Showing posts with label Nostalgia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nostalgia. Show all posts

Monday, May 16, 2011

Relive your entire 90's childhood in under 4 minutes


Holy hell, this is the best made "90s childhoop pop culture recap" I've ever seen.

Friday, April 15, 2011

One photo every day

Upon turning 30, this man embarked on what sounds like a very simple, pretty cool project: to take one photo every day, and, no matter what, to post it to the internet before bed that night. Looking back on the experience, and on the (gorgeously photographed) fruits of his year's labour, his musings are stirring and beautiful. About the fleetingness of moments, the imperfection of memory, the impermanence of all things... (sounds like a bit of a downer, but it's actually not! :)

TODAY from m ss ng p eces on Vimeo.

He leaves it on this note...

No matter what you do in your life, what you create, what career you have, whether you have a family or kids, or make a lot of money… your greatest creation is always going to be your life’s story. Because it’s like this container that holds all of those other things. That was something I was really interested in with this project, thinking about life itself as a creation, as a story that you’re writing.”
~ Jonathan Harris


Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Friday, September 3, 2010

About our childhood...

Simpler times! Coming back from Charlemagne. Running for the two symbols of power and supremacy in our three-membered kingdom: 1) the remote, and 2) getting the single sofa (that was, in the early years, covered in a shiny tissu with a beige background and ratatouille-coloured flowers, and later in a yellowish ocher with navy piping). Sitting in that throne like a hammoc, securely cupped in its plushness, our small frames luxuriously disproportionate to it. And the less lucky/quick/diligent among us would have to sit on the edge of the long sofa, a little too close to the screen, lying on their stomach. The green and red plaid fabric scratchy on your chin....Though it must be said this spot came with an advantage- and no small advantage at that - the well-being and freedom of having nothing to lose. The subtracted stress of vigilance. The liberty to go make yourself a plate of rice with beef and green peppers at your leisure without worrying about losing your spot. Even the knowledge that your role will be to criticize and complain about the selected programming, and not defend your executive choice of Gargoyles over X-Men. Then daddy would arrive, his shuffing and unloading lit by the kitchen's spotlights, and call out in the direction of the family room about homework notdone. And the spell would be broken.

But what has really changed since those days? Well, the solo chair has shrunk significantly since then, somehow; television programming in the 4 to 7 o'clock weekday slot had diminished in quality quite significantly... and that's pretty much it though, right?

Here is some more of the finest after-school entertainment that the world has ever known...

and not to forget baba in all this mid-nineties nostalgia, I give you The Eternal....

PS: Sometimes, these things need to be dealt the weight they deserve.