48 epic dream hotels to visit before you die - Page 2 of 2 Did you miss part 1? Click here. 25. Boscolo Milano, Italy Built in the shell of a 1920s structure overlooking Milan’s golden square and the Milan Cathedral, the Boscolo Milano combines colorful avant-garde decoration with the luxury of five-star restaurants and spas. 26. Half resort, half elephant camp, Anantara Golden Triangle sits at the convergence of Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar in the heart of northern Thailand’s mountainous jungle. 27. Okay, I know what you’re thinking, but suspend your disbelief for a moment so that I can tell you that not only are those the remains of Luke Skywalker’s home from Star Wars, but also, you can stay at them for $10 a night. 28. The Cambrian provides yet another option for luxury accommodations coupled with some extraordinary views of the Swiss Alps. 29. 30. Marataba Safari Lodge is not a for-profit hotel, which alone should be a major selling point. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. << Previous Page 1 2
The 30 Greatest Cult Movies Of All Time Most died at the box office, some of them horribly. Mangled and despised, they were re-animated on video. And now they compose our cultural Esperanto, a subliminal vocabulary of vaguely subversive images, ideas, and phrases that we continue to obsess over and dissect at parties, around watercoolers, in bars, over the blaring banalities of the mainstream media din. 30. The Film: This is special. Everything about it is abysmal, but especially the script, with its endless talk of “future wives” instead of “fiancees”, misplaced subplots, and its advice to “keep your comments in your pocket”. Join The Cult: The Room gets regular late-night screenings (it’s recently been on at the Prince Charles Cinema in London) so you can get in on the merriment. 29. The Film: Compulsive suicide-faker Harold escapes his overbearing mother for a profound and then romantic relationship with septugenarian Maude – much of it conducted in his custom Jaguar/hearse. Join The Cult: Can’t find a revival screening?
21 Great Lo-Fi Sci-Fi Films You Need To Watch Lo-Fi Sci-Fi is an emerging genre of the last decade or so inspired by Mumblecore and budgetary constraints. The name is derived from ‘Low Fidelity’ and ‘Science Fiction’, seemingly meant to convey the low budget, amateur approach of filming a Science Fiction movie. This is not to dumb down the genre at all but portray its indie status devoid of any Hollywood blockbuster characteristics that many contemporary Science Fiction films have. New Sci-Fi cinema has unfortunately began to suffer in thematic substance and has been generally made for commercial mass audiences with an ‘artistic’ endeavor to make it big at the box office. The films of this emanating underground genre have similar, but at the same time, completely disparate themes and elements, which can make this genre hard to exactly pin down. Please comment below with any suggestions of films you may feel fit this genre. 21. Watch this movie if: You enjoy chess. 20. 19. Lead singer of Volcano, I’m still excited!!! 18. 17. 16. 15.
27 of History’s Strangest Inventions by Maria Popova If you can’t deliver the newspaper on your amphibious bicycle, you can always fax it. “If at first an idea is not absurd,” Albert Einstein famously said, “then there is no hope for it.” Sometimes, however, absurd is just absurd — yet, even so, it’s a fascinating slice of history’s collective direction of curiosity and experimental innovation. One-wheel motorcycle Germany, 1925 Manual dredger Workers operated the so-called bucket dredger with their arms and legs using stepper boards. Bike tyre used as a swimming aid Invented by Italian M. Steam automobile design circa 1845 Amphibious bicycle This land-and-water bike can carry a load of 120 pounds; Paris, 1932 All-terrain car This all-terrain car can descend slopes up to 65 degrees; England, 1936. Radio stroller Stroller equipped with a radio, including antenna and loudspeaker, to keep the baby quiet; USA, 1921. Wooden bathing suits Wooden bathing suits, supposed to make swimming a lot easier; Hoquiam, Washington, USA, 1929 Ice sailboat
40 more maps that explain the world Maps seemed to be everywhere in 2013, a trend I like to think we encouraged along with August's 40 maps that explain the world. Maps can be a remarkably powerful tool for understanding the world and how it works, but they show only what you ask them to. You might consider this, then, a collection of maps meant to inspire your inner map nerd. I've searched far and wide for maps that can reveal and surprise and inform in ways that the daily headlines might not, with a careful eye for sourcing and detail. I've included a link for more information on just about every one. 1. Data source: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, World Bank. Those dots represent people: the brighter the dot, the more people. 2. Click to enlarge. Human beings first left Africa about 60,000 years ago in a series of waves that peopled the globe. 3. (Wikimedia commons) The Mongol conquests are difficult to fathom. 4. Click to enlarge. This map shows the Spanish and Portuguese empires at their height. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
11 Bizarre and Dangerous Items Sold by Sears in 1902 The 1902 edition of the Sears, Roebuck catalogue offers items of particular interest and questionable health benefits—everything from the latest fashions to the “surest” cures. Here are some highlights. 1. These poisonous wafers were advertised as being “simply magical” for the complexion, their most striking effects “being brought about by their steady use.” 2. At first glance, a toilet mask doesn’t sound so bad. 3. This toilet accessory looks more or less like an oversized suction cup. 4. This elixir was ingested to kill intestinal parasites—and hopefully not their human host. 5. This herb is advertised as a homeopathic medicine, and while it has a long history of medicinal use, it’s better known by another name: wolfsbane, a known poison and neurotoxin. 6. To be used as an insecticide on crops and animals, this product promises to kill “plant lice, red spiders, scales, and mealy bugs,” among other pests. 7. 8. Suffering from a nervous disease? 9. 10. 11.
Vladímir Propp De Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre Vladímir Yákovlevich Propp (en ruso: Владимир Яковлевич Пропп; San Petersburgo, 29 de abril de 1895-Leningrado, 22 de agosto de 1970) fue un antropólogo y lingüista ruso, dedicado al análisis de los componentes básicos de los cuentos populares rusos para identificar sus elementos narrativos irreducibles más simples. Biografía[editar] Vladimir Propp nació el 29 de abril de 1895 en San Petersburgo en una familia rusa de ascendencia alemana. Sus padres, Yakov Philippovich Propp y Anna-Elizaveta Fridrikhovna Beisel, eran ricos campesinos alemanes del Volga de la gobernación de Sarátov. Su Morfología del cuento (Morfológuiya skazki)[1] fue publicada en ruso en 1928; aunque influyó a Claude Lévi-Strauss y Roland Barthes, fue prácticamente ignorada en Occidente hasta que fue traducida al inglés en el año 1958. Analizó los cuentos populares hasta que encontró una serie de puntos recurrentes que creaban una estructura constante en todas estas narraciones.
EL FUTURO QUE DEJAMOS ATRÁS – La ciencia ficción de los 70 en 50 películas, 1ª parte: Los avances científicos serán portadores del CAOS | El pájaro burlón En general, con sus más y sus menos, el equipo de redacción de El pájaro burlón se ha criado en los 80. Para futuros adictos al cine como hemos acabado siendo, no podemos quejarnos. Pillamos casi el punto de partida de los blockbusters, y digamos las películas de aventuras, de acción y de fantasía, en líneas generales, se hacían enfocadas hacia un público juvenil desde Hollywood, lo cual para nosotros por edad era ideal. Y entonces veíamos esas otras de unos años antes en televisión, sobre androides asesinos en un parque de atracciones, sobre sociedades que eliminan a los suyos por crecer, alienígenas alcohólicos y futuros superpoblados donde tu abuelo era tu merienda y en ocasiones nos hacían sentir muy pequeños, como si esas películas fueran en realidad como un hermano mayor en comparación de esas otras mucho más ligeras con sus rayos láser, naves enfrentadas y sables de luz. -Androides, extraterrestres y otras criaturas infernales nos llevarán al EXTERMINIO. Pero, ¡tranquilos!
100 Diagrams That Changed the World Since the dawn of recorded history, we’ve been using visual depictions to map the Earth, order the heavens, make sense of time, dissect the human body, organize the natural world, perform music, and even concretize abstract concepts like consciousness and love. 100 Diagrams That Changed the World (public library) by investigative journalist and documentarian Scott Christianson chronicles the history of our evolving understanding of the world through humanity’s most groundbreaking sketches, illustrations, and drawings, ranging from cave paintings to The Rosetta Stone to Moses Harris’s color wheel to Tim Berners-Lee’s flowchart for a “mesh” information management system, the original blueprint for the world wide web. It appears that no great diagram is solely authored by its creator. Most of those described here were the culmination of centuries of accumulated knowledge. Most arose from collaboration (and oftentimes in competition) with others. Christianson offers a definition:
5 Timeless Books of Insight on Fear and the Creative Process by Maria Popova From Monet to Tiger Woods, or why creating rituals and breaking routines don’t have to be conflicting notions. “Creativity is like chasing chickens,” Christoph Niemann once said. But sometimes it can feel like being chased by chickens — giant, angry, menacing chickens. Despite our best-argued cases for incremental innovation and creativity via hard work, the myth of the genius and the muse perseveres in how we think about great artists. In the ideal — that is to say, real — artist, fears not only continue to exist, they exist side by side with the desires that complement them, perhaps drive them, certainly feed them. Steven Pressfield is a prolific champion of the creative process, with all its trials and tribulations. Are you paralyzed with fear? There’s hardly a creative bibliophile who hasn’t read, or at least heard of, Twyla Tharp’s The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life. Athletes know the power of triggering a ritual. Donating = Loving Share on Tumblr
9 Books on Reading and Writing by Maria Popova Dancing with the absurdity of life, or what symbolism has to do with the osmosis of trash and treasure. Hardly anything does one’s mental, spiritual, and creative health more good than resolving to read more and write better. If anyone can make grammar fun, it’s Maira Kalman — The Elements of Style Illustrated marries Kalman’s signature whimsy with Strunk and White’s indispensable style guide to create an instant classic. The original Elements of Style was published in 1919 in-house at Cornell University for teaching use and reprinted in 1959 to become cultural canon, and Kalman’s inimitable version is one of our 10 favorite masterpieces of graphic nonfiction. On a related unmissable note, let the Elements of Style Rap make your day. Anne Lamott might be best known as a nonfiction writer, but Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life affirms her as a formidable modern philosopher as well. On the itch of writing, Lamott banters: On why we read and write: On feedback:
Top: los 50 mejores sitios de Internet ¿Alguna vez has jugado con la idea de concebir los medios, y en particular los sitios de Internet, como portales a respectivas realidades que a la vez te utilizan para converger y entremezclarse, dando así vida a planos únicos de percepción e interpretación? La intención de publicar esta lista, además de ofrecer a nuestros lectores algunas alternativas que quizás no conozcan en su consumo de información, es rendir homenaje a los sitios que más nos han inspirado, que consideramos más estimulantes y que más placer nos genera su lectura. La información está viva y es un círculo sin centro y sin circunferencia; es una red incorpórea de relaciones y estímulos que transforma nuestra percepción del mundo. Estos sitios, creemos, reflejan un amplio abanico de realidad: algunos cuestionan su propia naturaleza y los modelos rectores, en otros casos son estética y artísticamente notables, y en general son instrumentos para extender las fronteras elásticas de nuestra mente con información novedosa.
8 Tips For Creating Great Stories From George R.R. Martin, Junot Diaz, And Other Top Storytellers What the hell is a Story Lizard? In Wonderbook: The Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction (Abrams Books, October 15), Story Lizards join Prologue Fish and other infographic helpmates designed to banish dry textual analysis in favor of a kicking, screaming, slithering approach to storytelling creativity. Author Jeff Vandermeer, a three-time Fantasy World Award-winning novelist who co-directs the Shared Worlds teen writing camp, says "The way we're taught to analyze fiction is to break down and do a kind of autopsy. But I think writers need to be more like naturalists or zoologists when they study story because then you're looking at how all the elements fit together." Enter the Story Lizard, above, illustrated by Jeremy Zerfoss. As Vandermeer tells Co.Create, "A recurring thing in Wonderbook is to think of stories as being more like living creatures than machines." Neil Gaiman. Read on for a sampling of Wonderbook tips about how to craft mind-blowing stories. Tell, don't show Name Wisely
11 Highly Specific Podcasts I'm a podcast pusher. I can't imagine my commute without them, and if I care about you, I can't imagine your commute without them either. I'm loyal to some major brands in the audio entertainment world, but even if you're not a fan of sports or popular culture, there's probably a podcast out there that's right up your alley. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.