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≡ Category: Art, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ 2 Comments
In this superb time lapse video, Dominic Boudreault presents five urban cities — Montreal, Quebec City, Chicago, Toronto, and New York City — and what he calls the “the duality between city and nature.” Most fascinating is the high vantage point from which much of the footage was shot: watch the colorful lights adorning the Empire [...]
≡ Category: Music, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ 1 Comment
For a certain kind of person (that means you, Dan C.), a straight hour of Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards expounding on the rock n’ roll life is about as close to heaven as one can get without magically transforming into Richards’ favorite guitar. Here is the 66-year old legend being interviewed at the New [...]
≡ Category: Film, iPad | ≅ 1 Comment
The online documentary web site SnagFilms recently unveiled a new version of its iPad app, which makes 80 great documentaries available on yet another media platform. You can already watch the (generally high quality) films on Snag Films’ web site for free, though in this case “free” does entail being forced to watch a brief but soul-draining advertisement touting [...]
≡ Category: Books, e-books, Technology | ≅ 16 Comments
There will be a day — maybe it’s already here; maybe it was always here — when the Kindle will look incredibly retro. Mike Matas, once a designer of user interfaces at Apple and now co-founder of Push Pop Press, may make that day of visual reckoning come sooner rather than later. The demo above [...]
≡ Category: Film, Music | ≅ 1 Comment
Robert Johnson, the legendary bluesman, would have turned 100 this week. That’s well beyond the age he actually lived to – a very young 27. During his short life (1911-1938), Johnson recorded 29 individual songs. But they could not have been more influential. Songs like Cross Road Blues, Sweet Home Chicago, and Kind Hearted Woman Blues (all [...]
≡ Category: Art, Film | ≅ Leave a Comment
The 64th Annual Cannes Film Festival opens tonight, and the cineastes among you have probably already bookmarked the film site MUBI, where you can find all things Cannes (and all things international cinema, for that matter) at the site’s blog: the MUBI Daily. Edited by Daniel Kasman, the MUBI Daily features stellar writers, including Glenn Kenny, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, and the [...]
≡ Category: Film, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ 1 Comment
In one of his very best early essays, David Lynch Keeps His Head (1996), the late novelist and essayist David Foster Wallace did his best to pinpoint exactly what it is that makes Lynch such an odd and wonderful director. The article is pure pleasure (and a reminder of just how fresh and original Wallace [...]
≡ Category: Books, Literature | ≅ 6 Comments
Love and longing, hope and fear – these threads run throughout all literature, whether we’re talking about the great ancient epics, or contemporary novels written in the East or the West. That’s the main premise of Invitation to World Literature, a multimedia program organized by David Damrosch (Harvard University), and made with the backing of WGBH and Annenberg Media. The [...]
≡ Category: Film | ≅ 2 Comments
If you’ve ever had doubts about the impact of videogame aesthetics on contemporary cinema — not just action movies, but video and independent film as well — this romantic short from Spy Films might well dispel them. The plot is basic: A man and a woman lock eyes in the street, and dream of what [...]
≡ Category: Books, Video - Politics/Society | ≅ 11 Comments
Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged sold an estimated 25 million copies between its publication in 1957 and 2007. Early on, the book inspired a young generation of business leaders, and now, decades later, it holds appeal for a new class of conservatives. But it wasn’t always that way. Back in the 1950s, William F. Buckley, the enfant terrible [...]
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