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The Soviet documentary maker Roman Karmen at Điện Biên Phủ in 1954 From this English language Doco: His film on Vietnam here: https://en.qdnd.vn/culture-sports/culture/unforgettable-time-with-director-roman-karmen-in-viet-bac-562800 Mai Lộc And all the other films Karmen makes – Spain, China, Berlin, Cuba, Chile – right up to filming Burt Lancaster in Moscow’s Red Square.

I wrote another book about television. I like television. I like television so much that the first thing I modelled and printed on my new 3d printer was this … What shows do they make you think of? I made some more after that too. Can you hear it? Everything needs painting still, of course There’s a few more, including TVS, ATV, and HTV, but I bought you here to …

While in Palo Alto for the holidays, I stumbled on a piece of public art I didn’t previously know about: the Linus Pauling Commemorative Ceramic Mural, created in 2000 by Ross Drago. It’s a set of individually decorated ceramic tiles, installed on a wall along the sidewalk on the north side of Oregon Expressway, near its corner with El Camino Real. It’s not an area that attracts much foot traffic. …

By C. D. Rose. Zsuzanna Gahse, Mountainish, tr. Katy Derbyshire (Prototype, 2024) Zsuzsanna Gahse’s Mountainish is a slim book with short, numbered sections rather than chapters, and whose blurb promises the reader ‘a multi-layered typology of all things mountainish.’ These days, on receiving such a book, a reader might easily anticipate what they’re in for: reflections on all manner of interesting ephemera; odd encounters with random strangers who’ll tell oblique …

Watch a half-hour video in which we discuss comedy craft with the directors of 'Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl.'

Hello you fine Internet folks,AMD held a keynote at CES 2025 about their upcoming products in the form of dual CCD V-Cache for Zen 5 CPUs, Fire Range, Kraken, Strix Halo, along with the surprising lack of anything RDNA4 and FSR4 other than it's coming later this quarter.Starting with the dual CCD V-Cache Zen 5 CPUs and the layout is the same as Zen 4 with V-Cache so there is …

Since I last wrote about WordPress, things have gone off the rails. This after a brief period when things were blissfully quiet. Matt Mullenweg stopped commenting for a while, though his company had launched WP Engine Tracker — a site for tracking WordPress-driven websites that moved away from WP Engine. I think this is a bit gauche, but it seems like fair marketing given everything that’s going on. It should …

‘If Ukraine falls, it will be hard to spin as anything but a debacle for the United States, and for its president….’ (Robert Kagan via The Atlantic)

Versace's Eros EDT (2012) always struck me as a disappointment—cheap, crass, weak, overly sweet, and cynical. Some hailed it as "groundbreaking" upon its release, but I wasn’t convinced. It felt like an interesting fougère concept hampered by poor execution and a budget that fell short of its ambitions. Whatever Aurelien Guichard intended to achieve was lost in the lackluster production. I

I score higher in the US (84 points) that the EU (49 points) on the visited-places map. There are a lot of state though.

Frozen PuddleBlogger provides lots of statistics to the publishers/writers of blogs covering a raft of things from viewing platforms, most popular posts, readers’ locations and what the top referring sites are.Searching through these had me chuckling - and wondering how to explain myself. The reason being that the two most popular posts for readers over the last week have been one explaining why

For his design of the new public library in Heidenheim, Germany, Max Dudler started with a study of its integration within the urban fabric. The site chosen for the project was that of a former prison, which had long stood as a barrier between the historic town centre and its heterogeneous postwar expansion to the west. Consequently, the library was designed as a connection between the two neighbourhoods and the …

Forty-one is a nice birthday because it doesn’t feel like too much pressure. For forty I did a big eclipse thing that ended up amazing, this year I’m replicating what I did a few years ago and celebrating in New York, Houston, and San Francisco. My birthday today has already been lovely. Saw the amazing Broadway show Maybe Happy Ending (powered by WordPress!) thanks to a suggestion from my colleague …

We got ourselves three Black tennis champs in Australia this month1: Madison Keys2 in Adelaide, beating Jessica Pegula 6–3, 4–6, 6–1 Felix Auger-Aliassime in Adelaide, beating Sebastian Korda 6–3, 3–6, 6–1 Gaël Monfils in Auckland, beating Zizou Bergs 6–3, 6–4 For Monfils, it’s a special win as the title makes him the oldest winner of an ATP Tour singles title by 2 months. The previous record holder? Roger Federer, when …

If you look for Mars on Monday it just might be MIA.