Toymakers will tell you they won’t sell enough, and movie people will point to the two terrible superheroine movies that were made and say, You see? It can’t be done. It’s stupid, and I’m hoping The Hunger Games will lead to a paradigm shift. It’s frustrating to me that I don’t see anybody developing one of these movies. It actually pisses me off. My daughter watched The Avengers and was like, “My favorite characters were the Black Widow and Maria Hill,” and I thought, Yeah, of course they were. I read a beautiful thing Junot Diaz wrote: “If you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves.
- Joss Whedon (via hermionejg)
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“This woman spent a year building a 400,000 piece Lego replica of Hogwarts”
i don’t even have enough patience to make a four wall 4x4 house. like wtf
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Hollywood
About to see Joe Turner’s Come and Gone at the Mark Taper Forum by my favorite playwright, August Wilson.
McKinsey: The $33 Trillion Technology Payoff
From Bits Blog NYT:
A new report from the McKinsey Global Institute, the research arm of the consulting firm, delivers a twist on the art form, and the difference is more than the timing. The 154-page report not only selects a dozen “disruptive” technologies from a candidate list of 100, but also measures their economic impact. By 2025, the 12 technologies — led by the mobile Internet, the automation of knowledge work, and the Internet of Things — have the potential to deliver economic value of up to $33 trillion a year worldwide, according to the McKinsey researchers. […]
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With @pilimontilla @b_rit @iCuevas waiting to go on stage for the #NosotrosPOTN panel. Thx @fannyveliz for moderating. Good conversation re Latinos in entertainment and social media. #latergram
Team Nikola.
The Astronomer’s League by Mike Gottschalk
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Photography Themed Journals for Compendium (2012), Lisa Congdon
