While thinking about the use of torture by governments today, I found myself wishing I could just make everyone watch Closet Land1. Of course, I’ve lamented before about the fact that there is no DVD edition–at least no english one, although I did get my hands on a spanish one that at least lets me [...]
While I was driving today, I took the opportunity to listen to Tom Barlow’s eponymous album.
I’ve mentioned the album here a couple of time before, embedding the song Billion Dollar Rockets in a previous post, and also discussing How Low Can You Get and Married By Elvis in some other posts.
So I did a little [...]
Because I have a young daughter, I spend some time every week looking at various clips of dancers on YouTube, for her entertainment.
I’ve seen some pretty amazing stuff, but today I saw one that is hands down the most amazing thing. It’s a performance at the Circus Festival of Monaco, by two dancers, Wu Zhengdan [...]
This pleases me. That is all.
Also, the Backup Dancers credit made me laugh out loud.
I’m still loving almost every one of the TED Talks, but every now and then one pops up and really grabs me by the collar.
Here’s the one that really hit me this week.
This is a presentation by photographer Chris Jordan, where he presents some of the images from his exhibition, Running The Numbers. (At the [...]
I know you’re already seen this, but it’s just too good to let go by.
My favourite bit references the hobo signs stuff we were looking at earlier this month:
And they devised a secret language of signs and scrawls used to alert their passing brethren to danger or opportunity. A crucifix chalked on the side of [...]
A few years ago I picked up a Rokia Traore album. I’m not sure what the impetus was–probably I was looking for another hit of the same kind of musical whammy that I got from Orchestre Baobab’s Pirate’s Choice, so I was exploring African contemporary.
Let us cut a long story short and say that I [...]
“Hooray for popularization!”
A while back I mentioned that I was really enjoying following the various TED Talks as they are being put online. (In fact, at this point, I’ve got an archive of over 230 of the talks as MP4 videos–around 12Gb–that I’m working my way through, either on the iPod during enforced waiting periods, [...]
From Japanator:
Did you know that right now you can get a handful of Akira Kurosawa films for free? Like, as in legally for free? That’s right! The nice people over at Japan Probe have pointed out that some of the master’s films have fallen into the public domain. Archive.org has them available for download right [...]
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