My favorite of Grischa Stanjek’s lovely “minimalistic alternative movie posters,” mainly because Once Upon a Time in the West is one of my favorite movies. The opening title sequence alone is better than many entire films.
Previously: Is It Safe?, Ibraheem Youssef’s Quentin Tarantino Posters, Jamie Bolton’s Minimalist Movie Posters, Minimalist TV Show Posters, and Olly Moss’s Movie Poster Remakes.
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Typographic poster for Stanley Kubrick’s science fiction masterpiece. The famous quote is not included in the final version of the film but appears in Arthur C. Clakre’s original book. The em dash that breaks the phrase represents the ever present monolith. The poster is set in Futura Extra Bold, (Kubrick’s typeface of choice) and printed with glow in the dark ink, so the star field only becomes visual in the darkness of space.
(Via.)
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1. “The Web Means the End of Forgetting”
“The fact that the Internet never seems to forget is threatening, at an almost existential level, our ability to control our identities; to preserve the option of reinventing ourselves and starting anew; to overcome our checkered pasts.”
2. “No Air-Conditioning, and Happy”
“For Mr. Cox, 54, the air-conditioner has not been turned on in any sort of regular fashion since 1977.”
3. “Doin’ Just Fine, Alone With Her Wigs”
“My thing is that it’s one thing to stay in the house, but I don’t stay in the house like a depressed person. I am celebrating life.”
4. “A Hat So In, It’s Got to Be Out”
“It’s an accessory that’s easy to wear. It doesn’t require great cleavage or washboard abs or a high threshold for pain. It’s got a bit of attitude, but it doesn’t make a noisy fashion statement. It’s men’s wear that looks good on women.”
“She is busty and short-waisted with small legs; sort of like a turnip turned on its tip. There is the weird tan, but the pièce de résistance of Snookiness is the half-doughnut-shaped pouf on top of her head.”
“People spent years hunting down rare copies. They traded them online for prices that reached into the thousands. They photocopied and distributed them in design studios like fashion samizdat.”
7. “Married, but Sleeping Alone”
“Nearly one in four American couples sleep in separate bedrooms or beds, the National Sleep Foundation reported in a 2005 survey.”
8. “Facebook Is to the Power Company as …”
“Here are services everyone uses, no matter how much people dislike the companies that provide them.”
9. “Girl Pop’s Lady Gaga Makeover”
“From the start of her career Madonna was a savvy pop trickster, using outrageous imagery as a distraction while smuggling ideas about religion and social politics into her music. Most of the Gaga generation, however, is interested in distraction as an end in itself.”
10. “Everybody’s a Critic of the Critics’ Rabid Critics”
“I’m going to have to see it again.”
“Witness, for instance, the difficulty with which even the well-mannered among us stifle the urge to say ‘I told you so.’ The brilliance of this phrase … derives from its admirably compact way of making the point that not only was I right, I was also right about being right. In the instant of uttering it, I become right squared, maybe even right factorial, logarithmically right — at any rate, really, extremely right, and really, extremely delighted about it.”
12. “Digital Tools for Making Brilliant Mistakes”
“Practically every antiquated creative process ends up inspiring some kind of digital filter, effect or add-on designed explicitly to mimic its singular properties.”
13. “New Orleans’s Gender-Bending Rap”
“It is a sad understatement to say that homosexuality and hip-hop make for an unlikely fusion: hip-hop culture is one of the most unrepentantly homophobic cultures in America, surpassing even its own attitudes toward women in bigotry and smirking advocacy of violence. But New Orleans’s tolerance of unlikely fusions is legendary, and today Katey Red, along with a handful of other artists — Big Freedia, Sissy Nobby, Chev off the Ave, Vockah Redu — are not just accepted mainstays of the bounce scene but its most prominent representatives outside New Orleans.”
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1. “Whatever Happened to Mystery?”
“The world … no longer has any tolerance for — let alone fascination with — people who aren’t willing to publicize themselves.”
2. “As Facebook Users Die, Ghosts Reach Out”
“Death, of course, is unavoidable, and so Facebook must find a way to integrate it into the social experience online.”
3. “The True Calling That Wasn’t”
“Education may well lead to internships, first jobs and, soon, experience and decent money in careers that seem unstoppable. Except for one thing: The work doesn’t feel like a true calling.”
4. “Creating Sabbath Peace Amid the Noise”
“Ms. Winner herself stopped shopping on Sunday a long time ago, and recently began keeping a sort of electronic Sabbath as well — she tries to stay off e-mail and to keep her cellphone turned off. She doesn’t eat out on Sunday, either, because she doesn’t want to benefit from what she considers the exploitation of the labor of the underpaid immigrants who staff the local restaurants.”
“Mad Men is a period piece that reverses the template. Historical dramas like The Tudors or John Adams sift through a remote, archaic culture to highlight the most familiar and contemporary concerns of historical characters. Mad Men wallows in the comfort of a recent and well-known past by way of characters who are always a little opaque and unknowable.”
“Recent research on status and power suggests that brashness, entitlement and ego are essential components for any competent leader.”
“We are wired by nature … to pay attention to new stimuli, thereby helping us to respond quickly to predators or to nab a potential meal.”
“In my quest for calm, I have a surprising ally. As far as I’m concerned, American Telephone & Telegraph has done more for the art of reading and introspection than all the Kindles and Nooks ever invented. Because up in the exalted summer greenery of the mid-Hudson Valley, completing an AT&T call is like driving a Trabant from New York to Los Angeles: technically feasible but not really going to happen.”
“Wouldn’t it be funny and weird to create an event about things on the Internet that are funny and weird?”
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Dave Itzkoff calls attention to a blog post by Lil Wayne wherein he describes his daily prison routine:
Wake up around 11AM. Have some coffee. Call my kids, and my wonderful mother. I then shower up. Read fan mail. Have lunch. Back on the phone. Read a book or write some thoughts down. Have dinner. Phone. Pushups. Then I listen to ESPN on the radio. Read the bible, then sleep. That’s my day.
Wayne (née Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr.) is currently serving a one-year prison sentence at Rikers Island for attempted possession of a weapon after a gun was found on his tour bus in 2007.
Last month, he literally phoned in a verse he wanted appended to Drake’s “Light Up.” Best lyric: “Behind bars, but the bars don’t stop / Recording over the phone / I hope the call don’t drop.” Indeed.
(Via.)
Related posts: “100-Year-Old Master,” “Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Daily Routine,” “Donald Trump’s Daily Routine,” and “John Waters’s Daily Routine.”
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1. “Until Cryonics Do Us Part”
“Neither Peggy nor her husband, Robin Hanson, can remember quite when he first announced his intention to have his brain surgically removed from his freshly vacated cadaver and preserved in liquid nitrogen.”
2. “Students, Meet Your New Teacher, Mr. Robot”
“The most advanced models are fully autonomous, guided by artificial intelligence software like motion tracking and speech recognition, which can make them just engaging enough to rival humans at some teaching tasks.”
3. “Factory Efficiency Comes to the Hospital”
“The main goals of the approach, known as kaizen, are to reduce waste and to increase value for customers through continuous small improvements.”
4. “Computers at Home: Educational Hope vs. Teenage Reality”
“Economists are trying to measure a home computer’s educational impact on schoolchildren in low-income households. Taking widely varying routes, they are arriving at similar conclusions: little or no educational benefit is found.”
5. “Online, We Pay With Our Time Spent Searching”
“As search becomes faster and smarter, it’s as if the Internet becomes a high-speed moving sidewalk whisking everyone to free loaves of bread. Paying for the search becomes irrelevant as the time spent searching becomes trivial.”
6. “Fans of Miley Cyrus Question Her New Path”
“‘It was weird. I feel like she acts 25. She looks so old. She is too old for herself.’”
7. “They Grow Up So Quickly, Don’t They?”
“The implication is that the younger set is doing better than their solipsistic, dysfunctional elders.”
“The Road to Serfdom has a long history of timely assists from the popular media.”
“I make love a couple of times a week, and I take the Viagra when I’m going to be making love.”
10. “J. Crew Helps Preppy Go Euro”
“The stateside European, in J. Crew’s imagining, wears all our usual American stuff — shorts, T-shirts, cargo pants, polo shirts — but has no use whatsoever for the simplicity and androgyny that used to be hallmarks of preppy.”
11. “When Did We First ‘Rock the Mic’?”
“In ‘Rapper’s Delight,’ the M.C. Big Bank Hank raps, ‘I’m gonna rock the mic till you can’t resist,’ using what was then a novel sense of rock, defined by the O.E.D. as ‘to handle effectively and impressively; to use or wield effectively, esp. with style or self-assurance.’”
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