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Charles and Ray Eames and The Power of Ten

Chris Abraham — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:34:34 +0000

Le Grand Content Gets Brooklyn Hipster on My Arse

Chris Abraham — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 14:31:33 +0000

“A Film by Clemens Kogler together with Karo Szmit. Voice by Andre Tschinder. Le Grand Content examines the omnipresent Powerpoint-culture in search for its philosophical potential. Intersections and diagrams are assembled to form a grand ‘association-chain-massacre’. which challenges itself to answer all questions of the universe and some more. Of course, it totally fails this assignment, but in its failure it still manages to produce some magical nuance and shades between the great topics death, cable tv, emotions and hamsters.”

al-Mooninites Terrorist Attacks on Boston 1-31-07

Chris Abraham — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 23:21:33 +0000

The Boston "Hoax", originally uploaded by mecredis.

Baby It’s Cold Outside!

Chris Abraham — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:36:57 +0000

Washington, DC (20003) Weather

Chris Abraham is Magneto as Super Villian

Chris Abraham — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 22:31:24 +0000

Your results:
You are Magneto

Magneto		82%
Apocalypse		76%
Lex Luthor		75%
Dr. Doom		74%
Mystique		72%
Venom		69%
Catwoman		63%
Mr. Freeze		57%
Green Goblin		56%
Kingpin		52%
Dark Phoenix		52%
The Joker		50%
Poison Ivy		50%
Juggernaut		48%
Two-Face		40%
Riddler		29%

You fear the persecution of those that are different or underprivileged so much that you are willing to fight and hurt others for your cause.

Click here to take the “Which Super Villain am I?” quiz…

Flickr

Chris Abraham — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 22:46:22 +0000

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Stephen Colbert Analyzes Wikipedia Wikiality

Chris Abraham — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 08:24:07 +0000

50 Films You Should See Before You Die

Chris Abraham — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 11:52:28 +0000

“Movie experts have named the 50 films you should see before you die.” It is a British list so it’s a little snobby. Via This is London.

1 Apocalypse Now
2 The Apartment
3 City of God
4 Chinatown
5 Sexy Beast
6 2001: A Space Odyssey
7 North by Northwest
8 A Bout de Souffle
9 Donnie Darko
10 Manhattan
11 Alien
12 Lost in Translation
13 The Shawshank Redemption
14 Lagaan: Once Upon A Time in India
15 Pulp Fiction
16 Touch of Evil
17 Walkabout
18 Black Narcissus
19 Boyz n the Hood [CORR]
20 The Player
21 Come and See
22 Heavenly Creatures
23 A Night at the Opera
24 Erin Brockovich
25 Trainspotting
26 The Breakfast Club
27 Hero
28 Fanny and Alexander
29 Pink Flamingos
30 All About Eve
31 Scarface
32 Terminator 2
33 Three Colours: Blue
34 The Royal Tenenbaums
35 The Ladykillers
36 Fight Club
37 The Searchers
38 Mulholland Drive
39 The Ipcress File
40 The King of Comedy
41 Manhunter
42 Dawn of the Dead
43 Princess Mononoke
44 Raising Arizona
45 Cabaret
46 This Sporting Life
47 Brazil
48 Aguirre: The Wrath of God
49 Secrets and Lies
50 Badlands

Love Advice from a Former French Man to Us Americans

Chris Abraham — Sun, 21 May 2006 17:34:53 +0000

“There is a Mr. or a Miss Perfect out there somewhere, and I am going to meet this person and everything in my life is going to be changed and be good. We put so much expectation on the other person.” Via Salon

‘The expectation in America is an adolescent expectation. There is a Mr. or a Miss Perfect out there somewhere, and I am going to meet this person and everything in my life is going to be changed and be good. We put so much expectation on the other person. There’s infatuation when we discover them and think, “This is it!” It’s perfect, fantastic. Then after a few months the love hormone leaves the brain and the reality starts showing up. So we say, “OK, I made a mistake, I chose the wrong person. I better find another one.”

In other cultures, expectations are very different. For many centuries, love wasn’t even part of the picture. Children would be married off by their parents at a very early age and it was families making close relationships with other families. This notion that everything should be coming from this one person is a very American, impossible dream.

I always say if you want to understand a culture, look at what the people do at 5 o’clock. In England, they drink some kind of hot water with an herb in it: tea time. In Spain, they kill a bull. The Americans have the happy hour, they get drunk. The French have cinq a sept, a very special thing, it’s sexual. Men and women, who are married but not to each other, after work they go to a hotel and have sex. It’s seen as experiencing pleasure with somebody else. For the French, life is about the refinement of pleasure. I’m not saying it’s right or wrong, but the cultures do provide very different reference systems.

The American disillusionment with love, by the way, explains a little bit why we work so hard.’

Playstation 3 PS3 Details and Secrets

Chris Abraham — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 21:41:16 +0000

“PS3 will retail for $399 and have a built-in 60GB hard drive, plus older games will run at high resolution.” Via TeamXbox and Kotaku