F.W. Murnau – Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (Trailer, 1927)
Wow.
Roger Ebert, on Sunrise:
Murnau, raised in the dark shadows of expressionism, pushed his images as far as he could, forced them upon us, haunted us with them. The more you consider “Sunrise” the deeper it becomes — not because the story grows any more subtle, but because you realize the real subject is the horror beneath the surface.
Reminds me of Anne Lamott:
“You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
Featuring an a cast of internet luminaries, Olga Nunes and Elaine Doyle have created “We Love xkcd”, a real life version of “I Love xkcd”, which itself was an animated version of the comic xkcd Loves the Discovery Channel.
FEATURING THE AWESOMENESS OF: Neil Gaiman, Wil Wheaton, Cory Doctorow, Lawrence Lessig, Bruce Schneier, Jason Kottke, Google Zurich, Hank Green, MC Frontalot, Patrick & Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Mr. Toast, Miss Cellania, Team Genius, Phil Plait, Allan Amato, Maddy Gaiman, Charissa Gilreath, Belinda Casas, Chuck Martinez, Jeremy James, Joanna Gaunder, Lee Israel & Octavio Coleman Esq. of The Jejune Institute.
even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.
[Douglas] Hofstadter’s Law. Which law governs my life on levels so recursive, fractal, and self-referential that it could only have been described this profoundly by the Gödel, Escher, Bach guy.
In the time you set aside each day to work your ass off, ignore anything that makes you consider stopping.
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Jun 09
difficulty
I remember once having a discussion with a guy who knew a lot about professional basketball. He had read an article from a big sample of NBA players who they felt would be the most formidable one-on-one opponent in the league. The answer was fairly unanimous: Vince Carter. Now that’s surprising. Why Carter and not Kobe Bryant or LeBron James or any number of other, far more accomplished, offensive players? The answer, this guy told me, was the same in nearly every case: “you have no idea how hard it is to do the things that Carter does.”
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