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According to Netflix’s CEO, the DVD is done, and the future is all about streaming movies online. (Read the Wall Street Journal piece on that.) This segues nicely to a list published by Salon last week, which features a series of web sites where you’ll find quality movies streamed online. Some of the services are free; others [...]
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The Open Video Conference, which promotes free expression and innovation in online video (learn more about the mission here), went down on June 19 & 20 in NYC. And, Peter Kaufman reports, 700 people attended and it was all “nuts and wonderful.” You can find video goodness from the conference here.
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The film above takes you inside the spiritual walls of Lhasa, Tibet’s capital, which hosts the Potala Palace, “the traditional winter home of the Dalai Lama and a pilgrimage destination for thousands of Buddhists.” The video runs 9+ minutes, and it’s one of many films produced by Explore.org, a web site supported by the Annenberg Foundation that combines [...]
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Looking for great cultural and educational video? Then you’ve come to the right place. Below, we have compiled a list of 46 sites that feature intelligent videos. This list was produced with the help of our faithful readers, and it will grow over time. If you find it useful, please share it as widely as [...]
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Folks, it’s time for a new group project. Last year, I asked you to tell us about your Life-Changing Books, and we pulled together an excellent list that many readers have enjoyed. Now we want to know: where do you go for intelligent video? If you list the sites that you like best — TED, [...]
≡ Category: Music, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ 2 Comments
This week marks the 50th anniversary of “the day the music died.” That’s Don McLean’s way of talking about the 1959 airplane crash that cut short the budding lives and careers of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson. In ‘59, Buddy Holly’s musical career was just getting started, but his influence [...]
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Here’s a nice vintage clip that comes out of a YouTube Channel called The Great Performers, which we’ve added to our page: Best YouTube Collections. The video features Arturo Toscanini conducting Beethoven’s 5th at Carnegie Hall in 1952. You can find the second movement here.
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What’s My Line? aired on CBS from 1950 to 1967, making it the longest-running game show in American television history. During its eighteen seasons, the show featured hundreds of celebrities & VIPs. Above, you can watch Salvador Dali in action. You can also rewind the video tape and check out Alfred Hitchcock, Frank Lloyd Wright, Eleanor [...]
≡ Category: Film, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ 5 Comments
Slacker was shot in Austin, Texas in 1991. Its budget? A mere $23,000. But that didn’t stop it from becoming a cult hit and an overall important indie film. Here you have it free on YouTube, all 100 minutes of it…
Update: it appears that YouTube has placed some geographical restrictions on who can see this [...]
≡ Category: Art, Google, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ 3 Comments
Thankfully, it’s not all bad news here in Silicon Valley. Yesterday, Google and the Prado (the major art museum in Madrid) announced that you can launch Google Earth from wherever you live, travel virtually to Spain, and then take a close look at fourteen of the museum’s finest paintings. And, by “close,” I mean close. [...]
≡ Category: Music, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ 1 Comment
What happens when you take Ben King’s 1961 hit, Stand By Me, and then travel around the world, having different international artists offer their own interpretations, and finally you stitch them all together in one seamless tune? The clip below starts in California, moves to New Orleans, then heads off to Amsterdam, France, Brazil, Moscow, [...]
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Over at his Think Again blog, Stanley Fish, the eminent literary critic, has listed his all-time favorite American films. The list is a good one, so we figured why not add some video clips to the mix, and give you a little taste of each classic. See the full list after the jump. And if [...]
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A couple of big blogs recently highlighted a clip of the Muppets doing Ode to Joy from Beethoven’s Ninth. It’s cute, and I was hardly surprised that the video logged 3.6 million views on YouTube.
Not far behind, at 3.2 million views, is a long video showing Herbert Von Karajan leading a live performance of Beethoven’s Ninth. [...]
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Michael Gough (I believe) reads the poem that launched T.S. Eliot’s career in 1917, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (get the full text of the poem here)
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Taken from a French television program, this vintage clip features Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) reading from Lolita and revealing his list of the most important novels of the 20th century, among other things. Nabokov speaks in English here. So don’t let the initial French throw you off. We’ve added this gem to our YouTube playlist.
Lolita, light [...]
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The Boston Herald ran a piece this weekend highlighting different web sites that feature free educational video collections. If you give it a read, you’ll see that it features some familiar and not so familiar sites –Meaningoflife.tv, Fora.tv, Bigthink.com, TED Talks, Bloggingheads.tv, and Edge.org. All are worth a look. So give them a go. But you may also [...]
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≡ Category: Film, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ 4 Comments
Here’s a very good find by Berto (see his blog here)
In 1999, Aleksandr Petrov won the Academy Award for Short Film (among other awards) for a film that follows the plot line of Ernest Hemingway’s classic novella, The Old Man and the Sea (1952). As noted here, Petrov’s technique involves painting pastels on glass, and [...]
≡ Category: Art, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ 3 Comments
You’ll get the concept of this pretty quickly. And if you’re a fan, see these other clips (Women in Art & Women in Film). These creative videos by Philip Scott Johnson all reside in this larger YouTube collection, which has now made it on to our our growing list: Intelligent Life at YouTube: 80 Educational Video Collections.
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Here’s a rather amazing video (added to our YouTube playlist) that shows what happens when an artist, who happens to be autistic, takes a 45 minute helicopter flight over Rome and then works to artistically reproduce all that he sees. The human brain never ceases to amaze:
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Sci-fi author Neil Gaiman has the right idea. After making his well-known novel American Gods freely available online last year, he has gone the extra mile again in releasing his new novel, The GraveYard Book. In brief, he has just kicked off a nine day book tour, and each day he’s reading a chapter that [...]
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Billy Collins, former US Poet Laureate and one of America’s best-selling poets, reads his poem “Now and Then” with animation by Eun-ha Paek of Milky Elephant. (Yup, it’s added to our YouTube playlist and also see the previous animated Billy Collins poem.)
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You know things are looking bleak when comedy starts making fodder out of depression themes. Here’s a bit that tells you how to go from office worker to homeless drifter in seven easy steps. (Video courtesy of Howcast)
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“Comedian, actor and satirist Chris Elliott has made a career of blurring truth and absurdity. Elliott wrote and performed for Late Night With David Letterman, and went on to perform in other television programs, including Saturday Night Live.” Here he is in conversation with writer Dave Eggers (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius). The video [...]
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In a quick three minutes, you can watch the sometimes cocky author of The Corrections read from an essay on bird watching, courtesy of BigThink.com, where you can also find more videos with intellectual heft.
For more thoughtful video, also see our YouTube playlist and the related collection: Intelligent Life at YouTube: 70 Educational Video Collections.
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≡ Category: Film, Video - Arts & Culture, Video - Politics/Society | ≅ 2 Comments
Rather slick trailer. (And got to wonder how filming the pretzel scene didn’t hurt.) “W,” Oliver Stone’s new biopic, hits the theaters this fall.
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The 2008 MacArthurs were just announced. And one goes to Alex Ross, the New Yorker music critic who recently published The Rest is Noise, a widely praised work that makes sense of 20th century classical music. Below we have Ross talking about his musical background, the New York music scene and the general gist of [...]
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Billy Collins, former US Poet Laureate and one of America’s best-selling poets, reads his poem “The Dead” with animation by Juan Delcan of Spontaneous. Take it away:
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“What can Barbie teach us about culture? More than you might think. In this short documentary, director Tiffany Shlain explores modern Jewish identity through the unusual lens of the Barbie doll. The Tribe was an official selection of the 2006 Sundance Film Festival.”
Personally, the film strikes me as rather facile, but what does my opinion [...]
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