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July 3, 2009
Sigur Rós Redeems the Music Video By Jenni Simmons In "Glósóli," Icelandic band Sigur Rós creatively fuses music and cinema, renewing the lost art of the well-made music video. A Human Revolution By Josh Cacopardo The Human Revolution promotes hope, love, and responsibility to your neighbors and your planet, all to a danceable groove - and they practice what they preach. In Praise...
Six minutes a week
From the Well blog: Can You Get Fit in Six Minutes a Week? The potency of interval training is nothing new. Many athletes have been straining through interval sessions once or twice a week along with their regular workout for years. But what researchers have been looking at recently is whether humans, like that second group of rats, can increase endurance with only a few minutes of strenuous exercise, instead of hou...
Skype me?
From the New York Times Magazine: The Overextended Family. Now, I like my parents. A lot. I really do. That's why I make the 1,500-mile trip to visit them three or four times a year. I did not, however, spend the bulk of my adult life perfecting the fine art of establishing boundaries only to have them toppled by the click of a mouse. If I wanted them to have unfettered access to my life, I wouldn't have put the "ke...
Art's modern intoxication with ugliness
From City Journal: Beauty and Desecration. At some time during the aftermath of modernism, beauty ceased to receive those tributes. Art increasingly aimed to disturb, subvert, or transgress moral certainties, and it was not beauty but originality-however achieved and at whatever moral cost-that won the prizes. Indeed, there arose a widespread suspicion of beauty as next in line to kitsch-something too sweet and inof...
In France, tradition is out; le sandwich is in.
From the Washington Post: Le Sandwich Takes a Bite Out of French Tradition. The shifting lunchtime habits, which are more pronounced in large cities such as Paris, are part of a social tug of war in France between the imperatives of a modern industrial economy and a long-cherished tradition of fine food produced and prepared by artisans devoted to their crafts. The increasingly common sight of a young French office ...
Holden and two J.D.s
From Image Journal's Good Letters blog: Who Wrote Holden Caulfield? So it's no surprise that Salinger's lawyers are now going after 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye, a book written by a pseudonymous Swedish author J.D. California, which is billed as a "sequel" to Catcher in the Rye. Details are sketchy (the book is supposed to have been published already in England, though I can't seem to find a review written...
June 26, 2009
Upgrade Me By Jonathan Fitzgerald Are we getting better, or just newer? Lost in the Cosmos By Casey Downing The off-Broadway play Night Sky deals with language, selflessness, and a world rearranged. Night In At The Movies By Sarah Hanssen Why - and how - to start a movie night in your home....
Veggies on Governor's Island
From the New York Times' City Room blog: On Governors I., an Organic Farm With a View. The farm will have close ties to New York Harbor School, which is scheduled to move from Bushwick, Brooklyn, to the island in 2010. The farm will provide produce, and students can volunteer and do science work there. The proceeds of the farm are intended to support stipends for teenagers who work at Added Value's original farm ...
