Saul Bass’ Oscar-Winning Animated Short Ponders Why Man Creates

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Maybe you already had a fascination with Saul Bass’ celebrated movie title sequences, or maybe you gained one from yesterday’s post about the current designers he’s inspired.

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Clive Owen & Nicole Kidman Star in HBO’s Hemingway & Gellhorn: Two Writers, A Marriage and a Civil War

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On the 28th of next month, HBO will air Hemingway & Gellhorn, a feature-length drama based on the titular writers’ five-year marriage.

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Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters Performs The Wall at the Berlin Wall (1990 and 2011)

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Perhaps you enjoyed yesterday’s post on Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii but today find yourself unsatisfied, longing for more footage that combines the band with a historically iconic work of architecture. Today, dear readers, we have a concert film that might fit your bill: The Wall — Live in Berlin, viewable free on YouTube.

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Rock Among the Ruins: Pink Floyd Live in Pompeii (1972)

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Tourism and historical research aside, most ruins aren’t particularly useful, least of all for their original purposes. Yet Pink Floyd fans know of one instance when a ruin made a comeback, if a brief and specialized one, that could make you forget all about the ash and pumice that buried it nearly 2000 years before.

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The Alan Lomax Sound Archive Now Online: Features 17,000 Recordings

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A huge treasure trove of songs and interviews recorded by the legendary folklorist Alan Lomax from the 1940s into the 1990s have been digitized and made available online for free listening. The Association for Cultural Equity, a nonprofit organization founded by Lomax in the 1980s, has posted some 17,000 recordings.

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Nelson Mandela Archive Goes Online (With Help From Google)

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Last week, the Albert Einstein Archive went online, bringing thousands of the physicist’s papers and letters to the web.

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The Bayeux Tapestry Animated

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We had to do it. We had to bring back a wonderful little animation of The Bayeux Tapestry — you know, the famous embroidery that offers a pictorial interpretation of the Norman Conquest of England (1066) and the events leading up to this pivotal moment in medieval history.

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Newly Discovered Piece by Mozart Performed on His Own Fortepiano

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A music scholar made an astounding discovery recently while going through the personal belongings from the attic of a recently deceased church musician and band leader in the Lech Valley of the Austrian Tyrol.

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‘Keep Calm and Carry On’: The Story of the Iconic World War II Poster

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In an old Victorian railway station in the picturesque village of Alnwick, Northumberland, just South of the Scottish border, is a one-of-a-kind bookstore called Barter Books. The New Statesman called it “The British Library of secondhand books.

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Rome Reborn – An Amazing Digital Model of Ancient Rome

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What did ancient Rome look like in A.D. 320? Rome Reborn is an international initiative to answer this question and create a 3D digital model of the Eternal City at a time when Rome’s population had reached its peak (about one million) and the first Christian churches were being built.

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