“You look magnificent.”
“Next”. By Jenna Bans and Kevin Murphy. Desperate Housewives. ABC, Los Angeles. 25 Sep. 2005.
Freddie Anderson
“We’re always very critical of each other. I’m telling my daughter, ‘Put lipstick on,’ and she tells me to keep my elbow forward. -Freddie Anderson, ski instructor
How Manhattan’s Grid Grew
“We cross at corners with the grid. That’s not quite the New York I know, but it’s true that when we jaywalk or take shortcuts across plazas or stroll down Broadway, we are aware of violating the grid. The grid is the ego to our id.”
-Hillary Ballon, professor of Urban Studies and Architecture, New York University
Recommended article:
Kimmelman, Michael. “The Grid at 200: Lines That Shaped Manhattan” The New York Times. 2 Jan. 2012.
“Candles Theme”
Composed by Pino Donaggio.
Carrie. Dir. Brian De Palma. Wri. Lawrence D. Cohen. Perf. Sissy Spacek, Amy Irving, William Katt, Nancy Allen, John Travolta, Betty Buckley, P.J. Soles, Piper Laurie. United Artists, 1976.
empty nest
“The Invisible Woman”. Written by Bruce Eric Kaplan. Six Feet Under. HBO, Los Angeles. 1 Apr. 2002.
funeral chair
31″ h. x 16″ w. x 13″ d.
Label affixed to back reads: France Memorial Funeral Home. Orchard Park, N.Y. ID. 333.
“I love the stoic nature of this vintage French funeral chair. Most vintage furniture evokes a narrative for me, and with this folding chair I wonder how much grief this fragile chair has beared over the years. I think of all the people who must have taken a seat here at one point, and wonder what they were thinking.
It seems like an extra chair, stacked in the corner for those who arrive late. Perhaps delayed in the rain, or ambivalent about attending the service, or kindly giving up their more stable seat to someone who needs it.”
The universe is expanding.
Annie Hall. Dir. Wood Allen. Pro. Charles H. Joffe and Jack Rollins Wri. Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman. Perf. Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane, Paul Simon, Shelley Duvall, Christopher Walken, Colleen Dewhurst. United Artists, 1977.
pacify
pac·i·fy \ˈpa-sə-ˌfī\
Function: verb
Date: 15th century
1 a : to allay the anger or agitation of : soothe b : appease, propitiate
2 a : to restore to a tranquil state : settle b : to reduce to a submissive state : subdue
- Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Featured music:
Houses. “Endless Spring”. All Night. Lefse Records, 2010.
Sarah Churman
“I was born deaf and eight weeks ago I received a hearing implant. This is the video of them turning it on and me hearing myself for the first time.” -Sarah Churman
Clint Hill
Clinton J. Hill (born 1932) is a former United States Secret Service agent who was in the presidential motorcade during the assassination of John F. Kennedy. After Kennedy was shot, Hill ran from the car immediately behind the presidential limousine and leapt onto the back of it, holding on while the car raced to Parkland Memorial Hospital. This action was documented in the famous Zapruder film. Hill is the last surviving passenger of the presidential limousine which arrived at Parkland.
- Wikipedia
The Trip (2010)
Featured music:
Grieg, Edvard. “In The Hall of the Mountain King”. Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1, Op. 46. 1876.
rule of three
“The ‘rule of three’ is a staple in our racket. In monologues, three seems to be the maximum number of jokes that can be done on a topic before an audience gets restless. And many jokes have three parts. How often have you heard about the priest, the rabbi and the minister?”
- Raymond Siller, comedy writer for The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
Lawrence Schiller
Lawrence Schiller
American, born 1936
“Tippi Hedren and Alfred Hitchcock”
Los Angeles, 1962
silver halide chromogenic print
16 x 20 in.
©Orange County Museum of Art; Gift of Heather and James Carona
Earth time-lapse
Time lapse sequences of photographs taken with a special low-light 4K-camera by the crew of expedition 28 & 29 on board the International Space Station from August to October, 2011. Editing: Michael König.
Featured music:
Jelinek, Jan. “Do Dekor”. Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records. Efa Imports, 2001.
Marsha Norman
“Family is just accident… They don’t mean to get on your nerves. They don’t even mean to be your family, they just are.”
- Marsha Norman, playwright
“As a matter of fact, it was.”
Halloween. Dir. John Carpenter. Pro. Debra Hill. Perf. Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, P.J. Soles, Nancy Loomis. Compass International Pictures, 1978.
Steve Jobs
“[One afternoon we] were sitting in his backyard … and he was not in the best of health at the time. … He said, ‘You know, I’m kind of 50/50 on believing in God. But I want to believe that something endures, that your wisdom that you accumulate, that the knowledge that you have somehow is able to endure after you die.’
“And then he pauses, and he says, ‘Maybe that’s just wishful thinking. Maybe that’s just like an on-off switch.’ And he goes, ‘Click, you’re off. You’re gone. It’s over.’ And then he paused for a moment and he said, ‘Maybe that’s why I didn’t like to put on-off switches on Apple devices.’ “
- Walter Isaacson, biographer
Joey DeFrancesco
“Jared, I’m here to tell you that I’m quitting.” -Joey DeFrancesco, former employee of Providence Renaissance Hotel
What happens when there’s only one of us left?
“Sophia’s Choice”. By Tracy Gamble, Richard Vaczy. The Golden Girls. NBC, Los Angeles. 15 Apr. 1989.
Medley: Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra
“Pennies from Heaven”. Music by Arthur Johnston. Lyrics by Johnny Burke.
“A Foggy Day”. Composed by George Gershwin. Lyrics by Ira Gershwin.
“Embraceable You”. Composed by George Gershwin. Lyrics by Ira Gershwin.
“The Lady Is a Tramp”. Composed by Richard Rodgers. Lyrics by Lorenz Hart.
“Where or When”. Composed by Richard Rodgers. Lyrics by Lorenz Hart.
“I’ve Got the World on a String”. Composed by Harold Arlen. Lyrics by Ted Koehler.
“Oh Marie”. Written by Eduardo di Capua.
“All of Me”. Written by Gerald Marks and Seymour Simons.
“When You’re Smiling (the Whole World Smiles With You)”. Written by Larry Shay, Mark Fisher, and Joe Goodwin.
Joseph Kittinger
“I had no ripple of the fabric — my pressure suit. I had no visual reference of anything, so I thought I really was suspended in space. We really don’t appreciate what a beautiful planet we have.” -Joseph Kittinger
Large Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. It is expected to address some of the most fundamental questions of physics, advancing the understanding of the deepest laws of nature.
This six-minute video explains the design of the collider, which operates under several key stages in order to receive the desired outcome of each run. Through these runs, we hope to one day have an “instruction manual” of universe creation, understanding how everything got here, and where it’s all eventually going.
panache
pa·nache \pə-ˈnash, -ˈnäsh\
Function: noun
Date: 1553
1 : an ornamental tuft (as of feathers) especially on a helmet
2 : dash or flamboyance in style and action : VERVE
- Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
A History of the Title Sequence
This short pays homage to the following designers and their titles:
Georges Méliès – Un Voyage Dans La Lune (1902)
Saul Bass – Psycho (1960)
Maurice Binder – Dr. No (1962)
Stephen Frankfurt – To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
Pablo Ferro – Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Richard Greenberg – Alien (1979)
Kyle Cooper – Seven (1995)
Danny Yount – Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005), Sherlock Holmes (2009)
Michael Jackson’s influences
Featured music:
Jackson, Michael. “Billie Jean”. Thriller. Epic, 1982.
Katie Westbrook
“A ‘sick child’ is the hardest two words to ever hear in combination. Almost harder than even a ‘hungry child’. It just shouldn’t be, and unfortunately, as we know, it’s so common. Any institution that works to ease that suffering, to find cures, to do research, to work on behalf of those children… it is a privilege to be able to be a servant to that.” -Jamie Lee Curtis, actress and humanitarian
