Lorem Ipsum Wine

Label for Roland Tissier wine (accidentally) printed with lorem ipsum in some fancy typeface. If you aren’t familiar with “lorem ipsum,” it’s nonsensical copy used in design as a filler placeholder. HILARIOUS RIGHT?

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In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol, and it was the worst twenty minutes of my life.

- George Best

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Clever baseball theme doormat. $22 here.

We Are Star Stuff

This 1 hour 24 minute long conversation between an out of character (but still hysterical) Stephen Colbert with (also always hilarious) Neil deGrasse Tyson about the meaning and importance of science and our relationship with the cosmos is a must watch video and explains my long fascination of Tyson as a scientist and educator, brilliant in equal parts. This took place at the Kimberley Academy in Montclair, New Jersey in front of a damn lucky audience and by the high standards of this talk, damn lucky students. You will learn more and inspired more during these 84 minutes than all the hours you’ve spent over the past week consuming whatever content you’re consuming.

As my group of friends have begun expanding their lives into the realm of parenthood, Tyson towards the end of the discussion delivers a message-a plea to parents to permit and value their children’s curiosity-that I hope they embrace. That said, I may or may not be speaking from personal experience, but if you’re going to give your kid a microscope for Christmas, try to balance it out with a Transformer action figure.

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Undated photo of cigarette smoking banning mayor Bloomberg lights one up while wearing an Amar’e Stoudemire Knicks jersey.

A Lifespan is a Billion Heartbeats

Discover Magazines compiled “10 things everyone should know about time” from a recent “multidisciplinary conference on the nature of time” including the below fact that unites all creatures great and small.

A lifespan is a billion heartbeats. Complex organisms die. Sad though it is in individual cases, it’s a necessary part of the bigger picture; life pushes out the old to make way for the new. Remarkably, there exist simple scaling laws relating animal metabolism to body mass. Larger animals live longer; but they also metabolize slower, as manifested in slower heart rates. These effects cancel out, so that animals from shrews to blue whales have lifespans with just about equal number of heartbeats — about one and a half billion, if you simply must be precise. In that very real sense, all animal species experience “the same amount of time.”

This is why I don’t watch scary movies: I can’t afford to use up all my heartbeats in just two hours.

Lonely Tree

Photograph taken by Anita Erdmann in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. It’s like a dream.

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Foggy Golden Gate

Absolutely stunning photograph of the Golden Gate Bridge smothered in rolling fog. I wonder how much retouching was applied and I think this is the photographer. Regardless, I hope to take just one photo that is as great as this before I move on from this world.

High-res photo for your desktop pleasure here.

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In Case You Were Wondering

Edward Ruscha’s clever business card from the 1960s.

Incidentally the MoMA website’s 404 error page uses my favorite Ruscha painting.

Everything You Always Wanted to Kow

I mentioned it before, but if you missed its airing on PBS, I highly recommend you check out online the two-part American Masters profile on Woody Allen. It’s pretty fascinating. Here’s Part 1. Part 2.

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