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≡ Category: Current Affairs, Life | ≅ Leave a Comment
If the war in Afghanistan, now in its ninth year, has felt distant, then this video report by Global Post will give it some real color, if only for a short while. The initial video spells out what you will see: the aftermath – and human costs – of a firefight between U.S. and Taliban [...]
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The San Francisco Bay Area hardly needs any dressing up. Its natural beauty speaks for itself. But this short HD film by Simon Christen, a professional animator and aspiring photographer, certainly gives artistic expression to the alluring landscape of this coastal region. Clouds take on the appearance of waves, and lights look like lava, as [...]
≡ Category: Science | ≅ Leave a Comment
A quick fyi: National Geographic has pulled together a handy digital archive that features a slew of articles written by (or about) Jane Goodall, the pioneering researcher who conducted a 45-year study of the social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees in Tanzania. The archive spans close to fifty years, moving from 1963 to 2010, and [...]
≡ Category: Art, Film, Television | ≅ 1 Comment
Earlier this week, we flagged a digital archive of comic books from the Golden Age. Now we stumble upon this nugget from the same era: A video archive that showcases the complete Superman animated cartoon series from the early 40′s, all in Technicolor. Based on the original DC Comics character, these 17 episodes appeared on American [...]
≡ Category: Comedy, Literature | ≅ 5 Comments
Everywhere you turn, there’s a review of Jonathan Franzen’s new novel, Freedom. Most appear in print, and they’re buttoned down. Not this one. It’s a little different. The video above features Ron Charles, The Washington Post’s fiction critic, taking his own approach. Speaking of Franzen and book reviews: Franzen appeared on San Francisco radio earlier [...]
≡ Category: Literature | ≅ 1 Comment
Together, Oxford University and King’s College London are leading a three year effort to unite in one digital archive the surviving manuscripts of Jane Austen’s fiction. Since 1845, these texts have been dispersed among libraries and private collections. Now, they’re getting back together, at least virtually. When finished, the digital collection will include every manuscript [...]
≡ Category: Film | ≅ 1 Comment
It’s one part Bambi, nine parts Looney Tunes, and runs just under three minutes. Dilla, as the film is called, was created by four students at the Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida. It was apparently their senior project completed earlier this year. Nice work Mike, Stanley, Dominic and Mikey …
≡ Category: Art, Media, Music | ≅ 5 Comments
“Remixing” has figured centrally in the Web 2.0 vocabulary. But, remixing isn’t new. It has a long history, going back as long as we’ve been making art. Artists have always been collecting material, combining it, and transforming it into something new. Kirby Ferguson’s new video, Everything is a Remix, teases this apart as he brings [...]
≡ Category: Art, History | ≅ Leave a Comment
Now showing on the New York Times web site, a haunting video slideshow called “Capturing the Atom Bomb on Film.” It features 23 arresting images of atomic bomb tests conducted by the US military between 1945 and 1962. The images (all originally published in the 2007 book How to Photograph an Atomic Bomb) are accompanied by an [...]
≡ Category: Education | ≅ 2 Comments
Back in 2003, the Chinese government launched its answer to MIT’s OpenCourseWare project. The “National Quality Course Plan” scoured China’s vast university system and selected 3,000 best-of-breed courses in various subject areas. Then, millions of dollars were earmarked to put lectures and related course materials online, with the hope that other professors could draw inspiration [...]
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