“On Dec. 7, 1941, when Japanese planes attacked Pearl Harbor, I was working as a reporter for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. After a week of war, I wrote a story directed at Hawaii’s women; I thought it would be useful for them to know what I had seen. It might help prepare them for what lay [...]
Chew on this: it’s been more than ten years (10!) since NBC abruptly cancelled the beloved 1999 dramedy ‘Freaks and Geeks‘ by creators Paul Feig and Judd Apatow. Of all the shows people clamor to come back or have a reunion of sorts, shouldn’t ‘Freaks and Geeks’ be at the top of the list, considering [...]
If Ninjas went extinct would anyone know they went extinct? Ponder that for a moment. Anyway, Japan still has a few surviving ninjas (which is insane when you think about it) — masters of the dark arts of espionage and silent assassination — but it is believed when they die off there will be no [...]
Dr. Dre’s 1992 album, ‘The Chronic’, is the greatest rap album ever made, as Jeff Weiss rightly argues. Incredibly, in this oral history of the album’s creation, it’s revealed the album almost never got made. Despite the success Dre had experienced with N.W.A, he was entangled in contractual problems with his former crewmate Eazy-E’s label. [...]
A memo from record producer Teo Macero to Columbia/CBS Records executives prior to the release of Miles Davis’ groundbreaking album, Bitches Brew. I don’t have faintest idea why there aren’t more Miles Davis sketch comedy routines in this world. [via thehighdef]
Shaun McGill recounts his two decade experience and history with mobile computing devices, beginning with the Psion PDA and ending with the iPhone 5. His essay is both oddly specific to his personal relationship with devices and generically broad to the industry as a whole. It’s a long read, but worth it.
I can’t quite place my finger on what I love about this photo, but there’s something very-”Being John Malkovich” about it. Attributed to Harry Burnett while Yale Puppeteers were working in their theater, Teatro Torito, on Olvera Street in Los Angeles, California, circa 1931. The photo was taken by Harry Burnett at Cal Tech in [...]
Like most of today’s best and memorable advertising efforts, the slogan was conceived by Portland’s Wieden + Kennedy in 1988 for the global sneaker brand. It’s hard to imagine Nike without the swoosh or the slogan, as all three make-up an unbeatable holy trinity. [via highsnobiety]
“The assassination is well-covered in classical texts, but until now, researchers had no archaeological evidence of the place where it happened. Now, archaeologists have unearthed a concrete structure nearly 10 feet wide and 6.5 feet tall that may have been erected by Augustus, Julius Caesar’s successor, to condemn the assassination. The structure is at the [...]
On one side of the debate is Richard Wrangham, an anthropologist at Harvard, who claims that hominids became people, like you or I, by mastering fire and learning to cook food over it some 1.8 million years ago. Other anthropologists and archaeologists believe humans learned to control fire only 12,000 years ago. That’s a pretty [...]
