Weekly Notes: July 1, 2011

Check This Out:

• You don’t even have to click this link. Just know that the U.S. military spends $20.2 billion annually on air conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan. That’s more than NASA’s budget.
• The saddest thing you’ll hear this weekend: It Costs Over $1 Million to Make a Hit Pop Song. On a less morbid level, what makes a hit song?
• On a less-sad-but-more-personally-disappointing note, I’ve only drunk 3 of the top 50 beers available in the U.S.. Well, at least that I remember.

Look at This:

• People of Clouds – If this was a movie, I would watch this. Unless it was directed by Michael Bay.
• The Greatest Disappearing Acts by Liu Bolin
• The Broship of the Rings – Hipster Illustrations Inspired by ‘Lord of the Rings’.
• The ‘Up’ house in real life

Read This:

• The Movie Star
• 11 wonders of animal evolution
• 5 Acts of Nature That Rearranged the Face of the Planet
• A Brief History of the Plastic Pink Flamingo

Listen to This:

• Dial-up sound 700% slower (Creepy)
• Lexi St. George “Dancing to the Rhythm (With Me)” (new best song ever. don’t hate. actually sounds pretty good mixed with the dial-up from above. )
• Alexander Turnquist – We Are Magnets
• Ours to Alibi – Weary, We Fell Upon Land

Watch This:

• Jean-Luc Godard Interviews Woody Allen
• ‘Transformers 3′ Action Sequence Recycled From ‘The Island’, i.e. FUCK YOU MICHAEL BAY.
• Splitscreen: A Love Story

• The Polish city of Poznań marks the arrival of summer with 11,000 floating paper lanterns. All this is missing is some Sigur Ros.