The Puget News Logo Banner

Striking new tower-like sculpture from Do Ho Suh.(via Karma: A…

by The Puget News Tumblr on February 27, 2013

Do Ho Suh Tower

Striking new tower-like sculpture from Do Ho Suh.

(via Karma: A Tower of Blinded Men Rising into the Sky by Do Ho Suh | Colossal)

{ 0 comments }

Massive Eggplant Attack. Carrot high hat.Why? Because he…

by The Puget News Tumblr on February 25, 2013


Massive Eggplant Attack. Carrot high hat.

Why? Because he can.

j.viewz playing Teardrop with vegetables (by ViewzOfficial)

{ 0 comments }

Mexican Jungle Kayaking

by Eric Franklin on February 20, 2013

Stunning.

CASCADA from NRS Films on Vimeo.

{ 0 comments }

Richard III’s body found under a car park

by Eric Franklin on February 4, 2013

I’m taking bets on the first Richard III adaptation we’ll see with “scientific verisimilitude of disability.”

A skeleton with a cleaved skull and a curved spine entombed under a car park is that of Richard III, archaeologists said on Monday, solving a 500-year-old mystery about the final resting place of the last English king to die in battle.

Check out the full story on Reuters.

{ 0 comments }

Travel Videos

by Eric Franklin on February 1, 2013

Over the last 6 or 7 years, I’ve taken many thousands of photos while traveling, generally on one international trip per year. Videos like this India travelogue are making me think I should focus on shooting video instead.

A Day in India from The Perennial Plate on Vimeo.

Logistically speaking, do any of you have experience trying to shoot video for several weeks at a time? Do you have to take a computer to offload to, or do you just take lots of storage cards with you?

{ 0 comments }

Landfill Harmonic Teaser

by Eric Franklin on January 3, 2013

The town of Cateura, Paraguay is a “slum built on a landfill” and yet they have found a wonderful way to inspire creativity in their children.

“The world sends us garbage, we send back music.” – Favio Chavez, Orchestra Director

[Discovered on Coudal]

{ 0 comments }

Can’t we all just get along? Literary feuds of 2012.

by Eric Franklin on January 2, 2013

Good for a chuckle.

Here is a quote from Brett Easton Ellis on David Foster Wallace, who for obvious reasons, is no longer able to defend himself:

Anyone who finds David Foster Wallace a literary genius has got to be included in the Literary Doucebag-Fools Pantheon

[From the New Yorker]

{ 0 comments }

New “Hell Broke Luce” video released by Tom Waits

by Eric Franklin on August 7, 2012

Definitely worth a look. Stay strange everyone.

{ 0 comments }

Upcoming film: Side by Side – Coming August 17th

by Eric Franklin on July 24, 2012

Keanu Reeves (yeah, I know) has made a documentary on the digitization and democratization of film. It looks fantastic and features a bunch of the best filmmakers of our generation.

{ 0 comments }

Banksy and the London Olympics

by Eric Franklin on July 24, 2012

Banksy’s having a bit of fun being inspired by the 2012 Olympics in London. Here’s the pole vault and here’s the javelin.

I love the mattress.

{ 0 comments }