Hollywood Reporter reveals that the 23rd Bond installment will be titled:
Skyfall
Director Sam Mendes indicated the movie would involve shooting at the following locations:
London, Shanghai, Istanbul, Turkey, and Scotland
As with any Bond film, I’ll be eager to see it in theaters once released. With the 007 franchise, you can love it or hate it, but you know exactly what kind of movie you’re going to get.
(via df)
Via HN, Wikipedia states Betteridge’s Law of Headlines:
Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word ‘no’.
If you think about it, this makes sense. Articles that could be answered by ‘yes’ choose to state the news in the headline rather than asking a fake question.
Or as Wikipedia explains it, “The maxim trends towards being universally true because of a simple principle of headline writing: if a story has enough sources to have a high chance of accuracy, a headline will be assertive”.
This interests me as it’s a news headline hack that tends to work. Find out the answer without having to go past the jump.
The elevator of success is out of service. So please take the stairs.
That’s the great opening line from EggsTravaganza, a local NYC food cart, in the video below. I’m sure they didn’t come up with it, but it’s a great saying.
This reminds me of Mark Cuban’s post about how he fought the good fight non-stop to get where he is today.
Hey Access Main Computer File,
This is straight out of the future, but it’s here today.
From a place you equate with the golden days of yesterday, the Waldorf Astoria has a nice video map in the lobby:
This impressed me, because it’s 1.) helpful and 2.) something you would see in today’s video games.
Does shopping all day make you tired? Does picking a cell phone plan overwhelm you?
No matter how rational and high-minded you try to be, you can’t make decision after decision without paying a biological price. It’s different from ordinary physical fatigue — you’re not consciously aware of being tired — but you’re low on mental energy. The more choices you make throughout the day, the harder each one becomes for your brain, and eventually it looks for shortcuts, usually in either of two very different ways. One shortcut is to become reckless: to act impulsively instead of expending the energy to first think through the consequences. … The other shortcut is the ultimate energy saver: do nothing.
One interesting finding is that sugar helps combat decision fatigue.
Also, since everyone is worn down by decision making, smart people work around this by acknowledging their inability to make good decisions.
by HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON
You shouldn’t be surprised at the results of these two similar experiences:
A flickr user seeking critique, uploads a photograph (above) by Henri Cartier-Bresson, “father of modern photojournalism”. The criticism received was harsh and the photo got deleted from the DeleteMe! photo pool.
A world class violinist, Joshua Bell, plays music on his Stradivarius in the Metro system. After 43 minutes of playing, few notice and he has made $32.17.
A senior curator, Mark Leithauser, at the National Gallery, explains how this happens:
“Let’s say I took one of our more abstract masterpieces, say an Ellsworth Kelly, and removed it from its frame, marched it down the 52 steps that people walk up to get to the National Gallery, past the giant columns, and brought it into a restaurant. It’s a $5 million painting. And it’s one of those restaurants where there are pieces of original art for sale, by some industrious kids from the Corcoran School, and I hang that Kelly on the wall with a price tag of $150. No one is going to notice it. An art curator might look up and say: ‘Hey, that looks a little like an Ellsworth Kelly. Please pass the salt.'”
Leithauser’s point is that we shouldn’t be too ready to label the Metro passersby unsophisticated boobs. Context matters.
People rely on signalling to provide context. If it’s at the Met or Lincoln Center, it must be good. Similarly, if they have a Stanford or Harvard MBA, they must be qualified. Signalling makes sense in a complex world where nobody can be the master of everything. With specialization, we may be good at what our job requires, but we outsource reputation/credibility to 3rd party indicators (such as prestigious museums, universities, award shows, etc.).
Shot this footage over the Hudson. Very nice view of the fireworks coming out of the barges.
Happy July 4th everyone!
Inspired by Danny Choo‘s long running A Week in Tokyo series (possible NSFW link), I want to post an odd assortment of photos taken around NYC in the month of May. Instead of one off twitpics, a series of unrelated NYC photos makes for good juxtaposition.
NYC Subway Ad
Dorky yet amusing.
Kalbi from Shilla Ktown
You can never have too much Kalbi.
Vintage Bowling Set
I don’t remember what UWS furniture store this came from.
Red Mango Fulton St Grand Opening
More pay by the ounce yogurt shops is a good thing. The white peach yogurt I got was a bit too runny
Soul Daddy sauces
South St Seaport area – Soul Daddy of American’s Next Great Restaurant fame
Xiao Long Bao sauce stacks
So great, so far away. Nan Xiang Dumpling House in Flushing
Shaved Ice topped with Condensed Milk
As you can tell, I’m never one to shy away from blanket generalizations! Condensed milk goes great with everything! So does tapioca pearls, aloe vera, and bacon (though not necessarily all in the same dish)
Also in Flushing, at Ice Fire Land
Uniqlo Captain Jack Sparrow Shirt
The Disney hype machine is building up for the latest Pirate’s movie. This shirt was spotted at Uniqlo
Goomba hats
From the Nintendo World store, goomba merch
Bowser backpack
You guessed it, from the Nintendo World store. I’d buy this, but $50 is too much for a novelty backpack
TSL3 Afterparty
From the TSL3 afterparty, you can see Thorzain in the background with the adidas three stripes garb
Brown Butter with Candied Bacon on Brioche Cookie
Coolhaus in NYC. That is one seriously heavy dessert
Monopoly Graffiti
Representing the streets of NYC
Chelsea Market exit
The Chelsea Market is a great example of repurposing old buildings (but this isn’t new news)
Whole Foods - Columbus Circle
Looking down at the Whole Foods in the Time Warner Center
Steve Jobs by Getty
Inside Apple by Adam Lashinsky:
Jobs imagines his garbage regularly not being emptied in his office, and when he asks the janitor why, he gets an excuse: The locks have been changed, and the janitor doesn’t have a key. This is an acceptable excuse coming from someone who empties trash bins for a living. The janitor gets to explain why something went wrong. Senior people do not. “When you’re the janitor,” Jobs has repeatedly told incoming VPs, “reasons matter.” He continues: “Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons stop mattering.” That “Rubicon,” he has said, “is crossed when you become a VP.
This makes sense.
A junior employee at the bottom of the chain of command (such as a janitor) can have a legitimate excuse for why something was not done. It’s plausible that the janitor does not have the authority to get the key he needs, so it is not the janitor’s fault.
Whereas a member of management (such as a VP) has no excuse. If the key is missing, the VP has authority to find the person with the key, force open the door, hire a locksmith, etc. The VP needs to problem solve and cannot explain away things that were not accomplished as the VP has sufficient authority to get it done.
It’s interesting to note that Jobs is quoted using the term ‘reason’ and not ‘excuse.’ The former being legitimate and the latter being a scapegoat. That is, the former is only available to people at the staff level who are not sufficiently authorized/empowered.
(via MacStories via HN)
If you’re into food, especially meals that you could never afford, there’s a great photo comparison of Thomas Keller’s The French Laundry & Per Se by TheFeast. The photos and accompanying captions do an excellent job of showing the similarities and differences between Keller’s Michelin 3 star restaurants.
Photo: Matt Duckor (TheFeast)
The sign that hangs in both of Keller’s restaurants reads:
When you acknowledge, as you must, that there is no such thing as perfect food, only the idea of it, then the real purpose of striving toward perfection becomes clear: to make people happy, that is what cooking is all about.
Replace the words ‘food’ and ‘cooking’ with whatever subject matter you want. That is the recipe (sorry, had to) for success.