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≡ Category: Art, Books | ≅ 1 Comment
Couldn’t let this one pass by… Andersen M, a London design studio, crafted a rather amazing stop motion video to accompany an excerpt from Maurice Gee’s novel, Going West. The short film was produced on behalf of the New Zealand Book Council, and you can only imagine, as one of our readers points out, the [...]
≡ Category: Life, Science | ≅ Leave a Comment
The Smithsonian Institution has launched Smithsonian WILD, a new web site that lets you search through its collection of over 202,000 images culled from seven ongoing wildlife studies. Researchers in remote locations across the globe have set up “camera traps” – automated cameras triggered by motion sensors – and left them to record whatever wildlife passes by. The [...]
≡ Category: Art, Literature, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ Leave a Comment
Taking a page from the RSA playbook, the New York Public Library has uploaded to its YouTube Channel a series of illustrated talks. John Waters, Jay-Z, Werner Herzog – they’re all there. And so too is Mark Twain “reading” from his own work – work that was first published in 2009 within a volume called [...]
≡ Category: Art, English Language | ≅ Leave a Comment
In this hilarious conversation, originally published in the short-lived ECHO Magazine in 1960, Salvador Dalà tries to teach Irish-born actor Edward Mulhare how to articulate English words in a more DalÃan way. When this clip was recorded, Mulhare had already spent three years playing the role of Professor Higgins in the Broadway version of My Fair Lady. [...]
≡ Category: Music | ≅ 4 Comments
In case you missed it, this New York Times Sunday Magazine story offers a great example of How We Live/Dance/Film/Self-Finance these days. What we have here is a seven minute collaboration between director Jacob Krupnick and classically-trained ballet refugee Anne Marsen. Shot guerilla-style on the Staten Island Ferry, the video features Marsen’s giddy pastiche of hip hop, ballet, [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs, Television | ≅ 4 Comments
We take you back to another era when funding for public broadcasting was in doubt – to 1969, when Richard Nixon planned to cut PBS’ funding from $20 million to $10 million. Here Fred Rogers, the gentle creator of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, gets six short minutes before Senator John Pastore, the chairman of the Subcommittee [...]
≡ Category: Science, Stanford, Video - Science | ≅ 1 Comment
Robert Sapolsky, Professor of Biology at Stanford University, famously focuses his research on stress above all else. (Don’t miss his book, Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers.) The video above features Sapolsky presenting the Pritzker Lecture at the California Academy of Sciences on February 15, 2011. The full lecture can be seen on Fora TV. In this excerpt, Sapolsky amusingly tells [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs, Film | ≅ Leave a Comment
We Are Equals produced this 2-minute video for the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day. Daniel Craig and the great Dame Judi Dench reprise their roles from the last two James Bond films — with a twist. We’d say more, but the video speaks for itself. Enjoy!
≡ Category: Art | ≅ 2 Comments
Sunday marked 25 years since the death of Georgia O’Keeffe, one of America’s foremost artists. The anniversary of her death coincides with the beginning of Women’s History Month. So we figured why not offer a little piece on her. Born in 1887 in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, O’Keeffe grew up knowing she wanted to be an artist. [...]
≡ Category: Film, History, Video - Politics/Society | ≅ 1 Comment
Ahead of Time, a new documentary, tells the remarkable true story of Ruth Gruber. Born in Brooklyn in 1911, Gruber became the youngest person in the world (let alone woman) to earn a Ph.D degree; she did so at the age of 20 from the University of Cologne, where she majored in German Philosophy, Modern English Literature, [...]
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