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Never Say Never | The Dirt
CJ Huges Construction | John Deere Construction Aiming High in the West Virginia Underground The Challenges of the West Virginia Underground Industry Are No Match for the Specialized Expertise of One Longstanding General Contractor In the late-morning hours of a blustery day, it seems as if every possible distraction is coming together to complicate the task at hand. A small crew from contractor CJ Hughes is replacing an underground gas line in Parkersburg, West Virginia.
The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #771
Callum, Connor & Charlie discuss H3H3 being slightly concerned, when it’s okay to hate foreigners, and Rishi Sunak’s annual performance review. Audio Version Available After the Live Podcast Alternative Players - Odysee Previous Podcast Next Podcast Reading List When It’s Okay to Hate Foreigners
The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #761
Callum and Harry are joined by Leo to discuss terrible responses to the Israel war, the funny time Australia is going through, and how Callum might have caught something nasty. Find Leo on Youtube and X Alternative Player - Odysee Previous Podcast Next Podcast Reading List Terrible responses to the Israel war It’s Been a Funny Year for Australia
Jonah Hill, and Why Men Can’t Marry Mermaids
Published 14th Jul at 11:00 am Society Silver Members - Listen to Audio Version From Only £10/month Subscribe to Lotus Eaters now for full access to premium content. Subscribe Now There is a painting by Elihu Vedder hanging in Harvard’s Fogg Museum, titled Fisherman and Mermaid. It depicts a young fisherman, striding from shore, with nets over one shoulder, and his fish-footed lover on the other.
The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #686
Carl, Stelios, and Connor discuss Pride season, that you should believe they are coming for your children, and a retrospective of 2023's Glastonbury Festival. Audio Version Available After the Live Podcast Alternative Player - Odysee Alternative Player - Elocast Previous Podcast Next Podcast Reading List When They Tell You What They’re Doing, Believe Them Glastonbury 2023 was Amusing for the Wrong Reasons
The Rise of Reactionary Feminism | Interview with Mary Harrington
Connor talks to Reactionary Feminist and contributing editor at UnHerd, Mary Harrington, about her new book, Feminism Against Progress, and how transhumanist luddism is the only means by which we will overthrow the Cyborg Theocracy and win the war on relationships. Find Mary on Twitter, Substack, UnHerd, or her website.
Reactionary Feminism and the Tradwife Anachronism
From Only £10/month Subscribe to Lotus Eaters now for full access to premium content. Like many members of Gen Z, I feel a great ennui from inheriting the cultural nihilism and opportunity ceiling of Blairite neoliberalism. We yearn for what we have been deprived of, scouring through the ash heap of British identity in the hopes to glean a means of returning to a normative family dynamic beyond the emotionally listless landscape of digital dating.
The Seven Deadly Sins
Silver Members - Listen to Audio Version From Only £10/month Subscribe to Lotus Eaters now for full access to premium content. Subscribe Now My history teacher at school had a double-starred first from Cambridge. He was also the chaplain. Confused as to why a man whose intelligence was abundantly evident to me in all areas except his religion, I asked him why he believed in the Devil.
Individualism & Collectivism - A False Dichotomy
Published a few seconds ago Society Silver Members - Listen to Audio Version From Only £10/month Subscribe to Lotus Eaters now for full access to premium content. Subscribe Now There has since the Enlightenment existed a divide within philosophy: that between individualism and collectivism. As the philosophy that puts the rights and liberty of the individual above all else, individualists conceptualise morality and rights as only belonging to the individual, never to the group or tribe.
Rumble Live | Is the COVID Vaccine the Mark of the Beast?
• None Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales, provisional: week ending 5 May 2023 - Office for National Statistics • None Dr. Malhotra explains up to 50% of excess deaths are COVID vaccine related - GB News - Twitter • None Ed Humpherson to Norman Fenton, Martin Neil, Clare Craig and Scott McLachlan: ONS Deaths by Vaccination Status statistics - Office for National Statistics • None The Incidence of Myocarditis and Pericarditis in Post COVID-19 Unvaccinated Patients—A Large...
The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #634
Connor and Dan discuss the Ukraine war revelations in the Discord ‘Digileaks’, ChatGPT evolving faster than expected, and the CEI index that’s transing the companies. Audio Version Available After the Live Podcast
The WEF’s ESGs Are the Mark of the Beast | DeepThink IX
The WEF’s ESGs Are the Mark of the Beast | DeepThink IX Silver Members - Listen to Audio Version From Only £10/month Subscribe to Lotus Eaters now for full access to premium content. Subscribe Now Abstract Previous Deep Think Next Deep Think From Only £5/month Subscribe to Lotus Eaters now for full access to premium content. Subscribe Now
Why Inequality Exists
Silver Members - Listen to Audio Version From Only £10/month Subscribe to Lotus Eaters now for full access to premium content. Subscribe Now It is impossible for two people to be born equal. We are born with different genes, to different parents in different circumstances at different places. Even identical twins sharing the same environment will have sizeable differences in a plethora of areas.
Englishmen For Exclusivity, Against Equality | DeepThink VI
Englishmen For Exclusivity, Against Equality | DeepThink VI Silver Members - Listen to Audio Version From Only £10/month Subscribe to Lotus Eaters now for full access to premium content. Subscribe Now Abstract Previous Deep Think Next Deep Think From Only £5/month Subscribe to Lotus Eaters now for full access to premium content. Subscribe Now
Jordan Peterson May Not Be Original, but He’s Still a Hero of Our Time
From Only £10/month Subscribe to Lotus Eaters now for full access to premium content. On 18th October 2021, h3h3Productions’ Ethan Klein postured a change of allegiance. His victim was Dr Jordan Peterson, the clinical-psychologist-turned-public-figure who Klein interviewed on his podcast back in 2017.
The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #677
• None Montgomery County Councilmember Kristin Mink says Muslim families are on the same side as white supremacists, because they care about their kids. - Citizen Free Press - Twitter • None By this logic the vast majority of Africa are also in the same side of "white supremacists" - Shady - Twitter • None The Rise of Latino White Supremacy - The New Yorker • None Why Are Some People Of Color Drawn To White Supremacy?
The Cynical Politicisation of Sarah Everard’s Murder
From Only £10/month Subscribe to Lotus Eaters now for full access to premium content. Only the coldest people would be unmoved by the nature of Sarah Everard’s kidnapping and subsequent murder. Wayne Couzens’ premeditated exploitation of his position of public trust to execute her kidnapping is a stark reminder of the reality that evil resides even within the institutions that are established to suppress it.
Derek Jarman's Jubilee: "It's the Best Film about Punk" (1978)
Derek Jarman was too old and too accomplished to be a punk. By 1977, the openly gay filmmaker and artist was already 36 and had an impressive CV that included doing set design for Ken Russell’s The Devils and directing Sebastiane, a landmark in gay cinema, notable for not only its frank depiction of the male body but also for its dialogue which was entirely in Latin.
The End of an Era: A Short Film About The Last Day of Hot Metal Typesetting at The New York Times (1978)
This is usually what happens when I write a piece for Open Culture: As I drink an overpriced coffee at my local coffee shop, I research a topic on the internet, write and edit an article on Microsoft Word and then copy and paste the whole thing into WordPress. My editor in Open Culture’s gleaming international headquarters up in San Francisco gives it a look-over and then, with the push of a button, publishes the article on the site.
The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #703
Connor & Dan discuss Barbie being accidentally based, Vivek Ramaswamy's promising Presidential campaign, and how Net Zero is not enough. Audio Version Available After the Live Podcast Reading List Announcements Vivek Ramaswamy Vivek Ramaswamy Speaks with Tucker Carlson - Vivek Ramaswamy - YouTube E138: Presidential Candidate Vivek Ramaswamy in conversation with the Besties - All-in Podcast - YouTube Vivek Ramaswamy Townhall - WMUP-TV - YouTube
Photos of Hiroshima by Hiroshima Mon Amour Star Emmanuelle Riva (1958)
in Film, History, Photography | October 14th, 2014 1 Comment FacebookTwitterReddit Advertisement Hiroshima Mon Amour, Alain Resnais’s landmark 1960 meditation on war and memory, was Emmanuelle Riva’s first starring role. She plays a married actress (catch a scene here) who, while making a movie in Japan, has an affair with a Japanese architect played by Eiji Okada.
The Long Game of Creativity: If You Haven't Created a Masterpiece at 30, You're Not a Failure
Orson Welles directed the greatest movie ever made, Citizen Kane, at age 25, with only a limited knowledge of the medium. When Paul McCartney was 25, he, along with his fellow Beatles, released the era-defining album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. By age 29, Pablo Picasso revolutionized modern art by developing cubism.
Werner Herzog Offers 24 Pieces of Filmmaking and Life Advice
in Film, Life | October 24th, 2019 1 Comment FacebookTwitterReddit Advertisement There are few filmmakers alive today who have the mystique of Werner Herzog. His feature films and his documentaries are brilliant and messy, depicting both the ecstasies and the agonies of life in a chaotic and fundamentally hostile universe. And his movies seem very much to reflect his personality – uncompromising, enigmatic and quite possibly crazy.
Martin Scorsese Makes a List of 85 Films Every Aspiring Filmmaker Needs to See
Before the rise of institutional film schools—ensconced in university walls with all the formality that entails—those seeking to learn the craft did so by apprenticing themselves to studios and master directors, and by watching lots and lots of movies. If we take the example of some of the most interesting filmmakers working today, this still may be the best way to become a filmmaker.
Hunter S. Thompson's Ballsy Job Application Letter (1958)
Image by RS79 , via Wikimedia Commons In 1958, Hunter S. Thompson applied for a job with the Vancouver Sun. He was fresh out of the Air Force and struggling to make a living in New York City, though from the tone of the letter you wouldn’t know it. People who are experts in such things say that good cover letters should match the employer’s needs with the applicant's abilities, should be tailored specifically to the job in question and should show some personality.
The Ten Greatest Films of All Time According to 358 Filmmakers
in Film | April 25th, 2019 21 Comments FacebookTwitterReddit Advertisement Every ten years, film journal Sight and Sound conducts a worldwide survey of film critics to decide which films are considered the best ever made. Started in 1952, the poll is now widely regarded as the most important and respected out there. And the critical consensus for a long time was that the masterpiece Citizen Kane by Orson Welles is the best of the best.
Salvador Dalí Goes to Hollywood & Creates Wild Dream Sequences for Hitchcock & Vincente Minnelli
Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel reportedly carried rocks in their pockets during the premiere of their first film Un Chien andalou, anticipating a violent reaction from the audience. It was a fair concern. The movie might be almost 90 years old but it still has the power to provoke – the film features a shot of a woman getting her eye slashed open with a straight razor after all. As it turned out, rocks weren’t needed.
Download Original Bauhaus Books & Journals for Free: A Digital Celebration of the Founding of the Bauhaus School 100 Years Ago
in Art, Books | March 28th, 2019 Leave a Comment FacebookTwitterReddit Advertisement In 1919, German architect Walter Gropius founded Bauhaus, the most influential art school of the 20th century. Bauhaus defined modernist design and radically changed our relationship with everyday objects.
The Mastermind of Devo, Mark Mothersbaugh, Presents His Personal Synthesizer Collection
in Music | February 5th, 2019 Leave a Comment FacebookTwitterReddit Mark Mothersbaugh’s studio is located in a cylindrical structure painted bright green – it looks more like a festive auto part than an office building. It’s a fitting place for the iconoclast musician. For those of you who didn’t spend your childhoods obsessively watching the early years of MTV, Mark Mothersbaugh was the mastermind behind the band Devo.
Watch Dziga Vertov's A Man with a Movie Camera, the 8th Best Film Ever Made
in Film | January 24th, 2019 Leave a Comment FacebookTwitterReddit Advertisement Of all the cinematic trailblazers to emerge during the early years of the Soviet Union – Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Lev Kuleshov – Dziga Vertov (né Denis Arkadievitch Kaufman, 1896–1954) was the most radical. Whereas Eisenstein – as seen in that film school standard Battleship Potemkin – used montage editing to create new ways of telling a story, Vertov dispensed with story altogether.
A Page of Madness: The Lost, Avant Garde Masterpiece from Early Japanese Cinema (1926)
It’s a sad fact that the vast majority of silent movies in Japan have been lost thanks to human carelessness, earthquakes and the grim efficiency of the United States Air Force. The first films of hugely important figures like Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujiro Ozu, and Hiroshi Shimizu have simply vanished. So we should consider ourselves fortunate that Teinosuke Kinugasa’s Kuretta Ippei — a 1926 film known in the States as A Page of Madness — has somehow managed to survive the vagaries of fate.
The Books That Samuel Beckett Read and Really Liked (1941-1956)
in Books, Literature | January 11th, 2019 Leave a Comment FacebookTwitterReddit Advertisement Samuel Beckett, Pic, 1" by Roger Pic. Via Wikimedia Commons Clad in a black turtleneck and with a shock of white hair, Samuel Beckett was a gaunt, gloomy high priest of modernism.
Hunter S. Thompson, Existentialist Life Coach, Presents Tips for Finding Meaning in Life
So in 1958, before he became a counter-culture icon, before he even started writing professionally, Thompson wrote a long letter about some of the big questions in life to his friend, Hume Logan, who was in the throes of an existential crisis. While the first couple of paragraphs warns against the dangers of seeking advice, Hunter then expounds at length on some deep, and surprisingly level-headed truths.
Download Beautifully-Designed Bauhaus Books & Journals for Free: Gropius, Klee, Kandinsky, Moholy-Nagy & More
in Art, Books | November 29th, 2018 Leave a Comment FacebookTwitterReddit Advertisement In 1919, German architect Walter Gropius founded Bauhaus, the most influential art school of the 20th century. Bauhaus defined modernist design and radically changed our relationship with everyday objects.
Early Japanese Animations: The Origins of Anime (1917 to 1931)
Japanese animation, AKA anime, might be filled with large-eyed maidens, way cool robots, and large-eyed, way cool maiden/robot hybrids, but it often shows a level of daring, complexity and creativity not typically found in American mainstream animation. And the form has spawned some clear masterpieces from Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira to Mamoru Oishii’s Ghost in the Shell to pretty much everything that Hayao Miyazaki has ever done.
Noam Chomsky Talks About How Kids Acquire Language and Ideas in an Animated Video by Michel Gondry
These days Noam Chomsky is probably most famous for his consistent, outspoken criticism of U.S. foreign policy. Yet before the War on Terror and the War on Drugs, Chomsky became internationally famous for proposing a novel solution to an age-old question: what does a baby know? Plato argued that infants retain memories of past lives and thus come into this world with a grasp of language. John Locke countered that a baby’s mind is a blank slate onto which the world etches its impression.
Moebius Gives 18 Wisdom-Filled Tips to Aspiring Artists
Jean Giraud, aka Moebius, was a comic book artist who combined blinding speed with boundless imagination. He shaped the look of Alien, Empire Strikes Back and The Fifth Element. He reimagined the Silver Surfer for Stan Lee. And he is an acknowledged influence on everyone from Japanese animating great Hayao Miyazaki to sci-fi writer William Gibson.
10 Great German Expressionist Films: From Nosferatu to The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
In 1913, Germany, flush with a new nation’s patriotic zeal, looked like it might become the dominant nation of Europe and a real rival to that global superpower Great Britain. Then it hit the buzzsaw of World War I. After the German government collapsed in 1918 from the economic and emotional toll of a half-decade of senseless carnage, the Allies forced it to accept draconian terms for surrender. The entire German culture was sent reeling, searching for answers to what happened and why.
Aldous Huxley to George Orwell: My Hellish Vision of the Future is Better Than Yours (1949)
In 1949, George Orwell received a curious letter from his former high school French teacher. Orwell had just published his groundbreaking book Nineteen Eighty-Four, which received glowing reviews from just about every corner of the English-speaking world. His French teacher, as it happens, was none other than Aldous Huxley who taught at Eton for a spell before writing Brave New World (1931), the other great 20th century dystopian novel.
"Tsundoku," the Japanese Word for the New Books That Pile Up on Our Shelves, Should Enter the English Language
There are some words out there that are brilliantly evocative and at the same time impossible to fully translate. Yiddish has the word shlimazl, which basically means a perpetually unlucky person. German has the word Backpfeifengesicht, which roughly means a face that is badly in need of a fist. And then there’s the Japanese word tsundoku, which perfectly describes the state of my apartment. It means buying books and letting them pile up unread.
Stanley Kubrick’s Annotated Copy of Stephen King’s The Shining
The web site Overlook Hotel has posted pictures of Stanley Kubrick’s personal copy of Stephen King’s novel The Shining, which is normally kept at the Stanley Kubrick Archive, but has been making the rounds in a traveling exhibition. The book is filled with highlighted passages and largely illegible notes in the margin—tantalizing clues to Kubrick’s intentions for the movie.
Play the Twin Peaks Video Game: Retro Fun for David Lynch Fans
They made a video game out of Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker, so why not Twin Peaks. Twin Peaks is, of course, a seminal cult TV series, a surrealist soap opera spun out of the mind of David Lynch. When it came out in the late 80s, America was seized with the show’s central mystery – who killed Laura Palmer? A tortured blonde beauty queen who wound up dead, wrapped in plastic.
10 Great German Expressionist Films: From Nosferatu to The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
In 1913, Germany, flush with a new nation’s patriotic zeal, looked like it might become the dominant nation of Europe and a real rival to that global superpower Great Britain. Then it hit the buzzsaw of World War I. After the German government collapsed in 1918 from the economic and emotional toll of a half-decade of senseless carnage, the Allies forced it to accept draconian terms for surrender. The entire German culture was sent reeling, searching for answers to what happened and why.
Get the Veeptopus Book! — Veeptopus
The American vice presidency, a job disdained as "the most insignificant office" by its first occupant, has never been a station to be clamored for, even by the 48 sad sacks who have ended up there. The common octopus, meanwhile, is nimble, intelligent and in full control of an array of fine motor skills - more than could be said of many of the United States' second-in-commands.
I Drew Portraits Of Every U.S. Vice President With An Octopus On His Head
Two years ago, I unveiled to the world my insane project: hand-drawn portraits of every U.S. vice president with an octopus on his head, from John Adams to Joe Biden. The series started as a giddy, over-caffeinated 3 o’clock-in-the-morning sort of idea that I took way too far. And to my surprise, people seemed to like the weird project. Last week, I launched a Kickstarter to put all of them into one beautiful book.
My statement: Jonathan Crow
My name is Jonathan Crow and I want to be your next Ward 6 councilor. I am a married father of four sons and I work full-time for a local fire department as a lieutenant-paramedic. I also own a local small business. I have been a Ward 6 resident for the last nine years and have seen our area of town neglected by current and former leaders. My political experience is not vast, but my desire to serve our neighborhood and residents is.
Charlie Chaplin Does Cocaine and Saves the Day in Modern Times (1936)
When you think of drug movies, flicks like Easy Rider, Drugstore Cowboy and pretty much everything by Cheech and Chong might spring to mind. Add to this list Charlie Chaplin’s masterpiece Modern Times. In the movie, Chaplin’s iconic Little Tramp character does a whole lot of blow and ends up a better man for it. You can see a clip above. After getting mistaken for a Communist demonstrator, the Tramp is thrown in the clink.
San Francisco Magazine | Modern Luxury | Art Trumps Fear
Ever since Donald Trump prevailed in the presidential election, much ink has been spilled over what this means for everything from the rights of minorities to the direction of our democracy. And yet: We still find ourselves sometimes at a loss for words. So we asked four Bay Area artists to give us their nonverbal takes on the coming reign of Trump. (Click through the slideshow above.) Originally published in the December issue of San Francisco Have feedback?
Every U.S. Vice President with an Octopus on His Head: Kickstart The Veeptopus Book
Two years ago on this very site, I unveiled to the world my insane project: hand-drawn portraits of every U.S. vice president with an octopus on his head, from John Adams to Joe Biden. The series started as a giddy, over-caffeinated 3 o’clock-in-the-morning sort of idea that I took way too far. And to my surprise, people seemed to like the weird project. My work was featured on sites like Boing Boing, io9 and Buzzfeed.
Watch Dziga Vertov’s Unsettling Soviet Toys: The First Soviet Animated Movie Ever (1924)
in Film, History | February 7th, 2014 4 Comments FacebookTwitterReddit Advertisement Dziga Vertov is best known for his dazzling city symphony A Man with a Movie Camera, which was ranked by Sight and Sound magazine as the 8th best movie ever made. Yet what you might not know is that Vertov also made the Soviet Union’s first ever animated movie, Soviet Toys.
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