The Depart­ed ★★★

”I’ve seen things you peo­ple would­n’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoul­der of Ori­on. I’ve watched C‑beams glit­ter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.”

Remem­ber­ing Rut­ger Hauer — WIRED

Mythos — Stephen Fry

Oper­a­tion Night Watch begins today. Not your aver­age restora­tion:

”Imag­ing tech­niques, includ­ing macro-XRF and RIS, will help deter­mine its cur­rent con­di­tion, and macro X‑ray flu­o­res­cence scans will ana­lyze the chem­i­cal make-up of the paint lit­er­al­ly mil­lime­ter by mil­lime­ter.”

Jim Jar­musch: ‘I’m for the sur­vival of beau­ty. I’m for the mys­tery of life’

Film — The Guardian

”Accord­ing to Lorenz, the same visu­al cues can arouse us to equal­ly intense care­giv­ing when we encounter them in exag­ger­at­ed and dis­tilled form in ani­mals, such as birds and pup­pies, and even in dum­my mod­els, such as ted­dy bears.”

Why the pow­er of cute is colonis­ing our world

”For the 2019 film, it would take between 60 and 160 hours just to ren­der a sin­gle frame.”

Toy Sto­ry 4’ Close­ups Show How Much Pixar Has Per­fect­ed Its Craft In 24 Years

”After decades of rightwing dom­i­nance, a transat­lantic move­ment of left­wing econ­o­mists is build­ing a prac­ti­cal alter­na­tive to neolib­er­al­ism.”

The new left eco­nom­ics: how a net­work of thinkers is trans­form­ing cap­i­tal­ism

Some true gems to be found here! WARP take over NTS radio with 100 hours of Eno, Fly­Lo, Autechre…

Plants are the old­est sen­sors in the world. Could they be the future of com­put­ers?