Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
European leaders have confronted the Greek government with a draconian package of austerity measures entailing a surrender of fiscal sovereignty as the price of avoiding financial collapse and being ejected from the single currency bloc. A weekend of high tension that threatened to break Europe in two climaxed on Sunday night at a summit of…
Suppose you consider Tsipras an incompetent twerp. Suppose you dearly want to see Syriza out of power. Suppose, even, that you welcome the prospect of pushing those annoying Greeks out of the euro. Even if all of that is true, this Eurogroup list of demands is madness. The trending hashtag ThisIsACoup is exactly right. This…
1. How many times a day do you try and use The Force? 2. Gun to your head, must choose one: garlic bread or cinnamon rolls? 3. What’s your opinion on sweatpants? 4. Do you cheat when playing Monopoly most of the time or all of the time? 5. Bulbasaur, Squirtle, or Charmander? 6. You…
Yesterday, Ellen Pao stepped down as CEO of Reddit. Co-founder Steve Huffman will take her place. Pao’s resignation came after a week of heightened tension at the company and on the site, but her tenure had been fraught with controversy and backlash from the sites users since it began. May 2012 – Pao files lawsuit…
Victoria Taylor is not someone who many people will have heard about prior to Thursday 2 July, yet she has worked closely with everyone from Barack Obama and Bill Murray to Snoop Dogg, along with hundreds of others, as part of her job at the so-called “front page of the internet” Reddit. In the space…
Internet communities like Reddit have always been toxic environments that survive on the backs of unpaid labor, and attempts to corporatize them fail because of it. Some of the worst trolls on the Internet are celebrating victory, as embattled interim CEO of Reddit Ellen Pao stepped down yesterday after what can charitably be described as…
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One overlooked aspect of Spielberg is that he’s actually a stealth master of the long take. From Duel to Tintin, for forty years, he has sneakily filmed many scenes in a single continuous shot. Eight long examples: https://vimeo.com/tonyzhou/spielberg-… Twelve short examples: https://vimeo.com/tonyzhou/spielberg-… For educational purposes only. English & Portuguese subtitles by Akemi Mitsueda. You can…
There are filmmakers we love and then there’s Michael Bay. Even if you dislike him (as I do), Bay has something valuable to teach us about visual perception. This is an exploration of “Bayhem” — his style of camera movement, composition and editing that creates something overblown, dynamic and distinct. For educational purposes only. You…
Earlier today, I took my children to my great-grandparents’ grave in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto. They don’t have a big headstone, or a nice spot. But they have a big place in my heart: He came to Canada from Barbados, she from Jamaica, and he built two(!) houses for their extended family. They sent their…