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...North Sea recorded an 84-ft.-high (25.6 m) wave that appeared out of nowhere, and in 2000, a British oceanographic vessel recorded a 95-ft.-high (29 m) wave off the coast of Scotland. In 2004, scientists from the European Space Agency (ESA), as part of the MaxWave project, used satellite data to show that freak waves higher than 10 stories were rare but did occur on the oceans...
What was the most powerful motivator for writing Avatar? -Marc Monroe, Paris One powerful motivator was the opportunity to do a mega-design project, where you get to design everything--the vehicles and the creatures and the plants and everything that's in front of the camera. (Watch the interview with James Cameron...
...genre-defying artist known as Danger Mouse has spent much of his career jumping from one successful project to another. He created the brilliant Beatles-Jay-Z Grey Album mashup in 2004, he formed Gnarls Barkley and Dangerdoom, and he's produced albums by artists such as Gorillaz and Beck. But Danger Mouse (whose real name is Brian Burton) is quick to point out that his latest collaboration, with Shins front man James Mercer, isn't a one-time experiment. He and Mercer have formed a fully realized band, Broken Bells, and their first album - also called Broken Bells - comes...
...then went to the general directory, found their addresses, and sent them the letters. I also got money from the Office for the Arts, which I am a supporter of today. The grant gave me seed money to make this documentary and it instilled me with confidence that the project had validity. I made it in partnership with another student who was in my class. We sold it. I later got a job in L.A. as an assistant to the head of a movie studio...
...misread not just pictures but conversations, people, events, and other things that occur in day-to-day life shows us how quick we are to make assumptions. Like in the case of the Guissette Muniz photograph, a girl on an empty street is immediately interpreted negatively because we project our impression of poverty onto what we see before us. We have a compulsion to categorize everything that we come into contact with into neatly drawn boxes—even though all our experiences of life point us to the contrary. Life doesn’t fit into boxes or categories?...