del.icio.us roundup

I should be working, but I just can’t bring myself to really do anything before my second cup of coffee, and so you get a del.icio.us roundup:
Literary Locales -  More than 1,000 picture links to places that figure in the lives and writings of famous authors
Carthalia (Theatres on Postcard) – Andreas Praefcke’s postcard collection of [...]

Neoliberalism and the City

If you’ve got 90 minutes, listen in (or watch, if you have enough hard drive space) to David Harvey’s keynote lecture:
podcast mp3 (audio), mp4 (video)
Internationally recognized urban geographer and social theorist David Harvey delivers a keynote lecture at the Middlebury College Symposium, “Urban Landscapes: The Politics of Expression.”
from the University Channel
Has anyone found other [...]

A spherical tree of life

Visualizing the five kingdoms.  It really is worth it to boot up adobe reader to zoom in and out of the pdf.

a short break

I’ll be without Internet access for a couple days, so blog updates will be severely limited until Sunday evening at the earliest.

Robert Altman dead at 81

NYT reports:
Robert Altman, one of the most adventurous and influential American directors of the late 20th century, a filmmaker whose iconoclastic career spanned more than half a century but whose stamp was felt most forcefully in one decade, the 1970s, died Monday in Los Angeles. He was 81. His death, at a hospital, was confirmed [...]

a very visual Sunday del.icio.us roundup

Listpic – browse craigslist by pictures, not descriptions
Five simple steps to designing with color
“Into the Pink” – Design Observer on co-opting color

Zodiac

David Fincher’s (director: Fight Club, Se7en, The Game, Panic Room) new film Zodiac is coming out soon.  Don’t miss the trailer.  Digital Content Producer documents how the entire film was recorded directly to harddrive, while cutting out videotape.
More on the real life Zodiac killer that the film is based on.

Zadie Smith on the practice of reading

KCRW interviews Zadie Smith in the Bookworm podcast on her recently released (in the US) novel, On Beauty, which incorporates everyone from Forster to Elaine Scarry:

But the problem with readers, the idea we’re given of reading is that the model of a reader is the person watching a film, or watching television. So the greatest [...]

The Soft Lightes video

Fun video for the Soft Lightes created by ModularPeople, and I don’t even want to begin to imagine how much time this took.
From yewknee.com

video of the day – Ghostride the Volvo!

It’s obviously Friday.  Inspired by the hyphy movement from the Bay Area.

More on ghostriding:
To ghost ride, frequently used in the context of “ghost riding the whip” (a “whip” being a vehicle) or simply ghostin’ is one of the latest trends to be popularized by Hyphy culture, which originated in the Bay [...]