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“Don’t let the name fool you, Jimmy. It’s not really a floor. It’s more of a steel grating that allows material to sluice through.”
Neil Patrick Harris is getting excellent reviews for his opening number at the Tony Awards Sunday night. It’s definitely “bigger.” What do you think?
Here’s a link to his interview on Fresh Air a little while back.
This guy. This is why the Tony Awards had their highest-ever ratings. This is brilliant.
Reblogged specifically for whizkidliz.
Astronauts Snag Dramatic Photographs of Alaska’s Erupting Volcano
Images of volcanoes from space are often kind of dull. These, we assure you, are not.
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In January, 2013, photographers Magda Biernat and Ian Webster began a yearlong journey from Antarctica to Alaska. Here, The Photo Booth provides pictures from their Brazilian leg: http://nyr.kr/129bvnV
Reblogging mainly so my sister, Gail, will see this.
Don’t Ask Who the Bell Tolls For
Just when I had (almost) figured out how to properly use “whom” comes word of its impending demise.
Frankly, I can’t wait to see it go. I think William Safire, who is quoted in this Atlantic magazine article, had it right: Whenever whom is required, recast the sentence.
Illustration credit: Nishant Choksi
Slow Art for a Fast World
What do the following have in common?
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The British documentary, 56 Up
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The resurgence of the vinyl LP record
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Websites such as Longreads, Longform, and Byliner
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The viral video, Noah takes a photo of himself every day for 12.5 years
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Richard Linklater’s upcoming film, Boyhood
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TV series such as Madmen, Dexter, and Downton Abbey
They’re all examples of a growing trend toward what is being called “slow art.”
David Zweig does a great job of explaining the concept of slow art and the reasons for its popularity in an (intentionally meta) article in the March 5, 2013, issue of The Awl: “This Is a Longreads on the Internet: The Inroads of Slow Art In a Fast Culture.”
According to Zweig, “…as the natural order always seeks balance, an era of impatience demands a corrective. More and more, it seems, people are seeking permanence from art both as a reaction and remedy to the anxiety imbedded in our culture of impermanence.”
Slow Art Day will be celebrated at about 200 venues worldwide on April 27, 2013.
