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Not Dead Yet

Matt Thomas — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 01:49:09 +0000

“This generation is so dead. You ask a kid, ‘What are you doing this Saturday?’ and they’ll be playing video games or watching cable, instead of building model cars or airplanes or doing something creative. Kids today never say, ‘Man, I’m really into remote-controlled steamboats.’ They never say that.”

—Jack White

Well, Jack, meet Caine and his arcade:

Filed under: inspiration, video

Music and Medicine

Matt Thomas — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 01:15:33 +0000

Filed under: coffee, smoking, video Tagged: Iggy Pop, Tom Waits

No One Knows What It Means, but It’s Provocative

Matt Thomas — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:45:33 +0000

Filed under: music, video Tagged: Jay-Z, Kanye West

Born to Die

Matt Thomas — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:42:34 +0000

Filed under: art, endorsements, music, video Tagged: Lana Del Rey

Steve Jobs (1955–2011)

Matt Thomas — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:44:25 +0000

Unaired version of Apple’s 1997 “Think Different” ad narrated by Steve Jobs.

Here’s to the crazy ones indeed.

Filed under: inspiration, video Tagged: Apple, Steve Jobs

I Don’t Take a Piss Without Getting Paid for It

Matt Thomas — Wed, 11 May 2011 16:52:37 +0000

(See also Mike Monteiro’s “Fuck You, Pay Me” talk.)

Filed under: inspiration, video, work, writing Tagged: Harlan Ellison

Quendelton State University School of Graduate Studies

Matt Thomas — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 05:00:10 +0000

“I get to spend the next ten years of my life analyzing three lines of a poem that’s over 500 years old. In the real world, that would be considered a mental disorder.”

—Graduate student at the Quendelton State University School of Graduate Studies

(Via Austin Kleon.)

Filed under: academe, video

Eerily Prescient, Sadly

Matt Thomas — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:58:05 +0000

‘The Newsroom’ team discusses how to cover a possible nuclear meltdown: http://t.co/mTGZtUK. Eerily prescient, sadly.—
Matt Thomas (@mattthomas) March 15, 2011

Filed under: video

Films Are Built on Other Films

Matt Thomas — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 00:19:43 +0000

More must-watch material at http://www.everythingisaremix.info/.

Filed under: media, movies, video

The Tree of Life

Matt Thomas — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 20:40:12 +0000

The poster for Terrence Malick’s new film The Tree of Life:

Even better is the trailer, which, though only 2 minutes and 11 seconds long, might actually be the best movie of 2010. Go watch. Now.

Filed under: movies, posters, video Tagged: Terrence Malick

Thanksgiving, Giant-Style

Matt Thomas — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 14:04:33 +0000

From Giant (1956):

(Via Boing Boing.)

Filed under: movies, video Tagged: Elizabeth Taylor, Giant, Thanksgiving

Funny Because It’s True

Matt Thomas — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 04:59:14 +0000

Filed under: academe, video

Brooklyn Space Program

Matt Thomas — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 01:41:40 +0000

Brooklyn-based father and son team send an iPhone into space using nothing but a weather ballon and some old fashioned American ingenuity. The iPhone, of course, is set to record.

For more information, see http://www.brooklynspaceprogram.org/.

Filed under: video

It Gets Better

Matt Thomas — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 21:57:09 +0000

For more information, see http://www.itgetsbetterproject.com/.

Filed under: inspiration, video

Bitches Ain’t Shit

Matt Thomas — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 23:11:55 +0000

(Via.)

Filed under: gender, music, video

Herzog to the Rescue

Matt Thomas — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 21:16:22 +0000

Filed under: movies, Uncategorized, video Tagged: Werner Herzog

OOO, OOO, OOOO

Matt Thomas — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:25:59 +0000

Filed under: music, typography, video

Words

Matt Thomas — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:13:39 +0000

Filed under: video

You Have to Be Asleep to Believe It

Matt Thomas — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:46:04 +0000

(Via.)

As my buddy Austin Kleon is fond of pointing out, some comedians are philosophers.

Filed under: philosophy, video

Malickesque

Matt Thomas — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:21:21 +0000

(Via.)

Filed under: video Tagged: John Hillcoat, Levis, Terrence Malick

Be a Tortoise

Matt Thomas — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:21:23 +0000

Not only in the “slow and steady wins the race” sense, but in the “help others when they’re (upside) down” sense as well.

(Via.)

Filed under: endorsements, video, work

This Pie’s So Good It Is a Crime

Matt Thomas — Wed, 19 May 2010 04:07:10 +0000

(Via.)

Filed under: TV, video Tagged: Twin Peaks

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

Matt Thomas — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:10:14 +0000

I’m not sure George is wrong about automobiles. With all their speed forward, they may be a step backward in civilization. It may be that they won’t add to the beauty of the world or the life of men’s souls. I’m not sure. But automobiles have come. And almost all outward things are going to be different because of what they bring. They’re going to alter war and they’re going to alter peace. And I think men’s minds are going to be changed in subtle ways because of automobiles. And it may be that George is right. It may be that in ten or twenty years from now, if we can see the inward change in men by that time, I shouldn’t be able to defend the gasoline engine but would have to agree with George: that automobiles had no business to be invented.

—Eugene Morgan (Joseph Cotton) in The Magnificent Ambersons