"As Céline says her name in French above—Is it “Dion? No, Dion!” Céline Dion is back in the spotlight once more and modeling the most dazzling looks from the shows this month in Vogue’s latest video—captured at the Ritz in Paris, no less!"
"A tour of the editor’s romantic Long Island garden — with her friend Miranda Brooks, the landscape designer who created it."
"Escape to Athena is a 1979 British war adventure film directed by George P. Cosmatos. It starred Roger Moore, Telly Savalas, David Niven, Stefanie Powers, Claudia Cardinale, Richard Roundtree, Sonny Bono and Elliott Gould. The film is set during the Second World War on a German-occupied Greek island. The music was composed by Lalo Schifrin. According to the film's credits, it was filmed on the island of Rhodes."
"kingda ka is 456ft high. kingda ka to NYC is about 45 miles. kingda ka to Philidelphia is about 40 miles."
Related: Two skylines In one shot.
And: Kingda Ka.
OK Connery (original title):
"The evil crime syndicate Thanatos is bent on taking over the world, using a magnetic wave generator that will cause all metal-based machinery to grind to a halt. However, the well-known British secret agent normally assigned to such tasks isn't available, so they engage his civilian brother, Neil, to help. Neil, played by Neil Connery, is a world-class plastic surgeon, hypnotist, and lip-reader, which turn out to be precisely the skills required for thwarting Thanatos."
"We got used to looking at Frodo as this good guy, a vanilla character whose passivity allows him to resist the power of the ring. But a closer reading of the text reveals something significantly different. Gil and Theo breakdown Frodo's motives and faults."
"The Independent UK recently revealed that Queen Elizabeth II is a fan of a daily tipple, so much so that she indulges in six standard units of alcohol a day.
"The Queen’s cousin Margaret Rhodes says that her drinking routine never deviates, remaining the same day after day. As to what the Queen indulges in, it involves the following: prior to lunch she has a gin and Dubonnet, served with a slice of lemon and ice. During lunch she enjoys a glass of wine and, once evening arrives, the Queen sips on a dry martini, followed by a glass of Champagne."
"Anda Bhurji is a scrambled eggs done Indian style. Tasty scrambled eggs cooked with Indian spices, vegetables and butter to create authentic Indian scrambled eggs. It's served with a dollop of butter and local loaf bread that's lightly toasted in the heat of the pan that the eggs were cooked in."
"t’s always a mistake to read,” Philip Marcus, a computational physicist and a professor in the mechanical engineering department at the University of California, Berkeley, tells me in a coffee shop near campus. “You learn too many things. That’s how I got really fascinated by fluid dynamics.”
Substitute Lannister and Stark for Lancaster and York. In this episode Henry V stars as Mad King Aerys.I
"This is a special piece of film to accompany the release of the live single ‘And Dream Of Sheep’. The vocal was performed live while filming Kate lying in the huge water tank at Pinewood Studios. This was to create a sense of realism, as the character in the song is lost at sea. However it became more realistic than Kate had imagined. She spent so long in the water during the first day of filming that she contracted mild hypothermia. She recovered after a day off and carried on filming. Everyone agreed it had added to the authenticity of the performance. This film was then projected onto a large oval screen which hung above the stage during the performances of her live show."
Substitute Targaryen for Plantagenet.
Sweet dreams
On this Midsummer might
Everyone is sleeping
We go driving into the moonlight
Could be in a dream
Our clothes are on the beach
These prints of our feet
Lead right up to the sea
No one, no one is here
No one, no one is here
We stand in the Atlantic
We become panoramic
We tire of the city
We tire of it all
We long for just that something more
Could be in a dream
Our clothes are on the beach
These prints of our feet
Lead right up to the sea
No one, no one is here
No one, no one is here
We stand in the Atlantic
We become panoramic
The stars are caught in our hair
The stars are on our fingers
A veil of diamond dust
Just reach up and touch it
The sky's above our heads
The sea's around our legs
In milky, silky water
We swim further and further
We dive down
We dive down
A diamond night, a diamond sea
And a diamond sky
We dive deeper and deeper
We dive deeper and deeper
Could be we are here
Could be we are in a dream
It came up on the horizon
Rising and rising
In a sea of honey, a sky of honey
A sea of honey, a sky of honey
Sweet dreams
Look at the light, all the time it's a changing
Look at the light, climbing up the aerial
Bright, white coming alive jumping off of the aerial
All the time it's a changing, like now
All the time it's a changing, like then again
All the time it's a changing
And all the dreamers are waking.
A related thought concerns the Aerial cover waveform: Mystery solved.
"George Packer (born August 13, 1960) is an American journalist, novelist, and playwright. He is perhaps best known for his writings for The New Yorker about U.S. foreign policy and for his related book The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq."
Featuring a famous wardrobe malfunction.
"Getting Closer, a documentary about painter Tjalf Sparnaay by Hester Hagemeijer, 2014."
"The CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, Elon Musk, is backing a new company that seeks to explore the possibility of merging the human brain with artificial intelligence (AI) to help humans keep up with machines. Contemporary philosopher Slavoj Zizek now joins RT to discuss Elon Musk’s new venture."
"This incredibly well preserved World War 2 U.S. Army Field Ration Type C B-Unit was one of the main MRE components for the war effort. Mass produced at over 1 Billion, 300 Million B-units in 1942 alone, it was an iconic part of the U.S. Soldier's diet of WW2."
"A poetic voyage in the paintings of Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershoi with Michael Palin."
"The always insightful Andrew Graham-Dixon presents an incredibly intriguing and thorough documentary on the life and literary output of the world's first art historian, Giorgio Vasari."
"My opponent here is the widely accepted position that we should leave behind the quest for universal truth — that what we have instead are just different narratives about who we are, the stories we tell about ourselves. So, in that view, the highest ethical injunction is to respect the other story. All the stories should be told, each ethnic, political, or sexual group should be given the right to tell its story, as if this kind of tolerance towards the plurality of stories with no universal truth value is the ultimate ethical horizon.
"I oppose this radically. This ethics of storytelling is usually accompanied by a right to narrate, as if the highest act you can do today is to narrate your own story, as if only a black lesbian mother can know what it's like to be a black lesbian mother, and so on. Now this may sound very emancipatory. But the moment we accept this logic, we enter a kind of apartheid. In a situation of social domination, all narratives are not the same. For example, in Germany in the 1930s, the narrative of the Jews wasn't just one among many. This was the narrative that explained the truth about the entire situation. Or today, take the gay struggle. It's not enough for gays to say, "we want our story to be heard." No, the gay narrative must contain a universal dimension, in the sense that their implicit claim must be that what happens to us is not something that concerns only us. What is happening to us is a symptom or signal that tells us something about what's wrong with the entirety of society today. We have to insist on this universal dimension."
"Passengers on a transcontinental European train are quarantined on their train when authorities learn that a plague-infected terrorist got on board."
"Detective Philip Marlowe [Robert Mitchum] trying to solve a murder he has stumbled on, involved with the California Gambling scene and three potentially dangerous women...
"Farewell, My Lovely is a 1975 American neo noir film, directed by Dick Richards and featuring Robert Mitchum as private detective Phillip Marlowe. The picture is based on Raymond Chandler's novel of the same name (1940), which had previously been adapted for film as Murder, My Sweet in 1944.
"The film also stars Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland, Jack O'Halloran, Sylvia Miles and Harry Dean Stanton, with an early screen appearance by Sylvester Stallone. Mitchum returned to the role of Marlowe three years later in a 1978 remake of The Big Sleep, making him the only actor to portray Philip Marlowe more than once on the big screen."
Thanks to Mr. Percifield.
Perfume Genius interview on 'Records in my life.'
LUNAR from Christian Stangl on Vimeo.
"Motion Designer Christian worked with his brother and Composer Wolfgang for 18 months on this shortfilm. The foundation were thousands original NASA photographies, taken from the Astronauts during the Apollo Missions, which were released in September 2015. It is an animated collage using different techniques to bring the stills to life."
"Using data from large-scale telescope surveys that count galaxies, the [University of Wisconsin-Madison] researchers concluded that the Milky Way exists near the center of a region that has fewer galaxies than other parts of the universe. They estimated the size of this void to have a radius of about 1 billion light-years. If they’re right, humans are living in the middle of the largest known void in the observable universe."
"This little gem of a movie only ever saw release on videotape. It stars Fred Ward as Howard Phillip Lovecraft, a detective in an alternate reality noir-era 1948 San Francisco where the occult and magic use is commonplace. He has to help Julianne Moore as the femme fatale uncover the secret plan of David Warner.!"
"David Attenborough embarks on an epic 500-million-year journey to unravel the incredible rise of the vertebrates. The evolution of animals with backbones is one of the greatest stories in natural history. To tell this story, David presents explosive new fossil evidence from China, a region he has long dreamt of exploring and the frontier of modern paleontological research.
"This episode goes through how the vertebrates evolved and came onto land. It details the origins of the vertebrates, which lie in the primitive fish that once swam in ancient seas. Remarkable advances allowed them to make the radical move onto land, and then take to the skies with the advent of flight. Brand new discoveries of fossils - ancient and living - combined with stunning CGI enable David to chart their unexpected journey out of the water to populate all corners of the globe."