You’ve seen a pair of tennis shoes hanging on a telephone wire before—we all have. Just like we’ve all wondered why the hell they were up in there first place, not to mention why it seems to consistently happen in every major city you go to. The short, 14-minute documentary "The Mystery of the Flying Kicks" wants to find out.
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It’s funny. Advertising for House of Cards was plastered on every billboard and bus and subway station. Kevin Spacey would stare you down from Abraham Lincoln’s seat anywhere you turned. Arrested Development was hyped as only resurrecting the most loved TV show in the past 10 years could be. How many clips and trailers and teasers did we watch? Even Lillyhammer got buzz for being the first Netflix TV show. Orange Is the New Black? As quiet a release as Netflix has ever had. Which was unfortunate, because it’s the best TV show on Netflix. And very probably the best new TV show this year.
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If somebody says that Boardwalk Empire is the best show on HBO, I immediately discount all their future opinions. If they say The Newsroom, I automatically think they like verbal flexing. If it’s True Blood, they love fleshy guilty pleasures. If they say Game of Thrones, they’re… probably right. But! I would argue with them until the end of days that Hard Knocks, the fantastic documentary series on a NFL football team, is consistently better than anything else in HBO’s lineup.
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AMP is a pretty engaging sci-fi short written and directed by Adam Marisett for Triton Films. It’s set in a world where giant robots can be your best friend and giant robot dogs can be your worst enemy. Basically, it’s the kind of dystopian war where technology is awesome.
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It’s been exactly 25 years since the world lost one of its greatest artists. Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat passed away from a drug overdose at 27 on August 12, 1988. The Brooklyn born artist started in the streets and meteorically rose through the art scene to collaborate with Andy Warhol and is still seemingly referenced in every other hip hop song.
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Acclaimed documentarian Werner Herzog has taken on some pretty remarkable subjects during his 50-year career, ranging from Antarctic scientists to Grizzly Man. His latest film, though, is about something much more familiar: Texting and driving. Yet it’s no less intense.
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Tetris and I were born just a month apart. And what Cold War kids we were. Tetris was the brainchild of a young Soviet computer engineer with a knack for building addicting games. I was the actual child of a couple of former hippies with a bit of a disco hangover.
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One thing that sort of irks me is when people mistake DEFCON 5 as worse and crazier and insane and severe than DEFCON 1. I know more always sounds better but it’s not. That has nothing to do with the world’s largest hacking conference, DEFCON, but I just wanted to put it out there. DEFCON: The Documentary shows what goes on behind the world’s largest hacking conference.
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This week has made me reminisce about the past. A lot of it has to do with the fact that The OC turned 10. Some of it has to do with it being August and my school kid association of August as the end of something (summer, mostly). And a little of it is because I’m starting to tie up loose ends in another Josh Schwartz TV show Chuck.
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No matter how outmoded the technology, you’ll find someone who’s devastated that it’s gone. These people are in absolute denial about the old tech’s inferiority to the advancements that supplanted it. This is Micke, the Swedish tape nut. He is precisely the luddite we’re talking about.
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