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≡ Category: Film, Physics | ≅ 4 Comments
Can they stop the train loaded with hazardous chemicals before this “missile the size of the Chrysler Building” hits a populated area and “vaporizes everything in front of it?” That’s the big question that drives along the plot of the new Denzel Washington thriller, Unstoppable. If you don’t believe me, just watch the trailer above. [...]
≡ Category: History | ≅ 4 Comments
Here you have it. Europe, evolving from medieval times until today. We start circa 1000 A.D with the Holy Roman Empire and Moorish Spanish (otherwise known as Al-Andalus). Then comes the fracturing of medieval kingdoms and the rise of the Ottoman Empire off in the East, until everything starts to unify again. And, at long [...]
≡ Category: Film, Television | ≅ 13 Comments
Between 1982 and 2002, director Godfrey Reggio shot his well known Qatsi trilogy – Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi, and Naqoyqatsi. Somewhere between the 2nd and 3rd installment, Reggio took a little detour and directed a short eight minute film called Evidence. The main characters? Kids watching cartoons (Dumbo, actually) and looking “drugged,” “like the patients of a [...]
≡ Category: Poetry | ≅ Leave a Comment
It’s the life of the great French poet, Arthur Rimbaud, in a 10 minute slideshow. The video traces the arc of Rimbaud’s short life (1854–1891), stitching together images from 19th century France, photos taken by Rimbaud himself, and manuscripts scribbled by the poet. In the background, Joan Baez reads lines from Rimbaud’s famous collection, Illuminations, [...]
≡ Category: Art | ≅ 7 Comments
Famed British artist David Hockney started creating art for the iPhone in 2008, and then for the iPad this year, using nothing but his fingers and this handy Brushes app. Initially, Hockney only shared his digital drawings with a small circle of friends. But now he’s making that circle much larger. Starting in late October, [...]
≡ Category: Business, Education | ≅ 2 Comments
This coming Monday and Tuesday (November 15 & 16), The Economist will host a free online MBA fair, giving business school candidates the chance to chat with admissions officers and current students from over 20 international b-schools. Schools participating in the online forum include Brandeis, Cornell, Pepperdine, Queens University, the University of Toronto, and the [...]
≡ Category: Art, Books | ≅ 8 Comments
This wonderful stop motion film makes you pine for the good old fashioned printed book, perhaps because we all realize that Gutenberg’s gift will eventually give way to the Kindle and other devices. The three minute film (officially entitled This is Where We Live) was shot over three weeks in autumn 2008 to celebrate the [...]
≡ Category: Art, Books | ≅ Leave a Comment
When asked to design a writing studio in the woods of New York, architect Andrew Berman began work on his dream project. And here’s what he delivered. If only we could all write in such luxury… via Media Bistro
≡ Category: Film, Life, Web/Tech | ≅ 3 Comments
Out My Window – it’s a new interactive documentary, a film unlike any you have seen before. Katerina Cizek, the director, put it together over the course of years, and the award-winning film uses its novel approach to explore life, as it goes on, within highrises – the most commonly built structures during the past [...]
Back in 1972, the English art critic John Berger developed Ways of Seeing, a BBC television series that smartly questioned many of our traditional assumptions about art and art appreciation. It introduced the world to postmodernist ways of looking at art, and did so with a degree of accessibility that few scholars have pulled off [...]
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