Nathan Gathright

Full of information. Some of it's actually useful. ◆ (cis, he/him)

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Recreating Game Of Thrones' Dragon Battle

War cinematography is like language. Most of the words have been used before, but that doesn’t mean that something new can’t be written.

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The Game of Trust

People no longer trust each other. Why? And how can we fix it? An interactive guide to the game theory of trust.

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The Netflix Prize: How a $1 Million Coding Contest Changed Streaming - Thrillist

In October 2006, Netflix, then a service peddling discs of every movie and TV show under the sun, announced "The Netflix Prize," a competition that lured Mackey and his contemporaries for the computer programmer equivalent of the Cannonball Run. The mission: Make the company's recommendation engine 10% more accurate -- or die coding.

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How Letterpress Printing Came Back From the Dead

For designers used to wielding a mouse, a steamroller might seem excessive. Yet every summer in Seattle, teams from Starbucks, Facebook, Amazon, Oracle, and other local firms and artists vie to steamroll a winning poster. They spend dozens of hours carving large sheets of linoleum to be placed on asphalt, covered with ink, and pressed by a steamroller onto giant pieces of paper. It’s hot and sticky and exhilarating.

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The Art of Slamming Paper Against Metal

Up until the dawn of the computer, if you wanted to get something printed, it pretty much had to be done by hand. And while it wasn't always easy, it was an art.

Digg traveled to Bowne and Co. Stationers, two fully-functioning 19th century letterpress printing shops in NYC, to see how manuscripts, invitations, advertisements, and other paper goods were printed before you could just press a button and have something spit out results. 

With a foot in the contemporary world and a foot in the historic, Bowne and Co. bridges the past and the present with handmade pieces made for the modern era with stunning results.

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they have gone where we can’t follow

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“instability detected, vehicle restored and game paused” is the real hero of car boys and also my theory linking the pre and post credits scenes

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rip carboys 

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A weathered Sheriff returns to the remains of an accident he has spent a lifetime trying to forget. With each step forward, the memories come flooding back. Faced with his mistake once again, he must find the strength to carry on.

"Borrowed Time" is an animated short film, directed by Andrew Coats & Lou Hamou-Lhadj, and produced by Amanda Deering Jones. Music by Academy Award winner Gustavo Santaolalla.

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Last night I saw @motioncitysoundtrack for the last time. I flew over 1,000 miles to enjoy this with some of the people who got me into the band in the first place. Their music has meant so much to me over the years and it's kinda surreal to say farewell to that chapter of my life. (at House of Blues Cleveland)

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Our typedrawer coffee table is finally assembled. Now we just need to hunt down some more metlife type to fill it up! (at Quarter Parkway Condominiums)

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So I may have just bought myself a personalized stamp...

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The Case for the 32-Hour Workweek

Ryan Carson, the CEO of Treehouse, has maintained a four-day workweek for his employees. “There’s no rule that you have to work 40 hours, you have to work more to be successful,” says Carson.

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The Editing of MAD MAX: Fury Road by Vashi Nedomansky

As they prepared to shoot [Mad Max: Fury Road], George Miller had no script. He did have over 3500 storyboards created by Mark Sexton. The Studio of course asked for a script and George said there wasn’t one. He offered the 3500 storyboards as it had taken him more than 10 years to get the story mapped out with this precision. The Studio said they NEED a script. George apparently had one cranked out but said it was “not good”. It didn’t have to be. He already knew how the whole film would look and feel.

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I Guess It Really Was… A Softer World by Ryan North

I started my comic, Dinosaur Comics, on February 1st, 2003.  Joey Comeau and Emily Horne started A Softer World six days later, and not too long afterwards Joey emailed me.  "What are you going to do with your Nobel Prize for Comics money?“ he asked.  "My name’s Joey. I do a comic too.”

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What's special about Superman by Max Landis

Instead of absolute power corrupting absolutely, absolute power has absolved him from fear and greed and hate, and all of the weaknesses that stem from human insecurity. What's Superman is that he will always make the right choice.