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≡ Category: Film, Music | ≅ 2 Comments
Three years ago, the members of the band Interpol sat down with filmmaker David Lynch. It was a casual meeting, an “ice breaker,” that paved the way for a future collaboration. Skip ahead to 2010, and the collaboration begins. Interpol wants to develop visuals to accompany their performance at the 2011 Coachella Festival, and Lynch agrees [...]
≡ Category: Books, Literature, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ 5 Comments
The Paris Review blog, which just gets better and better each week, posted Andrew David Watson’s lovely video yesterday about Michael Seidenberg, who moved his shop, Brazenhead Books, into his New York City apartment after his bookshop rent skyrocketed. “It’s a continuation of just me being a bookseller in the way that I want to be… If it’s [...]
≡ Category: Comedy | ≅ 1 Comment
Congratulations to the comedian Louis C.K. whose half-hour F/X show Louie was just nominated for an Emmy Award (full list of nominees here). To celebrate, here’s one of our favorite of his riffs from a 2009 appearance on the Conan O’Brien show. (Speaking of Conan, don’t miss his Dartmouth graduation address.) We love Louis for many [...]
≡ Category: Art | ≅ 2 Comments
The town of Cloquet lies in northern Minnesota along the St. Louis River. It has a population of roughly 11,000 residents, and several of its most famous residents play for the NHL. The town also happens to be home to the R.W. Lindholm Service Station – a gas station designed by none other than Frank Lloyd [...]
≡ Category: Art, History, Music | ≅ Leave a Comment
In February 2010, the Paris-based band Hold Your Horses! released a music video to go with their song “70 Million,” which became an immediate success. In the video, the band members recreated famous paintings, taking the viewer on an entertaining tour through art history. Try to identify as many paintings as possible, then compare your [...]
≡ Category: Science, Video - Science | ≅ Leave a Comment
We reached deep into our archives and pulled out a list of our greatest hits — our favorite science videos from the past five years. 125 videos in total, and the list will grow from here. Right now, it covers everything from Astronomy and Space Travel, to Physics and Biology, and then Psychology and Neuroscience. [...]
≡ Category: Music | ≅ 1 Comment
We love the design and overall layout of The Illuminated Playlists by Brooklyn-based designer Adam Parks, but the real delight of the website is its sound, not its look. Parks has grouped 21 music collections into four categories, from slow to very fast (or rather, Adagio to Presto), so you can choose a playlist depending on the pace [...]
≡ Category: Animation, Film | ≅ 2 Comments
We want to be excited about the latest film version of Franz Kafka’s 1915 novella The Metamorphosis (get free etext here), especially because it’s an indie production, and we just can’t see the existential drama of Gregor Samsa’s journey from human to insect surviving a major studio adaptation. Furthermore, we love Nick Searcy in the [...]
≡ Category: Art | ≅ Leave a Comment
You’ve seen buildings magically transformed into artistic canvases before — the Astronomical Clock Tower in Prague; the iconic buildings at Cambridge University; and then this facade in Ukraine. But have you seen the audience take control of the architectural painting? That’s what happened in Lyon, France during the “Fête des lumières,” held last December. Throw an audio [...]
≡ Category: Comedy, Literature, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ 6 Comments
You’ve heard him read Lady Gaga, you’ve seen him reminisce with his fellow lov-ahs on Saturday Night Live, and you’ve heard him sub in for Leonard Lopate on the radio. But we’re not sure if any of Christopher Walken’s appearances can beat his demented spin on “The Three Little Pigs.” Mr. Walken’s reading of the potentially terrifying [...]
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