This is fantastic. Apparently it featured in boing boing but, like a lot of good things on BB, I missed it in the noise. So I ended up finding it through pampelmoose.

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In the spirit of the ‘blog all earmarked pages’ thing to which I can find no reference on the internet at all at 6.15 on a Saturday morning.
Marco enters a city; he sees someone in a square living a life or an instant that could be his; he could now be in that man’s place, if he had [...]

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I saw Silent Light last night. Lovely to watch for the most part, although I wandered off a few times. The opening scene is stunning, though. One of those fantastic ‘how did they do that?’ cinematic moments. Have a look:

The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw thinks it’s done with time-lapse, but how come the stars don’t move? [...]

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WorldChanging: Zero, Now.
"Which means that we have to stop pussy-footing around and speak plainly: our goal is to have zero impact within our lifetimes. Our goal is to provide reasonable affluence and high qualities of life for everyone of the planet, while reducing our CO2 emissions, toxic releases, ecosystem impacts and resource draw-downs to essentially [...]

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TENNIS.com - Features - From the Archives: Democracy and Commerce at the US Open
(tags: davidfosterwallace tennis sport)

McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Memories of David Foster Wallace.
(tags: books literature davidfosterwallace)

Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise: Twentieth Century Limited
An official playlist
(tags: therestisnoise book music classical)

Scirocco Studios
This worked - I was intrigued enough to open the booklet that came with [...]

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Sounds of the Universe — Order History
like a long lost friend…
(tags: music shopping souljazz)

CR Blog » Blog Archive » D&AD Online
Have to love the CR Comments crowd
(tags: D&AD annual)

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LRB · Wyatt Mason: Don’t like it? You don’t have to play
(tags: books literature DavidFosterWallace)

David Foster Wallace's Defunct :: Sam Leith
(tags: books literature DavidFosterWallace)

Foster Wallace is a huge loss | Books | guardian.co.uk
"All I know right now is this: that any premature death is the source of great sorrow, intensely so for family and friends; [...]

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David Foster Wallace is dead. He was my favourite writer. Both his prose and his non-fiction have a wit and intelligence that I’ve struggled to find in anyone else. I remember reading The Girl With Curious Hair and The Broom Of The System and A Supposedly Fun Thing… in the mid-nineties I guess, almost wide-mouthed [...]

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Just had one of those gorgeous tech epiphanies when you find out you can do something that you couldn’t do before that will improve your quality of life in a small but meaningful way.
I’ve just been listening to a friend’s last.fm playlist wirelessy through the iTouch plugged into the stereo while doing the washing up. [...]

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Last Supper in detail
wow (via b3ta)
(tags: art photography close-up)

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