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≡ Category: Astronomy, Science, Video - Science | ≅ Leave a Comment
A new NASA breakthrough lets us see the sun in a 360 degree, panoramic view. The upshot? Better space weather reports coming our way. The video from NASA’s YouTube channel has all the good details …
≡ Category: Art, Film | ≅ Leave a Comment
During the 1940s and 50s, Hollywood entered a “noir” period, producing riveting films based on hard-boiled fiction. These films were set in dark locations and shot in a black & white aesthetic that fit like a glove. Hardened men wore fedoras and forever smoked cigarettes. Women played the femme fatale role brilliantly. Love was the [...]
≡ Category: Technology, Video - Science | ≅ Leave a Comment
Next Monday, the long-running American game show, Jeopardy!, will air a tournament of champions, pitting its two biggest winners, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, against Watson, IBM’s newest supercomputer. And it will provide an occasion to answer an important question: Can computers understand the subtleties of language? Can they answer questions when they’re posed in [...]
≡ Category: Education | ≅ 3 Comments
Since 2007, Michael Wesch, a Kansas State University anthropologist, has released a series of viral videos interrogating the ways in which new web technologies shape human communication and interactions with information. First came The Machine is Us/ing Us, then Information R/evolution and An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube. Now he’s back with a new video called [...]
If I have this right, you’re looking at the dripping, flowing art of Holton Rower, a New York-based artist, who also happens to be the grandson of Alexander Calder. The film itself was directed and edited by Dave Kaufman. Enough said, I will let you sit back and watch gravity, paint and Holton do their [...]
≡ Category: Film, Literature, Theatre | ≅ 1 Comment
Sophocles and Aeschylus may be spinning in their graves. Or, who knows, they may be taking some delight in this bizarre twist on the Oedipus myth. Running eight minutes, Jason Wishnow’s 2004 film puts vegetables in the starring roles. One of the first stop-motion films shot with a digital still camera, Oedipus took two years [...]
≡ Category: Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ 4 Comments
Steve Duncan is an urban historian and photographer whose mission is to “peel back the layers of a city to see what’s underneath” – to piece together the complex cities we inhabit. In this fascinating video, we follow Duncan as he explores the underbelly of New York City. Andrew Wonder, using a Canon 5D Mark II [...]
≡ Category: Music | ≅ Leave a Comment
Back in 2009, Playing for Change, a media project launched by music producer Mark Johnson, rolled out a video featuring a global cast of musicians performing Ben King’s Stand by Me. To date, the video has clocked more than 28,000,000 views on YouTube, and the song later appeared on this CD/DVD. Now, Playing for Change [...]
≡ Category: iPhone, MIT, Online Courses | ≅ 2 Comments
Last week, MIT OpenCourseWare officially released its LectureHall iPhone app. Put simply, the free app gives you mobile access to MIT video lectures. It even lets you download lectures straight to your phone (handy for times when you may not have connectivity). Another plus: the LectureHall iPhone app adds a social dimension to the learning experience. [...]
≡ Category: Film | ≅ 1 Comment
On James Dean’s 80th birthday, this film probably deserves its own little mention. The James Dean Story, a 79 minute documentary chronicling the life and times of Jimmy Dean, came out two years after the young actor’s death. Most notably, the film was directed by Robert Altman, a young director who would eventually make MASH, [...]
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