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May 10, 2013
THIS IS WATER - By David Foster Wallace from The Glossary on Vimeo.
In 2005, author David Foster Wallace was asked to give the commencement address to the 2005 graduating class of Kenyon College. However, the resulting speech didn’t become widely known until 3 years later, after his tragic death. It is, without a doubt, some of the best life advice we’ve ever come across, and perhaps the most simple and elegant explanation of the real value of education.
We made this video, built around an abridged version of the original audio recording, with the hopes that the core message of the speech could reach a wider audience who might not have otherwise been interested.
Read the full speech here:
web.archive.org/web/20080213082423/http://www.marginalia.org/dfw_kenyon_commencement.html-The Glossary
theglossary.com
May 2, 2013
I definitely recommend it. But it will throw your life into turmoil. I definitely feel like I’ve aged 2 years in 3 months. But that’s okay, I love it. It’s exhausting, but just when you think, “God, we have to kill it,” [the baby] starts smiling at you. And then the window to kill it is closed, you know?
Rob Schneider on becoming a dad (Thx, @theskywatcher!)April 29, 2013
Pierre Lelievre & Anthony Finocchiaro’ in INDIA from SEBASKATES on Vimeo.
INDIA’ Where else?
One year after the success of our first video in Shanghai ( vimeo.com/33024534 ) Pierre Lelievre and myself “Anthony Finocchiaro” decided to find adventure around in a much more exotic place.. INDIA !
We landed in Delhi but with the clear intention to visit the country as much as we could.For ten days in India, we had the intention to find a way of transport to escape from the big city and mix with the local population, the real one !!! We planned to take a great life lesson and also share our love of the inline skating, roll on virgin spots and learn skating to the young generation.
Two days in Delhi was almost enough for us to skate most of the city … Cosmopolitan population shortly shared the info that two crazy Frenchies were inline skating through the streets jumping all the obstacles and catch the tuktuks. It was fun to hear people saying to use “Nice shoes ” speaking about our skates, but every time was a challenge for us to explain what is ” inline ” and what we do here, as we had many questions from curious people.
After some research we decided to rent a motorcycle and go to Agra to visit the Taj Mahal, it was a 200 km road trip between the two cities, which is not really not much in Europe … But here 200km bike that can quickly turn into a 6/7 hours drive, which was ideal for us to make a few more stops through different cities. So we took the time to stop in beautiful spots where we shared moments with Elephants , snake charmers or cricket players.
We arrived late in Agra but we we still headed straight to the Taj Mahal where our first meeting has been with a tribe of stealing monkeys who tried to ride our bike and wear our helmets… After fighting this crazy monkeys we fully enjoyed a beautiful sunset under the walls of Taj in the company of military guards who were amused to see two tourists a bit like no other, and laughed to hear us saying that we came straight from Delhi with our destroyed motorcycle … haha.We spent a total of two days in this beautiful city, made incredible encounters and especially memorable sessions but also left a few pieces of our famous motorcycle after a spectacular crash. We managed to land safely but the bike lost its first and second gear … so you can imagine what it may look like to start from Zero with the third gear…
Back to Delhi we lost our third gear so it was really hard to continue to tour with this lethal weapon in the middle of the jungle road, so we decided to give back this broken shit and continue to end this journey by skitching cars, tuktuk or even camels, but always making extraordinary meetings with inlines on our feet!For this trip we used both the SEBA FR1 Orange & Blue customized way FR-A by adding the soulplate, and the new SEBA Street Invaders wheels which really passed the test on this very difficult grounds.
For amateur or Pro skater, this skate skate was more than ideal for this safari trip. THANKS SEBA Skates and thanks everyone who made this trip so special, I hope to feed back and show these pictures to as much people as possible!
Also thank you Pierre for being always on top, this is just the beginning of our adventure ..THANK YOU
SKATE:
Anthony - FR1 Blue, Kit color Bluen Soulplate and Street invaders Weels 80mm -
Pierre - FR1 Orange, Kit color Orange, Soulplate and Street invaders Weels 80mm -FILM:
Directed By - Anthony FINOCCHIARO -
CAMERA:
- 5DMKII, 7D
MUSIC:
- Ravi Shankar -
PICTURES:
flickr.com/photos/sebaskates/sets/72157633315787795/
flickr.com/photos/sebaskates/sets/72157633315669075/LINK:
sebanews.com
sebaskates.com
anthonyfinocchiaro.com
facebook.com/SEBASkatesStreet?ref=stream
facebook.com/SebaSkates
facebook.com/pages/Anthony-Finocchiaro/250595674998801
youtube.com/user/sebaskates
flickr.com/photos/sebaskates/
anthonyfinocchiaro.com/
April 27, 2013
Portland/CreativeMornings - Andy Baio from CreativeMornings/Portland on Vimeo.
Our speaker at the January 2013 Portland/CreativeMornings was Andy Baio, writer and coder who loves making things. . The global theme for this month was “Reuse,” and Andy spoke about remix culture:
“Cut, copy, paste. The ability to reuse and remix is so deeply baked into our tools, it’s rewritten our culture. We learn to make great art by copying, and we participate in our culture by reusing and modifying what we see. But the law hasn’t caught up with our changing values, effectively criminalizing the creativity of millions. Cover songs on YouTube, fanfic, mashups, and supercuts all violate copyright, and lawyers are starting to find new tools to discover and enforce infringement. Welcome to the new Prohibition.”
The event was generously hosted by the Hollywood Theatre (hollywoodtheatre.org) and sponsored by Citizen (citizensof.com) and 52 Limited (52ltd.com). Many thanks to Pro Photo Supply (prophotosupply.com) for lending us the gear to capture the talk, and to Hunter Richards (hunterhrichards.com) for shooting and editing.
April 18, 2013
I wish I was even 5% as happy as this guy. My life would be cake.
(Source: nuggits)
April 10, 2013
I love these behind-the-scenes here’s how it’s made stuff.
Secrets From The Potato Chip Factory (by Planet Money)
April 5, 2013
While revisiting this Steve Albini “ask me anything” Reddit thread, I came across a GREAT back-and-forth between him and J Mark Inman, a guy who sang a terrible version of Radiohead’s “Creep” on X-Factor.
Inman doesn’t beat around the bush — he starts out asking Albini if he’ll produce his next record and help him get signed and mentions he was that guy on X-Factor. Albini’s response:
I’m not going to listen to that. By telling me you were on X Factor you’ve outed yourself as a vain douchebag who wanted to leapfrog into showbusiness stardom, and there’s nothing I can do to help you in that regard. Continue singing in front of your mirror holding a hairbrush with my best wishes for continued success.
That would be enough to shut me up forever, but Inman says that Albini doesn’t know him and how hard he’s worked, to which Albini responds (all emphasis mine):
I was being rude but your grasping aspirations are an affront to the millions of dedicated musicians who ply their art without crying about it. You tried a shortcut and it didn’t work. They rarely do. Now you get to have the selfsame experience you tried to avoid, that being building a following by actually working on your music, then putting yourself in front of audiences and performing. You say you have no industry support. Boo hoo. Neither does anybody else. There’s no industry.
Do what everybody else does, get a job and work on your music in your spare time. Work on music you’re passionate about and want to make for its own sake. If your music resonates with other people then your music will eventually earn you something, but if not you’re still doing something you enjoy.
Singing is like dancing or playing chess or fishing or tennis. If you love it you’ll feel rewarded just by the act of doing it, and bully for you. That’s an awesome thing, to do something you love. But in all those enterprises only a vanishingly small number of people ever get to do them professionally, and if that’s the only way you can appreciate music then you’re not a musician, you’re a wannabe fantasy case and you need to get out.
Inman still won’t given up — he goes into a lengthy explanation of his history and claims that his trouble is that he doesn’t have “connections.” Albini:
Connections don’t mean shit. I’ve never had any connections that weren’t a natural outgrowth of doing things I was doing anyway. Additionally, the people you might make connections with who work in the industry and value connections themselves, all those people are clueless assholes with no clout anyhow. You can tell because they think they can get somewhere with connections and spend their energy trying to make connections rather than being good at things, and being good at things is the only thing that earns you clout or connections.
It’s a myth that you can get anywhere in music through connections. The guy on the other end of the connection has to be into what you’re doing, and if you’re doing it publicly and he’s receptive, he probably hears about it on his own.
Don’t worry about anything but making music you like. Everything else is bullshit.
Inman continues, and finally, Alibi responds:
Oh for fuck’s sake. I give up.
And there you have it — so many times in these situations aspiring artists are looking for some kind of magic formula or secret handshake for success, and the truth is what they know, but don’t want to believe: you’re just not good enough yet. You still need to work and work and work, and even then, you still might not be good enough.
cf. Steve Martin, Trent Reznor
April 4, 2013
Dance of the Honey Bee from AbelCine on Vimeo.
A Miro Challenge final film from Peter Nelson
Credits
Produced, Directed, Photographed & Edited by Peter Nelson
Original Music by John Powell
Narrated by Bill McKibben, Founder 350.org
Assistant Camera: Edwin Stevens
Audio: Merce Williams
Post Audio: Matt Haasch
Additional Camera: Peter Hawkins & Edwin StevensThe Beekeepers
Bill’s Bees // Bill Lewis // Clyde Steese // Sam BonderovPhantom Miro M320S provided by AbelCine & Vision Research through the Miro High-Speed Inspiration Challenge.
Lenses & supporting equipment provided by AbelCine.
Special Thanks
Sally Roy // Peter & Laurie Hawkins // Doug & Diana Pray // Dinah Lehoven // The Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens // Al Avitable // Charlie Collias // Marc Colucci // Dadant & Sons // DeMane Davis // Andrew Fredericks // Jimmy & Lizz Greenway // Jeff Hamel // Karen Kimball // Philip Owens // George Shafnacker // Johnny Traunwieser // Zylight // Pete Abel // Rich Abel // Maia Kaufman // Milos Necakov // Moe Shore // Juliet Verni // Mark Ybarra // Brandon Zachary // HoneyLove.org // Chelsea McFarland // Rob McFarland // Ceebs Bailey // Kirk Anderson // Backwards Beekeepers // Los Angeles Beekeeping Association
April 1, 2013
Polaroids from the set of Withnail and I
@RichardEGrant has been tweeting Polaroids from the archives, especially since Richard Griffiths a.k.a. Uncle Monty passed away today. RIP.
March 18, 2013
Empathy begins with vulnerability. And being vulnerable, especially in our work, is fucking terrifying.
The Pastry Box Project | 18 March 2013, baked by Sara Wachter-BoettcherYou can only offend me if you mean something to me. You can’t break up with me if we didn’t date.
Chris Rock (via austinkleon)
