About: jdavidjones

Website

Profile

Posts by jdavidjones:

• The Epic of Gilgamesh, the Oldest-Known Work of Literature in World History, 22 Jul 2021 in History&Literature
• Explore Divine Comedy Digital, a New Digital Database That Collects Seven Centuries of Art Inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy, 21 Jul 2021 in Art&Literature
• Frida Kahlo: The Life of an Artist, 21 Jul 2021 in Art
• They Might Be Giants’ John Linnell Releases an EP of Songs in Latin, 20 Jul 2021 in Language&Music
• When Rage Against the Machine Interviewed Noam Chomsky (1999), 20 Jul 2021 in Music&Politics
• Neil Young Plays “Hey, Hey, My, My” with Devo: Watch a Classic Scene from the Improvised Movie Human Highway (1980), 19 Jul 2021 in Film&Music
• How American Bandstand Changed American Culture: Revisit Scenes from the Iconic Music Show, 16 Jul 2021 in Music&Television
• Hear Isabella Rossellini Sing “Blue Velvet” in Its Entirety, 15 Jul 2021 in Film
• B.F. Skinner Demonstrates His “Teaching Machine,” the 1950s Automated Learning Device, 15 Jul 2021 in Education&History&Psychology
• What the Eagles’ “Hotel California” Really Means, 13 Jul 2021 in Music
• Watch Blondie Perform a Classic Concert During The Breakout Year: “Dreamin,” “One Way Or Another,” “Heart of Glass” & More (1979), 13 Jul 2021 in Music
• Hear Louis Armstrong’s Last Reel-to-Reel Tape, Made Hours Before His Death (1971), 12 Jul 2021 in Music
• Leon Theremin Advertises the First Commercial Production Run of His Revolutionary Electronic Instrument (1930), 09 Jul 2021 in History&Music
• Watch the Tate Modern Restore Mark Rothko’s Vandalized Painting, Black on Maroon: 18 Months of Work Condensed Into 17 Minutes, 08 Jul 2021 in Art
• How Caravaggio Painted: A Re-Creation of the Great Master’s Process, 07 Jul 2021 in Art
• Hear Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos Played on Original Baroque Instruments, 07 Jul 2021 in History&Music
• Why Finland & Denmark Are Happier Than the United States, 06 Jul 2021 in Life
• Quentin Tarantino Releases His First Novel: A Pulpy Novelization of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, 05 Jul 2021 in Film
• Discover the 1820’s Color-Coded System for Memorizing Historical Events, Which Resembled Modern Art (1820), 05 Jul 2021 in History
• Alfred Hitchcock Explains the Difference Between Suspense & Surprise: Give the Audience Some Information & Leave the Rest to Their Imagination, 01 Jul 2021 in Film
• How Jaco Pastorius Invented the Electric Bass Solo & Changed Musical History (1976), 30 Jun 2021 in Music
• Watch 194 Films by Georges Méliès, the Filmmaker Who “Invented Everything” (All in Chronological Order), 30 Jun 2021 in Film
• The Acoustics of Stonehenge: Researchers Build a Model to Understand How Sound Reverberated within the Ancient Structure, 28 Jun 2021 in History&Science
• Tom Jones Covers Talking Heads “Burning Down the House”–and Burns Down the House (1999), 25 Jun 2021 in Music
• 1540 Monet Paintings in a Two Hour Video, 24 Jun 2021 in Art
• Every Roman Emperor: A Video Timeline Moving from Augustus to the Byzantine Empire’s Last Ruler, Constantine XI, 24 Jun 2021 in History
• Hear Demos & Outtakes of Joni Mitchell’s Blue on the 50th Anniversary of the Classic Album, 23 Jun 2021 in Music
• The Captivating Art of Restoring Vintage Guitars, 23 Jun 2021 in Music
• David Bowie on Why It’s Crazy to Make Art–and We Do It Anyway (1998), 22 Jun 2021 in Art&Music&Television
• British Actor Bob Hoskins Helped Thousands Learn to Read in On the Move, a 1970s “Sesame Street for Adults”, 22 Jun 2021 in Education&Television
• Discover Ikaria, the Greek Island With the Oldest Life Expectancy in the World, 21 Jun 2021 in Health&Life
• The Horrors of Bull Island, “the Worst Music Festival of All Time” (1972), 18 Jun 2021 in Music
• Hear an Excerpt from the Newly-Released, First Unabridged Audiobook of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, 17 Jun 2021 in Audio Books&Literature
• Watch Franz Liszt’s “Un Sospiro” Played with the Mesmerizing “Three-Hand Technique”, 16 Jun 2021 in Music
• Hear The Velvet Underground’s “Legendary Guitar Amp Tapes,” Which Showcases the Brilliance & Innovation of Lou Reed’s Guitar Playing (1969), 15 Jun 2021 in Music
• Watch an Accurate Reconstruction of the World’s Oldest Computer, the 2,200 Year-Old Antikythera Mechanism, from Start to Finish, 14 Jun 2021 in Astronomy&History&Science
• Hear the Amati “King” Cello, the Oldest Known Cello in Existence (c. 1560), 11 Jun 2021 in History&Music
• Ethan Hawke Explains How to Give Yourself Permission to Be Creative, 10 Jun 2021 in Art&Creativity&Poetry
• A Data Visualization of Every Italian City & Town Founded in the BC Era, 10 Jun 2021 in Data&History
• Why Most Ancient Civilizations Had No Word for the Color Blue, 09 Jun 2021 in Literature&Psychology
• How Egyptian Papyrus Is Made: Watch Artisans Keep a 5,000-Year-Old Art Alive, 09 Jun 2021 in Art&History
• An Illustrated History of Depeche Mode by Anton Corbijn, 08 Jun 2021 in Music&Photography
• What Happened During the 1921 Tulsa Massacre, One of the Worst Episodes of Racial Violence in U.S. History, 07 Jun 2021 in History
• When Was the Pinnacle of Saturday Night Live? A YouTuber Watches One Episode from Each Season & Reports Back, 04 Jun 2021 in Television
• The Origin of the Rooftop Concert: Before the Beatles Came Jefferson Airplane, and Before Them, Brazilian Singer Roberto Carlos (1967), 03 Jun 2021 in Music
• Who Designed the 1980s Aesthetic?: Meet the Memphis Group, the Designers Who Created the 80s Iconic Look, 02 Jun 2021 in Architecture&Art&Design&Fashion
• When Salvador Dalí Created a Surrealist Funhouse at New York World’s Fair (1939), 02 Jun 2021 in Art
• Keith Richards Shows Us How to Play the Blues, Inspired by Robert Johnson, on the Acoustic Guitar, 01 Jun 2021 in Music
• The World’s First Bass Guitar (1936), 31 May 2021 in Music
• Bass Sounds: One Song Highlights the Many Different Sounds Made by Different Bass Guitars, 28 May 2021 in Music
• Behold the Astronomicum Caesareum, “Perhaps the Most Beautiful Scientific Book Ever Printed” (1540), 27 May 2021 in Art&Books&Science
• Meet the Linda Lindas, the Tween Punk Band Who Called Out Racism & Misogyny and Scored a Record Deal, 27 May 2021 in Gender&K-12&Music
• Learn to Play Senet, the 5,000-Year Old Ancient Egyptian Game Beloved by Queens & Pharaohs, 25 May 2021 in Games&History
• Watch 1,000 Musicians Play the Foo Fighters’ “Learn to Fly,” Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” Queen’s “We Will Rock You,” Bowie’s “Rebel Rebel,” and The Who’s “Won’t Get Fooled Again”, 25 May 2021 in Music
• The Incredible Engineering of Antonio Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia, the World’s Oldest Construction Project, 24 May 2021 in Architecture&Art
• Watch the Building of the Eiffel Tower in Timelapse Animation, 21 May 2021 in Architecture
• A Young Janis Joplin Plays a Passionate Set at One of Her First Gigs in San Francisco (1963), 20 May 2021 in Music
• The Great Wave Off Kanagawa by Hokusai: An Introduction to the Iconic Japanese Woodblock Print in 17 Minutes, 20 May 2021 in Art
• An Interactive Visualization of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 19 May 2021 in Data&Philosophy
• The Surprising Reason Why Chinatowns Worldwide Share the Same Aesthetic, and How It All Started with the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, 19 May 2021 in Architecture&History
• What Karl Marx Meant by “Alienation”: Two Animated Videos Explain, 19 May 2021 in Economics&Philosophy&Politics
• How to Take the Perfect Nap, According to Cognitive Scientist Sara Mednick, 18 May 2021 in Health&Neuroscience
• Wildlife Is Now Thriving Again in Chernobyl–Even If Humans Won’t for Another 24,000 Years, 17 May 2021 in Life&Nature
• Watch Accurate Recreations of Medieval Italian Longsword Fighting Techniques, All Based on a Manuscript from 1404, 17 May 2021 in Books&History
• Watch a Masterpiece Emerge from a Solid Block of Stone, 14 May 2021 in Art
• The Utopian, Socialist Designs of Soviet Cities, 13 May 2021 in Architecture
• A 5-Hour Walking Tour of Paris and Its Famous Streets, Monuments & Parks, 13 May 2021 in Travel
• David Lynch Directs a New Music Video for Donovan, 12 May 2021 in Film&Music
• Pink Floyd’s First Masterpiece: An Audio/Video Exploration of the 23-Minute Track, “Echoes” (1971), 11 May 2021 in Music
• The History of the Guitar: See the Evolution of the Guitar in 7 Instruments, 11 May 2021 in History&Music
• Japanese Carpenters Unearth 100-Year-Old Wood Joineries While Taking Apart a Traditional House, 07 May 2021 in Architecture
• Beautiful 19th-Century Indian Drawings Show Hatha Yoga Poses Before They Reached the West, 06 May 2021 in Art&Books&Health&Religion
• Watch a New Director’s Cut of Prince’s Blistering “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” Guitar Solo (2004), 05 May 2021 in Music
• Muhammad Ali Explains Why He Refused to Fight in Vietnam: “My Conscience Won’t Let Me Go Shoot My Brother… for Big Powerful America” (1970), 05 May 2021 in History&Sports&Television
• Keith Richards Demonstrates His Famous 5-String Technique (Used on Classic Stones Songs Like “Start Me Up,” “Honky Tonk Women” & More), 04 May 2021 in Music
• Great Art Explained: Watch 15 Minute Introductions to Great Works by Warhol, Rothko, Kahlo, Picasso & More, 30 Apr 2021 in Art
• Invisible People: Watch Poignant Mini-Documentaries Where Homeless People Tell Their Stories, 30 Apr 2021 in Current Affairs&Life&Politics
• A Short Animation Explores the Nature of Creativity & Invention, with Characters That Look Like Andrei Tarkovsky & Sergei Eisenstein, 30 Apr 2021 in Film&Language&Philosophy&Writing
• How the Clash Embraced New York’s Hip Hop Scene and Released the Dance Track, “The Magnificent Dance” (1981), 29 Apr 2021 in Music
• What Makes Ringo Starr a Great Drummer: Demonstrations from a German Teenager & Ringo Himself, 28 Apr 2021 in Music
• Watch Colorized 1940s Footage of London after the Blitz: Scenes from Trafalgar Square, Piccadilly Circus, Buckingham Palace & More, 28 Apr 2021 in Film&History
• The Rolling Stones Jam with Muddy Waters for the First and Only Time at Chicago’s Legendary Checkerboard Lounge (1981), 27 Apr 2021 in Music
• Scientists at Purdue University Create the “Whitest White” Paint Ever Seen: It Reflects 98% of the Sun’s Light, 27 Apr 2021 in Science
• 30,000 People Line Up for the First McDonald’s in Moscow, While Grocery Store Shelves Run Empty (1990), 23 Apr 2021 in Food & Drink&History
• Watch a Newly-Restored Peter Gabriel-Era Genesis Concert Film From 1973 in Stunning 4K Quality, 22 Apr 2021 in Music
• Watch “Hi-Fi-Fo-Fum,” a Short Satirical Film About the Invention of the Audiophile (1959), 22 Apr 2021 in Music&Television
• Watch Metallica Play “Enter Sandman” Before a Crowd of 1.6 Million in Moscow, During the Final Days of the Soviet Union (1991), 21 Apr 2021 in Music
• Watch the “Greatest Juggler of the Ages,” Frances Brunn, Perform His “Painfully Exciting” Juggling Routine (1969), 21 Apr 2021 in Creativity&Dance&Television
• Watch 4 Music Videos That Bring to Life Songs from Leonard Cohen’s Final Album, Thanks for the Dance, 20 Apr 2021 in Music
• Watch Radiohead Perform In Rainbows & The King of Limbs in Intimate Live Settings, with No Host or Audience, 19 Apr 2021 in Music
• The Digital Lomax Archive Provides Free Access to the Pioneering Recordings of John & Alan Lomax, Compiled Across 7 Decades, 19 Apr 2021 in History&Music
• Stream a Massive Archive of Grateful Dead Concerts from 1965-1995, 15 Apr 2021 in Music
• Is “Rain” the Perfect Beatles Song?: A New Video Explores the Radical Innovations of the 1966 B-Side, 15 Apr 2021 in Music
• The Strangest Books in the World: Discover The Madman’s Library, a Captivating Compendium of Peculiar Books​ & Manuscripts, 14 Apr 2021 in Books
• Harvard’s Digital Giza Project Lets You Access the Largest Online Archive on the Egyptian Pyramids (Including a 3D Giza Tour), 13 Apr 2021 in Harvard&History&K-12&Libraries
• Buckminster Fuller, Isaac Asimov & Other Futurists Make Predictions About the 21st Century in 1967: What They Got Right & Wrong, 13 Apr 2021 in Science&Television
• Hear the First Song Recorded on the Yazh, a 2,000 Year-Old Indian Instrument, 12 Apr 2021 in History&Music
• Watch Preciously Rare Footage of Paul McCartney Recording “Blackbird” at Abbey Road Studios (1968), 09 Apr 2021 in Music
• The Letterform Archive Launches a New Online Archive of Graphic Design, Featuring 9,000 Hi-Fi Images, 08 Apr 2021 in Archives&Art&Design
• How The Wrecking Crew Secretly Recorded Some of the Biggest Hits of the 1960s & 70s, 07 Apr 2021 in Music
• AI Software Creates “New” Nirvana, Jimi Hendrix, Doors & Amy Winehouse Songs: Hear Tracks from the “Lost Tapes of the 27 Club”, 07 Apr 2021 in Computer Science&Music
• A 900-Page Pre-Pantone Guide to Color from 1692: A Complete High-Resolution Digital Scan, 06 Apr 2021 in Art
• Tina Turner Delivers a Blistering Live Performance of “Proud Mary” on Italian TV (1971), 05 Apr 2021 in Music
• 5 Free Online Courses on Marx’s Capital from Prof. David Harvey, 02 Apr 2021 in Economics&Online Courses&Politics
• Meet Les Rallizes Dénudés, the Mysterious Japanese Psych-Rock Band Whose Influence Is Everywhere, 01 Apr 2021 in Music
• The Archive of Healing Is Now Online: UCLA’s Digital Database Provides Access to Thousands of Traditional & Alternative Healing Methods, 01 Apr 2021 in Archives&Health
• Behold the Elaborate Writing Desks of 18th Century Aristocrats, 31 Mar 2021 in Design&History
• Why Every World Map Is Wrong, 31 Mar 2021 in Maps
• How Bob Marley Came to Make Exodus, His Transcendent Album, After Surviving an Assassination Attempt in 1976, 30 Mar 2021 in Music
• Hear the Beautiful Isolated Vocal Harmonies from the Beatles’ “Something”, 29 Mar 2021 in Music
• Hear Marianne Faithfull’s Three Versions of “As Tears Go By,” Each Recorded at a Different Stage of Life (1965, 1987 & 2018), 26 Mar 2021 in Music
• How Leonardo da Vinci Made His Magnificent Drawings Using Only a Metal Stylus, Pen & Ink, and Chalk, 25 Mar 2021 in Art&History
• Street Artist Creates an Optical Illusion That Lets People See the Art Inside a Shuttered Museum in Florence, 25 Mar 2021 in Art&Life
• Women Street Photographers: The Web Site, Instragram Account & Book That Amplify the Work of Women Artists Worldwide, 24 Mar 2021 in Books&Photography
• The Irish Aristocratic Woman Who Almost Assassinated Mussolini in 1926: An Introduction to Violet Gibson, 24 Mar 2021 in History
• The Growth of London, from the Romans to the 21st Century, Visualized in a Time-Lapse Animated Map, 23 Mar 2021 in History&Maps
• A Finnish Astrophotographer Spent 12 Years Creating a 1.7 Gigapixel Panoramic Photo of the Entire Milky Way, 22 Mar 2021 in Astronomy&Photography
• How Edward Hopper’s Paintings Inspired the Creepy Suspense of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window, 19 Mar 2021 in Art&Film
• Researchers Develop a Digital Model of the 2,200-Year-Old Antikythera Mechanism, “the World’s First Computer”, 18 Mar 2021 in Astronomy&History&Science
• 17-Year-Old Adeline Harris Created a Quilt Collecting 360 Signatures of the Most Famous People of the 19th Century: Lincoln, Dickens, Emerson & More (1863), 17 Mar 2021 in Art&History
• Archeologists Reconstruct the Faces of 10-Century Medieval Dukes, Using DNA Analysis & 3-D Models of Skulls, 17 Mar 2021 in History&Science
• What are Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)? And How Can a Work of Digital Art Sell for $69 Million, 16 Mar 2021 in Art&Economics
• The Story Behind the Iconic Bass-Smashing Photo on the Clash’s London Calling, 15 Mar 2021 in Music
• Brian Eno Explains the Origins of Ambient Music, 15 Mar 2021 in Music
• How Museum Gift Shops Shape the Way We Look at Art, 11 Mar 2021 in Art
• Intimate Live Performances of Radiohead, Sonic Youth, the White Stripes, PJ Harvey & More: No Host, No Audience, Just Pure Live Music, 11 Mar 2021 in Music
• Saturday Night Live’s Very First Sketch: Watch John Belushi Launch SNL in October, 1975, 10 Mar 2021 in Comedy&Television
• Guitarist Gary Clark, Jr. Plays Searing Acoustic Blues in a Spontaneous Jam Session, 10 Mar 2021 in Music
• How Looney Tunes & Other Classic Cartoons Helped Americans Become Musically Literate, 09 Mar 2021 in Animation&Film&Music&Television
• B.B. King Plays “The Thrill is Gone” with Slash, Ron Wood & Other Legends, 08 Mar 2021 in Music
• Metallica Plays Antarctica, Setting a World Record as the First Band to Play All 7 Continents: Watch the Full Concert Online, 08 Mar 2021 in Music
• Who Built the Egyptian Pyramids & How Did They Do It?: New Archeological Evidence Busts Ancient Myths, 04 Mar 2021 in History
• When Sci-Fi Legend Ursula K. Le Guin Translated the Chinese Classic, the Tao Te Ching, 03 Mar 2021 in Books&Gender&Literature&Religion
• Where Did the Metal Scream Come From? And How Do Metal Vocalists Avoid Destroying Their Vocal Cords?, 03 Mar 2021 in Music
• A List of 132 Radical, Mind-Expanding Books from Rage Against the Machine, 02 Mar 2021 in Books&Music&Politics
• What Are the Real Causes of Zoom Fatigue? And What Are the Possible Solutions?: New Research from Stanford Offers Answers, 02 Mar 2021 in Current Affairs&Health&Psychology&Stanford
• When Jack Johnson, the First Black Heavyweight Champion, Defeated Jim Jeffries & the Footage Was Banned Around the World (1910), 01 Mar 2021 in Film&History&Sports
• Radiohead Ballets: Watch Ballets Choreographed Creatively to the Music of Radiohead, 26 Feb 2021 in Dance&Music
• RIP Radical Poet and Revolutionary Publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021), 24 Feb 2021 in Literature&Poetry&Politics
• The Complete Works of Hilma af Klint Are Getting Published for the First Time in a Beautiful, Seven-Volume Collection, 24 Feb 2021 in Art