About: jdavidjones
Posts by jdavidjones:
- The Utopian Socialist Designs of Soviet Cities, 12 May 2021 in Architecture
- 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
- Anthony Bourdain Talks About the Big Break That Changed His Life–at Age 44, 23 Feb 2021 in Books&Food & Drink&Television
- The Oldest Known Globe to Depict the New World Was Engraved on an Ostrich Egg, Maybe by Leondardo da Vinci (1504), 23 Feb 2021 in Art&History&Maps
- How the Internet Archive Digitizes 3,500 Books a Day–the Hard Way, One Page at a Time, 22 Feb 2021 in Archives&Books&Libraries
- 4,000 Priceless Scrolls, Texts & Papers From the University of Tokyo Have Been Digitized & Put Online, 18 Feb 2021 in Archives&Art&Books&History&Libraries&Literature
- Watch Chick Corea (RIP) Perform Intimate Acoustic Performances with Bobby McFerrin, Gary Burton, Hiromi Uehara & Others, 18 Feb 2021 in Music
- Peter Gabriel Re-Records “Biko,” His Anti-Apartheid Protest Song, with Musicians Around the World, 17 Feb 2021 in Music
- The Birth of Hip Hop: How DJ Kool Herc Used Turntables to Change the Musical World (1973), 17 Feb 2021 in Music
- Paul Simon Tells the Story of How He Wrote “Bridge Over Troubled Water” (1970), 16 Feb 2021 in Music
- Archaeologists Find the Earliest Work of “Abstract Art,” Dating Back 73,000 Years, 16 Feb 2021 in Art&History&Life
- Hear a Prehistoric Conch Shell Musical Instrument Played for the First Time in 18,000 Years, 15 Feb 2021 in History&Life&Music
- Watch “The Stroke,” a Hand-Animated Music Video Where the Visuals Came First & the Improvised Music Second, 12 Feb 2021 in Animation&Music
- Behold All 42 Maps from Jules Verne’s Extraordinary Voyages, the Author’s 54-Volume Collection of “Geographical Fictions”, 11 Feb 2021 in Literature&Maps
- How the Food We Eat Affects Our Brain: Learn About the “MIND Diet”, 10 Feb 2021 in Health&Science
- Hear an Ancient Chinese Historian Describe The Roman Empire (and Other Voices of the Past), 10 Feb 2021 in History
- The “Academic Tarot”: 22 Major Arcana Cards Representing Life in the Academic Humanities Under COVID-19, 10 Feb 2021 in Current Affairs&Education&Life
- How Jazz Became the “Mother of Hip Hop”, 09 Feb 2021 in Music
- A New Database Will Document Every Slave House in the U.S.: Discover the “Saving Slave Houses Project”, 09 Feb 2021 in Archives&History
- The Magic of the Beach Boys’ Harmonies: Hear Isolated Vocals from “Sloop John B.,” “God Only Knows,” “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” & Other Pet Sounds Classics, 08 Feb 2021 in Music
- David Gilmour, David Crosby & Graham Nash Perform the Pink Floyd Classic, “Shine on You Crazy Diamond” (2006), 05 Feb 2021 in Music
- All 80 Issues of the Influential Zine Punk Planet Are Now Online & Ready for Download at the Internet Archive, 04 Feb 2021 in Magazines&Music
- How Giorgio Moroder & Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” Created the “Blueprint for All Electronic Dance Music Today” (1977), 04 Feb 2021 in Music
- Life Lessons From 100-Year-Olds: Timeless Advice in a Short Film, 04 Feb 2021 in Life
- Tony Bennett Duets with Lady Gaga, Amy Winehouse & Other Musicians, Passing on the Great American Songbook, 02 Feb 2021 in Music
- Listen to the Never-Heard Song Written for Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, 02 Feb 2021 in Film&Music
- When the Frequency for Tuning Instruments Became a Grand Conspiracy Theory, 01 Feb 2021 in Music
- YInMn Blue, the First Shade of Blue Discovered in 200 Years, Is Now Available for Artists, 29 Jan 2021 in Art&Chemistry&Science
- The Life Cycle of a Cup of Coffee: The Journey from Coffee Bean, to Coffee Cup, 28 Jan 2021 in Food & Drink
- Watch the Pilot of Breaking Bad with a Chemistry Professor: How Sound Was the Science?, 28 Jan 2021 in Chemistry&Television
- Watch Amanda Gorman Read “The Hill We Climb,” “Making Mountains As We Run,” “Fury and Faith,” and More, 27 Jan 2021 in Current Affairs&Poetry
- How Richard Feynman’s Diagrams Revolutionized Physics, 26 Jan 2021 in Physics&Science
- Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova Tells Protestors What to Do–and Not Do–If Arrested by Authoritarian Police, 26 Jan 2021 in Current Affairs&Politics
- How Quentin Tarantino Shoots a Film at 3 Different Budget Levels: Reservoir Dogs ($1 Million), Pulp Fiction ($8 Million), and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ($95 Million), 22 Jan 2021 in Film
- When the Grateful Dead Performed on Hugh Hefner’s Playboy After Dark & Secretly Dosed Everyone With LSD (1969), 22 Jan 2021 in Music&Television
- “The Most Intelligent Photo Ever Taken”: The 1927 Solvay Council Conference, Featuring Einstein, Bohr, Curie, Heisenberg, Schrödinger & More, 21 Jan 2021 in History&Science
- Innovative Pinscreen Animations of Kafka’s “Before the Law”, Gogol’s “The Nose” & Mussorgsky’s “Night on Bald Mountain” (1932-1972), 21 Jan 2021 in Animation&Literature
- Prince’s First Television Interview (1985), 20 Jan 2021 in Music
- Rarely-Seen Illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy Are Now Free Online, Courtesy of the Uffizi Gallery, 20 Jan 2021 in Art&Literature
- The Deadliest Garden in the World: Visit Alnwick’s Poison Garden in Northumberland, England, 19 Jan 2021 in Nature&Travel
- Wilhelm Reich’s Orgone Energy Accumulator Was Beloved by William S. Burroughs and Banned by the FDA: Find Plans to Build the Controversial Device Online, 19 Jan 2021 in Psychology
- Why Should You Read Toni Morrison’s Beloved? An Animated Video Makes the Case, 14 Jan 2021 in Books&Literature
- How the Bicycle Accelerated the Women’s Rights Movement (Circa 1890), 14 Jan 2021 in History
- How to Talk with a Conspiracy Theorist: What the Experts Recommend, 13 Jan 2021 in Current Affairs&Politics&Psychology
- Social Psychologist Erich Fromm Diagnoses Why People Wear a Mask of Happiness in Modern Society (1977), 13 Jan 2021 in Current Affairs&Philosophy&Psychology
- Discover the First Illustrated Book Printed in English, William Caxton’s Mirror of the World (1481), 12 Jan 2021 in Books&History
- New Documentary Sisters with Transistors Tells the Story of Electronic Music’s Female Pioneers, 11 Jan 2021 in Film&Music
- Behold an Interactive Online Edition of Elizabeth Twining’s Illustrations of the Natural Orders of Plants (1868), 08 Jan 2021 in Books&History&Science
- An Animated Introduction to Baruch Spinoza: The “Philosopher’s Philosopher”, 07 Jan 2021 in Philosophy
- The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam Has Digitized 709,000 Works of Art, Including Famous Works by Rembrandt and Vermeer, 06 Jan 2021 in Art
- How Tibetan Monks Use Meditation to Raise Their Peripheral Body Temperature 16-17 Degrees, 06 Jan 2021 in Health&Neuroscience&Religion
- When Iggy Pop Published an Essay, “Caesar Lives,” in an Academic Journal about His Love for Edward Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1995), 05 Jan 2021 in Music
- Discover J.R.R. Tolkien’s Little-Known and Hand-Illustrated Children’s Book, Mr. Bliss, 05 Jan 2021 in Books
- Did Beethoven Use a Broken Metronome When Composing His String Quartets? Scientists & Musicians Try to Solve the Centuries-Old Mystery, 04 Jan 2021 in Music
- Antonio Gramsci Writes a Column, “I Hate New Year’s Day” (January 1, 1916), 01 Jan 2021 in Current Affairs&History&Politics
- The Golden Guide to Hallucinogenic Plants: Discover the 1977 Illustrated Guide Created by Harvard’s Groundbreaking Ethnobotanist Richard Evan Schultes, 31 Dec 2020 in Biology&Science
- Archaeologists Discover an Ancient Roman Snack Bar in the Ruins of Pompeii, 30 Dec 2020 in Food & Drink&History
- Your 15 Favorite Posts on Open Culture This Year–and What a Year It Has Been, 30 Dec 2020 in Current Affairs
- Listen to James Baldwin’s Record Collection in a 478-track, 32-Hour Spotify Playlist, 29 Dec 2020 in Literature&Music&Writing
- When Albert Einstein & Charlie Chaplin Met and Became Fast Famous Friends (1930), 29 Dec 2020 in Film&History&Science
- Revisit Kate Bush’s Peculiar Christmas Special, Featuring Peter Gabriel (1979), 25 Dec 2020 in Music
- How Jan van Eyck’s Masterpiece, the Ghent Altarpiece, Became the Most Stolen Work of Art in History, 24 Dec 2020 in Art
- Octavia Butler’s Four Rules for Predicting the Future, 23 Dec 2020 in Sci Fi
- Tune Into Tree.fm: An Online Radio Station That Streams the Soothing Sounds of Forests from Around the World, 23 Dec 2020 in Nature
- Peter Jackson Gives Us an Enticing Glimpse of His Upcoming Beatles Documentary The Beatles: Get Back, 22 Dec 2020 in Film&Music
- The UN’s World Happiness Report Ranks “Socialist Friendly” Countries like Finland, Norway, Denmark, Iceland & Sweden as Among the Happiest in the World, 22 Dec 2020 in Current Affairs&Economics&Politics
- How Joni Mitchell’s Song of Heartbreak, “River,” Became a Christmas Classic, 21 Dec 2020 in Music
- How Do Vaccines (Including the COVID-19 Vaccines) Work?: Watch Animated Introductions, 18 Dec 2020 in Current Affairs&Health&Science
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