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Quick links and sly winks at interesting articles and images from across the web -- literary, art historical, cultural political, scientific, or just about anything else.
No Gatorade: Celebrating New York City’s Pick-up Basketball Scene
Bobbito Garcia and Kevin Couliau played ball and talked to players across New York’s five boroughs to make Doin’ It in the Park, a forthcoming feature documentary about playground basketball. The two filmmakers talk about the making of the documentary and share an excerpt from the film on the Atlantic Video channel.
(via theatlantic)
“A Brief History of John Baldessari”
The epic life of a world-class artist, jammed into six minutes. Narrated by Tom Waits.
Commissioned by LACMA for their first annual “Art + Film Gala” honoring John Baldessari and Clint Eastwood.
If you watch anything this afternoon, let it be this.
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(via ilovecharts)
Quantic’s Time is The Enemy, against the backdrop of a film taken from a streetcar traveling down Market Street in San Francisco in 1906, a few days before the earthquake/fire destroyed the area (director unknown.



