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A Hypnotic Supercut of Passageways in Yasujirō Ozu Movies "Yasujiro Ozu, the man whom his kinsmen consider the most Japanese of all film directors, had but one major subject, the Japanese family," writes Donald Richie in his definitive study Ozu: His Life and Films, "and but one major theme, its dissolution." And in his 53 films, Ozu essayed these themes in a rigorous style of which his fans can't get enough. Read the rest... Major retailers accused of selling phony herbal supplements The New York State attorney general’s office investigated herbal supplements being sold at GNC, Target, Walgreens and Wal-Mart, and found that many don't contain the ingredients on the label. Read the rest... "To Kill A Mockingbird" sequel to be published in July After a 50 year break, Harper Lee, author of To Kill A Mockingbird, will publish her second book, titled Go Set A Watchman. Read the rest... Close Personal Friend: A 90s Music Video-Style Profile of Douglas Coupland Given his equally literary, visual, and technological interests, I'd imagine that Douglas Coupland appeals to a great many Boing Boing readers. Read the rest... Vintage Monster Valentines In 1966, Topps issued a series of "Frankenstein Valentine Stickers" that have only improved with age. Waaaay way back in 1966, Topps put out a series of trading cards called Frankenstein Valentine Stickers, 44 sticker cards in total that featured the likenesses of iconic movie monsters, along with messages of love that ranged from clever to downright creepy. Read the rest... Mary and Vincent Price's incredible recipe book Wandering through a used book store yesterday, I came across a book entitled A Treasure of Great Recipes. Normally this would not catch my attention, but the authors were Vincent and Mary Price! Read the rest... Relae – Michelin-star chef offers recipes and inspirational bite-size essays Relae: A Book of Ideas is marketed as a cookbook, but it’s so much more. Chef Christian F. Puglisi, whose “bare-bones style” restaurant Relae in Copenhagen is the only fully organic restaurant to earn a Michelin star, doesn’t just hand us a collection of his favorite recipes. Read the rest... Davy DMX, Influential Early Hip Hop Mega-Producer The career of Davy DMX spans Hip Hop before Rap records up to his music being sampled today by a new generation of artists. He's the focus of this week's Hip Hop Family Tree by Ed Piskor Read the rest... Watch 50 Years of Korean Cinema Free from the Korean Film Archive Whenever I meet someone Korean, I talk to them in Korean. Inevitably, they respond by asking how I could possibly have found interest enough in their country to study its language for seven years and counting. Read the rest... Mash-up: Flock of Sabbath Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" meets A Flock of Seagulls' "I Ran (So Far Away)," courtesy of Andy Rehfeldt. (via Laughing Squid) Read the rest... The BBC Visits Los Angeles, "City of the Future?" in 1991 Not long ago, I interviewed renowned UCLA urban theorist Edward Soja on my podcastNotebook on Cities and Culture. In researching what he'd said before about this ever-fascinating, ever-confounding city, I came upon Los Angeles: City of the Future? Read the rest... Curious case of the disappearing Polish S Marcin Wichary, my colleague at Medium, tells tales of typography that amazing, confound, delight, and startle me, and I'm not a designer. Read the rest... Golden retrievers are magic dogs Magic. [via] Read the rest... Massive vintage Disneyland auction Later this month, more than 1,000 pieces of Disneyland memorabilia will be auctioned off, including a doll from It's A Small World, a skeleton from Pirates of the Caribbean, original Tomorrowland art by Bruce Bushman, and a ton more. Read the rest... The Queen of Code, a FiveThirtyEight film on Grace Hopper Grace Hopper intended the world's first compiler, and this wonderful video, directed by Community's Gillian Jacobs, is a brilliant introduction to her career and position in the history of computing. My only objection is that it's not a full-length documentary. Read the rest... Canarywatch: fine-grained, high-alert system to detect and reveal secret government snooping In the age of secret government snooping warrants -- which come with gag orders prohibiting their recipients from revealing their existence -- "warrant canaries" have emerged as the best way to keep an eye on out-of-control, unaccountable spying, and now they've gotten better. Read the rest... Tim Schafer and dev team watch Psychonauts speed run Tim Schafer and members of the Psychonauts development team sit down with speed-runner Stephen "SMK" Kiazyk to watch him do a run of the game and witness the different ways he's found around their painstakingly crafted work in order to complete it as fast as possible. Read the rest... Black cat takes a nosedive into snow LOL. [liveleak] Read the rest... The Sculptor: Scott McCloud's magnum opus (about magnum opuses) Scott McCloud is best known as comics' most accessible, smartest theorist, thanks to his 1994 classic Understanding Comics. But the other McCloud, of superhero comics like ZOT! is equally beloved by the cognoscenti. With The Sculptor, McCloud reminds us that he is one of the field's great storytellers, with a story of love, art, madness and death that wrenches, delights and confounds. Read the rest... Philip Glass will score The Fantastic Four Avant-garde minimalist composer Philip Glass will compose the score for Josh Trank's forthcoming film The Fantastic Four (trailer below). “I got his number from his manager, I sent him (my previous film) Chronicle and had a call with him. Read the rest... Gordy's leather lug-mount camera wrist strap Over the past decade I've been annoyed with traditional camera straps that go around your neck or diagonally across the body. Read the rest... Money talks: policy with a business model It must be Groundhog Day, because British politicians are making us debate their repeatedly-failed spying legislation -- how is it that some policy initiatives never die, while others can't get any traction at all? Read the rest... The best adventure stories for kids from 1965 The 60s wasn't just hippies and Woodstock. It was also the Golden Age of children's literature.Read the rest... Linkdump: Robotic newspaper archive, NY cop vs teen snowball fight; Dune coloring book; LOVEINT; Canada's PATRIOT Act & more more more This is the stuff that I woke up to today. Can you believe it? ☣ Airtight and Run By Robots: British Library's National Newspaper Building opens [Construction Manager] Massive, robot-filled, climate-controlled, dark newspaper archive tending ancient, crumbling pressed vegetable pulp -- run by the private sector, who'll no doubt charge the public who paid for it all for future access, in a weird parody of free-market economics. Read the rest... #Leftistshark: Katy Perry's Super Bowl Left Shark plus Noam Chomsky quotes From Boing Boing with meme-love. You're welcome. Read the rest... Custom Jackhammer Jill skateboard by Andreas Ekberg I love my new Jackhammer Jill skateboard deck designed and made by Andreas Ekberg. Check out his website of beautiful creations. Read the rest... Music: Erik Satie's “Gymnopédie,” the Anamanaguchi chiptune cover Listen to it here. Read the rest... Zojirushi stainless steel mug: leakproof travel thermos I bought my first Zojirushi stainless steel mug as a Christmas gift for my wife. She likes to take a lot of coffee with her to work for the day, typically filling both a travel mug and a thermos. Read the rest... David Graeber's The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy Anarchist anthropologist David Graeber follows up his magesterial Debt: The First 5000 Yearswith a slim, sprightly, acerbic attack on capitalism's love affair with bureaucracy, asking why the post-Soviet world has more paperwork, phone-trees and red-tape than ever, and why the Right are the only people who seem to notice or care. Read the rest... Soft butter is important to me, so I use a butter crock We use a lot of butter at my house. And we like our butter soft, so it is easier to mix in to recipes, and so it doesn't rip toast apart when applied with a knife. Read the rest...