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Pete Seeger and
Majora Carter sit down together and bridge the generational gap with a discussion on environmentalism, activism, history, and music.
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at 1:52 PM on June 24, 2008
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Colorful AllusionsThough printed in black and white, great literature is bursting with vibrant colour. In these rebus-style puzzles, color words and parts of words have been replaced with colored boxes.
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at 7:58 AM on June 11, 2008
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Each year, people around the world spend billions of hours playing computer games. What if all this time and energy could be channeled into useful work? What if people playing computer games could, without consciously doing so, simultaneously solve large-scale problems?
GWAP is
Luis van Ahn's answer [PDF, HTML cache] to these questions, a collection of easy and engaging games that make computers smarter.
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at 4:45 PM on May 27, 2008
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Some readers will appreciate their typographic form, while others will see further strategies at work — informational, strategic, philosophical, literary. There are odd, even anachronistic cultural references, gestures that date these books in a manner oddly soothing.The Next Page: Thirty Tables of Contents
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at 12:09 PM on May 16, 2008
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The story goes like this:
In the early 80's Madonna sat in with
Was (Not Was) to record backing vocals (to Ozzy Osbourne's main vox) for their track
Shake Your Head (Let's Go To Bed). Everything was peachy until Madonna's record label, Sire, refused to grant ZE Records permission to publish her recording. So other voices sang of things that cannot be done. Fast-forward ten years and the hits collection
Hello Dad, I'm In Jail included the track and, again, the Madonna vocal was not released for use. (This time
Kim Basinger's new backing track got the spot.) The new Basinger-backed single peaked at #4 on the UK charts and featured a b-side remix by producer
Steve 'Silk' Hurley. However, a glorious blunder resulted in a recall of the single: ZE had sent Hurley Madonna's background vocals. The mistake wasn't caught until after pressing and lo! a very few copies of the record made it out into the world. And so, music fans, for a cool G you can lay hands on your own copy of
Shake Your Head (Let's Go to Bed), featuring the b-side dub, the
rarest of Madonna recordings.
[Mouse over links for descriptions.]
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at 4:53 AM on May 12, 2008
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Ultraviolence chic again in Justice video
Stress. NSFW
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at 11:32 PM on May 3, 2008
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Beer &
Books: Authors pair their work with the appropriate beverage.
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at 2:47 PM on April 25, 2008
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Why do we spend so many precious hours of our lives watching films? What is it about cinema that it should occupy a place of such prominence in our lives? And why do we even need movies? It is as though we are trying to fill a gap in our lives - a void, an emptiness within ourselves. So to even begin on the path of our Truth Quest, we have to see the broader picture of how film correlates to life, and life to film. To find this higher perspective, it is helpful to look towards the other arts, as well as philosophy.Cinema Seekers: Searching for truth in cinema and in life.
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at 11:49 PM on April 21, 2008
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Today is Record Store Day!What is it about music? It is Love and Passion channeled through a medium that cuts across and through actual definition straight to your soul whether you love Blues, Reggae, Country, Punk Rock, or Quawwali music, your favorite artists take you places you could otherwise never go - and that place is often a place of love and inspiration. -
Marc Weinstein
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at 5:58 PM on April 19, 2008
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Monsieur, you vill not speak disrespectfully of a member of ze family! It is a boon travelling companion, without which I do not function, I cannot operate. It has been with me for 21 years, zis thing, this chair!
Glenn Gould performed for 21 years seated in a folding card chair modified by his father to be height adjustable. That one
chair accompanied him around the world in support of each of his recordings and performances, and now resides on a pedestal at the National Library of Canada. Luckily, exact replicas of the skeletal, cushion-less chair
are available for only €990.
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at 10:00 PM on April 16, 2008
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Enjoy 10 variously attributed
* vintage
Monkey Cartoons and more courtesy
STWALLSKULL and
BOOM!
Also available for your viewing pleasure, an itemized list with embeddable links:
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at 11:49 PM on April 12, 2008
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Do you find relaxing very taxing? Are you tense? anxious? worried? Always tired but can't fall asleep? Are you afraid you're losing your grip? You may not know it, but that's good. Yes, good! Because this video can help you. Yes, it can! No matter who you are, you will feel better—and live better!—when you learn to relax. You can start right now by watching
The Relaxed Wife (in
two parts). Go ahead, watch!
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at 9:09 AM on April 11, 2008
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The Red Bull Music Academy is the best in music, past & present, from around the world, under one roof, getting down just for the funk of it. It is an event that travels the world, a yearly celebration of all the journeys and breakthroughs, all the dreams and intricacies that go into the music we love.
Here on the 'tubes the RBMA mainly consists of
lectures,
interactive features, and
documentaries.
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at 3:24 AM on January 20, 2008
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Straight 8 challenges anyone to make a 3 minute film on one cartridge of super 8 film, editing only in-camera, with a separate original soundtrack.
The best of each year
is shown at Cannes Film Festival.
[Some NSFW videos]
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at 2:10 AM on December 22, 2007
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Jean Shepherd was one of the greatest storytellers ever to be heard on radio.
The Jean Shepherd Project collects recordings of these historic broadcasts, converts them to mp3 files and makes them available to be revisited by his longtime fans and by those who wish to discover what great American storytelling is all about.
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at 8:05 PM on December 11, 2007
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Miomi (beta) is taking all the world’s information—including the personal history of as many people as possible—and putting it all in a big fat timeline.
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at 8:03 AM on December 9, 2007
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Pretty Big DigA dance film by Anne Troake that gently illustrates the assimilation of technology.
QT video
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at 5:01 PM on December 2, 2007
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The year 1964 was a watershed period in British music. Before that year, British popular music was barely heard outside of the U.K. But when the Beatles achieved American success, a seemingly endless number of British bands and singers were suddenly able to crack the American market.
By the end of 1964, some enterprising filmmakers decided to create a cinematic year-in-review to highlight this new wave of British music talent. The result was “Pop Gear,” a strange but jolly little production that serves as a celluloid time capsule for that remarkable musical year.
The features opens with footage from a November, 1963 Beatles concert in Manchester -
She Loves You
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at 1:03 PM on October 28, 2007
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Abstraction by Shintaro Kago is
distilled surrealism, a
fourth wall-smashing comic that amazes at every turn. (NSFW)
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at 11:38 PM on October 25, 2007
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Sunday Night, later named Michelob Presents Night Music, was an NBC late-night television show hosted by Jools Holland and David Sanborn which aired for two seasons between 1988 and 1990 as a showcase for jazz and eclectic musical artists.
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at 10:22 AM on September 16, 2007
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In 1921 comic strip artist
Windsor McCay lay claim to the illustrious title Inventor of Animated Drawing on the title cards of his hand-drawn moving versions of
Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend. Here are three of the delightful and funny animations:
The PetThe Flying HouseBug Vaudeville
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at 9:03 PM on September 10, 2007
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Ruttmann vs. MilantAlexis Milant has composed scores for three experimental animations realised by Walter Ruttmann.
The pleasure in watching and [listening to] this come from the reactivity in the same temporality between sound and picture.
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at 10:11 AM on September 9, 2007
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