"One of the greatest activities is growing a garden. You can say “That’s boring!” but you put it in your yard, and it requires physical activity to till the land, weed, water, harvest, fertilize. It’s there as a constant reminder to do a little bit of regular activity. It’s a range-of-motion activity, and it’s low intensity. And you emerge with organic vegetables. It’s something you have to do throughout the week for the entire growing season, and that’s important: subtle things that play out over time and not just fanatic exercise."
— Dan Buettner, The nine secrets of a long life
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How’s it going?
The album just came out and it would be #1 euro charts if not for michael jackson re-releases.
So that’s good.
But here’s something funny: the best selling itunes track is ’shot in the back of the head’.
Why is that funny?
Because its the track we’ve been giving away for free for the last 2 months and that we’re still givng away for free.
Odd.
How are you?
Moby
"— Email sent to Bob Lefsetz by Moby (via Rollo Grady) (via fascinated)
"Here are some of the areas we consider within our investment domain today: consumer Internet, business Internet (cloud computing, “software as a service”), mobile software and services, software-powered consumer electronics, infrastructure and applications software, networking, storage, databases, and other back-end systems. Across all of these categories, we are completely unafraid of all of the new business models — we believe that many vibrant new forms of information technology are expressing themselves into markets in entirely new ways."
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- Marc Andreessen, Introducing our new venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz
You think?
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I spent a quarter-century as a professor at the Harvard Business School, including 15 years teaching in the MBA program. I have come to believe that much of what my colleagues and I taught has caused real suffering, suppressed wealth creation, destabilized the world economy, and accelerated the demise of the 20th century capitalism in which the U.S. played the leading role.
We weren’t stupid and we weren’t evil. Nevertheless we managed to produce a generation of managers and business professionals that is deeply mistrusted and despised by a majority of people in our society and around the world. This is a terrible failure.
"— Soshana Zuboff, Business Week
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Matt Webb at Reboot, best described by Warren Ellis as a “mysterious Rotwangian wizard-engineer”. If you have any amount of curiousity in your body - watch it.
A man stayed on the rock Takmak that Krasnoyarsk columns and lives on the overhead climbing platform.
Blogs and web-camera man-bird straight from the rocks: http://naskale.livejournal.com/(links to google translated russian blog of a man who, among other things, made a tent on the side of a mountain)
"I take my desires for reality because I believe in the reality of my desires"
— Anonymous graffiti, Paris 1968 - The situationist International
José Mojica Marin's Guide to Cheap Movie Making
On the one hand, we have the good advice:
I always try to shoot scenes that look like they cost a lot of money, but in reality they were filmed as cheaply as possible. I was once in a festival in France, and an American wanted to know how I did this one scene with spiders. He thought it was CGI. He refused to believe we just bought a bunch of real ones. This is an advantage I have: I take brave people and make them do real things that look like effects are involved.
On the other hand, we have the not so good advice:
I had a gun and would say things like, “Don’t think that I won’t shoot a bullet into each one of you. Let’s stop with this fakeness—spiders can’t harm anyone! If you stay calm, they won’t bite you.” But the actors only became calm later, after they realized that the gun had no bullets in it.
