Art
There’s this guy, who decorated his basement with only a marker. And there’s Justine Ashbee who makes great pictures using only markers.
Watch Quentin Blake illustrate a book.
Wonderful photos by Holly Andres.
Really cool photos of spiderwebs.
Tales of the Unexpected in pictures.
Books
Some more free ebooks, this time by Jeffrey A. Carver.
The Elegant Variation has some pictures up of documents writers used during their writing. Sounds complicated, what it is, is elot charts and to do lists… :) Interesting nevertheless.
Harvard says no to Google Book Project thingy.
History
On the day War of the Worlds was first broadcasted.
An interview with the last British World War I soldier.
Movies
The news is full of interesting, if not to say mind-bending movie projects this week:
3 different Dalí biopics coming up.
And a new Gulliver’s Travels, starring Jack Black.
JCVD – Jean-Claude Van Damme’s movie about Jean-Claude Van Damme, which was actually featured in Cannes.
Stephen Spielberg and Will Smith want to make an Oldboy remake. And it’s impossible for it to be as scarring as the original, so why even go there?
How would you call the new demographic that’s attracted to Twilight?
Vampults? Fantaseenagers? Mothersuckers?
Personally, I like Twums.
Politics
The US election campaign critisised as a fanfic.
Not cool, Netherlands, not cool at all.
Completely Different Things
Stephen Fry on language – long, but very good read.
Letters from Johns and Letters from Working Girls – two complementary projects about the “why”s of buyable sex.
Montreal GFE Escorts are wonderful people that are damaged on the inside……….. and I am even more damaged. I like that I can tell her anything truthfully and she has heard or done much worse. To her, my screams are whispers. To her I am a normal and charming guy.
On the self and all those freaky people living in your head.
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