Alex Proyas's 2009 film Knowing is a science fiction thriller wrapped inside a philosophical discourse. But a discourse about what?
Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles
'Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles' by Philadelphia filmmaker Jon Foy, is about the kind of people who see signs, who look beyond the everyday surface of things to uncover what lies beneath. People drawn into the mysteries of the world. In this case, the mystery in question is a series of linoleum tiles inscribed with cryptic messages embedded into the asphalt of roadways in Philadelphia and other cities.
Soylent Green is Content
Content Farms, Echo Sites, and the Future of Online Content Investors today snapped up shares of Demand Media, whose IPO gave the company a valuation of close to $2 billion -- more than that of the New York Times Co. Demand Media is a prime example of a new kind of media entity, one made … Continue reading Soylent Green is Content
Bruce Springsteen: December 9, 1980
This past week an old friend of mine posted to her Facebook page a fond remembrance of her first Bruce Springsteen concert on December 9, 1980. My first Springsteen show was a bit earlier--in July, 1975, at Kutztown State College--but I was also at the show at the Philadelphia Spectrum on December 9, 1980. My friend's reminiscence reminded me that a decade earlier I had posted my own recollection of that show that in response to a post on rec.music.artists.springsteen (for those of you old enough to remember Usenet newsgroups). Here is what I wrote ten years ago about that night two decades earlier.
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