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≡ Category: Comedy, Music | ≅ 1 Comment
He looks like Bob Dylan. He sings like our birthday boy Bob Dylan. And yet he’s covering perhaps the cheesiest 80s sitcom theme song ever made — which makes it all the more hilarious…
≡ Category: Animation, Film | ≅ 1 Comment
When Dulcidio Caldeira of the agency Paranoid BR was commissioned recently to create a one-minute commercial marking MTV Brazil’s 21st birthday, he ended up re-imagining one of animation’s oldest forms: the flip book. The result is a work of inspired silliness, with characters like Gene Simmons, Slash, Ozzy Osbourne—even Ozzy’s bat—appearing on a long line [...]
≡ Category: Comedy, Literature, Music | ≅ 3 Comments
Back in 1964, Peter Sellers (aka Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther films) made a cameo appearance on “The Music of Lennon and McCartney,” a television program produced at the height of Beatlemania. The schtick? To read the lyrics of A Hard Day’s Night in a way that comically recalls Laurence Olivier’s 1955 performance of [...]
≡ Category: Music | ≅ Leave a Comment
Rock star, folk singer, poet, and national treasure Bob Dylan turns 70 today, and just in case you haven’t made plans to mark the occasion, we’ve got a few options for you: If you’d like some company, you can check out this Google map of all the septuagenarian celebrations worldwide to see if there will [...]
≡ Category: Beat & Tweets | ≅ 1 Comment
You gave “Open Culture Beat” a collective thumbs up. So it continues. This edition serves up 20 culture links from around the web, starting with a series of beautiful photos from 1890s Italy. Want more culture links served up daily? Give our Twitter stream a follow. • Monochromatic photos of Venice, Rome, Florence, Torino. Circa 1890. [...]
≡ Category: Film | ≅ 2 Comments
Can you identify the man in this picture? The archivists at Lost Films hope you can. The image is taken from footage of a vintage film that no one has been able to identify. According to the description that goes with the still, all we know now is that this oddly-dressed character is an escaped [...]
≡ Category: Online Courses, Philosophy | ≅ 1 Comment
In 1949, Leo Strauss, the German-Jewish emigré, landed at The University of Chicago, where he spent decades teaching and writing on political philosophy, especially the political thought of the Ancients. Strauss’ thinking skewed conservative, and if he was sometimes controversial while alive, he has become only more so in death (1973). Nowadays he’s considered rightly or wrongly [...]
≡ Category: Comedy | ≅ 1 Comment
Forty years after George Carlin first stopped by The Tonight Show (1966), he made one of his last appearances, delivering a rap/poem that’s classic Carlin, a hypnotic riff on modern life and society. The lyrics appear right below. I’m a modern man, A man for the millennium, Digital and smoke free. A diversified multicultural postmodern deconstructionist, [...]
≡ Category: Music, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ 4 Comments
So this is definitely not your grandma’s MTV. The clip we’ve posted above explains the making of “3 Degrees of Black,” an interactive video made for your browser, which was the product of a collaboration between the multi-hyphenated artist/filmmaker Chris Milk and a group of 20-something geniuses at Planet Google. But before you delve into the (admittedly fascinating) [...]
≡ Category: Art, Business, History | ≅ 1 Comment
No light, no civilization. It’s pretty much that simple. And it’s this simple idea that m ss ng p eces, a Brooklyn-based creative company, explores ever so artfully in The Story of Light. Here’s how they introduce the video: We have used light for survival, to learn by, to entertain and express ourselves, mold experiences, and illuminate our [...]
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