Hollywood Has Always Been Original Columbia Pictures This article is best read with its companion piece “ Hollywood Has Never Been Original .” A few weeks ago, The New York Times published a comparison piece between Richard Linklater’s Boyhood — filmed in annual pieces over twelve years — and…

Hollywood Has Never Been Original Marvel/Disney This article is best read with its companion piece “ Hollywood Has Always Been Original .” In 2012, for the second year in a row, there were zero original movies among the highest grossing films of the year. For some it signaled the natural culmination…

Stephen Hawking in 2007. (Bruno Vincent/Getty Images) On April 20, 2009, a moment arrived that doctors had foretold for decades. Stephen Hawking, a scientist who overcame debilitating disease to become the world’s most renowned living physicist, was on the cusp of death. The University of Cambridge…

THE EDDIE MURPHY PROJECT: “96 HOURS” It’s hard to consider the current state of Eddie Murphy, working actor, without eulogizing the man. To consider what he is now necessitates grappling with what he once was. Eddie now exists in a uniquely millennial state of purgatory. Kids must think of him as…

Francois G. Durand/Getty Images Actors have called Michael Bay an asshole, a cocksucker, a Nazi—often to his face—and then swiftly signed up for the sequel. As America braces for the third chapter of Transformers —the latest explode-a-thon from the director of Bad Boys, The Rock, and Armageddon…

Over seven seasons, Parks and Recreation never shied away from its focal metaphor: that life is about making parks out of pits. At times, this idea paid off in ways befitting its resilience. The show’s legacy includes its share of durable friendships and cliché-repellent romances, as well as a…

I'm having sex on a bed floating over a dance floor. Below, the people dancing have become a single pulsating mass. All around me, are other beds, joined together by a narrow walkway, and through the electric fuchsia light, I can see bodies arching and thrusting, mouths open in moans that are…

Home CultureCulture Lists February 24, 2015 5:35PM ET Don’t You Forget About Me: ‘Breakfast Club’ at 30 John Green, Diablo Cody, the creators of ‘Gossip Girl’ and more weigh in on a teen-movie classic Judd Nelson, Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy, Molly Ringwald and Michael Hall Universal A brain, an…

The Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler. Photograph by JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Today, the Federal Communications Commission, by a vote of three to two, enacted its strongest-ever rules on net neutrality , preserving an open Internet by prohibiting broadband providers from blocking or…

A shaky video, recorded with a mobile phone and smuggled out of the inaugural First Day of Tomorrow technology conference, in April, 2014, shows an artificially intelligent computer program in its first encounter with Breakout, the classic Atari arcade game. Prototyped in 1975 by Steve Wozniak, the…

Who’s your favorite Ewan McGregor? Is it young Trainspotting Ewan — skinny as a Twizzler, a cigarette hanging tragically from his mouth? Is it Velvet Goldmine Ewan — taking Iggy Pop–esque homoeroticism to Todd Haynes’s lofty heights? Is it 2000s movie-star Ewan, looking stoic and handsomely American…

When Kong gazes at Manhattan in the Dino De Laurentiis-produced 1976 remake of King Kong , he latches onto the image of the World Trade Center’s twin towers, illuminated on the evening of his New York rampage by a full moon. He’s drawn to them by forces more powerful than a gorilla’s aversion toward…

At this past Sunday’s Oscars — which took place two years after the death of Chris Kyle — American Sniper was both a signifier of commercial muscle and a punch line. At one point in the broadcast, host Neil Patrick Harris boasted of the movie’s $300 million box office haul by comparing it to Oprah…

Jorge Guerrero/AFP/Getty Images Update: A spokesperson for the Spanish government has said that the government did not compile a list of 5,000 surnames that could make people eligible for citizenship. It says the list, which was widely distributed online is false. However, the government still says…

The search for riches in the ground has motivated some of history’s most extravagant endeavors. It has inspired explorers, enslaved populations, and put opera houses in dusty mountain towns . But when the boom ends, the miners themselves have often been left in the lurch. They handle the raw…

It’s a fitting irony that two works of art strongly associated with September 11, 2001—Bruce Springsteen’s “My City Of Ruins” and Spike Lee’s 25th Hour —were conceived in 2000, then woven into the aftermath. Springsteen altered the lyrics to his song—which had originally referred to Asbury Park, New…

Kim Gordon, February 24, 2015 in New York City. Photo: Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images There’s a great song on the first Sonic Youth album called “Shaking Hell.” The opening minute and a half — steely, ominous, unsteadily motoric — sounds like a piece of factory equipment malfunctioning in the moments…

Two Dissolve writers keep the 25th Hour conversation going... Tasha: Mike, I was all set to launch our 25th Hour discussion by confronting one of the ugliest pieces of conventional wisdom about the film: that Spike Lee didn’t really have a huge success on his hands until he made a movie primarily…

Jennifer in Paradise.tif – the picture Photoshop co-creator John Knoll took of his future wife Jennifer in Bora Bora. Photograph: John Knoll I t hardly looks like an image that shook the world. But this photograph, taken in 1987 by John Knoll, could be as central to the modern visual vernacular as…

Director Joseph Kahn released a gritty, 14-minute look at an alternate version of the popular Power Rangers characters . The short quickly blew up, and video-sharing site Vimeo briefly featured the video on its front page before suddenly removing it entirely. So what happened, and what does the…

Breasts swing. They sag. They flop. They can move. Over the years, many games have tried to emulate the way breasts behave. There's even a term for it: "Breast physics." If you've played games that have breast physics, you've probably seen how uncommon it is for games to show breasts that move like…

Last summer, Cody Wilson, a law student at the University of Texas at Austin, announced plans to design and print a working gun using a 3-D printer, a device that can quickly produce simple, solid objects out of melted plastic from digital schematics. Last weekend, Wilson accomplished his dream: he…

Editor's note: This story has been updated with UPS's statement on its refusal to ship digital milling machines used to create firearms. The new generation of "maker" tools like 3-D printers and milling machines promises to let anyone make virtually anything—from prosthetic limbs to firearms —in the…

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Christian Marclay's massively popular artwork "The Clock" is comprised of thousands of preexisting film clips strung together into a 24-hour minute-by-minute cycle. It's been widely celebrated, attended by crowds around the globe. Critical praise has been heaped upon it: The New York Times hailed…

Contributor on 01.02.15 in Features At a time when markets for used LPs like eBay and Discogs have snuffed the mystery from record shopping, Bob Abrahamian and Patrick Lundborg were the kind of collectors who actively sought out unexplored territory. Over decades of discovery, their lives’ work…

It’s way too complicated to explain this marvelous history quickly, but let’s try anyway I am a professional creator of online video and I have had that job since the moment of its existence. I’m also something of a professional advocate for, and follower of, online video. In the last ten years,…

Getty Images It's been a week, and the tech world has had a chance to digest (and digest and digest ) the New Yorker 's profile of Apple design guru Jony Ive . Most of the reaction so far has focused on Ive's luxury predilections—his chauffeured Bentley, the Gulfstream GV he bought from Steve Jobs's…

You’ve probably heard the term ‘minimalism’ thrown about here and there, particularly in the past few years, but what exactly is it and how can we get the most out of it? Minimalism can be described as the stripping away of all unnecessary elements and focusing on what needs to be there. In this…

The refusal of fifteen students to pay back loans taken to pay for classes at a failed network of for-profit colleges could have far-reaching consequences. Photograph by Kristoffer Tripplaar / SIPA USA (SIPA via AP Images) In the fall of 2013, Mallory Heiney returned from a mission trip to Guinea…

Edward Snowden in Moscow in December 2013 Barton Gellman/Washington Post via Getty One question that has captivated journalists ever since Edward Snowden arrived in Moscow, where after several weeks trapped in an airport he was granted Russian asylum, is the extent and nature of his relationship…

At least winner J.K. Simmons finally got an answer to his furious, insistent question : It was dragging. It was always dragging. The 87th Academy Awards draped themselves across 220 minutes of prime time last night, totaling nearly four hours of flat puns, forced banter, and unnecessary flourish.…

Commentary By Zack Kanter @zackkanter , Entrepreneur and Futurist I have spent quite a bit of time lately thinking about autonomous cars, and I wanted to summarize my current thoughts and predictions. Most people – experts included – seem to think that the transition to driverless vehicles will come…

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In this three-part Tech Behind Bars series, we’re exploring the points of intersection between digital culture and America’s correctional system. See also: Inside the prison system's illicit digital world ; Can technology and prisons get along? It’s a stunning, drop-everything-and-go-outside day at…

Photo illustration by Jed Egan. Images courtesy DC Entertainment. Photo: DC Entertainment The comics industry is in the midst of a golden age for admirable female role models. Every few months, we get more series starring women worth looking up to: superheroes who work to fight sexism in the…

Filed Under: Inspiration , Article , identity design , critique , personal essay , legal issues In the past couple of years, demand for good design has risen tremendously, and designer salaries in the Bay Area now routinely break the six-figure mark. But that’s not the world I want to focus on…