I’ve been a huge fan of StoryCorps since I discovered it a number of years ago. What I love most is listening to the dynamics between family members, the feeling of intimacy that being in that little trailer with someone else’s mom, or dad or siblings evokes and the barriers it pulls down between those [...]
Snuck away from the reading to watch a few choice entertainment-y morsels. So, while I am still *fishing*, thought I’d spread the awesomeness. Credit for originally posting this goes to Maria Popova of Brain Pickings, who curates the best stuff online and shares it with the world. The work is by Egor Zhgun, a popular [...]
Since March is turning out to be a particularly robust month in Transmedia happenings, I thought I’d give you a short list of the good stuff. DIY DAYS MARCH 5 9:30AM – 4:30PM The New School, NYC FREE Speakers include Wired Magazine’s Frank Rose discussing his book The Art of Immersion, Lance Weiler discussing his [...]
Over the last few months, the YouTube-Guggenheim collaboration known as YouTube Play has been a recurring subject on this blog. Now the finalists have been announced and they will be shown in various Guggenheim locations around the world this weekend (Oct 22-24). After watching the final selections, I decided to post two of the most [...]
Early in the summer I wrote about the YouTube Play, the Guggenheim + YouTube collaboration in search of the next big thing in video. A recent visit to the site revealed the Guggenheim curators’ shortlist of about 200 videos which will be voted on by a jury in a few weeks. While I have not [...]
In the world of visual media, entertainment is ubiquitous and philosophy a tad less so. As someone interested as much (if not more) in ideas than solely in form, I was delighted to discover this cleverly illustrated video of a talk about 21st century Enlightenment. Before I saw the video below, I had never heard [...]
It was just a matter of time before the art gods found Youtube. In a time when the gap between the big cultural institutional powers-that-be and the masses has grown larger than ever, a reach into the wilds of the aggregated video world was inevitable. It is, for instance no surprise that the advent of [...]
I love Improv Everywhere and had been thinking of doing a post on them, when I saw this, courtesy of @laughingsquid. In this part-protest, part entertainment event, the members of Improv Everywhere re-enact the scene in Ghostbusters that takes place in this very library. An instance of art meeting life, perhaps? Or a layer of [...]
Looking back at Moustapha Allassane, one of the earliest African animators, made this brilliant satirical animated film in 1966 – roughly the end of colonial era in most of Africa. Allessane who was born and raised in Niger, is the director of over 25 films and still works and teaches film in his home country.
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