CALIFORNIA CITY by Bill Couch Nice photo essay of some Mojave Desert towns

Vivaldi Unbound Vivaldi and Kanye West in one article: “This is the difference between works that are kept alive in the fenced-off wildlife preserve of the academy and works that survive on their own, in the jungle of popular consumption.”

The Obamacare Suits/Geeks Divide “One of the worst things that can happen on a systems project is to find yourself revisiting the business-technical negotiations process after writing a lot of code.”

The Tantalizing Tree Of Knowledge “Metaphorically, this image teaches us that we must not be greedy for knowledge that is more than we can bear. In time, after we mature and advance in perfection, things will be made known to us that, if we received them now, would ruin us.”

Dishing Out Insulin: How Feel-Good Viral Machines like Upworthy and BuzzFeed Filter Reality “The web is, in many ways, a manifestation of the human id. It’s gossip and sex and jealousy and the tribal mindset.”

Christian, Not Conservative “We have forgotten… about building the stately mansions of the soul … Instead, we adopted this very small view of ourselves and others, as consumers and patients and members of interest groups.”

God and Evil “The story of Adam and Eve was initially, then, a fable about the attainment of free will and the embrace of moral responsibility. It became a tale about the corruption of free will and the constraints on moral responsibility.”

Runaway Ringling Computer Animation

Pudovkin’s 5 Editing Techniques Evan Richards