Loved by even your parents, your boss, and anyone else who’s keeping you from getting ~inked.~
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36 Career Tips No One Will Actually Tell You
Until now! Based on this Quora thread.
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Proven talent in other fields will speak for itself.
—Christopher Craft, Author at OPENRoutine.com
Always be kind to the receptionist, especially at an interview.
This goes for anyone, no matter how far up the food chain they are. You never know who they know.
—Ambra Benjamin, Engineering Recruiter at Facebook
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Co-Author Of Mike Huckabee Books Was Accused Of Child Molestation In Two Legal Cases
Prominent Christian author John Perry, who has also co-authored a book with Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore, has been accused of child molestation in two separate lawsuits.
9 Rare Works Of Art Internet Pirates Are Obsessed With
If it exists, it can be ripped.
These days nearly anything with a copyright gets pirated within minutes of its release—and, with leaking a constant problem, sometimes even earlier than that. Archival music and movie torrent sites collect these rips, building massive libraries that contain the large majority of our collective cultural output. If you want a piece of media from the last 50 years, and you know where to look, you can find almost anything.
Almost.
Certain works are difficult to source, and in the digital underground, they can achieve almost legendary status. Lost movies; shelved albums; out-of-print books — the harder they are to find, the more the pirates want them. These are the Holy Grails of Internet piracy.
The Lost Short Stories of J.D. Salinger
Pirated? Partly
Nestled inside Box 14, Folder 26 of the special collections archive at Princeton University's Firestone Library you'll find one of the most desirable collections of unpublished literature in the world: six original manuscripts by J.D. Salinger, written several years before the first publication of Catcher in the Rye. Three of these stories later appeared elsewhere; another, "The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls," surprised everyone by surfacing online in 2013. But the remaining two—"The Last and Best of the Peter Pans," and "The Magic Foxhole"—have never made it out. The latter, a surreal fictionalization of Salinger's experience storming the beach on D-Day, is said to be one of his favorite pieces of writing.
The six manuscripts can't be checked out. They can only be read by qualified University patrons, under supervision by the Princeton librarians. No recording devices or writing implements are permitted in the reading room. And Salinger's will states they can't legally be published until the year 2060. Still, someone's gotten access to this folder before, and leaking a copy of either of the two remaining unpublished stories to the internet would be one of the greatest capers in the history of piracy.
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor - All Lights Fucked on the Hairy Amp Drooling
Pirated? No
The Canadian music collective Godspeed You! Black Emperor are a cult favorite, best known for their 12-minute post-rock crescendos. But way back in 1994, they released this, their first recording, in a limited edition of just 33 audio cassette tapes. The legend of this obscure piece of media grows by the year: no one's ever been able to source a copy, and no one really knows what it sounds like. Numerous hoax copies have surfaced; all have been debunked. But perhaps somewhere, at some Montreal flea market, or in some aging music fanatic's basement collection, arguably the internet's single-most desired piece of unpirated music is still waiting to be found.
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Matthew Barney's Cremaster (video art installation)
Pirated? Partly
The pirates make quick work of mainstream cinema. Press screeners, studio work prints, in-theater camcorder shots, streaming web rips and clones of warehouse Blu-Rays all make their way to the underground torrent networks weeks ahead of official release dates. Arthouse flicks can take longer, but with time almost any movie with a distributor, no matter how obscure, gets digitized, compressed, and posted illegally online.
Video art is a harder target. Take, for example, Matthew Barney's five-part Cremaster cycle. Named after a muscle in the penis, and loaded with striking, sexually-charged imagery, Cremaster earned Barney comparisons to surrealist masters like Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali. Praise wasn't universal—many critics were repelled by Barney's lack of subtlety, and his self-congratulatory tone—but the work crossed over into mainstream popularity, and this made it a natural target for the pirates.
So how to find a copy? In 2002, Barney released the original Cremaster cycle in a limited edition of 20, selling copies of the complete DVD set for over $100,000. By 2007, Sotheby's was auctioning off a single copy of Cremaster 2 for more than half a million. And, seeking to preserve the value of the work, Barney has promised never to release the series to mass-market DVD. As he told an interviewer in 2006: "It's not right for them to be available to be owned in an unlimited way after they've been sold in a limited way."
In the age of digital reproduction, Barney's explanation sounded more like a challenge. Cremaster 2, 3 and 4 all appeared online as early as 2008; in late 2014, a cloned DVD of Cremaster 1 was mysteriously posted to Pass the Popcorn, an invitation-only movie tracker. (In the film, two Goodyear blimps and a synchronized dance troupe re-enact the process of human ovulation.)
That leaves Cremaster 5: a climactic opera about a pair of descending testicles, still available only as a low-quality VHS rip. The work is still out there and, digital or otherwise, perhaps someday soon the reproductive cycle will be complete.
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Here's What Today's Movies And Shows Would Look Like As VHS Covers
Game Of Thrones looks right at home, TBH.
French artist Julien Knez wants to take you back to a simpler time. A time before Netflix, Hulu, or even DVDs. A time when the VHS reigned supreme.
BEHOLD.
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That's why Knez has been designing all your favorite modern movies and TV shows as VHS boxes. And they are SPOT. ON.
HQ means "high quality." It was like Blu-Ray, but worse.
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The fonts! The graphics! The garish technicolor!
It's all there!
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Can you hear the pop of cheap, crinkly plastic? Can you smell the burnt Jiffy Pop?
Because yes, only two episodes would have fit on a VHS.
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Jane Austen Receives Feedback From Tim, A Guy In Her MFA Workshop
Just a couple notes.
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Dear Jane,
I don't usually read chick lit, but I didn't hate reading this draft of your novel, which you're calling Pride and Prejudice. I really liked the part where Elizabeth and her aunt and uncle went on a road trip, which reminded me of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (also about a road trip — check it out!). Anyway, good job. I do have a couple of notes to share, in the spirit of constructive criticism.
So, a big question I have is "Why?" Why does Elizabeth do the things she does? Why does Mr. Darcy do the things he does? Why does Mrs. Bennet do the things she does? Have you read Hamlet? I feel like you could really learn something from how Shakespeare (the author) has Hamlet tell readers why he's doing the things he does.
Another problem I noticed: Mr. Wickham (great name, by the way, evoking both a strong but flexible plant, and an earthly, bestial pig) is in the army, but you don't make use of that. What if Mr. Wickham, instead of just being sort of a scoundrel (Again: why?), is a scoundrel because he's suffering from his experiences in the war? (Which war, btw?) That way he could tell Elizabeth about it, and we would be able to see that she's not just an independent young woman, but also a really good listener. He could tell some jokes, too, to liven up the mood, and show that Elizabeth has a good sense of humor. This could be the middle section of the book, like five or six chapters in there.
Also, why five sisters? How about just two? Combine Jane and Kitty. Or, better, make one of the sisters a brother (named "Jim," maybe?), and then he could be the narrator who mentions his sisters from time to time! Like Hamlet!
While I'm on the sisters, is it just me, or does everyone treat Kitty really badly? Personally, I want to say "Huzzah!" to Kitty, and it's annoying that everyone else — literally everyone else — wants to hold her back. Even you, I think— and, sorry, don't mean to hit too close to home here, but… I'm just saying that I would totally court Kitty. She's got a great sense of humor. But anyway, if you change her to Jim, problem solved!
A few other concerns: Mrs. Bennett is annoying, and you don't have any people of color. Also, there aren't a lot of men in this book. Only about the same number as there are women. I was thinking that what you could do is have Mrs. Bennett be dying, but give her a black best friend. Like Othello? (Have you read it? It's also by Shakespeare, fwiw.) The Othello character could be her butler, maybe? There you go: three problems solved. You're welcome!
I don't know if you noticed this, but there's a lot about hair ribbons here. Did you mean to do that? Maybe you could develop them into a kind of motif throughout, the way Shakespeare uses a skull in Hamlet? Maybe, when Mrs. Bennet is dying, she could ask to hold a hair ribbon? And Othello the butler could bring it to her, and tell her a story, or, better yet, get Wickham in there to tell her about the war. Oh! Perfect: just have Wickham, Jim and Othello talk about the war, while Mrs. Bennet lies unconscious in the background, holding a ribbon.
What do you think about Jim, Othello, and Wickham: Brothers in Arms as a title instead of Pride and Prejudice?
Anyway, while this isn't something I would pick up on my own to read, I still enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Thanks for letting me take a look, and let me know if you need any more help with it.
Keep writing!
Tim
