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≡ Category: Film, Television | ≅ 2 Comments
Elizabeth Taylor, a star for seven decades, died earlier today of congestive heart failure. She was 79 years old. To pay quick tribute, we’re highlighting Taylor’s 1954 appearance on “What’s My Line?,” the longest-running game show in American television history (1950 – 1967). A good way to remember Taylor – having a little fun in [...]
≡ Category: Art | ≅ Leave a Comment
Powder, varnish, and passion. When you strip everything away, that’s what goes into the art of ink making. An informative, if not stirring, nine minutes of film. H/T @courosa
≡ Category: Music, Religion, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ Leave a Comment
If you’ve been feeling the End Times’ icy breath a little close on your shoulders these past few weeks, we recommend a healthy dose of Leonard Cohen. You can start with this 20-minute interview from 1993, conducted by Barbara Gowdy of the Canadian literary series, Imprint. And click “play” with caution — it starts with [...]
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The Israeli artist Ophir Kutiel, otherwise known as Kutiman, returns to YouTube with a rather different project. No Mother of All Funk Chords. No Kutiman-Thru-You. No new take on the remix, but rather a three-day stroll through Jerusalem with a Canon T21. An ancient, holy city seen through a modern lens. The background music is a Kutiman [...]
≡ Category: Physics, Science, Video - Science | ≅ 5 Comments
Lawrence Maxwell Krauss, author of the best-selling book The Physics of Star Trek, is a theoretical physicist and Professor of Physics at Arizona State University. His research focuses on the beginning and the end of the universe. This past January, Krauss attended the World Economic Forum in Davos and was asked by 99 Faces TV [...]
≡ Category: Philosophy, Psychology, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ 4 Comments
The footage above is from an extremely rare – and unexpectedly entertaining – video of the philosopher and psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (1901-1981), giving a lecture at The Catholic University of Louvain in 1972. The film is notable for a couple of reasons: 1. In France, Lacan’s rock star status owed much to his popular public [...]
≡ Category: Philosophy, Twitter | ≅ 1 Comment
Alain de Botton has mastered the art of popularizing great philosophy. His books, lectures, televised programs and the London-based School of Life – they all help de Botton get great ideas “out there.” And now he turns to Twitter. On Friday, @AlaindeBotton tweeted a short course in political philosophy in seven parts. The course, with each lesson [...]
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The actor Michael Gough died this past week. He was 94 years old, and best remembered for his role as Alfred the Butler in the Batman movies. (We pay quick tribute to that role above). Beyond that, Gough had a long stage career, beginning back in the mid 1940s, and played character roles in films [...]
≡ Category: Music, Psychology | ≅ Leave a Comment
Daniel J. Levitin, author of the best-selling books This Is Your Brain On Music and The World In Six Songs, is James McGill Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience at McGill University in Montreal. Levitin’s most recent study tries to explain how musicians communicate emotion by manipulating the “expression” of a musical piece. His research shows [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs, Video - Politics/Society | ≅ 2 Comments
It was one week ago that a powerful 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of northern Japan. The tsunami that followed, with waves reaching as high as ten meters, swept as far as ten miles inward. In this video shot for The Guardian, we see the haunting devastation in Shintona, a small town in the [...]
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