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≡ Category: Current Affairs, Music | ≅ Leave a Comment
Last night, two American icons lent support to the Occupy Wall Street movement, speaking at a protest held outside of Lincoln Center in New York City. After a performance of Satyagraha at the Met, Philip Glass spoke to demonstrators. According to Alex Ross, the music critic for the New Yorker, Glass recited the closing lines of Satyagraha (see around 3:00 [...]
≡ Category: Life | ≅ 1 Comment
How does the saying go? It’s the journey, not the destination, that counts? The short film above, The Denali Experiment, documents the gnarly expedition of some rock star skiers. Their goal? To summit Denali, the highest mountain peak in North America, and then ski down its steep slopes. The beautifully-shot film by Jimmy Chen focuses [...]
≡ Category: Art, Film | ≅ Leave a Comment
In 1945, a young Stanley Kubrick graduated from high school and almost immediately started working for LOOK Magazine as a photojournalist, becoming the youngest staff photographer in the magazine’s history. It’s during this period that Kubrick began to master his visual craft and produced some stunning images. Now, more than 65 years later, you can [...]
≡ Category: History, Technology | ≅ 2 Comments
A couple of years ago, British Pathé uncovered some striking footage from 1922 showing two women experimenting with the first mobile phone. A spokesman for the archive said: ”It’s amazing that nearly 90 years ago mobile phone technology and music … was not only being thought of but being trialled.” “The phone even has a lid [...]
≡ Category: Animation, Art | ≅ 1 Comment
Dei Gaztelumendi is a young Spanish artist. He was commissioned recently to create a cover illustration for the comic book magazine Xabiroi, and decided to make a time-lapse video of the process. The result is a fascinating look at how the artist begins with a rough sketch on paper and then builds layer upon layer of [...]
≡ Category: Art, Film | ≅ 1 Comment
Title sequences begin and end every movie. They can be “engaging or wildly entertaining … or simply drop dead beautiful.” They can “ooze with visual poetry and sophisticated imagery.” And they can put the audience in the right mood for the movie, or close it in the right way, says the web site Forget the Films, Watch [...]
≡ Category: Music | ≅ 7 Comments
The idea is simple, really. Take every Beatles tune, all 226 of them, and play them together, sequencing them so that they end at the exact same moment. And here’s what you get. The Beatles as you’ve never heard them before … and may never want to hear them again. h/t kottke Related Content: The [...]
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