The Big Picture

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• Everything Wrong With Skyfall In 4 Minutes Or Less
• Saturday Night Cinema: The History of Aspect Ratio
• Employment Gender Gap
• Technology & Retail Obsolescence
• 10 Weekend Reads
• How to Drive a Lamborghini

Everything Wrong With Skyfall In 4 Minutes Or Less Posted: 13 Jul 2013 03:00 PM PDT By popular request, we chart the sins of the so-called “best James Bond movie ever.” There were a few of them. Coming Friday: Another Conversation With Myself Next Tuesday: Another fan-requested Sins video Coming Soon: New Weirdness Which movie’s sins should we recount next? Let us know in the comments below.

Saturday Night Cinema: The History of Aspect Ratio Posted: 13 Jul 2013 03:00 PM PDT The Changing Shape of Cinema: The History of Aspect Ratio (Vimeo) The Changing Shape of Cinema: The History of Aspect Ratio from FilmmakerIQ.com on Vimeo. Hat tip boing boing

Employment Gender Gap Posted: 13 Jul 2013 11:00 AM PDT click for full graphic Source: NYT   Nice set of charts via Floyd Norris of the NYT from his weekly “Off the Charts” column, which was about this surprising datapoint: “All the jobs lost by women during the Great Recession have been recovered, at least in the private sector. But men still have a way to go before that happens.”   Source: Gender Gaps Appear as Employment Recovers From the Recession FLOYD NORRIS NYT, July 13 2013 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/13/business/economy/gender-gaps-appear-in-employment-recovery.html

Technology & Retail Obsolescence Posted: 13 Jul 2013 08:30 AM PDT I forgot to publish my Bloomberg appearance this past week — here are two of the segments, mostly on retail and obsolescence: Fusion IQ CEO Barry Ritholtz discusses innovation and evolution with Adam Johnson on Bloomberg Television’s “Street Smart.” Barnes & Noble in Long Slow Decline: Ritholtz July 9 2013 Bloomberg ~~~ Fifth and Pacific’s William McComb, Bonobos’ Andy Dunn and Fusion IQ’s Barry Ritholtz discuss the future of retailing in the digital era on Bloomberg Television’s “Street Smart.” (Source: Bloomberg) Retail Survival Guide in a Digital World July 9 2013 Bloomberg

10 Weekend Reads Posted: 13 Jul 2013 03:30 AM PDT My longer form weekend material, expertly curated for your reading pleasure: • The best investment advice you’ll never get (Modern Luxury) • Shameful: How the Pentagon's payroll quagmire traps soldiers (Reuters) • The Water-Park Scandal and Two Americas in the Raw: Are We a Nation of Line-Cutters, or Are We the Line? (Esquire) • Risk Parity edition (Abnormal Returns) • In America’s Pastime, Baseball Players Pass A Lot of Time (WSJ) but see In Defense of Baseball’s Lazy Pace (WSJ) • The Road To Resilience: How Unscientific Innovation Saved Marlin Steel (Fast Company) • How the media outrageously blew the IRS scandal: A full accounting (Salon) • Disruptions: How Driverless Cars Could Reshape Cities (Bits) see also The wastefulness of automation (Pieria) • Internet trolls: What to do about the scourge of the Web? (CNN) • How wonder works (Aeon) Whats up this weekend?   Bruising Quarter for Bond Fund Managers Source: WSJ

How to Drive a Lamborghini Posted: 13 Jul 2013 03:00 AM PDT Source: CNN

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