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≡ Category: Art, Poetry | ≅ Leave a Comment
Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939 and began a terror bombing campaign of Warsaw, the nation’s capitol. In total, the Nazis dropped some 500 tons of high explosive bombs and 72 tons of incendiary bombs on Warsaw, beginning the planned destruction of the city. Now fast forward to 2009, and we witness (above) Warsaw under [...]
≡ Category: Art, Film | ≅ 2 Comments
It took Cesar DÃaz Meléndez three months, using only a camera, light table and sand, to produce this sand animated film that serves as a video for the song, “No corras tanto,” which loosely translates to “Take it Easy.” And, rather strikingly, Cesar made the film using no added effects or post production. The Making [...]
≡ Category: Film | ≅ 1 Comment
In 1989, Adam Davidson, while still a student at Columbia University, directed a short film called The Lunch Date. Although the film has a vintage look to it, the commentary is entirely contemporary – a product of 1980s debates on race in America. The Lunch Date picked up the Short Film Palme d’Or at the [...]
≡ Category: Film | ≅ Leave a Comment
In 1939, Alfred Hitchcock gave a lecture at Radio City Music Hall organized by The Museum of Modern Art and Columbia University. The talk (read the full transcript here) takes you inside the creative evolution of Hitchcock’s filmmaking. First comes the bare bones plot, then a fuller treatment, complete with the dialogue and a suspenseful [...]
≡ Category: Random | ≅ Leave a Comment
Two weeks in Southwestern France. All footage was shot by Jon Bryant simply using a Canon 7D. You can also watch the video directly on Vimeo here. Via @brainpicker.
≡ Category: Astronomy, History, Science | ≅ Leave a Comment
This week, NASA rolled a big archive of historical images into Flickr Commons, giving users access to more than a half century of NASA’s photographic history. The images are divided into three neat sets – “Launch and Takeoff,” “Building NASA” and “Center Namesakes” – and they’re all copyright-free, meaning that you can share and use these images however [...]
≡ Category: Film | ≅ Leave a Comment
Put simply, you’ll probably never see a noir film quite like this. Key Lime Pie was directed by Trevor Jimenez in 2007, and recommended on Twitter by Joaquin Baldwin, a talented young animator featured on Open Culture some months ago. It runs a quick 3 and a half minutes.
≡ Category: Life, Science | ≅ 1 Comment
Some of the most basic questions about human existence (how did we develop language? why do we love music and art but kill in war? how did we develop certain eating habits? etc.) come back to a more singular question: how are we different from chimpanzees? This question is slowly getting answered by some of [...]
≡ Category: Literature, Sci Fi | ≅ Leave a Comment
Always wanted to read science fiction? But never knew where to start? io9, a blog dedicated to futurism and sci-fi, has you covered. Today, they published a handy sci-fi syllabus/reading list “intended to introduce the novice student … to the major themes in the genre, as well as books and authors who are representative of different eras [...]
≡ Category: History | ≅ 1 Comment
This new video from Cambridge University, featuring archaeologist John Robb, gives you a quick and visually appealing introduction to how humans have understood something we take for granted – our own bodies. Covering 10,000 years in six minutes, Robb takes us from the “Animal Body” and “Sexualized Body” of the Mesolithic and Neolithic Ages, to [...]
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