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≡ Category: Film | ≅ 2 Comments
We have previously featured films by the great Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. So we’re overjoyed to report that the Moscow film company Mosfilm has just made 5o Russian classics available on YouTube in high definition. According to Yahoo News, Mosfilm has pledged to release five more films each week, all in HD with English subtitles, eventually bringing the total [...]
≡ Category: Music | ≅ Leave a Comment
Today Carnegie Hall celebrates its 120th anniversary. Designed by architect William Burnet Tuthill and financed by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, the famed concert venue opened its doors in 1891, right between West 56th and 57th Streets in New York City. Since then, Carnegie Hall has gained a reputation for its unrivaled acoustics (some have called it the “Stradivarius of the [...]
≡ Category: Art | ≅ 10 Comments
As gimmicks go, the moving GIF is almost as old as the internet itself. But artists Jamie Beck and Kevin Berg have taken their animated photographs, or “cinemagraphs,” as Beck calls them, far beyond the original gimmick. While some of their images tend towards kitsch, featuring cliches like long hair rustling in the breeze, or [...]
≡ Category: Music, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ Leave a Comment
Clash frontman Joe Strummer wrote and directed this odd gangster parody in 1983, while the band was on a break from touring. He cast Mick Jones as a well-dressed crime boss, Paul Simonon as his Jimmy Cliff-channeling nemesis, and pretty much everyone the band had ever shared a pint with in supporting roles. Hell W10 is not [...]
≡ Category: Books, e-books | ≅ Leave a Comment
Every idea has to begin somewhere. And, back in 2000, Seth Godin started experimenting with a fairly radical publishing model. Inspired by Malcolm Gladwell, Godin wrote Unleashing the Ideavirus, which essentially argued that free ideas spread quicker than ideas that cost money. And it’s the ideas that spread the quickest that win. So what was the [...]
≡ Category: Film, History, Life, Video - Politics/Society | ≅ Comments Off
The recent 9.0-magnitude Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, and subsequent Fukushima nuclear accidents were among the most devastating environmental disasters in recorded history. The immediate consequences are frightening, but their full, long-term impact remains an unsettling mystery. This, of course, isn’t the first time Japan has faced a nuclear emergency. After the World War II atomic [...]
≡ Category: Online Courses | ≅ Leave a Comment
Worth a quick mention. Today our constantly-growing list, 350 Free Online Courses from Top Universities, was featured by Netted, a daily newsletter written by the Webbys, the same people who give awards for excellence on the web. I don’t know if we’re achieving excellence on the web. But I do know this: It’s hard to [...]
≡ Category: Music, TED Talks | ≅ Leave a Comment
Since the break-up of Talking Heads in 1991, David Byrne has made a good career for himself as a solo artist, working in film and music, and also becoming an active supporter of cycling. Overtly intellectual, Byrne has given lectures on a great variety of topics – from Carl Jung to the ways in which venue and context shape artistic [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs, Film, Politics, Video - Politics/Society | ≅ 2 Comments
Much has been said, tweeted and written about the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, glorifying it as one of the most landmark triumphs of freedom in recent history. Yet the Western media has delivered surprisingly little on its aftermath, leaving the lived post-revolution reality of the Egyptian people a near-mystery. This beautiful short film by British film [...]
≡ Category: Film, History | ≅ Leave a Comment
The world’s first hand-tinted motion picture was produced by Thomas Edison’s company, Edison Studios, in 1895, more than 115 years ago. The dancer, Annabelle Moore (1878-1961), was just a teenager when this film was released, and her dance caused both a sensation and a scandal. (Note the flashes of undergarment, all the way up to above [...]
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