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≡ Category: Film, Philosophy | ≅ 2 Comments
A few weeks ago we directed you to a wonderful three-part BBC documentary about modern philosophy called Human, All Too Human, adding that we considered the chapter on Jean-Paul Sartre the most satisfying of the three. Now we give you a light-hearted chaser for that documentary’s strong spirits: The French philosopher’s teachings as interpreted by the [...]
≡ Category: Music, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ 1 Comment
Three cheers for curation. Limelight, an Australian culture web site, has selected “40 of the most informative, representative and entertaining videos” available on YouTube. And they’ve strung them together in such a way that they offer a ”chronological history of western classical music from the twelfth century to the modern age,” taking you from The Middle Ages [...]
≡ Category: Comedy | ≅ Leave a Comment
Jerry Seinfeld has decided to go on tour, and as if to remind us that his stand-up life preceded his decade-plus dominance of network TV, he’s also archived the best bits from a comedy career that now spans over 25 years. (He first appeared on national television in 1977.) The new site/archive will feature just a few clips, making [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs | ≅ 30 Comments
In case you’ve been lying awake at night, wondering “What Would Noam Chomsky Have to Say about the Whole Osama bin Laden Affair?,” you now have your answer. He writes in Guernica: We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush’s compound, assassinated him, and dumped his [...]
≡ Category: Philosophy | ≅ 2 Comments
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy calls David Hume (1711-1776) “the most important philosopher ever to write in English,” and this week the philosophy world celebrates the 300th birthday of the great Scottish empiricist/skeptic. Around the web, you can find more serious commentary on Hume’s philosophy. Just head over to The Philosopher’s Zone, Philosophy Bites, or The [...]
≡ Category: Film, Radio | ≅ 4 Comments
96 years ago today, Orson Welles, the “ultimate auteur,” was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Hence his early nickname, The Kenosha Kid. Nowadays, we remember Welles as arguably the greatest director of the 20th century, a superb actor on stage and screen, and a pioneering radio dramatist. To celebrate his 96th birthday, we have dipped into [...]
≡ Category: Film, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ Leave a Comment
French graphic artist Martin Woutisseth has put together this lovely filmography of Stanley Kubrick, based on animated posters of his own design, and set to a wonderful score by composer Romain Trouillet. Woutisseth’s visual interpretations of each film, from Killer’s Kiss (1955) to Eyes Wide Shut (1999) are works of art in their own right. We [...]
Sterling Johnson, otherwise known as the Bubblesmith, goes to work at Stinson Beach, a little north of San Francisco. Mark Day captures the artistic display with his Canon 550D, and it’s all set to Bach’s Prelude in C Major. Like the kid said in American Beauty, “Sometimes there’s so much beauty in the world, I [...]
≡ Category: Film, Theatre | ≅ Leave a Comment
A sad, loving farewell to the great playwright, librettist and director Arthur Laurents, who died in his sleep today at the age of 93. Mr. Laurents was best known for writing Gypsy (1959), The Way We Were (1973), and of course the incomparable West Side Story (1959), about which this author has nothing to say, except that without [...]
≡ Category: Music, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ 2 Comments
The Beach Boys’ classic album Pet Sounds (1966) is widely considered one of the most important rock and roll discs ever recorded. Rolling Stone magazine ranked Pet Sounds #2 on its list of The Greatest 500 Albums of All Time (between Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and Revolver) and it was voted #1 by several other [...]
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