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10 Breathtakingly Beautiful Art School Campuses

By Matthew Bower on

There are certain creative undertakings in which form should never be too far removed from content. Click through to explore some unique and imaginative art school campuses across the… Read More

Food

10 of the Oddest Thanksgiving Cooking Tutorials on YouTube

By Matthew Bower on

As far as holidays go, Thanksgiving seems to have become a magnet for bizarre traditions and experimental twists. Brined, deep-fried, soaked in booze, and stuffed with virtually anything that can conceivably fit inside of its hollowed-out body cavity, the classic turkey has undergone all sorts of gluttonous culinary torture in recent years — all in the name of loosened belts and severe food comas. So, it’s the perfect time of year to surprise those insufferable relatives of yours by doing something new. In case you’re looking for last minute inspiration, we’ve rounded up some Thanksgiving cooking tutorials that leave us feeling like maybe our family traditions aren’t so odd after all. … Read More

Web

The Cinematography of 10 Great Filmmakers Captured in Cinemagraphs

By Matthew Bower on

In recent years, graphic interchange format, once a throwback to the awkward early years of web design, has come into its own as an art form. Leading the way is the ever-popular cinemagraph, an enhancement on photography that typically adds subtle moving elements to the scene — wisps of blowing hair, blinking eyes, rising smoke, etc. Although cinemagraphs first gained popularity for their use in advertising, it seems only natural that the meme has taken hold of cinema as well, capturing memorable movie stills in infinite loops of movement. If We Don’t, Remember Me has been busy amassing quite the collection of these cinematic cinemagraphs, adding a new dimension to the way in which images can convey the aesthetic of a certain directorial style. From the creepy to the minimalistic, we’ve gathered a list of cinemagraphs that capture the distinctive mise-en-scène of 10 of our favorite filmmakers. … Read More

Television

The 10 Greatest Historical Literary Cameos on Time-Traveling TV Shows

By Matthew Bower on

Time travel inevitably gets a sizable mention during an old-fashioned game of “Name That TV Trope.” There’s seemingly an endless supply — everything from screwed-up timelines that incorporate fictional elements to the unsettling discovery that you’re your own grandfather (see Futurama). But, bibliophiles that we are, one of our favorite silly pseudo-historical plot devices is when a famous dead author is revived in fictionalized form. Take a look at some of the most memorable time-traveling literary cameos from our favorite TV shows below. Can you think of more? … Read More

Food

10 of the World’s Strangest Concept Cafes

By Matthew Bower on

Conceptual ways of serving up a good cup of coffee have been around for about as long as cafes have, as evidenced by such late-19th-century oddities as Paris’ Café de L’Enfer. Things have only gotten weirder since then, and in places like Tokyo, where cultural novelties are an essential staple of urban life, weirdly themed coffee shops and cafes have made a caffeinated jolt into the mainstream. From the bizarre to the brilliant, we take you on a tour of some of the more unique concepts out there. … Read More

Design

Typefaces Designed to Serve a Greater Purpose

By Matthew Bower on

A good typeface goes a long way. Typography nerds will be the first to point out that all typefaces should serve a deliberate purpose, most often integrating text to fit the overall design, to communicate a message as clearly as possible, or to convey a memorable aesthetic. An ill-chosen or careless font can certainly make or break a headline. But sometimes the impact that a font has can also go much further than simple aesthetics and readability.

Font Aid IV: Aster Affects, a design project benefiting relief efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, is perhaps one way for a font to make a difference. Other examples have shown that readability in a typeface isn’t always a good thing. Fonts can have a dramatic cognitive influence, and research has shown that unfamiliar fonts can actually make it easier to retain certain information. Similarly, harder-to-read fonts could possibly make you less of a biased jerk. So, we’ve rounded up some examples of other typefaces and typological curiosities that have been designed for unconventional purposes. … Read More

Art

10 Incredible Art Installations That Imitate Weather

By Matthew Bower on

Aristotle reasoned that imitation forms the basis of art, and that art imitates nature — some works perhaps more literally than others. Portraying the power, mystery, and grandeur of weather, in particular, has long been a curious obsession of landscape artists brave enough to bear the elements. After all, it’s not easy to capture the immensity of a snow squall or a summer electrical storm.

But art has come quite a long way since the days of picturesque nature paintings, such as Thomas Cole’s dramatic thunderstorm rolling across a somewhat exaggerated Connecticut River Valley. As far as aesthetic subject matters go, weather is just begging for interactivity, some movement and spectacle that don’t just portray the elements, but actually imitate them. These brilliant contemporary art installations prove that there’s more than one way for art to harness the power of Mother Nature. … Read More

Architecture

Stunning Images of Mid-Century Modern Airport Interiors

By Matthew Bower on

Today the thought of flying invokes the dread of delays, lost baggage, and security checks. But these images of vintage terminal interiors reveal just how glamorous the experience once… Read More

Film

A Selection of Campy Disaster Movies Where Dogs Implausibly Survive

By Matthew Bower on

In his commentary on Armageddon, that ultimate epicure of explosions, Michael Bay notes that the cardinal rule of disaster filmmaking is to “never kill a dog.” Maybe it has to do with their loyalty, or their innocence, but there’s a longstanding cinematic tradition of using dogs in emotionally manipulative ways (anyone else feel betrayed by Turner & Hooch’s family-friendly façade?). And when it’s a real-life canine disaster story, we’re all the more prone to sobbing uncontrollably. Though plenty of movies go the route of driving home an already bleak tragedy with a heartrending finish of caninicide, most of our favorite mass-appeal, special-effects-saturated disaster/action movies opt for the audience pleasing cliché of dogs that, against all odds, miraculously survive. Here’s a list of some of the more implausible canine survival stories in disaster movie history. … Read More

Music

The 10 Creepiest Soundtrack Songs to Be Murdered By

By Matthew Bower on

What would a cinematic serial killer be without a chilling, trademark theme song? Save certain polymaths of music and murder, like Charles Manson, most real-life killers don’t get the luxury of a hair-raising soundtrack accompaniment. Scary movies draw on a lot of varied sources for creating the perfect murderous mood music. Sometimes, it’s a tinny, crackling old lullaby played from a broken radio in another room. Other times, murderers require a more epic, haunting buildup. And occasionally, it’s a song that we otherwise wouldn’t find creepy at all, but somehow becomes permanently attached to a nightmarish slasher scene. In lieu of unscary Halloween novelty standbys like “Monster Mash,” we offer 10 of the creepiest songs from our favorite murderous soundtracks. Be forewarned, some of these clips are a bit on the NSFW side. … Read More