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...know about, it's still the world's premier venue for Asian teenagers playing video-game theme songs on two electric guitars at the same time. But since it launched in December 2005, YouTube has been largely stripped of the kind of longer-format, commercially produced content that could get you through a solitary evening at home, as opposed to a furtive interlude between spreadsheets. It's becoming what it was always meant to be: a vast galaxy of bizarre amateur snippets. It's like those restaurants that serve only tapas: there's a lot of good stuff there...
...that bursts into unconventional brassy orchestration. Perhaps as a concession to the “Juno” fans, “Drowning Head First” sounds almost identical to the soundtrack’s “Anyone Else But You,” though the lyrical content is substantially less idyllic. Melodramatic string arrangements grace “It’s a Fine,” while nothing but an acoustic guitar keeps Green company in “Be My Man.” Nothing is off limits: a gospel choir makes occasional appearances...
...which look as though they could jump back to life at a moment’s notice—sets the figurines apart from the static nature of most statues.The historical context of these porcelains was the subject of a day-long symposium, “Tables of Content,” and a dance and music performance that took place in the Sackler and Fogg Musuems this past Saturday. “I wanted to highlight this aspect of porcelain that people are not familiar with, and try to show people who are not interested in porcelain...
...annual 100 billion plastic bags are made from 12 million barrels of oil—0.15 percent of the U.S.’s total yearly oil consumption. And a Waste Characterization Study for California in 2004 concluded that the bags account for just 0.4 percent of the total content of landfills...
...says Kimberly D. Hagan ’09, a desk attendant at the Qube.James J. Talbot, a local comics expert, former comics store owner, and current head of a semi-annual comics convention, says the value of these comics lies not in their resale value but their content.“I see guys with collections like this all the time,” he says. He picks up an issue of mid-90s superhero comic “Spawn” and points at it. “They’ll come to the convention and sell issues...