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French Resistance fighters man a barricade in Paris, 1944

The Four Freedoms Norman Rockwell, 1943

I hear "Star Wars" is going to be a thing.

Voice message, Amy Winehouse

Hello doll it’s Amy. Salaam, yeah, I keep coming out with all battle raps and… they’re just pouring out of me. Like Wu-Tang stuff, like… but really neat, very beautiful alliterated little battle raps…

So next time you wanna come for me and have a battle rap off… I’m gonna kill you because I’m a samurai.

Because you ask yourself: “if she’s drunk…? Is she high… ? Has she been out…? What has she been doing…?"

Yeah I’m fucked up, I’m fucked up in the head. But I keep coming out with all this stuff all the time. All these lyrics and I don’t know what or why.

Jan. 4, 1924 Howard Carter, Arthur Callender and an Egyptian worker open the doors of the innermost shrine and get their first look at Tutankhamun's sarcophagus.

1922: The discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb — in color

The Ponte Tower. Johannesburg, South Africa.

Toaster for Muji by Naoto Fukasawa

Our job, you could say, is not to give forms to objects, but instead to determine their positions. If it's going to be installed near a wall or used while in a human hand – that's what's important.

Cool furniture alert: the Fibonacci Shelf

La République flying in front of the Tour Eiffel (1908)

Still from Fallen Angels (1995) Christopher Doyle, Wong Kar-Wai thanks jsm

Frame from The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) Robert Yeoman, Wes Anderson

Chinese PLA conduct training in Xinjiang in Long-March esque formation

brightwalldarkroom

“A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.”

—Billy Wilder

Wally Wood

Because keyboards are accessories to PC makers, they focus on minimizing the manufacturing costs. But that’s incorrect. It’s in HHKB’s slogan, but when America’s cowboys were in the middle of a trip and their horse died, they would leave the horse there. But even if they were in the middle of a desert, they would take their saddle with them. The horse was a consumable good, but the saddle was an interface that their bodies had gotten used to. In the same vein, PCs are consumable goods, while keyboards are important interfaces.

Eiiti Wada

From 1957, this is a drawing of the synergistic strategy of Walt Disney Productions, or what Todd Zenger of Harvard Business Revie

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