The most dramatic footage of Nebraska you’ll see all month. Feast your eyes:
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August 2013
“These 30 seconds of a Jack Russell terrier riding a skateboard are unaccompanied by narration, background music, or even any indication of where the activity takes place. It is pure skateboarding dog, and there’s something about its simplicity than induces a zenlike state of bliss. But don’t just take my word for it. Press play and transport yourself into half a minute of quiet reflection. You will emerge a much better person.”
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Which superpower would you pick?
And which rules aren’t really rules at all? Ask linguist Ben Yagoda:
What makes @Horse_ebooks’ algorithmically generated Twitter feed so appealing?
That so many people have happily latched onto random wisdom from a spam robot feels vaguely like pareidolia, the tendency to see our own likeness everywhere we look—the man in the moon, the Virgin Mary on a piece of toast, etc., etc.
But considering Horse_ebooks within the context of the Twitter platform also hints at another part of the account’s appeal: Horse undermines our sense of self-importance and control, reminding us that the things and ideas that captivate us moment to moment, the narrative we’re jointly weaving together — in 140-character bursts or elsewhere—is maybe not so meaningful.
So maybe Horse has become a reflection of who we are, a distorted and splintered mirror image of what Internet culture is made of.
The story of the Rwandan national cycling team—
Rising From Ashes from T.C. Johnstone on Vimeo.
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This looks great—
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