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There are only two video podcasts I watch religiously: Cool Hunting and TEDTalks. They never fail to impress and inspire. In this week’s Cool Hunting video, I was inspired several times over by the work of Jonathan Harris, being drawn in initially by his beautiful scrap-books. Journaling, as a concept, is something I’ve always admired [...]

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I’ve become a web-fan of Mark Ryden’s paintings via posts from Boing Boing. A couple of days ago they pointed to an LA Weekly writeup of Ryder’s newest show in Beverly Hills. I was struck by a couple things I took away from the article: Art is about extreme effort and obsession with details. The [...]

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This video re-enacts some of the most tense Samuel L. Jackson lines from “Pulp Fiction.” With the focus on just the words, and sometimes even just the syllables, I just came to realize the ironic foreshadowing of this dialog in the movie. I hadn;t really noticed before that Samuel L. Jackson basically calls out what [...]

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The New “Olympic Sculpture Park”

by Eric Franklin on January 31, 2007

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’re aware that the Olympic Sculpture Park down on the Seattle waterfront has opened. Sung Kim and I went down there the other day for a brief walkthrough. I posted some photos I snapped with my cameraphone to a flickr photo album. Here are a few photos just [...]

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There is an absolutely fascinating article in the New Yorker related to Google’s Book Scanning/Search project and the pending furor over the copyright issues that this project is bringing to light. The results of this debate will have an impact on how you and I, dear readers, can expect to be able to find and [...]

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