by | Nov 15, 2015 | Culture Music Art
from Nautilus How I Tried to Transplant the Musical Heart of Apocalypse Now Oscar-winning editor Walter Murch describes the surprising idiosyncrasies of film scoring. BY WALTER MURCH In 1979, sometime during the barely controlled chaos of the last months of finishing...
by | Nov 14, 2015 | Weirdness
from BBC News Seattle’s Ferris wheel hit by drone Getty Images Seattle police are investigating after a drone collided with the city’s giant Ferris wheel on Wednesday afternoon. There were no injuries in the incident in which the drone hit the wheel and...
by | Nov 13, 2015 | Culture Music Art
from The Washington Post This high school student just won $250,000 for his film explaining Einstein’s theory of relativity By Emma Brown Ohio high school senior Ryan Chester became the inaugural winner of a new college scholarship on Sunday night, winning $250,000...
by | Nov 12, 2015 | Culture Music Art
from The New York Times Tarantino’s ‘The Hateful Eight’ Resurrects Nearly Obsolete Technology By BEN KENIGSBERG Jennifer Jason Leigh and Kurt Russell in “The Hateful Eight,” scheduled to be released on 100 screens in 70-millimeter projection. PHOTO: Andrew...
by | Nov 11, 2015 | Bright Shiny News, Literary News, Projects
from The New Yorker Big Shaq by Jonathan Blitzer ILLUSTRATION BY TOM BACHTELL There are fifty-two million items in the New York Public Library, if you count the artifacts, like pieces of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s skull and the walking stick that Virginia Woolf carried to...
