What cultural goodies did we tweet (and re-tweet) on our Twitter stream during the past week? Here are some highlights. Follow us on Twitter at @openculture … or Like us on Facebook. We’ll keep you plugged in…
- Barcelona 1908: A tram ride shows the old city and its main streets back in the day. Watch above or here.
- Astronomers Find Largest, Most Distant Reservoir of Water. Equivalent to 140 trillion times all the water in the world’s oceans.
- A Clockwork Orange: The Musical. That’s right, a musical based on Anthony Burgess’ novel is coming to the UK soon.
- Corrected Page Proof of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. From the Smith College Archives. Image.
- Blitz Britain: Amazing color pictures of London under siege during World War II.
- Fidel Castro Talks about His Ideology in 1959. Interview conducted in English.
- Herman Melville’s Lifetime Literary Earnings. Probably not bad if you adjust for inflation.
- The Auteur Is Dead, Says Jean-Luc Godard. The future is cut-and-paste movie mashups.
- British Pathé Archive: A collection of over 90,000 clips from Pathé newsreels and cinemagazines, shown in British cinemas from 1910 until 1970.
- Lady Gaga and Just a Steinway. Less can be more.
- Harvard University Library’s Extensive Selection of Web-Accessible Collections. From Chinese Art to Musical Scores to Daguerreotypes. Find them here.
- Tom Wolfe on Marshall McLuhan for his 100th Would-Be Birthday.
- Ailing Hugo Chavez finds inspiration in Nietzsche’s Zarathustra.
- FSI Language Courses: Language courses developed by the Foreign Service Institute. Now online and added to our collection Learn Languages for Free: Spanish, English, Chinese & 37 Other Languages
- Wired Magazine Articles as a free spoken-word podcasts.
- Watch Free Films from Melbourne International Film Fest. Includes Tiger Award winner Finisterrae.
- The Dude’s Abode: Big Lebowski House for Sale.
- 2Cellos (Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser) perform Michael Jackson’s Smooth Criminal.
- Rupert Murdoch-Detector Browser Add-Ons warn you when you’re reading Murdoch-tainted news.
- Summer Reading Lists from UC Berkeley, 1985-2011.
- Was Thomas Edison the First Travel Filmmaker? Matador TV makes the case.
- Why Does Time Fly? Big enchilada question explained by Scientific American.
- Historian David McCullough looks at French Influence on America. Video and Op-Ed.
- Mark Twain’s whimsical ‘Advice to Little Girls,’ wickedly illustrated by Vladimir Radunsky.
Sources: @coudal, @kottke, @philosophybites, @maudnewton, @eugenephoto, @courosa, @matthiasrascher, @BrainPicker.
No wonder Gaudi got run over by a tram – that looks crazy dangerous.
the excerpts of freud’s writings on coke are on a nazi website :/
Thanks for the heads up on that. We removed the link.
must have been really hot to wear those old fashioned clothes in Spain.