Author: Brent Lambert

For a recent anniversary edition DVD re-release of Blade Runner, fans were given their first opportunity to hear previously unreleased music from the film’s composer, Vangelis. The 12:55 composition can be heard above, and it’s safe to say the music is nothing less than score-porn for Blade Runner lovers (yours truly included). Perhaps even more impressive than this, is a recent Hollywood Reporter roundtable where director Ridley Scott explains how the final scene of the film was directed by Stanley Kubrick — yes, you read that right. Watch as Scott tells the story below.

Last Friday, Rebecca Traister of New York Magazine appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher to promote her new book, All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation (Simon & Schuster). In her terrific conversation with Maher, Rebecca discusses the November election, Hillary Clinton’s candidacy, and the reasons why single women are the most important voting block. She also gives us a powerful history lesson, explaining how for hundreds of years the institution of marriage has enforced male-dominated gendered power and suppressed women’s rights. It’s an incredible conversation and you can watch it in full above.

Robert Langlois is a self-taught sculptor whose remarkable body of work is getting major attention this week since. Juxtapoz and This Is Colossal both profiled his stunning series of cracked-open boulders with gooey, stretched, bronze interiors. You can check out some of the photos below, and see all of his incredile work at Romain-Langlois.com.

If you haven’t yet heard of Eckhart Tolle where have you been and what have you been doing for the last decade? He is currently one of the most popular spiritualist authors in America and has been listed as the the most spiritually influential person in the world by the Watkins review in 2011. So why is he so popular and why should you listen whole-heartedly to what he has to say? Does he really have the answer to the ultimate blissful existence? And if so, how do you follow in his footsteps to ensure a stress free and blissful existence?

Ask anyone who grew up in a conservative Christian or Muslim upbringing and, if they feel vulnerable enough, will confide in you the honest truth–religion destroyed their sex life. In a world filled with headlines of how “damaging” porn is to one’s sexual well-being, it pales in comparison to the damage wrought by growing up under the judgemental gaze of the religious right (i.e. wrong).

If you’re hunting for adventure on your next vacation you might as well go hunting for treasure as well. A great place to start would just off the coast of Palawan Island in the Philippines (see map below). That’s where a local fisherman got his ship’s anchor caught on a giant Indonesian clam. When he pulled it up on board he quickly discovered a massive 75-pound pearl which experts estimate to be worth more than $100 million.

In his extraordinary new book Far and Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change, Seven Continents, Twenty Five Years, Pulitzer Prize-nominated author and psychologist Andrew Solomon makes a revelatory case for why he considers travel to be a moral imperative. “I found that often, it was the people who were least free who had the deepest understanding of freedom,” he says in the book’s trailer. “So much of the time now, people seem to feel that they’re caught in the crosswinds coming from places they don’t know or understand … We’re all afraid that someone’s going to come and blow up the…