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≡ Category: Media | ≅ 4 Comments
A quick fyi for the comic fan: A newish website, The Digital Comic Archive, opens up free access to public domain Golden Age Comics, which fell into kids’ hands from the late 1930s until the early 1950s. You won’t find here the big name comics from the period (Superman, Batman, Captain America, Wonder Woman, Captain [...]
≡ Category: Music | ≅ Leave a Comment
Mark this on your calendar. This coming Saturday, at 7:30 a.m. California time, Gustavo Dudamel (soon to open the 2010-11 season of the Los Angeles Philharmonic) will conduct a concert with the Vienna Philharmonic at the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland. As the LA Times reports, the concert will be webcast live for free at www.medici.tv. It will also [...]
≡ Category: Literature, Music | ≅ Leave a Comment
Crawdaddy! It was the first US magazine of rock music criticism, preceding both Rolling Stone and Creem. Paul Williams, then a student at Swarthmore College, first launched the magazine in 1966. And by the 1970s, Crawdaddy! hit its stride, publishing exclusive contributions by John Lennon, Joseph Heller, and Studs Terkel, to name a few. On one [...]
≡ Category: Education, Most Popular | ≅ 32 Comments
Matthew Might, a computer science professor at the University of Utah, writes: “Every fall, I explain to a fresh batch of Ph.D. students what a Ph.D. is. It’s hard to describe it in words. So, I use pictures.” Here it goes. Matt’s Illustrated Guide: Imagine a circle that contains all of human knowledge: By the time [...]
≡ Category: Film | ≅ Leave a Comment
Yesterday Martin Scorsese, the legendary director, listed the 15 gangster films that shaped the way he has portrayed crime on film (Goodfellas, Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, etc.). Scorsese watched these films as a youngster and young director, during his big moment of influence. The first film (The Public Enemy) came out in 1931, and the last [...]
≡ Category: Google, Music | ≅ Leave a Comment
Google Instant rolled out this week, backed by a promotional advertisement (right above). Fans of Bob Dylan will instantly recognize the footage: A young Dylan flipping hand-drawn cards to the tune of “Subterranean Homesick Blues,” an iconic scene from D.A. Pennebaker’s 1967 documentary, Don’t Look Back. This isn’t the first time the famous scene (watch it [...]
≡ Category: Music, Theatre | ≅ 1 Comment
It’s getting hard to dismiss the cultural influence of Lady Gaga, especially when you see the Gaga phenomenon inspiring György Ligeti’s satirical “anti-anti-opera” Le Grand Macabre staged at The New York Philharmonic this summer. In this clip, we encounter Gaga-inspired costumes and performance as we watch Gepopo, chief of the secret service, telling Prince Go Go [...]
≡ Category: Media, Technology | ≅ 1 Comment
Back in 1999, ZDTV launched Big Thinkers, a weekly cable TV program that featured half-hour interviews with thinkers on the bleeding edge of science and technology. The show didn’t have the longest run. But it did manage to shine the spotlight on some important minds – Michio Kaku (theoretical physicist), Sherry Turkle (MIT psychoanalyst), Lawrence [...]
≡ Category: Philosophy | ≅ 5 Comments
This post comes to us via Wes Alwan, an occasional contributor to Open Culture. A year-and-a-half ago, an old friend found me on Facebook and offered me a writing job and participation in a podcast. I took him up on both. Mark Linsenmayer and I had been graduate students in philosophy at the University of [...]
≡ Category: Science, Video - Science | ≅ 2 Comments
During his time on the International Space Station, astronaut Don Pettit trained his camera on planet Earth, and had it take a photo once every 15 seconds. The time lapse video above shows you Earth from day to night, complete with a sunset, a moonrise and the northern lights. Overall, Pettit took 85 time-lapsed videos [...]
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