The Album Art Studio That Made Pink Floyd’s Pig Fly | The New York Times
Among the 415 album covers Hipgnosis made between 1968 and 1983 was Pink Floyd’s “Animals” (1977), for which a 40-foot inflatable pig was photographed floating between the chimneys of London’s Battersea Power Station. Unfortunately, the single cable affixed to the pig snapped, and up the balloon went — into the flight zone for Heathrow Airport.
‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead | The New York Times
It is hard to see how you can prevent the bad actors from using it for bad things.
For at least a few years, this was a window display at The Strong Place Baptist Church on Court Street. Although I’ve walked past it hundreds if not thousands of time, I know only that its congregation appears to practice in Spanish and that it seems connected to an era when the neighborhoods in this part of Brooklyn1 were perhaps less delineated by wealth. That is, until the last 10–15 years or so, there was less distinction between the working class Latino population living mostly east of Smith Street and the working class Italian population living mostly west of Smith Street. Vestiges of this earlier overlapping period include this church, the only remaining Latino presence on the border of Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill as far as I can tell; and Paisano’s butcher shop on Smith Street, an Italian outlier in an otherwise Latino, or more recently, gentrified area.
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I refuse to characterize as opinion a doctrine that is aimed directly at particular persons and that seeks to suppress their rights or to exterminate them.
Jean-Paul Sartre, Anti-Semite And Jew
It doesn’t take long to find something interesting at the RVG Legacy website. RVG refers to Rudy Van Gelder, preeminent recording and mastering engineer of jazz recordings across five decades. Chances are he recorded one of your favorite’s finest sessions if was released by Prestige, Impulse!, Verve, or Blue Note. The site provides a look at Van Gelder’s story as well as the technical side of his accomplishments.
Henry Kissinger at 100: Still a War Criminal | Mother Jones
Throughout his career in government and politics, Kissinger was an unprincipled schemer who engaged in multiple acts of skullduggery.