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≡ Category: Comedy, Film | ≅ 2 Comments
Ok, it’s not really Werner Herzog. Just a little playful satire. A guess at how the German director might reinterpret/read the children’s classic Curious George. This version is dark and existential. via Abe Books
≡ Category: History, Politics, Science | ≅ Leave a Comment
You can’t get good democracy without science, and you can’t get good science without democracy. That’s why great political and scientific revolutions have historically gone hand-in-hand. It’s an intriguing argument that Timothy Ferris (UC Berkeley) makes in his new book, The Science of Liberty, and debates in an interview with Michael Krasny, aired last week on [...]
≡ Category: Education | ≅ 7 Comments
This morning, a New York Times editorial is helping get the word out. Deep thinking is alive and well on the web: There is a lot of talk about how the Internet is driving culture ever lower, but it also makes a wealth of serious thinking available. From the comfort of home, one can download [...]
≡ Category: Literature, Poetry, Television | ≅ 1 Comment
What’s My Line? aired on CBS from 1950 to 1967, making it the longest-running game show in American television history. During its eighteen seasons, the show featured hundreds of celebrities, including some of America’s leading cultural figures. The clip above dusts off the 1960 appearance made by Carl Sandburg, the poet, writer, and three time [...]
Fallingwater was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935. Construction began a year later and was eventually completed in 1939. Many consider Fallingwater one of Wright’s finest creations. Hence why Smithsonian Magazine counted it as one of the 28 Places to See Before You Die. Now, thanks to the mini movie above, you can watch [...]
≡ Category: Comedy, Film | ≅ 2 Comments
Kurt Kuenne’s short film, ”Validation,” has played at 34 film festivals and won 17 awards. This 16 minute indie offers a “fable about the magic of free parking” — meaning they’re talking about “validation” in a larger sense than parking per se … We’ve added the clip to our YouTube favorites.
≡ Category: Music | ≅ Leave a Comment
Django Reinhardt, one of Europe’s finest jazz guitar players, would have turned 100 on January 24. It’s fairly astonishing to think that he mastered the guitar as he did, elevating it to a lead jazz instrument, despite being self taught, and having lost the use of two fingers in a fire. (More on that in [...]
≡ Category: Music | ≅ 2 Comments
The Notre Dame Marching Band hit the field (a real field), where they performed OK Go’s “This Too Shall Pass.” The performance was arranged by Notre Dame’s director of bands, Dr. Ken Dye. And it was all recorded live on the spot. You can watch the video in a larger format here. Incidentally, if you’re [...]
≡ Category: Twitter | ≅ Leave a Comment
Why let good tweets (and re-tweets) go to waste? Each week, we’re going to list some of the cultural goodies that appeared in our Twitter stream. You can start following Open Culture on Twitter here. Fun video. Notre Dame Marching Band Doing Things Differently RT @mwesch: OK Go – This Too Shall Pass http://bit.ly/9DZ8h7 Ira Glass on [...]
≡ Category: Art | ≅ Leave a Comment
A deeply memorable scene. Picasso at his home in Vallauris, painting on glass with a camera rolling on the other side. The scene is an outtake from Visite à Picasso (A Visit with Picasso), a 1950 film by Belgian filmmaker Paul Haesaerts. The full film, running 20 minutes, can be watched in its entirety at The Internet [...]
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