Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Brussels Sprouts gone wild...
Over at NYPL, not only do they take books seriously-- but, more importantly, they take books about food seriously.
Check out the above, where Jean Strouse, director of the Cullman Center for Scholars, and former Cullman Fellow Melanie Rehak make a crazy, bacon fueled Brussels Sprouts recipe that Melanie said was "the most important thing she learned from Jean"-- and which eventually ended up in her new book, "Eating for Beginners."
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Catching Up
Hello there, empty space!
This morning, I decided to use this chilly November day to plow through my twitter favorites, which I basically use as a lame version of instapaper.
Anyhow-- I had marked about a million articles "to read later" over the past several months... and, having seriously just gone through about 75-80 articles... I'm walking away with a sense of internet writing as a mostly vapid endeavor (my own attempts included, here). Everyone poses questions, but the brevity of the 'post' format doesn't seem to give anyone enough space to answer any of them.
Maybe I'm just noticing this now because of the long series of disappointing articles that did nothing but probe at subjects without dealing with them in any seriousness... but... really, right now, I'm craving immersion in the form of a Dickens novel...
But, anyhow... in a totally hypocritcal move...
Here are a few good nugets of info/pretty cool experiences:
Above everything else today-- a great and wonderful Keynote at this year's Film Indepedent Filmmaker Forum from Lionsgate's Joe Drake
Scott Macaulay's initial thoughts about Amazon Studios over at Filmmaker Mag
Interesting interview with DSLR DP Chris Marino
A Beautiful Monet Exhibit
Collapsus-- "Annotated Narrative"
(watch the intro video)
Trying to re-invent the book with MyFry
An Interactive Documentary about highrises called "Out My Window"
Selections from this year's National Geographic Photo Contest
Amazing photos from the Atom Bomb tests in the 50s
Oh... and--general absurdity in the universe.
Meanwhile, yesterday, I watched Adam's Rib which was totally worth 2 hours of undivided attention.
This morning, I decided to use this chilly November day to plow through my twitter favorites, which I basically use as a lame version of instapaper.
Anyhow-- I had marked about a million articles "to read later" over the past several months... and, having seriously just gone through about 75-80 articles... I'm walking away with a sense of internet writing as a mostly vapid endeavor (my own attempts included, here). Everyone poses questions, but the brevity of the 'post' format doesn't seem to give anyone enough space to answer any of them.
Maybe I'm just noticing this now because of the long series of disappointing articles that did nothing but probe at subjects without dealing with them in any seriousness... but... really, right now, I'm craving immersion in the form of a Dickens novel...
But, anyhow... in a totally hypocritcal move...
Here are a few good nugets of info/pretty cool experiences:
Above everything else today-- a great and wonderful Keynote at this year's Film Indepedent Filmmaker Forum from Lionsgate's Joe Drake
Scott Macaulay's initial thoughts about Amazon Studios over at Filmmaker Mag
Interesting interview with DSLR DP Chris Marino
A Beautiful Monet Exhibit
Collapsus-- "Annotated Narrative"
(watch the intro video)
Trying to re-invent the book with MyFry
An Interactive Documentary about highrises called "Out My Window"
Selections from this year's National Geographic Photo Contest
Amazing photos from the Atom Bomb tests in the 50s
Oh... and--general absurdity in the universe.
Meanwhile, yesterday, I watched Adam's Rib which was totally worth 2 hours of undivided attention.
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