The Marginalian
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Reads tagged with “culture”

Collaborative Cinema: The Hunt for Gollum
Collaborative Cinema: The Hunt for Gollum

The new age of cinema has officially arrived.

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Photographic Time Machine
Photographic Time Machine

How to tear the space-time continuum with your bare hands and a camera lens.

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A Typographic Visualization of Every TED Talk, Ever
A Typographic Visualization of Every TED Talk, Ever

9,306 hours of culture’s biggest brain cloud, condensed into a tiny word cloud.

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Truth, Beauty, Math and Crocheting
Truth, Beauty, Math and Crocheting

Why your grandmother’s favorite pastime proves mathematicians are a bunch of clueless hacks.

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Earth Day The Reel Way
Earth Day The Reel Way

Just how stupid we really are, or what James Earl Jones and a giant humpback whale have in common.

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The Sale of Manhattan: A Saul Bass Gem Circa 1962
The Sale of Manhattan: A Saul Bass Gem Circa 1962

What Saul Bass has to do with George W, or why Manhattan is worth $32 worth of junk jewelry.

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Pure Process: Picking the Creative Brain
Pure Process: Picking the Creative Brain

What coffee, ironing and crying newborns have to do with the birth of an idea.

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Monday Music Muse: Haley Bonar
Monday Music Muse: Haley Bonar

What Dolly Parton has to do with today’s hippest indie rock scene.

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Film Spotlight: Paper Heart
Film Spotlight: Paper Heart

Decheesing love, or how Michael Cera went from cameo to Romeo in a never-signed-up-for-it way.

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The Housing Crisis in 3D
The Housing Crisis in 3D

What Donkey Kong has to do with the global economic landslide.

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