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≡ Category: Music, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ 3 Comments
Between 1964 and 1966, Andy Warhol shot close to 500 short movies of friends, celebrities, models, and any of the other lovely young things who passed through his studio known as The Factory. The indie-rock duet Dean and Britta recently composed songs for 13 of the videos, which they’ve been performing live as part of [...]
This past February, Randy Halverson ventured forth into the frigid South Dakota night to create a painfully pretty time-lapse film. He called it “Sub Zero,” an apt title given that temperatures fell to -25 degrees Fahrenheit. With the approach of spring, Halverson returned to the great outdoors to shoot “Orion,” which features constellations tracking across his [...]
≡ Category: Art | ≅ 2 Comments
Sit back and enjoy CandaÅŸ ÅžiÅŸman’s video dedicated to the influential Turkish sculptor, Ä°lhan Koman (1923-1986). Rodin, Giacometti, Brancusi – they all informed Koman’s work, and now filter back into ÅžiÅŸman’s video installation, which went on display at last year’s Hulda Festival. The festival, featuring Koman’s scientific sculptures, ran from March 2009 until November 2010, [...]
≡ Category: Comedy, Media | ≅ 3 Comments
You want to know why Rupert Murdoch runs the world and you don’t? Here’s a hint: In 1990, Spy Magazine (now archived at Google Books) sent Murdoch and a slew of other wealthy celebrities checks for $1.11 as a prank. Murdoch cashed his right away — because even when he was just a lowly billionaire, the [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs, History | ≅ 5 Comments
I can’t say that we’ll be watching the royal wedding. But we should at least put a thin veneer of intelligence on top of the shallow spectacle. That’s our job. In two very quick minutes, Emory historian Patrick Allitt sketches out the history of royal weddings, and tells you why this “Royal Willding” stands out…
≡ Category: Comedy, Theatre | ≅ Leave a Comment
We giddily present “Jersey Shore” Gone Wilde, as performed by the cast of The Importance of Being Earnest, a production currently being staged by the Roundabout Theatre Company in New York City. Go ahead and catch this inspired mashup of Victorian comedy and MTV “reality” at Playbill Video in 5 parts … unless you have work to do [...]
≡ Category: Science, Video - Science | ≅ 2 Comments
The central intelligence of ants – the way ant colonies organize themselves without a leader and get things done – continues to amaze scientists and science writers alike. Back in 2003, Deborah Gordon, a Stanford biologist, gave a whole TED Talk called “How Do Ants Know What to Do?,” which sheds light on how ants [...]
≡ Category: Art, Science, Video - Science | ≅ 7 Comments
Back in 1990, Voyager 1 snapped a photo of planet Earth from a record distance – 3.7 billion miles away. And there we saw it, our home, Planet Earth, a small blue dot almost swallowed by the vastness of space. This image inspired the title of Carl Sagan’s 1994 book, The Pale Blue Dot: A Vision [...]
≡ Category: Science, Video - Science | ≅ Leave a Comment
The 2009 documentary Transcendent Man: The Life and Ideas of Ray Kurzweil is currently screening both online and in select venues, and provoking exactly the wide range of responses one would expect from a film about a futurist who has claimed, among other things, that man would soon learn how to extend his life “indefinitely.” [...]
≡ Category: Philosophy, Video - Politics/Society | ≅ Leave a Comment
“Human, All Too Human” is a three-hour BBC series from 1999, about the lives and work of Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, and Jean-Paul Sartre. The filmmakers focus heavily on politics and historical context — the Heidegger hour, for example, focuses almost exclusively on his troubling relationship with Nazism. The most engaging chapter is “Jean-Paul Sartre: The Road to Freedom,” in [...]
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