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Jessica Paré - New York Magazine by Zachary Scott, May 2012
Paré laughs easily and often, despite a case of extreme jet lag. Bali is fifteen hours...
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Success and failure are the same imposter
“ No old-world icon is safe. Just in recent weeks, both Kodak and Sears have percolated back into the news, offering headline writers a dilemma borrowed from the classic Saturday Night Live Weekend Update line, “Generalíssimo Francisco Franco is still dead.”
How long have these companies been dying? Yes, it was a surprise sometime a long time ago, that digital media was challenging Kodak and that Walmart, Target, Kohl’s, and later Amazon were making life difficult for one of America’s retailing pioneers.
Ask an American in 1990 if they could imagine a world without Kodak. Or a shopper of a world without Sears. Now, in 2012, it’s a lot easier to imagine. These are companies ebbing away, drip by agonizing drip. Which reminds us, of course, of the newspaper industry, and the question still on some lips: Can you imagine a world without newspapers? Now two years into the tablet, it’s much more easily imaginable. I always laugh when asked the question, “Will newspapers exist in 2015 or 2020?” Papyrus is a durable medium. It’s just that digital is rapidly replacing print, and in the process rapidly restructuring the nature of news ownership, news creation, news employment, and more. We’ll have some kind of print for the rest of our lives, but it will be the sidecar to the revving engine of digital news and information, as more and more publishers call it quits on print.
We like to think of change in the world as an on/off switch. This….or that. In fact, the world changes both in an instant and agonizingly slowly.” continue reading | Nieman Journalism Lab
[title:Rudyard Kipling]
Daniel Starr-Tambor’s Mandala, is a musical palindrome with more than 62 vigintillion individual notes, it’s the longest palindrome in existence — by far. At the accelerated tempos of the Solar System, it would continue without repetition for over 532.25 septendecillion years — a sort of soundtrack for near-infinity.
This remarkably dimensional musical composition created by assigning each planet in the Solar System a particular note along the natural harmonic series, starting with Mercury’s B and going all the way up by two octaves and a ninth to Pluto’s C#.
To have command of the air means to be in a position to wield offensive power so great it defies human imagination.
“There are many ways to die in an air raid. In a firestorm, you can be burned to death as you run along a street, the temperature 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit; clothes dissolve without flame and skin bursts at the joints. You can be crushed and die of internal hemorrhage or skull fracture; you can die of crush syndrome, when you have been buried in rubble and then freed. Blast will make you blind and deaf but heat will kill you: heat robs the air of oxygen and in the shelters a candle will not burn. The principle cause of death is the least dramatic. After a firestorm, the dead are found with their faces turned toward the floor, killed by carbon monoxide poisoning.”
[title: Giulio Douhet, Command of the Air, 1921][image: Calvin & Hobbes, Bill Watterson]
“Numberlys” is essentially a bedtime story whose punny prose style and simple interactive games will appeal to very small children. But like the best children’s books, “Numberlys” is stuffed full of so much sumptous art and witty design (Joyce conceived the experience as a stylistic homage to Fritz Lang’s black-and-white sci-fi classic Metropolis, of all things) that parents will end up just as entranced as their kids. [via]
