Bloomberg Businessweek

Business magazines tend to be extremely dry and boring in their reporting. Bloomberg Businessweek is different. It isn’t just dry numbers and interviews with the old white men in the blue chip industries. Continue...
Eric Weiss Eric's Picks, Magazine No Comments Bloomberg, BusinessWeek

Business magazines tend to be extremely dry and boring in their reporting. Bloomberg Businessweek is different. It isn’t just dry numbers and interviews with the old white men in the blue chip industries. Continue...
Eric Weiss Eric's Picks, Movies No Comments 3D, cave paintings, Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc, Eric Spitzer-Marlyn, First Impressions, France, Judith Thurman, New Yorker, Peter Zeitlinger, Werner Herzog

The Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave in France has on its walls some of the oldest known cave paintings, some of which may have been made some 30,000 years ago. The cave is heavily protected by the French government and only researchers who have gone through the tedious permit process are allowed inside. Even then their time inside and what they can do and use inside the cave is heavily restricted. Continue...
Eric Weiss Movies No Comments Alien, Aliens, Damon Lindelof, Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace, Ridley Scott

In development since 2000 Prometheus received a variety of reviews when it finally hit theaters in 2012. Originally aimed to be a prequel to the Alien series, it was later planned to a reboot. Once Damon Lindelof was brought on to help with the script it was explained to exist in the same universe but not a direct . Continue...
Eric Weiss Eric's Picks, Movies No Comments A Tribe Called Quest, documentary, Fishbone, interviews

There is no debate: Fishbone is an amazing band. Taking influence from a variety of different styles they defy categorization but there groove and style is unmistakably original. Their uplifting music and thought provoking lyrics gave me the impression that they were a group of happy friends producing great music. Little did I know. Continue...
Eric Weiss Movies No Comments 30 Rock, Ben Stiller, Kristin Wiig, MacGruber, Maya Rudolph, Ryan Phillippe, Saturday Night Live, Will Forte, Zoolander

I really want to like Will Forte. I used to think he had comedic talent that hasn’t been properly utilized since he was on Saturday Night Live during a period when the writing was arguably at it’s weakest. And the storyline for his character on 30 Rock was unbearably annoying. Unfortunately MacGruber made my change my position. Continue...