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The Ring

Mirror, mirror. Love this installation by Arnaud Lapierre in Place Vendôme in Paris.

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From Weekly Filet #79, in August 2012.

The Valtari Mystery Film Experiment

Sigur Rós have successfully made a transition from «the somewhat odd Icelandic band everyone can agree to like» to one of the bands at the forefront of leveraging the internet for their artistic work. In their latest project, called «The Valtari Mystery Film Experiment», they have a dozen film makers produce videos for the tracks of their latest album, with «a modest budget» and no instructions whatsoever. What’s more, they are inviting everyone to contribute a video, one of them will be selected to be part of the series. Six videos are already available, go watch them!

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From Weekly Filet #79, in August 2012.

Is The New

A classic, rediscovered. A collection of words that have been coupled by the infamous «X is the new Y» formula. Key learning: In the Long Run, Everything is the New Black.

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From Weekly Filet #79, in August 2012.

Huw Price on Backward Causation

Causality has always fascinated me. I think I can follow David Hume when we argues that we shouldn’t assume a causal relation between two events just because they appear to always follow each other. But then I come across this editon of the brilliant philosophy podcast «Philosophy Bites» in which Huw Price argues in favor of backward causation. The idea being that something can be caused by something else that happened after that. It’s like time-travelling causation. I can see your head start spinning from here, so let’s jump right into the 15-minute-podcast.

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From Weekly Filet #78, in July 2012.

    Dealing With Olympic Failure

    Here’s the story of one man who was a single shot away from winning gold at the Olympics – and failed miserably. Not once, but twice. He’ll try again in London.

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    From Weekly Filet #78, in July 2012.
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