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≡ Category: Film, Television | ≅ Leave a Comment
James Dean starred in only three major films – Rebel Without a Cause, East of Eden, and Giant – before perishing in a car accident on Route 466, near Cholame, California in September 1955. (A free documentary covers that.) A star died at 24. Meanwhile, a legend forever embodying youth was born. Jimmy Dean would [...]
≡ Category: Books, History, Literature, Stanford | ≅ 2 Comments
Read 12 of the greatest Sherlock Holmes stories for free, courtesy of Standford.
≡ Category: Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ 9 Comments
Here we have the first aerial footage of an uncontacted tribe living in the Brazilian Amazon – a people living entirely apart from civilization as we know it. The short clip, filmed for the BBC show Human Planet, follows Jose Carlos Meirelles, who works on behalf of the Brazilian government to safeguard the country’s indigenous [...]
≡ Category: TED Talks | ≅ 1 Comment
A quick fyi for TED heads in our audience: Right here, you can find an online spreadsheet that lists 875 TEDTalks, with handy links to each individual video. This evolving Google doc will give you access to more than 265 hours of “riveting talks by remarkable people.” Because the page is updated on a regular basis, you’ll [...]
≡ Category: Film, Television | ≅ Leave a Comment
What would it look like if our great directors took creative control over the Super Bowl broadcast? Slate imagines it, showing you how Quentin Tarantino, David Lynch, Wes Anderson, Werner Herzog and Jean-Luc Godard would put their cinematic stamp on the broadcast. The clip gets better as it moves along… Enjoy the big game. And, [...]
≡ Category: Comedy | ≅ 4 Comments
What to do after the Apocalypse? This little public information film was made (wink, wink) by the “Australian Board of Civil Defence” during the early 1980s. Found somewhere in an old university archive, the film, now newly dusted off, is being shown for the first time. Note: It’s a tad unsafe for work…
≡ Category: Literature, Music, Science | ≅ 1 Comment
Only 2 years old, ‘lil Rose from Seattle aces her Periodic Table of Elements game. Next up, a play date with 3 year old Jonathan who conducts the 4th movement of Beethoven’s 5th for laughs, and another pal, Samuel, who recites the poetry of Billy Collins and Lord Alfred Tennyson. I’m feeling a little better [...]
≡ Category: History | ≅ Leave a Comment
The Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre – these famous monuments draw millions of tourists to Paris every year, to the part of the city that lives above ground. Few tourists get to the other part of the city, the part that lives and breathes beneath the surface. This month, National Geographic has dedicated its [...]
≡ Category: Art, Film | ≅ 1 Comment
Kirby Ferguson is back. Last September, the writer/director released the first of a four-part film series – Everything is a Remix – that teases apart the long history of artistic “remixing.” This first short film concentrated on the artistic borrowings of musicians and writers, with Led Zeppelin and the Beat writers getting the major focus. [...]
≡ Category: Art, Film, History | ≅ 3 Comments
The first Werner Herzog 3D film will hit the cinema screens this spring, and the new trailer paves the way for it. The 89 minute documentary, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, brings Herzog down into the Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave discovered in 1994. Located in Southern France, this cave, normally kept off limits to the public, houses the [...]
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