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Not only did Stanley Kubrick reject a commissioned alternative film score for 2001: A Space Odyssey, he also rejected a song he commissioned for the movie. 52 years later, you can now listen to 2001: A Garden of Personal Mirrors
posted by ShooBoo at 9:47 PM PST - 56 comments

The !!!! Beat Volume 1 Show 2 [more inside]
posted by y2karl at 6:39 PM PST - 12 comments

"In this charming little artifact over a century old, Russian-born French actor, Sacha Guitry, employs newfangled technology, the motion picture camera, to capture some of France's great artists at the ends of their lives."
posted by cgc373 at 3:42 PM PST - 20 comments

New Orleans folks are decking their homes like they would a parade float. "Megan Joy Boudreaux posted what she later called a silly Twitter joke: “We’re doing this. Turn your house into a float and throw all the beads from your attic at your neighbors walking by.” But the more she thought about it, the more she liked it. She started a Facebook group, the Krewe of House Floats, expecting a few friends and neighbors to join. The numbers rose. Thirty-nine subgroups evolved to discuss neighborhood plans." [more inside]
posted by jenfullmoon at 3:12 PM PST - 16 comments

This oral history of The Emperor's New Groove delves into the fascinating story of the turbulent production that became one of Disney's most delightful and off-brand animated movies.
posted by merriment at 3:08 PM PST - 28 comments

Monitoring the Weather at the Edge of the World. It all started with a single sentence in a blog post about Iceland: “A farmer is looking for support at a weather station and sheep farm.”
posted by Ahmad Khani at 2:09 PM PST - 11 comments

At Wet Mountain Wildlife Rehabilitation, Cec Sanders and Tom Sanders have rehabbed over 150 Colorado bears (and other wildlife). Seven orphaned bear cubs were just moved to artificial dens on Pikes Peak for the winter. Cubs climbing fences. Earlier videos on artificial den construction, moving cubs to a den, and cubs emerging in the spring. [more inside]
posted by medusa at 9:18 AM PST - 5 comments

Visionary producer SOPHIE died of a freak accident Saturday morning. SOPHIE first came to prominence for a series of astonishing singles (previously), and released her debut album, Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides, to rave reviews and a Grammy nomination in 2018; cuts included It's Okay to Cry, the music video of which also served as a coming-out announcement; [Photosensitivity warning]Faceshopping, another fascinating take on identity and presentation; and Immaterial, an excessively catchy anthem. Last July, she teased new material with her 20-minute HEAV3N livestream. RIP.
posted by rorgy at 9:01 AM PST - 38 comments

Corky Lee was one of the few chroniclers of Asian America in the US during some of its most significant eras - from the sixties, seventies, up through the nineties. He died of COVID-19 at 73. In Junru Huang's short Vimeo film Not On the Menu about his life, he describes the moment he realized that photographs have a role in historical memory - when a picture commemorating the completion of the transcontinental railroad at Promontory Summit showed only the white workers, and not the many Chinese workers who contributed their blood and sweat. [more inside]
posted by toastyk at 8:07 AM PST - 14 comments