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It now costs over a billion dollars a year to run Facebook, and delivering ads is how Facebook pays for this.
To a clear eye the smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen.
Hugo, though a bit long at times, is a beautiful automaton, I mean movie
The automaton, a complex work of art and science designed to do one thing, or communicate one message, in this case, is an ingenious metaphor for movies themselves. Moreso, the automaton would not reveal its purpose or message until a heart-shaped key was inserted; nor will a movie reveal its deeper meaning without the viewer using their mind (as key) and heart to engage with the movie and unlock its mystery. My favorite part of this construct is the boy’s belief that the automaton produce a message from his dead father. By extension, then, a movie reveals a message from, in some kind of spiritual collective manner, our shared origin or what binds us all together. Beautiful.
Another thread through the movie is that of finding one’s purpose, and being free to do the work that serves one’s purpose in life. Do not live at the Paris train station of life where people merely come and go, but stop and take hold of your purpose, whatever it may be. For Scorsese, that purpose is art through movies which in the library are found “on the top shelf”. Beautiful.
NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy says the football league is holding back technology to keep the playing field level for all teams and to “keep as much of the human element in the game.
While it is perfectly obvious to everyone that Ben Jonson wrote all of Shakespeare’s plays, it is less known that Ben Jonson’s plays were written by a teen-age girl in Sunderland, who mysteriously disappeared, leaving no trace of her existence, which is clear proof that she wrote them. The plays of Marlowe were actually written by a chambermaid named Marlene, who faked her own orgasm, and then her own death in a Deptford tavern brawl. Queen Elizabeth, who was obviously a man, conspired to have Shakespeare named as the author of his plays, because how could a man who had only a grammar-school education and spoke Latin and a little Greek possibly have written something as bad as “All’s Well That Ends Well”? It makes no sense. It was obviously an upper-class twit who wished to disguise his identity so that Vanessa Redgrave could get a job in her old age.
We all — in the end — die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories.
What I learned from my brother’s death was that character is essential: What he was, was how he died.
The way to revolutionize the TV market is to cut out all of the legacy. No cable companies. No broadcast tuners. No channels. No DVRs. All internet delivery. All on-demand. No commercials.
“I finally cracked it” – Marco.org referring to Steve Job’s biography.
I wonder how agency execs would respond to this idea. Surely with horror.
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