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Chemical Brothers - “Star Guitar”
In almost every description of this video I’ve seen, someone uses the word “hypnotic”, and that’s precisely what this video is. Directed by the always-awesome Michael Gondry, everything in the video syncs up to something in the music. I’ve watched this video dozens of times and still catch something new each time.
Watch this video, be completely hypnotized by it (see what I did there?), then watch the making of video to see just how intricate this video really is.
“Of course it might have been some other city, had circumstances been different and the time been different and had I been different, might have been Paris or Chicago or even San Francisco, but because I am talking about myself I am talking here about New York. That first night I opened my window on the bus into town and watched for the skyline, but all I could see were the wastes of Queens and big signs that said MIDTOWN TUNNEL THIS LANE and then a flood of summer rain (even that seemed remarkable and exotic, for I had come out of the West where there was no summer rain), and for the next three days I sat wrapped in blankets in a hotel room air conditioned to 35 degrees and tried to get over a cold and a high fever. It did not occur to me to call a doctor, because I knew none, and although it did occur to me to call the desk and ask that the air conditioner be turned off, I never called, because I did not know how much to tip whoever might come—was anyone ever so young? I am here to tell you that someone was.”
Charles Joseph Minard’s graph of Napoleon’s army in the Russian campaign of 1812.
“Studies have shown that in some parts of Indonesia, female circumcision is more ritualistic — a rite of passage meant to purify the genitals and bestow gender identity on a female child — with a practitioner rubbing turmeric on the genitals or pricking the clitoris once with a needle to draw a symbolic drop of blood. In other instances, the procedure is more invasive, involving what WHO classifies as “Type I” female genital mutilation, defined as excision of the clitoral hood, called the prepuce, with or without incision of the clitoris itself. The Population Council’s 2003 study said that 82 percent of Indonesian mothers who witnessed their daughters’ circumcision reported that it involved “cutting.” The women most often identified the clitoris as the affected body part. The amount of flesh removed, if any, was alternately described by circumcisers as being the size of a quarter-grain of rice, a guava seed, a bean, the tip of a leaf, the head of a needle.”
A Cutting Tradition, Sunday, January 20 New York Times Magazine
Shipwreck Survival Story: The Baileys
In 1973, British couple Maurice and Marilyn Bailey survived for 117 days in a life raft on the Pacific Ocean. They had set sail from England bound for New Zealand. All was going well until a 40-foot sperm whale capsized their yacht. They quickly gathered what supplies they could and boarded their emergency rubber life raft.
They used the raft’s cover to collect rain water for drinking and, after their supplies ran out, began fishing with improvised fish hooks made from safety pins. They had told their friends they’d be in touch once they reached Tahiti, so no one was alarmed by not hearing from them.
After drifting roughly 1,500 miles and near death, they were spotted by a Korean fishing boat and taken to Hawaii for treatment. Not only did they fully recover, but they immediately began planning their next voyage. They later wrote a book about their experience entitled “117 Days Adrift”
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