Friday Ephemera
A 5-minute history of evil. (h/t, Coudal.) // Star Wars subtitles malfunction. “Dishevelled hair projection.” (h/t, Maggie’s Farm.) // Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures. // Garfield minus Garfield. It gets quite strange. // The Einstein Archives. // The Large Hadron Collider. // The Stanford Linear Accelerator. // “That’s the essence of experimental particle physics: You smash stuff together and see what other stuff comes out.” // The silicon womb. // Cheeseburger in a can (mentioned here) finally gets a taste test. // Marijuana school. Higher education. (h/t, Dr Westerhaus.) // A brief history of aviation. (h/t, Stephen Hicks.) //Aurora Australis. // The power shirt. With nanogenerators. // Vivid Audio loudspeakers. These are rather fetching. // Cuddly Venereals™. // Barnacles and cocaine. // $2.6 million necklace. 1,290 diamonds. Only one ever made. // Circular communities. // Daniel Finkelstein on dictators and their groupies. // Caroline Fourest on Tariq Ramadan. “He is a professional when it comes to lying.” // Islam: What the West Needs to Know. September 11, 1683. // Tall buildings. // Even taller buildings. // Skyscraper made of wood. // Wind tunnels we have known and loved. // Kate Bush, Cloudbusting.
The subtitles are hysterical.
Revenge of the sith = backstroke of the west
They’re all over me = he is in my behind
My current favourite is “our dichotomy opens the combat.” Though I quite like “he is big in nothing important in good elephant.” And “dishevelled hair projection” must be some kind of digital effect.
Star War! My ass laughed off in elephant, equal to I think severe!
But not as much as with Garfield minus Garfield. That was bizarre. Makes me want to try the same trick with, say, Peanuts. Its large cast affords so many possibilities. Lucy without Snoopy? Linus without his security blanket?
My wife can usually tell when I’m reading the funny bits of Friday Ephemera.
[wipes tears from eyes, coffee from keyboard]
The Garfield comic sans Garfield really…tickles. That’s very funny.
I am moved, in the spirit of Friday Ephemera, by a nostalgia for Vitruvius’ conviviality, as well as by David’s interest for visual art and illustration, to bring attention, in this manner, to this post…
http://www.animationarchive.org/2007/11/theory-cgi-animators-should-think-like.html
..in which Stephen Worth, Director of ASIFA-Hollywood’s Animation Archive, compares the work of modern animators to the work of turn of the century illustrator William Lee Hankey, which puts him in a mind to strangle pretty much everyone in his mind. In a kind way, though; anyone who’s ever had a smart and driven grandfather will recognize that certain combination of anger, love and didactics in his tone as he churns out some considered advice to all the young illustrating whippersnappers out there.
I’m going to toss this next one in as well because this is as ephemeral as it gets, with all the inexcusably transient pleasure that entails:
http://www.pornolize.com/pornolize4?lang=en&url=https%3A%2F%2Fthompsonblog.co.uk%2F2007%2F07%2Fegalitarian-epi.html%23comments&submit=Translate
The comments in particular evoke the spirit, if not the language, of the sort of rummy debates that might flare up on a late 19th century whaling vessel.
Oh my. The, erm, “revised” comments are indeed the sauciest bit. The choice end, as it were.
Thanks very much for that high-resolution photograph of the ATLAS detector, David (if you pick the image in the NASA link, you get a 3000 x 1960 image). It brings me great joy. ATLAS (one of the six detectors in the Large Hadron Collider project) generates about 100 megabytes of saved data per second, and that’s after filtering a raw data stream of about 100 million billion bytes of data per second. Where does all that data come from? It’s hard to explain just how complicated ATLAS is, but perhaps these videos may be of some value to interested readers:
ATLAS – The Particles Strike Back
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxENLH1ATV4 Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYRQpcJVQx8 Part 2(a)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUkzyDbMQ3E Part 2(b)
The ATLAS Experiment – Mapping the Secrets of the Universe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0ZqV5u-z6o Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv9j-CcspaY Part 2
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATLAS_experiment
Since I’m commenting anyway, and it’s Friday Ephemera, and I wish to attempt to mitigate any potential negative effects that might be caused by nostalgia for my conviviality (;-) I should like to note that over the last year or so I have carved out a niche show for my DJ Vitruvius shtick over in the “Reader Tips” threads at Kate’s SDA blog, and based on some recent archive spidering, comment scraping, and full-text search functionality I have recently implemented, I have now published my “SDA Late Nite Radio Archives”, which may be of interest to those looking for an evening tour-guide for a stroll through the audio-video Interlibrary:
http://sagaciousiconoclast.blogspot.com/2008/02/sda-lnr-archives.html