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I liked this shot for more personal reasons than anything else - This is Bonny Doon Beach near Santa Cruz, CA and I’ve had many fond memories of hanging out and parties here. But if you blow this up to the high resolution version (click high res after clicking photo), you’ll see a homeless guy and his dogs chilling - he got up shortly after and threatened to chase me for taking his picture for “stealing my image”…
I countered - “You don’t own this. This is for everyone!”
He turned around and stared at the ocean for who knows how long after I left.
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Comment: The Truth in “King of Bain”
The reviews for “King of Bain: When Mitt Romney Came to Town,” a twenty-seven-minute campaign documentary distributed online by a Super PAC that supports Newt Gingrich, have not been kind. “Highly misleading” and “manipulative,” declared the Washington Post. “Misleading and exaggerated,” saidthe Times. On Monday, in South Carolina, the film’s subject, Romney, called it “probably the biggest hoax since Bigfoot.”
The criticisms are grounded in the belief that political advertising should be factually accurate and presented in a balanced context. That would surely be desirable, and it is useful for journalists to try to hold politicians accountable for their lies. Yet to dismiss “King of Bain” because it selects facts, distorts history, and tugs unrelentingly on the viewer’s emotions would be to overlook other interesting aspects of the film. “King of Bain” is to the Super PAC era of political distortion what “Apocalypse Now” was to Hollywood’s era of the auteur director: an apotheosis of inspired excess, and a marker of the times we inhabit.
- In today’s Daily Comment, Steve Coll writes about “King of Bain”:http://nyr.kr/yyxiVY
Have you seen this all the way through? Who do you think crippled the economy? Was it politicians or was it the finance industry? or both?
Watch it, follow the sources? What do you think of this?
In NO WAY does this mean I’m a Newt supporter, however, I find it interesting that this “movie” takes it’s direction straight out of the Karl Rove playbook with it’s emotional slant and hard at the throat punches. Yet Karl himself commented yesterday in the WSJ, the film is “stuffed with hyperbole, half-truths and flat-out lies” and something more incline to be produced by “left-wing propagandist Michael Moore”.
I actually agree with Karl, that Mitt will need to counter this sooner than later; but I also think that if Obama wants to stay top of mind he should consider keeping this fire going with his own move in Florida before the primary there. Maybe something suggesting his “experience” helping “turn around” the auto industry in 4 years and growing jobs?
Behold! What the Stop SOPA blackout managed to accomplish in 24 hours.
24 GOP Senate supporters (25 if you count Lieberman) still want this BIG GOVERNMENT policy… Do their constituents realize this?
(via thedailyfeed)
The SOPA blackout is an irritating reminder that D.C. residents do not have voting representatives in Congress.
(And, yes, we still occasionally use Microsoft Paint here in the Style section of The Washington Post.)
Seperatists!!! DC should be annexed into Maryland…
In the movie, whenever DiCaprio and his gang are about to wake up, they hear the song Non, je ne regrette nien by Edith Piaf. But you knew that part — they never hide the fact that they’re using that particular song as part of the plot. What you might not have realized is that you’re hearing it even when you think you aren’t.
Remember that ultra-dramatic instrumental theme you hear over and over for the last 45 minutes of the movie? It sounds like a typical summer movie soundtrack meant to let you know that shit’s getting real … but it’s actually that same Edith Piaf song, slowed down almost beyond recognition.
The really cool part is that it makes perfect sense. The Edith Piaf song is a way for the characters to know they’re about to wake up — but since time passes more slowly inside dreams, what seems like two minutes and 23 seconds in reality can last a lot longer for them. While the song is playing at normal speed in the waking world, the characters should hear it all slowed down.
Hans Zimmer, the film’s composer, said that in order to achieve this, they actually went to France and extracted two notes from the original master of the song. Apparently those two notes went a long way, because he also said that “all the music in the score is subdivisions and multiplications of the tempo of the Edith Piaf track.” So basically, old song + math = Oscar nomination.
A buried and forgotten fiber-optic network could provide broadband speeds more than 2,500 times faster than the fastest broadband currently available in New York City. The unused cable, called “dark fiber” is being snapped up by Google, who could become an nationwide ISP overnight.
Google has been buying up dark fiber across the country in recent years and plans to launch an “ultra-fast” fiber optic-based Internet service in Kansas City, Mo., later this year that will deliver speeds of around 1 gigabit per second. That’s fast enough to download, say, the high-definition version of “Moneyball” from iTunes in about 30 seconds.
I would DROP TimeWarner Cable faster than Herman Cain’s pants at a Pizza junket… provided Google won’t monitor every click to better market to me…
To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.
Feeling down? You’re not alone — this is officially the most depressing day of the year, and there’s even an equation to explain why.
Today, Jan. 16 — the third Monday of the month — is known as Blue Monday, the most depressing day of the year. Linked with post-holiday blues along with cold nights, short days and unpaid credit card bills, today feels like one giant post-holiday hangover
The term Blue Monday was coined by Dr. Cliff Arnall, a psychologist for Cardiff University in London, when he was commissioned in 2005 by PR company Sky Travel to do research on holiday moods as a publicity campaign.
Arnall compiled an equation finding that weather, debt, time, Christmas, and New Year’s resolutions result in low motivational levels, the International Business Times reports.
