’s the video (with audio) of Robert Redford reminiscing about his high school classmate and frequent co-star.
By the way, TCM has a great website… ample background information on the movies and stars, a lot of community elements, and many ways to dive deeper into the films they feature. They are doing far more than pumping out a feed of all the films they own. They’re curating a vast library of cultural treasures and presenting them in fresh and compelling ways.
I wish I could tell Comcast to give me just TCM (and maybe a couple other channels too).
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Even if you don’t know his name, you’ll definitely get a kick out of Jim Flora’s playful mid-century modern style.
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The iPad talk has been all about browsing, reading, watching, listening, and gaming, but how about blogging? The biggest limitation so far is not the keyboard (which really is wonderful, though not exactly “a dream to type on”), but the lack of iPad-based apps. This may change in a matter of hours, but the WordPress app is just an inflatable iPhone app. I haven’t tried it yet (I’m not a client), but I bet the Squarespace app is a little more fluid.
Given the ability of the iPad to store and display photos, videos, quotable ePub format books, and Safari bookmarks, it should be simpler to share these things via blogging. The best solution I’ve found so far is to use Posterous, which let’s you post to blogs (and Twitter, Facebook, etc.) via email. For this post, I’m trying to include a photo in a blog post by selecting an image from the iPad photo library and the “share by email” option. If this works, it could be an adequate work-around until the developers get robust blogging apps up and running.
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via whitstillman.org
“Metropolitan” is a personal favorite. This “slightly squashed” video was posted at the wonderful unofficial Whit Stillman website.
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via scribbling.net
“‘A Way Forward in Afghanistan’ by Jamie Kennedy”
“The Daily Show Was Funny Yesterday… You Should Watch It Embedded Next To Our Ads”
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via slashfilm.com
By now, you’ve probably heard about this series of YouTube videos by “Mike from Milwaukee.” It’s more than an hour of carefully edited clips and furiously intelligent slashing and burning. In the character of a foul-mouthed rambling madman, a perceptive amateur film critic lays out exactly what is so awful about the soulless Star Wars prequel. It’s perfect viewing for the holidays… a wonderfully satisfying experience for the whole family (seventeen and older).
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via neh.gov
Imagine inheriting the majority of the planet:
“In 1689, Kangxi, the emperor of China, embarked on a tour to inspect his southern provinces, undertaking a two-thousand-mile journey from Beijing to the cities and towns of the Yangzi Delta and back…”
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