Wong Kar-Wai’s upcoming film …a new telling of the Ip Man story. via
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NewStatesman
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Flying Lotus
short film by Kahlil Joseph, music from Flying Lotus’ album(preview at npr).more dancing from Storyboard P
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melnikov
Melnikov House: entrance façade. photo by M.A. Ilyin, 1931. Department of Photographs, Schusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow. via
garden facade, via Igor Palmin
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sketch
El Lissitzky, Sketch for Proun 6B, 1919-21 Pencil and gouache on paper. 346 x 447 mm. State Museum of Contemporary Art – G. Costakis Collection, Thessaloniki, Greece. -
Apparently, literally is a crutch
theatlanticwire.com on Biden’s propensity towards literally (use as hyperbole) and on other crutch words. I lean on actually.
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when tu > vous (or usted)
BBC on the second person address on the interweb, specifically usage of the informal “tu” vs. the formal “vous” on Twitter.
Social networking sites such as Twitter take this one step further, adopting codes “characterised by a heightened sense of emotional proximity”, such as friending on Facebook, he says.
Twitter, meanwhile, follows on from a long line of internet forums where users could be anonymous.
“In the philosophy of the internet, we are among peers, equal, without social distinction, whatever your age, gender, income or status in real life,” Besson says.
Addressing someone as “vous” – or expecting to be addressed as “vous” – on the other hand, implies hierarchy.
There are poignant comments on the article.
