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THE NEW JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE VIDEO IS A METAPHOR FOR PURGATORY?
The world this video takes place in doesn’t appear to belong to any specific place or time. Some costumes and settings appear drawn from the 1950s; others, like Justin’s outfit, hail from 1997. There is no one in a laundromat. It is clean and bright, like I imagine purgatory to be. Everyone dances, but nobody moves.
Let’s supplement the imagery with words from famous purgatory expert Jean-Paul Sartre.
“Can you stop your thoughts? I hear them ticking away like a clock, tick-tock, tick-tock, and I’m certain you hear mine.”
“You’re everywhere, and every sound comes to me soiled because you’ve intercepted it on its way. Why, you’ve even stolen my face; you know it and I don’t!“
"When I can’t see myself I begin to wonder if I really and truly exist. I pat myself just to make sure, but it doesn’t help much.”
“I know what’s coming to me. I’m going to burn, and it’s to last forever.“
“There were days when you peered into yourself, into the secret places of your heart, and what you saw there made you faint with horror.”
“There’s no more hope — but it’s still ‘before.’ We haven’t yet begun to suffer.“
This blog comparing pictures of David Bowie and sea slugs makes total sense
It works to such an uncanny degree it’s hard not to imagine that a young Bowie received an illustrated book of nudibranchia at a young age, and spent the rest of his career mining the pages for new looks
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P.s. Drake’s SNL monologue about not wanting to be a meme is the all-time biggest lie in American history
UNCHARTED 4 DOES NOSTALGIA THE RIGHT WAY
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End could well be the last game of its kind, part of a dying breed of lavish single-player experiences that focus on telling a specific story in a cinematic way. But — if you believe developer Naughty Dog — it’s also the last of the many adventures of series hero Nathan Drake. That’s a big deal. Since his debut in 2007’s Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, we’ve seen Nate go on countless adventures, uncovering lost cities and ancient artifacts. But more importantly, we’ve seen him grow as a person. What started out as a wise-cracking mix of Indiana Jones and Lara Croft has turned into a flawed, relatable, and lovable character.
Naughty Dog clearly understands this because Uncharted 4 feels like the perfect send-off for the charming rogue. It’s a game that’s laced with nostalgia, with nods both big and small that will remind you of some of Nate’s most iconic moments. But these glimpses of the past don’t feel like tacked-on fan service; instead, they’re smartly interwoven into the story in a way that feels natural. This is nostalgia done the right way.
— ANDREW WEBSTER FOR THE VERGE
Chance the Rapper’s Coloring Book is jubilant and generous
Above all, Coloring Book is optimistic — about Chicago, about independent music, about the promise of the future. Acid Rap found its joy in a mind-altering drugginess, but Coloring Book looks forward, or above, to some kind of higher power. The joy is in the details of day-to-day existence, in the normalcy of family life, and Sunday morning church. Chance’s vocal calling cards — those “yups” and chirps — sound like affirmations now, signs that a kid from a city with a mind-numbing murder rate can still turn out okay, successful, even wildly happy.
Coloring Book is ultimately an album about change. “Same Drugs” is a Peter Pan story: about growing up and falling out of step with someone you used to be in tune with. On Coloring Book, it’s hard to imagine Chance being out of tune with anyone, until you realize he might be holding himself back for their benefit. Because if there’s one thing Coloring Book proves, it’s that Chance the Rapper has always been one step ahead of the rest of us.
— LIZZIE PLAUGIC FOR THE VERGE
- 27 percent of the contestants chose a film starring Russell Crowe as one of their favorite movies, while 23 percent chose a film starring Matt Damon.
Conclusion: Roughly half of the contestants on The Bachelorette love either Russell Crowe or Matt Damon, though apparently none of them love both. - 96 percent of the contestants chose favorite films that unequivocally star a man, and one of the contestants enjoyed Princess Bride.
Conclusion: The contestants on The Bachelorette truly love a movie where women don’t talk. - 23 percent of the contestants chose Gladiator as one of their favorite films, while 15 percent of the contestants chose Dumb and Dumber. Conclusion: The contestants on The Bachelorette love overrated dramas, overrated comedies, or both.
- 15 percent of the new Bachelorette contestants listed, as one or more of their favorite movies, inaccurate titles for said movies.
Conclusion: The contestants on The Bachelorette have better things to do with their time than know the precise titles for the movies they love best. For example, responding to survey questions by making jokes about how women are just pretending when they say they’re willing to pay for dinner. - 88 percent of the new Bachelorette contestants did not list one film starring a non-white person.
Conclusion: The contestants on The Bachelorette say things like “that movie just isn’t relevant to my life,” as a code for something else that it is not polite to say. - 81 percent of the new Bachelorette contestants shared a favorite movie with another of the new Bachelorette contestants.
Conclusion: Thursday night movie nights in the Bachelor Mansion will be pretty amicable, and very boring.
In 1984 NASA Dryden Flight Research Center and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) teamed-up in a unique flight experiment called the Controlled Impact Demonstration (CID), to test the impact of a Boeing 720 aircraft using standard fuel with an additive designed to supress fire. The additive FM-9, a high molecular-weight long chain polymer, when blended with Jet-A fuel had demonstrated the capability to inhibit ignition and flame propagation of the released fuel in simulated impact tests.
Antimisting kerosene (AMK) cannot be introduced directly into a gas turbine engine due to several possible problems such as clogging of filters. The AMK must be restored to almost Jet-A before being introduced into the engine for burning. This restoration is called “degradation” and was accomplished on the B-720 using a device called a “degrader”. Each of the four Pratt & Whitney JT3C-7 engines had a “degrader” built and installed by General Electric (G.E) to break down and return the AMK to near Jet-A quality.
In addition to the AMK research the NASA Langley Research Center was involved in a structural loads measurement experiment which included having instrumented dummies filling the seats in the passenger compartment. Before the final flight on December 1, 1984, more then four years of effort passed trying to set-up final impact conditions considered survivable by the FAA. During those years while 14 flights with crews were flown the following major efforts were underway: NASA Dryden developed the remote piloting techniques necessary for the B-720 to fly as a drone aircraft; General Electric installed and tested four degraders (one on each engine); and the FAA refined AMK (blending, testing, and fueling a full size aircraft). The 14 flights had 9 takeoffs, 13 landings and around 69 approaches, to about 150 feet above the prepared crash site, under remote control. These flight were used to introduce AMK one step at a time into some of the fuel tanks and engines while monitoring the performance of the engines. On the final flight (No. 15) with no crew, all fuel tanks were filled with a total of 76,000 pounds of AMK and all engines ran from start-up to impact (the flight time was 9 minutes) on the modified Jet-A.
The CID impact was spectacular with a large fireball enveloping and burning the B-720 aircraft. From the standpoint of AMK the test was a major set-back, but for NASA Langley, the data collected on crashworthiness was deemed successful and just as important.
Photos and text: NASA DFRC