24 February 2013

This Week in Awesome (2/23/13)

Some awards show is on tonight. I probably won't watch it.

However, this page has a list of every Best Picture winner since the Oscars began. How many have you seen? How many are movies you wouldn't be the least bit interested in seeing?

This... is the sort of thing that most people would not find interesting or amusing, but I do.

The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is getting a light installation that's going to be really cool, and I hope I'll have a chance to go see it in person. (Laughing Squid)

There are many ways to screw things up; this site attempts to chronicle them visually. (You can navigate through the images by using the left and right arrows on your keyboard, or if you click on the image, arrows appear at the bottom of the screen.)

And finally this week, here is the full performance of David Bowie's "Sound And Vision" by Beck, accompanied by 170 musicians and choir singers. (I apologize for the fact that this is sort of a marketing tie-in, but it's still worth seeing.) If you are feeling more adventurous, there's also a link on this page to the 360-degree "experience" version of the performance, which involves using motions of your head and your computer's webcam to control the camera angles.

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