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≡ Category: Astronomy, Video - Science | ≅ 2 Comments
If you were stuck somewhere far away from yesterday’s lunar eclipse, here’s some consolation courtesy of NASA. The Scientific Visualization Studio at the Goddard Space Flight Center has compiled this two and a half minute video from over a year’s worth of data recorded by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), which has been orbiting the moon at 50 kilometers [...]
≡ Category: Art, Film | ≅ 1 Comment
The New York Times has posted A.O. Scott’s 3-minute look back at the 1929 short film Un Chien Andalou. Scott describes the surrealist classic, a collaboration between painter Salvador Dalà and a very young first-time filmmaker Luis Buñuel, as an “old dog with an endless supply of new tricks.” The short’s procession of seemingly absurd, unconnected images, [...]
≡ Category: Film, Literature | ≅ 2 Comments
Several weeks back, Go the F**k to Sleep, the irreverent new children’s book, gained national attention when pirated PDF copies went viral on the internet. But don’t feel sorry for the author and illustrator. The book is now #1 on the Amazon bestseller list; Samuel Jackson has narrated the official audio book (you can probably snag a [...]
≡ Category: Astronomy | ≅ Leave a Comment
A new way to see the world. Give NASA seven minutes, and they’ll show you the Earth’s most impressive landscapes — as seen from space, in HD. The coasts of Namibia, Tunisia and Madagascar, they’re all on the itinerary, along with Sicily, China, Iran, and Utah. Plus you will see a giant hurricane over the Atlantic ocean. [...]
≡ Category: Life, Music | ≅ 3 Comments
Ophir Kutiel, aka Kutiman, burst onto the digital scene with The Mother of All Funk Chords in 2009. Now he has resurfaced with a new video. This time, it’s a musical journey through Jerusalem, a mashup that weaves together the sounds of local musicians, creating a visual/aural composition that lets you tap into the unique sound [...]
≡ Category: Comedy, Music | ≅ Leave a Comment
Once again, we’re reminded of Steve Martin’s many talents - comedian, movie star, New Yorker writer, playwright, magician, and, yes, banjo player too. In June 2009, Martin hooked up with the Steep Canyon Rangers, an American bluegrass band, on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion. (Listen to mp3 here.) Later in 2009 and early 2010, Martin made more appearances with the [...]
≡ Category: Life, Philosophy | ≅ 5 Comments
Can Ayn Rand tell us something about achieving a deeply satisfying relationship? It’s hard to imagine. She was notoriously churlish, dumped friends and allies who didn’t give her works positive reviews, and cheated on her husband with a man 24 years her junior, then eventually expelled the young Nathaniel Branden from her intellectual circle. And heck, [...]
≡ Category: Animation | ≅ Leave a Comment
You’re not squeamish, are you? A team of students at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, in Germany, has taken the aesthetic sensibilities of the horror and action movie genres and imported them into the realm of the microscopic, creating a stunning work of 3D animation called Loom, about a spider and a very unlucky moth. Directed by [...]
≡ Category: Literature, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ 1 Comment
The narrator of this rare clip describes James Joyce – arguably the greatest novelist of the 20th century — as a “small, thin, unathletic man with very bad eyes.” Ouch. And it gets worse. According to the voiceover, when Joyce and drinking buddy Ernest Hemingway faced a potential brawl, Joyce would hide behind his more imposing comrade [...]
≡ Category: Life | ≅ 4 Comments
The stars shined upon the Ivy League schools this graduation season. Tom Hanks at Yale, Amy Poehler at Harvard, Denzel Washington at U Penn. These kids have it good, but nowhere near as good as the Dartmouth grads. This weekend, Conan O’Brien rolled into Hanover, New Hampshire and dished out plenty of jokes: Parents, if your [...]
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