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≡ Category: Film | ≅ Leave a Comment
Brandeis University has just posted a terrific discussion between filmmakers Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man, The Cave of Forgotten Dreams) and Errol Morris (The Fog of War, The Thin Blue Line) from 2007. The two documentary titans shared the stage for over an hour, talking about their long friendship, the making of documentaries, and Herzog’s film Encounters at the End of [...]
≡ Category: Film, Life | ≅ 1 Comment
How do you adequately portray life in a high-rise building? London filmmaker Marc Isaacs found a rather unconventional answer to this question. He installed himself inside the lift/elevator of a high rise on the East End of London. And for ten hours a day, over two months, he would ride up and down with the residents, with his [...]
≡ Category: Literature, Random | ≅ 4 Comments
At first we thought it was either an Onion story or a joke: Multi-talented author, actor, sports enthusiast and Paris Review editor George Plimpton (1927-2003) also achieved considerable success in another medium: video games. The Millions points us to George Plimpton’s video “Falconry,” the game Plimpton helped develop for ColecoVision in the early 80′s. You can play it here, [...]
≡ Category: Music | ≅ 3 Comments
Andrés Segovia first visited the Alhambra, the storied 14th Century Moorish palace in Granada, Spain, when he was ten years old. “It was here,” he said, “that I opened my eyes to the beauty of nature and art. To be here is to feel oneself to be near, very near, paradise.” Segovia is often called [...]
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Thirty-five years ago today, New York magazine published “Tribal Rights of Saturday Night,” a beautifully-written paean to the dancing teens of the city’s boroughs. And the story focused on a working-class disco dancer named Vincent: Vincent was the very best dancer in Bay Ridge—the ultimate Face. He owned fourteen floral shirts, five suits, eight pairs [...]
≡ Category: Life, Music | ≅ 4 Comments
Back in 2004, Bono, the co-founder of ONE (an NGO that raises awareness of AIDS and poverty in Africa), received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Of course, Bono is also the lead singer of U2, and he can command the attention of any large audience. Speaking to Penn’s graduating class of [...]
≡ Category: Astronomy, Video - Science | ≅ 1 Comment
If you haven’t been following the Cassini spacecraft’s second mission to Saturn, here’s a video that will hook you in. It features incredible black-and-white images of Saturn and its moons, all captured by Cassini’s “camera” — also known as the Cassini-Huygens Imaging Science Subsystem — and designer/director Chris Abbas, who edited together footage from Cassini’s [...]
≡ Category: Philosophy | ≅ Leave a Comment
The Chronicle of Higher Education has posted a nice set of portraits called “Gallery of Minds,” featuring images of 10 world-famous philosophers, including Richard Rorty, David Chalmers, and renowned philosopher and art critic Arthur Danto, who also wrote a compelling introduction. Danto focuses on the visual artistry of the series’ photographer Steve Pyke, a long-time staff member at the New Yorker, but [...]
≡ Category: Psychology | ≅ 1 Comment
On this day 50 years ago, the great psychologist Carl Gustav Jung died at his villa at Küsnacht, on the shore of Lake Zurich, Switzerland. He was 86 years old. Jung viewed death as a fulfillment, rather than a negation, of life. “As a doctor,” he wrote in his 1930 essay, The Stages of Life, “I [...]
≡ Category: Music | ≅ 4 Comments
A perfect way to chase away the Monday morning blues. Once obscure, the Brazilian musical group A Banda Mais Bonita da Cidade (or “The Most Beautiful Band in the City”) has been riding a wave of popularity for the past two weeks, ever since their video, guaranteed to put a little smile on your face, went [...]
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