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Paul Rudd in a Deleted Scene from The Ten
“$3.50 for a cappuccino? Do I get a bowl of soup with that too?”
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Get Clean Coal
Reality‘s latest ad in their campaign against the coal industry comes from the same folks who brought you The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Raising Arizona, and Fargo, to name a few. That’s right, this dose of reality…
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Cory’s Yellow Chair
“I constructed this machine when, in my mind’s eye I saw my son’s little yellow chair explode with infinite speed, travel to the far reaches of the universe and slowly come to complete stillness. Then, beginning to collapse slowly at…
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Thinking Chair
“One day I found a loose rock with a flat face and the idea for ‘Thinking Chair’, a self-portrait of this experience, came into being.” —Arthur Ganson
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Machine with Wishbone
“Caught in a symbiotic relationship, both the wishbone and the machine are unable to manifest fully without the other. We drag our pasts with us and move according to unseen forces. More and more, we interface with the world through…
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Machine with Abandoned Doll
“The intellect may be strong and the adult tormented as a result of it, but the child within dreams innocently.” —Arthur Ganson
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Everyone’s Talking About The GI Joe 2.0 Trailer
All thanks to Mark Allen, who showed me this collection of repurposed GI Joe PSAs years ago. Yes: before YouTube! The reggae one was always my favorite. I’m glad there is finally a reason to highlight it again for the…
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Dominoes for Pyros
In 1987 Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss used common household items and the laws of nature to form a 100-foot-long chain reaction. They lit it, filmed it, and called it “The Way Things Go.” More weekend project ideas…
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Best Love Scene, Ever?
So, like, what’s your favorite love scene from the movies? I would like to know yours. Mine is this motel seduction sequence from Bottle Rocket. I believe that part of its imperfect perfection lies in the choice of music, “Alone…
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New! Live! Cornelia Nixon reads fiction…
Got an hour to listen to an amazing short story? Watch this year’s Pulitzer Prize poet, and former U.S. Poet Laureate, introduce Cornelia Nixon, who reads her short story, “Beach Bunnies,” at UC Berkeley’s Story Hour, on November 6, 2008.