The Analogical Imagination

The Fall

2008-07-08T17:50:54Z

Nope, I'm not talking Camus. I'm talking Tarsem. Last night I went with a friend of mine to see The Fall, a movie done by Tarsem Singh, the maker of The Cell. Now, I wasn't a huge fan of The Cell, beautiful movie but weird as hell, and I wasn't...

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Unimpressive Journalism: NPR Science Friday "The Happening" (Shyamalan)

2008-06-16T15:19:54Z

Science Friday Archives: The HappeningThis is one of only two NPR programs I listen to regularly, and while I occasionally find it a little "soft on science" it is generally well produced and presented. That's why the recent segment allowing Mr....

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RNA... and the universe?

2008-05-26T00:08:42Z

RNA is the center of the biological paradigm. Since systems that thrive on complexity are sustained via regulatory mechanisms it seems pragmatic for the cells control center to exist within a sensitive web of interactions that governs the interac...

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Unleashed Art: Remix Culture

2008-05-01T20:32:00Z

Remix Culture a cultural appropriation by Richard Walker Update: May 2008From the Lessig Blog: TotalRecut has launched a remix contest: "What is Remix Culture?" I'm a judge (as close as I'll ever get to that title, but now twice -- just f...

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Uneaten Music: The Vegetable Orchestra

2007-12-21T04:25:26Z

Thanks to Ze Frank.

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Unadorned Geometry: The Cube

2007-12-20T07:45:53Z

The recent film trilogy Cube , Cube 2: Hypercube and Cube Zero were evidently remakes of an old television play called (trapped in a) Cube. The original TV Cube is on YouTube, 53 low fidelity minutes, worth every one. The first Cube film was ...

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Keep It Local: Spending the Rebate Check

2008-04-29T05:53:15Z

My Mom forwarded me an email about how most consumers will spend their rebate checks on goods made in and profiting the foreign economies. I believe it said the only ways to keep it in the US Economy was to spend it on gambling, cigarettes, or pr...

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Unseen Video: Horton Hears a Human! (Dr. Seuss, ZenFilms)

2007-10-21T23:34:20Z

This brilliant video mashup is an old favorite of mine. The unforgettable Wickersham Brothers song is a little less than half way through. Here's the ZenFilms link to play it online. SYNOPSIS - Using the voices of George W. Bush, Powell, Rumsfel...

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My uninterested muse.

2008-02-24T22:48:27Z

She sits, as I would, uninterested. When she is not careful, Peals of laughter escape her, Her eyes become bright, And her teeth shine the color of milk. She stares, as I would, ahead. When she is sleeping, Her eyes dance the tango, Those lips ...

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KGB In A Former Republic

2008-02-13T02:19:37Z

At eighteen, too skinny for my parent's liking with bleach blond dreadlocks, I traveled to Armenia, the birth place of my mother, to meet my eldest brother who was writing a piece for the travel guide Lonely Planet. Having recently graduated fro...

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