YouTube – Maurice Jarre – Doctor Zhivago
Posted just because I wanted to see it again! I know that it looks like Maurice Jarreis flipping an incandescent double-bird to the world in the preview frame of this clip, but he’s really just conducting music for a tribute to David Lean
(Via www.youtube.com )Information Is Beautiful | Ideas, issues, concepts, subjects – visualized!
David McCandless, designer and proprietor of Information Is Beautiful has a new book coming out called The Visual Miscellaneum: A Colorful Guide to the World’s Most Consequential Trivia. Looks Awesome! (Hey Larry — How about hooking a blogger up with a review copy? đŸ˜‰ )
(Via Information Is Beautiful)The story behind the “Do chimps grieve?” National Geographic Photograph
The story of “Dorothy”, the deceased chimp in the photo, is worth reading.
(Via boingboing)Romain Blanquart – Bride
If that last one didn’t get you, this one will.
I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen the frailty of life captured as well as in newspaper photographer Romain Blanquart’s absolutely stunning photo series “Beautiful Bride”. Even if you’ve never lost someone that you’ve loved to cancer, I’ll bet you’ll be both humbled by the tremendous strength and dignity of these people — and also reminded by these images that, for some things in this world, there are no words.You’ll certainly be crying by the last one.
(Via blanquart.squarespace.com )
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Thom Yorke Solo, Temple Of The Dog… Reunited?, Brian Wilson Teams Up With George Gershwin, Daddy G from Massive Attack On Their Upcoming Album, The Ultimate in Yacht Rock, and Video of Air in the Studio!
Thom Yorke Solo, Temple Of The Dog… Reunited?, Brian Wilson Teams Up With George Gershwin, Daddy G from Massive Attack On Their Upcoming Album, Yacht Rock Gets Back to Its Roots, and Video of Air in the Studio!
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Video Links for October 4, 2009: Three TEDs (and a little Vice) Edition
Misha Glenny Investigates Global Crime Networks, Tim Brown Urges Designers to Think Big, Oliver Sacks on What Hallucination Reveals About Our Minds, and some urban spelunking in NYC!
Misha Glenny Investigates Global Crime Networks
The author of McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld (Vintage), the truly excellent study of Globalized Crime that I reviewed last year, discusses how he became interested in the subject — and what he’s discovered along the way.
