International data havens? Maybe it’s just me with Neal Stephenson on the brain, but wasn’t there something like this in Cryptonomicon?
Author Archives: Kevin
White Elephants
To outsiders, then, Beijing’s urban master planning might seem questionable, and rightly so. How is it that big name architects like Herzog and de Meuron (designers of that rara avis, the “Bird’s Nest” National Stadium) and Rem Koolhaas (whose CCTV tower has all the subtly of the Death Star) are given such extreme creative liberties [...]
Group Dynamics: Pretty bands (Plastiscines, Au Revoir Simone, Amiina, Yo Majesty, Electrelane) look pretty. (via)
The Venture Bros. Shirt-Of-The-Week Club: Oh god. I can’t afford the subscription deal right now, but I imagine I’m going to want all of these.
Action Figure: Great slo-mo (1000 fps) videos of folks getting punched in the face. More info here. (via)
The montages of barringer82: Beautifully arranged filmmaker tributes — The Coen Brothers, Stanley Kubrick, Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson, etc. (via)
Animated Graffiti: “Muto,” a short film by BLU, might be the most amazing thing you’ll see this week. (via)
“Is it pretty? No. Does it work? It appears to. So what’s the big deal?” George Saunders on the ethics of washboarding.
Never Imagined Myself In This Zoo
From May 7th, 2005 to November 8th, 2005, director Maro Chermayeff — one of the minds behind the PBS series Frontier House — joined the crew of the USS Nimitz on its six-month deployment to the Persian Gulf. Chermayeff and her seventeen-person team were given an unprecedented degree of access to the ship and its [...]
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