Sir Ian McKellen, On Acting (by nosnavear)
“Both literally and metaphorically, Holmes inserted himself into the spectacle at that moment, with a lovingly crafted soundtrack to match. By “spectacle” I don’t just mean “The Dark Knight Rises,” although it’s the biggest Hollywood tentpole production of the year. I mean the larger sense of the term, pioneered in the ’60s by situationist philosopher Guy Debord, who argued that our entire culture and indeed all of Western society had become a form of performance (or “representation,” to use his word), in which the distinction between the symbolic realm and the realm of reality had been erased, and all social life was mediated by images and commodities. We live in “The Society of the Spectacle” far more today, in the age of the 24/7 news cycle and ubiquitous handheld electronics, than Debord could possibly have imagined in 1967, when he published his prescient little volume under that title.”
List of animals extinct in this lifetime
MMC7 - Opening with Ryan Gosling & Justin Timberlake (by TheMMCchannel)
(Reader Contribution to 10 Incredibly Bizarre Painters and their Weird Techniques)
“You’ve forgotten the guy who squirts paint out of his ass.”
Kurt Vonnegut on how to write a short story (by GerryJustice)
