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Showing posts with label awesome things. Show all posts
Showing posts with label awesome things. Show all posts
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25.12.11
A passion for fish
The seafood they send me is extraordinary. I get sea bass and halibut and cod so fresh that, at the right angle, you can see a rainbow playing across the flesh. We marvel at it. I get forty black bass that are all the same size, which is critical to dishes at the French Laundry. The scallops are still twitching, because they were practically just shucked and haven't settled down. For a cook, that's an exciting thing to see.
Thomas Keller - The French Laundry Cookbook
Thomas Keller - The French Laundry Cookbook
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28.4.10
Alfred Hitchcock
François Truffaut: In the course of our conversations we've gone into the dreamlike quality of many of your films, among them Notorious, Vertigo, and Psycho. I'd like to ask whether you dream a lot.
Alfred Hitchcock: Not too much ... sometimes ... and my dreams are very reasonable. In one of my dreams I was standing on Sunset Boulevard where the trees are, and I was waiting for a Yellow Cab to take me to lunch. But no Yellow Cab came by; all the automobiles that drove by me were of the 1916 vintage. And I said to myself, "It's no good standing here waiting for a Yellow Cab because this is a 1916 dream!" So I walked to lunch instead.
A.H.: Sex on the screen should be suspenseful, I feel. If sex is too blatant or obvious, there's no suspense. You know why I favor sophisticated blondes in my films? We're after the drawing-room type, the real ladies, who become whores once they're in the bedroom.
A.H.: Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. The story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?
A.H.: The fact is I practice absurdity quite religiously!
- François Truffaut, Truffaut/Hitchcock
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finally, all the things I love, put together
"The flip-top cigarette pack is one of the most successful pieces of packaging design in history. TankBooks pay homage to this iconic form by employing it in the service of great literature. We have launched a series of books designed to mimic cigarette packs – the same size, packaged in flip-top cartons with silver foil wrapping and sealed in cellophane."TANK BOOKS
6.3.10
woah scientology
"By doing enough auditing, taking courses and studying Mr. Hubbard’s books and lectures — for which some Scientologists say they have paid as much as $1 million — Scientologists believe that they can proceed up the “bridge to total freedom” and live to their full abilities as Operating Thetans, pure spirits. They do believe in God, or a Supreme Being that is associated with infinite potential."
NYT
NYT
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