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≡ Category: Television, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ 2 Comments
John Lurie is a musician, actor and artist. He’s also a horrible fisherman. As saxophonist and leader of the punk-jazz group the Lounge Lizards, Lurie emerged as a cult figure in New York’s downtown arts scene in the 1980s, and the deal was cemented with his surly, straight-faced performances in Jim Jarmusch’s Stranger Than Paradise and Down by [...]
≡ Category: Film, Television | ≅ 1 Comment
The films of David Lynch seem anything but “commercial.” Disturbing, incomprehensible, they shine a flashlight into the darkest regions of the subconscious mind. When you walk out of a theater after watching a David Lynch film you feel like you just woke up from a vivid and unsettling dream. But Lynch has been leading a [...]
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In the immediate aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, when New York and much of the world were still in a state of shock, a group of top-flight actors, directors and other creative workers donated their time and talents for a special project to lure tourists back to the Big Apple. The “New York [...]
≡ Category: Film, Television | ≅ 3 Comments
Last month we brought you some little-known soap commercials by Ingmar Bergman. Today we present a series of lyrical television advertisements made by the great Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini during the final decade of his life. In 1984, when he was 64 years old, Fellini agreed to make a miniature film featuring Campari, the famous Italian [...]
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Earlier this week, we brought you Audrey Hepburn’s Screen Test for Roman Holiday (1953). Next up, we have Katharine Hepburn appearing on the very 70s set of The Dick Cavett Show. In case you’re wondering, the two Hepburns were only distantly related. According to Salon, they shared one common ancestor, James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell, the third [...]
≡ Category: Music, Television | ≅ 2 Comments
Last week we gave you John Cage performing his avant-garde composition Water Walk on the CBS game show “I’ve Got a Secret” in 1960. Now, this week, we’re following up with a nice complement — Frank Zappa bringing his own brand of offbeat music to the American airwaves in 1963. Only 22 years old and [...]
≡ Category: Music, Television | ≅ 2 Comments
In 1952, John Cage composed his most controversial piece, 4′33,″ a four-and-a-half minute reflection on the sound of silence. Now fast forward eight years. It’s February, 1960, and we find the composer teaching his famous Experimental Composition courses at The New School in NYC, and paying a visit to the CBS game show “I’ve Got a Secret.” The TV show [...]
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Let’s do the time warp today and revisit the Not-S0-Golden Age of American Television. The year was 1978. Star Wars fever still gripped America, and the Variety Show TV format wouldn’t say die. So, producing The Star Wars Holiday Special was a no-brainer. The two-hour show takes you inside the domestic world of Chewbacca and his [...]
≡ Category: Math, Television | ≅ 2 Comments
Countdown is a British TV game show revolving around words and numbers. In the numbers round, contestants select six of twenty-four shuffled tiles with numbers on them. Next, a computer generates a random three-digit target number and the contestants have thirty seconds to get as close to that number as possible by combining the six [...]
≡ Category: Film, Television | ≅ 3 Comments
Spike Jonze has made a name for himself as a wildly inventive director of music videos and feature films, like Being John Malkovich and Adaptation. He has also created some of the most distinctive television commercials of the past decade. Today we bring you a few of his greatest hits. In late 2002 Jonze created [...]
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