Cabinet of Curiosities: Archive

newshouramgrad:

And we’re up and running with our first Tumblr post!

For the next 18 months, the PBS NewsHour will be sharing with you highlights from the American Graduate project, a public media initiative reporting on the nation’s high school dropout crisis. With help from the Corporation for Public…

Dec 23, 20114 notes

#AmGrad

Dec 21, 20119 notes

#sound #game #experiment

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Dec 20, 20111 note

#video #surfing #happy

Dec 20, 201199 notes

#visual #cats #quantum mechanics

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#iPhone #youtube #visual

Dec 14, 2011

#lightbox

“The show went on sale at noon on Saturday, December 10th. 12 hours later, we had over 50,000 purchases and had earned $250,000, breaking even on the cost of production and website. As of Today, we’ve sold over 110,000 copies for a total of over $500,000. Minus some money for PayPal charges etc, I have a profit around $200,000 (after taxes $75.58). This is less than I would have been paid by a large company to simply perform the show and let them sell it to you, but they would have charged you about $20 for the video. They would have given you an encrypted and regionally restricted video of limited value, and they would have owned your private information for their own use. They would have withheld international availability indefinitely. This way, you only paid $5, you can use the video any way you want, and you can watch it in Dublin, whatever the city is in Belgium, or Dubai. I got paid nice, and I still own the video (as do you). You never have to join anything, and you never have to hear from us again.

I really hope people keep buying it a lot, so I can have shitloads of money, but at this point I think we can safely say that the experiment really worked.” —Louis CK with a sales report for his Live at the Beacon Theater show that he produced, directed and began selling for $5 off of his site this past weekend. (via futurejournalismproject)

Dec 14, 2011165 notes

#distribution #Louis CK

Dec 12, 2011356 notes

#YA #Adam Gopnik #Tolkien

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Dec 2, 201125 notes

#give #Happy Friday #video #GOOD

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#afternoon distraction #video #drive #animation

austinkleon:

Without “lightly,” we would be having breakfast at Tiffany with Holly Go. Without “darkly,” we would not know how we see through a glass. Without “merrily,” we would row, row, row a boat down a stream and think it a nightmare. We still wouldn’t give a damn, just as Rhett Butler didn’t in Margaret Mitchell’s original Gone With the Wind, but without the addition of “frankly” we wouldn’t have one of the top movie quotes of all time.

The Great Gatsby is littered with them…

Dec 1, 2011178 notes

#adverbs

Cabinet of Curiosities

December 2011

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