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≡ Category: Art | ≅ Leave a Comment
The Economist has just released a nice photo slideshow looking back at the transformative work of Andy Warhol. In five quick minutes, Sarah Thornton (the co-author of The Economist’s new report on the art market) gives you a quick feel for how Warhol changed the contemporary art scene, the role of the artist, and the size/mechanics of [...]
≡ Category: Science | ≅ Leave a Comment
A quick mention: The Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of science, will celebrate next year its 350th anniversary. To mark the occasion, a team of scientists and historians have launched a new web site called “Trailblazing,” and it essentially lets you take a virtual tour through three and a half centuries of scientific discovery (1660-2010). [...]
≡ Category: Film | ≅ Leave a Comment
Nina Paley created some buzz earlier this year when she decided to give her award-winning animated film, Sita Sings the Blues, to the public, releasing it under a Creative Commons license. This was another test of the concept that artists can make money by giving their work away. Today, The Wall Street Journal gives an [...]
≡ Category: Stanford | ≅ 2 Comments
A quick fyi: On Monday morning (8:30 am California time), Stanford Continuing Studies opens up registration for its winter lineup of online writing courses. Offered in partnership with the Stanford Creative Writing Program (one of the most distinguished writing programs in the country), these online courses give beginning and advanced writers, no matter where they live, the [...]
≡ Category: Film | ≅ Leave a Comment
During his Hollywood golden years, Alfred Hitchcock released The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) with Jimmy Stewart and Doris Day. This was actually his second time around the block with the film. Before Hitchcock came to America, he directed another version of the movie with Peter Lorre, and you can catch this 1934 [...]
≡ Category: Literature | ≅ Leave a Comment
T.S. Eliot’s 1922 poem, The Waste Land, is often considered one of the great poems of the 20th century. Above, you can listen to Eliot himself reading his modernist masterpiece (text here). And, if you want more, how about Eliot reading The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, another major work, against the backdrop of [...]
≡ Category: Film | ≅ Leave a Comment
A quick note for US readers: Right now, you can find three films by Luis Buñuel, the great Spanish (later turned Mexican) director. The films, presented by theauteurs.com, include Death in the Garden (1956) and two cinematic works from his earlier surreal period: Un chien andalou (1929) and L’âge d’or (1930). These films are (somewhat ironically) available only [...]
≡ Category: TED Talks | ≅ 19 Comments
What’s the best TED Talk ever? That’s the little debate taking place on Reddit.com, and the answer is not obvious, seeing that TED now has over 500 talks available in its archive. (You can find a constantly updated list of every TED Talk in a Google spreadsheet here.)
Now, what are some of the Reddit favorites? Here [...]
≡ Category: Art | ≅ 4 Comments
A good one via @kirstinbutler. Find this video added to our YouTube Favorites.
≡ Category: Music | ≅ Leave a Comment
A quick freebie mention: Amazon.com is currently giving away $3 worth of MP3’s until November 30th. That amounts essentially to three free songs. Just click to this page, follow a few easy steps (including using the code code MP34FREE), and you’ll be on your way.
via Lifehacker
≡ Category: Literature, Yale | ≅ 1 Comment
The talk above is the first of 26 lectures making up a free Yale course called “The American Novel Since 1945.” Taught by Amy Hungerford, the course introduces you to the novels of America’s finest post-war writers — Nabokov (émigré), Salinger, Kerouac, and Pynchon, and also Philip Roth, Toni Morrison, Cormac McCarthy and Jonathan Safran Foer. [...]
≡ Category: Science | ≅ 1 Comment
The Internet Archive has done it again. The San Francisco non-profit has teamed up with NASA to give you access to NASA’s image, video, and audio collections. The content is all available in one single, searchable resource, which makes it the largest collection of NASA’s media on the web. When you enter NasaImages.org, you’ll see that [...]
≡ Category: Amazon Kindle, Books, e-books | ≅ 3 Comments
With six published novels under his belt, you might think J.A. Konrath has it made. But, if you know much about the current publishing market, you could certainly question that. Made or not, JA made a very interesting discovery recently when he sat down and compared his Hyperion ebook royalty statements with the proceeds he’s [...]
≡ Category: Uncategorized | ≅ Leave a Comment
A quick weekend fyi: The Teaching Company, which provides university courses for lifelong learners like you, is running another sale this weekend. This one lasts until Sunday night and lets you get sharp discounts on their 75 most popular courses, which you can buy in multiple formats – DVD, CD, MP3, etc. (I typically go for [...]
≡ Category: Film | ≅ 3 Comments
Two weeks ago, we presented a list of 35 sites where you can watch free movies online. Now, we’ve taken the next step and added 100 high-quality films to our list. Some films are contemporary, but many are classics created by legendary directors, actors & actresses. And they’re frequently made available by the great Internet Archive. [...]
≡ Category: Film | ≅ Leave a Comment
This one comes straight from our collection of Free Online Movies. Beat the Devil is a 1953 classic directed by the great John Huston and co-written by Truman Capote, which stars Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, and Gina Lollobrigida. Not a bad lineup. It’s technically a noir film. But it’s really a dramatic comedy (or [...]
≡ Category: Music | ≅ Leave a Comment
We take you back to 1967, to the three-day Monterey Pop Festival in California, which was kind of a precursor to the Woodstock Festival held in 1969. Monterey marked, among other things, the first major American appearances by Jimi Hendrix and The Who. Above, we give you Hendrix covering Bob Dylan’s anthem Like a Rolling [...]
≡ Category: Literature | ≅ 1 Comment
Newly launched: The Shakespeare Quartos Archive is a new digital collection that features pre-1642 editions of William Shakespeare’s plays. Here, for example, you will find rare early editions of Hamlet, including all 32 existing quarto copies of the play in one place. An online first. Thanks Jeremy for the tip…
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It happened 40 years ago. A 14-year-old Beatles fan named Jerry Levitan managed to sneak into John Lennon’s Toronto hotel room and asked for an interview. And he got one. Now, there’s a short animated film that brings that encounter back to life. I Met the Walrus was nominated for the 2008 Academy Award for Animated Short. [...]
≡ Category: Film | ≅ Leave a Comment
It’s nice to see cultural anthropology professor Michael Wesch getting featured right now on YouTube’s homepage. (A professor getting featured on YouTube? That has to be a first.) Anyway, Wesch is directing viewers to a film called RIP: A Remix Manifesto, a prize winning film that offers a “probing investigation into how culture builds upon [...]
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