Stanley Kubrick - The Flying Padre

Apparently one of Stanley Kubrick's first films. I love YouTube.

Fastest Rapper in the Planet?

Hadron Collider

From Wired...

"On November 27, 2006, the final superconducting main magnet was delivered to CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) -- the most ambitious physics experiment ever created.

Due to come online in November 2007, the LHC is the world's biggest and most powerful particle accelerator. The giant underground loop of tunnels, magnets and detectors will be capable of replicating conditions just after the Big Bang, helping to answer questions about the nature of matter and the creation of the universe.

The ATLAS experiment, which when completed, will at 150 long and 82 feet high be the largest detector at the LHC. It will look for dark matter, the Higgs Boson, and unexpected new physics."

Can Dialectics Break Bricks?

Hilarious! Hahaha...



“Imagine a kung fu flick in which the martial artists spout Situationist aphorisms about conquering alienation while decadent bureaucrats ply the ironies of a stalled revolution. This is what you’ll encounter in René Viénet’s’s outrageous refashioning of a Chinese fisticuff film. An influential Situationist, Viénet’s stripped the soundtrack from a run-of-the-mill Hong Kong export and lathered on his own devastating dialogue. . . . A brilliant, acerbic and riotous critique of the failure of socialism in which the martial artists counter ideological blows with theoretical thrusts from Debord, Reich and others. . . . Viénet’s’s target is also the mechanism of cinema and how it serves ideology.”

Blackmark -- by Gil Kane and Archie Goodwin

Claimed as the "First American Graphic Novel", Blackmark won its creator Gil Kane a Shazam Award. That was back in 1971. If the following description in Wikipedia is anything to go by, it was published after a usual amount of criticism that any new form would face --

"Kane — a major comics artist who helped usher in the Silver Age of comic books with his part in revamping the popular DC Comics characters Green Lantern and the Atom, and who drew The Amazing Spider-Man during an a landmark 1970s run — had previously experimented with the form with his 1968 black-and-white comics-magazine His Name is...Savage, a 40-page espionage thriller also scripted by Goodwin from an outline by Kane.

Kane said Bantam paid him $3,500 for 120 pages (including the cover) all written, drawn and lettered in "camera-ready" form, i.e., in completed form suitable to go immediately to the printing press. (The 120-page figure is either Kane's rounded-off approximation, or means he did the frontispiece and bio-page art gratis.) Kane recalled having to draw "30 pages in one week. Then I'd have to knock off for a week or two to make some additional money" drawing comic-book stories and, mainly, covers."

More here at Wikipedia -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackmark