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≡ Category: Music | ≅ Leave a Comment
When director David Hillman Curtis and cinematographer Ben Wolf paid a visit recently to composer Philip Glass to film a promotional piece for the Brooklyn Academy of Music, they were granted just 30 minutes. “He was booked solid the day we visited his offices and actually was being followed by a minder who sat on [...]
≡ Category: Literature, Philosophy | ≅ Leave a Comment
We have the animation of Ancient classics covered. Oedipus starring vegetables? Check. An animation of Plato’s Cave Allegory narrated by Orson Welles? Check. Another version of the Cave Allegory made with claymation? Yes, we have that too. Now it’s time for something a little more modern – Mike McCubbins offers an animated adaptation of Albert Camus’ classic, The Fall, [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs, Philosophy, Politics | ≅ 4 Comments
When Slovenia’s hip Marxist/Lacanian critical theorist takes center stage at a Wall Street protest, it’s news for a culture site. No doubt. How can we not observe a rare moment of praxis? But, what it all means for the Occupy Wall Street movement, we’ll let you wrestle with that. Part 2 appears here. H/T Biblioklept. [...]
≡ Category: Apple, Media, Television | ≅ 5 Comments
One last Steve Jobs’ remembrance seems completely fitting for our site. You’re probably familiar with Apple’s famous “Think Different” advertising campaign from the late 1990s, and particularly the legendary TV commercial that featured 17 iconic figures: Albert Einstein, Bob Dylan, Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Branson, John Lennon, Buckminster Fuller, Thomas Edison, Muhammad Ali, Ted [...]
≡ Category: English Language, History, Religion | ≅ 1 Comment
This year marks the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, a translation that influenced the development of the English language as much as it did the Christian faith. Right alongside many other anniversary celebrations taking place this year, Glen Scrivener, a minister in the Church of England, has started a blog about the linguistic [...]
≡ Category: Astronomy, Physics, Science | ≅ Leave a Comment
When two teams of scientists announced in 1998 that the expansion of the Universe was not slowing down due to gravity but was in fact accelerating, the worldwide scientific community was shocked. The discovery turned many of the prevailing assumptions about the universe upside down. Looking back, perhaps the only thing that wasn’t a surprise [...]
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Today is John Lennon’s would-be 71st birthday, and it jogged my memory, reminding me of this lengthy 1970 interview. Conducted by Jann Wenner, the founder of Rolling Stone Magazine, this important conversation (listen via iTunes) was recorded shortly after The Beatles’ bitter breakup, and the emotions were still running high. Running over 3 hours, it is [...]
≡ Category: Art, Media, Technology | ≅ 2 Comments
One drawing by The New Yorker cartoonists says it all. Brilliantly done. You can find the original cover here, and watch how the cartoonists go about their work here. And then from across the very big pond, we have Australian cartoonist Peter Nicholson offering another creative take on Mr. Jobs’ meeting with St. Peter. Find original here, [...]
≡ Category: Apple, Books, e-books | ≅ 6 Comments
Time to resurrect another suddenly relevant item we first mentioned back in 2009… Between 1968 and 1972, Stewart Brand published The Whole Earth Catalog. For Kevin Kelly, the Catalog was essentially “a paper-based database offering thousands of hacks, tips, tools, suggestions, and possibilities for optimizing your life.” For Steve Jobs, it was a “Bible” of his generation, [...]
≡ Category: Philosophy | ≅ 2 Comments
Once again, we’re heading back to 1971. Yesterday we had Dick Cavett’s 1971 interview with George Harrison. Today, it’s the clash of two intellectual titans, Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault. In ’71, at the height of the Vietnam War, the American linguist and French historian/social theorist appeared on Dutch TV to debate a fundamental question: Is [...]
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