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≡ Category: Books | ≅ 2 Comments
The Best American Essays, 2010, edited by Christopher Hitchens, has now hit the stands. The 300-page collection runs $10.47 online. However, know this: You can read most of the essays online for free. These essays were originally published on websites of major American journals & magazines, and there they still remain. Some notable mentions include The [...]
≡ Category: Random | ≅ 1 Comment
A noteworthy mention: The World is Full of Interesting Things packs together 106 works from the “creative internet” into one Google slideshow. It’s a visual grab bag of images, videos, mashups, apps and other items that have captured the collective online imagination. The diverse collection is more easily experienced than explained. So start flipping through and [...]
≡ Category: Film | ≅ Leave a Comment
This past Saturday, Vimeo held its first annual awards ceremony in New York City. Films by nine finalists were screened (see the list below) and then came the big moment: the announcement of the Best Video Award, which went to Eliot Rausch, director of “Last Minutes with ODEN.” As an organizer of the Vimeo festival [...]
≡ Category: Art, Life, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ 7 Comments
Dark Side of the Lens presents the art and inner voice of Irish surf photographer Mickey Smith. The six minute film lets you experience Smith’s aesthetics translated into beautiful practice. (“I wanna see waveriding documented the way I see it in my head, and the way I feel it in the sea.”) But then it [...]
≡ Category: Music | ≅ Leave a Comment
Next week, Bob Dylan will release The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964, a collection of 47 songs that the artist recorded for the M. Witmark & Sons publishing company, all before his 24th birthday. The young Dylan knocked out these tracks in a sparse 6×8 foot studio, accompanied only by his acoustic guitar, harmonica and piano. And, right [...]
≡ Category: Books, Sci Fi | ≅ 3 Comments
Between 1982 and 2000, Rudy Rucker wrote a series of four sci-fi novels that formed The Ware Tetralogy. The first two books in the series – Software and Wetware – won the Philip K. Dick Award for best novel. Later Freeware and Realware followed. This summer, Prime Books republished the tetralogy in one big volume, complete with an [...]
≡ Category: Art | ≅ 4 Comments
Let me set the stage for this: Last December, Richard Davis (22 years old) was killed in a car accident at the corner of 90th and MacArthur in East Oakland, California. Days later, the half brother of the victim, Darrell Armstead, a popular turf dancer, and his crew, The Turf Feinz, paid an artful tribute at [...]
≡ Category: Education | ≅ Leave a Comment
Creative Commons has kicked off its Legion of Superheroes fundraising campaign saying, “Imagine a world where knowledge flows freely and can be built upon without limits. Imagine a world where culture, art and media are available to everyone, scientific content is shared by corporations and research institutions, and shared intelligence augments human rights efforts across [...]
≡ Category: Music | ≅ 1 Comment
In 1975, John Lennon released Rock N Roll, where, working with Phil Spector, he revisited and covered songs from the early days of rock. Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly songs made their way onto the album, as did Ben E. King’s 1961 classic “Stand By Me” (watch above.) Lennon was 35 years old at the [...]
≡ Category: Art | ≅ 3 Comments
From the maker of Sita Sings the Blues comes a new short film that artistically delivers a simple message: “All creative work builds on what came before.” Using artifacts from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nina Paley draws the visual conclusion that art borrows and remixes – that nothing is really out of the box. This [...]
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