In April, 1983, 50 million television viewers watched the illusionist David Coppersubject make the Statue of Liberty disappear, straight into skinny air. Should you’re north of fifty, you perhaps remember the spectacle. How did he do it? 40 years later, the YouTube channel Thoughts Blown Magazineic Illusion demystifies the large-scale magazineic trick, clarifying how Coppersubject…
Take a sufficiently lengthy highway journey throughout America, and also you’re sure to come across somefactor or someone Lynchian. Whether or not or not that concept lay behind Interview Venture, the underneathtaking had the endorsement of David Lynch himself. Not coincidentally, it was conceived by his son Austin, who together with moviemaker Jason S. (recognized…
David Bowie all the time managed to look cool, even when he was being booked for a felony. In early 1976, Bowie was on his “Isolar” tour, pertypeing because the Skinny White Duke, a persona he would describe as “a really Aryan fascist sort — a would-be romantic with no emotions in any respect.” Bowie…
Picture by Avro, by way of Wikimedia Commons In 2013, the curators of the touring museum exhibit “David Bowie Is” launched an inventory of David Bowie’s 100 favourite reads, professionalviding us with deeper insights into his literary tastes. Covering fiction and non-fiction, the record spans six a long time, moving from Richard Wright’s memoir Black…
Within the final yr, display screenauthor Todd Alcott’s hobby has blown up right into a legit facet profession. This Etsy promoteer isn’t peddling kombucha SCOBYs, letter pressing new child announcements, or repurposing previous barns to be used as lowerting boards. No, Alcott’s artful fortunes fall sq.ly at the intersection of pulp fiction and rock and…
Since George Orwell published his landmark political fable 1984, every generation has discovered ample reason to make reference to the grim near-future envisioned by the novel. Whether or not Orwell had some prophetic imaginative and prescient or was simply a really astute learner of the institutions of his day—all nonetheless with us in mutated kind—hardly matters….
“We’re on the cusp of somefactor exhilarating and terrifying.” The yr is 1999 and David Bowie, in shaggy hair and groovy glasses, has seen the long run and it’s the Interinternet. On this quick however fascinating interview with BBC’s stalwart and withering interrogator cum interviewer Jeremy Paxman, Bowie provides a foresolid of the a long…
After eight years as president of Hamilton Faculty—and greater than 30 years in greater training—David Wippman is retiring on the finish of the month. He advised Inside Larger Ed through Zoom that he’s proudest of the best way he led his campus via the COVID-19 pandemic, and now appears to be like ahead to spending…