September 2007
42 posts
Star Wars viewing order thread →
Kottke (a recent dad) asks for suggestions as to how to indoctrinate his newborn into the movies, which viewing order, etc.
Not by any means the first time a discussion thread like this has started up, but what I found to be most interesting was this suggestion:
Star Wars
Empire
Phantom Menace
Clones
Sith
Jedi
The idea there is that after the big cliffhanger of Empire, you go back and...
Odd to come across two completely different uses of stop-motion animation in one day.
Watch“Machine with 23 Scraps of Paper”
Kinetic Sculpture by Arthur Ganson, probably still on view at Ganson’s permanent “Gestural Engineering” exhibit at The M.I.T. Museum.
Kottke's "Gems from the NYTimes archive" post →
“Now that the NY Times has discontinued their Times Select subscription program and made much more of their 150+ years of content available for anyone to read and link to, let’s take a look at some of the more notable items that the non-subscriber has been missing.”
Wes Anderson's AT&T commercials →
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“I mean, our music generally appeals to children and retarded people, and...”
– - Aaron Freeman (aka Gene Ween), in 2003
WatchZero Punctuation: Console Rundown by Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw
Zero Punctuation is an animated weekly web video that focuses solely on the crux of the rathole that is videogame culture, that of video games.
In this video, he describes the current state of the consoles. His animations are very spare, smart, juvenile, and snarky in a way similar to Stephen Colbert’s ‘The...
