“Ready to Make History”
Something about this picture really gets to me. To them, they’re just four guys standing outside in the sunlight, getting ready to cross the street. But somehow everything came together and everybody knows about these men and this day and this place.
I’ve stood in the same spot they’re standing now and used that same crosswalk. I grew up with these men. They’re still with me. I listen to the words of a man who was killed before I was born, and he comforts me.
They’re just four guys.
Horsemaning is the new planking.
but you still need a gentleman’s mustache to do it.
I’m kinda down with horsemaning, and I’ve got the mustache to back it up!
It was said to me once that “sarcasm is the lowest form of humor”. Whether or not that’s true, 18 year old Spencer took it to heart, and I think I’m probably a better person now for it. I can still be snarky sometimes, but you’ve got to be doing something extra retarded to deserve that.
“You see things on a motorcycle in a way that is completely different from any other. In a car you’re always in a compartment, and because you’re used to it you don’t realize that through that car window everything you see is just more TV. You’re a passive observer and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame.
On a cycle the frame is gone. You’re completely in contact with it all. You’re in the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming. That concrete whizzing by five inches below your foot is the real thing, the same stuff you walk on, it’s right there, so blurred you can’t focus on it, yet you can put your foot down and touch it anytime, and the whole thing, the whole experience, is never removed from immediate consciousness.
(…) Plans are deliberately indefinite, more to travel than to arrive anywhere. Secondary roads are preferred. Paved county roads are the best, state highways are next. Freeways are the worst. We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with emphasis on “good” rather than “time” and when you make that shift in emphasis the whole approach changes. Twisting hilly roads are long in terms of seconds but are much more enjoyable on a cycle where you bank into turns and don’t get swung from side to side in any compartment. Roads with little traffic are more enjoyable, as well as safer. Roads free of drive-ins and billboards are better, roads where groves and meadows and orchards and lawns come almost to the shoulder, where kids wave to you when you ride by, where people look from their porches to see who it is, where when you stop to ask directions or information the answer tends to be longer than you want rather than short, where people ask where you’re from and how long you’ve been riding.”- Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Oh man, I want this so bad.
Holy crap, man. Gambino does not quit. I can’t make out all the lyrics yet, but the ones I can are monstrous. It’s crazy exciting seeing him blow up the way he is right now.
Extended Trailer: IN TIME - Oct 28
Written and directed by Andrew Niccol. Starring Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Cillian Murphy, Olivia Wilde, Alex Pettyfer, Johnny Galecki, Matt Bomer, and Vincent Kartheiser.
If I didn’t know better I’d say the studio’s approach was, “how many young pretty people can we squeeze into one action movie?” But I do know better, and I know Niccol - the fact that he’s populated this movie with nothing but young, pretty people is part of his vision and not the marketing. Stylistically the film recalls Philip K Dick and Christopher Nolan (I wonder if anyone will be able to shoot in an empty warehouse again without it looking like Inception), but hopefully it has more appeal and crossover potential than recent sci-fi actioners, particularly The Adjustment Bureau. Timberlake seems understated here which is a good thing, while the rest of the cast isn’t given enough time to make any impression. The main selling point for me is the concept. It’s crazy high minded and complicated, therefore intriguing. My fanboy faith in Niccol is most definitely showing.
(via Collider)
I’m down with this! A cool concept, and Cillian Murphy should be in everything. I wonder if guns still kill people or if they just take off chunks of your time.
I started this last year and never finished it but I think it’s finished enough to post. Gene Wilder’s Willy Wonka is one of my all-time favorite fictional characters.
“YOU LOSE! GOOD DAY, SIR!”
Finished this, and it will be available as a 16”x20” print at Crazy 4 Cult 5 on Friday at Gallery 1988: Melrose.
I think I just realized that Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka is one of my heroes.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Rainn Wilson just tweeted this video with the caption: “If u choose to click on one link during your entire Twitter experience, make it this one”
It has WIZARDS in it.
Somebody is in big trouble for never telling me about this movie.
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