Monday, April 23, 2007
How to Speak KhoeKhoegowab - Click Language
Via: VideoSift
This is the language of Nama. There are 31 consonants: 20 clicks and a simple set of 11 non-clicks. Can you do it?? Hmmmmm? Probably ought to add this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nama_language
Sunday, April 22, 2007
Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries - Prof. Borg's Nightmare
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Wild Strawberries a 1957 film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman.
Isak Bork is a medical doctor and professor who is forced by nightmares, daydreams, his old age, and his impending death to re-evaluate his life while driving with his daughter-in-law from Stockholm to Lund in order to receive an honorary degree from Lund University.
Asch's Conformity Experiment
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A classical social psychology experiment carried out by S. Asch. The power of conformity
Love Connection’s Best Named Guest.
Chuck Woolery introduces the best named guest on Love Connection.
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
Via: VideoSift
This is the film by Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick. An introduction to the life, work and ideas of Noam Chomsky that takes in a wide variety of subjects to show how the media chooses what and how much much to cover of their news stories.
A long film, but an extremely important one. The Internet Movie Database page for it is here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104810/
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Monday, April 16, 2007
Pistachio Cake
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I love pistachios, but never heard of them used in cakes until someone at work brought one in, which prompted me to find a recipe. This is from Fontana Murata restaurant, in Sicily (?)
Father and Daughter: A Short Film about Longing
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"Father and Daughter is a film about longing, the kind of longing which quietly, yet totally, affects our lives." -- Michael Dudok de Wit, animator.
This wonderful short took an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, the Grand Prix at Annecy, and dozens of other major awards.
Sunday, April 15, 2007
mc nuts - william wordsworth rap
I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud has undergone the “rap” treatment in the bicentenary year of its publication to help the next generation of Lake District visitors connect with his work.
The new “hip-hop” version of the famous poem and an accompanying pop video can be listened to and watched for free at Cumbria Tourism’s website at www.golakes.co.uk/wordsworthrap It features MC Nuts in the leading role – better known as Sam - the Lake District Red squirrel mascot for Ullswater Steamers.
The modern re-working manages to stay true to the original sentiment but with some slight variation of the lyrics.
As well as making the works of Wordsworth relevant to a new, younger audience, it also shows how modern-day rap and its clever use of wordplay is a distant relative of poetic rhyming verse.
The video was shot on the banks of Lake Ullswater which provided the original inspiration for the poem, as well as around Ullswater Steamers, the grounds and gardens of the luxury Sharrow Bay Hotel, and Grasmere where Wordsworth made his home.
A spokesman for Cumbria Tourism, which was behind the innovative approach to the poem, said: “Wordsworth’s Daffodils poem has remained unchanged for 200 years and to keep it alive for another two centuries, we wanted to engage the You Tube generation who want modern music and amusing video footage on the web.”
“Hopefully this will give them a reason to connect with a poem published in 1807 as well as with the works of Wordsworth and the stunning landscape of The Lake District that inspired him.”
David Wilson, the Robert Woof Director of the Wordsworth Trust, said: “Wordsworth’s poem, I wandered lonely as a cloud, always achieves very high ratings in any survey of favourite English poems.
“It is a poem about the mind's growing awareness over time of the deepening value of an experience, in this case observing the dancing daffodils. Two hundred years after it was published, the poem is still reaching new audiences and inspiring people. Part of our work here at Grasmere is demonstrating how Wordsworth's poetry is relevant today and encouraging young people to enrich their lives by exploring his poetry in their own ways.”
Visitors to www.golakes.co.uk are also encouraged to give a donation to the Wordsworth Trust at Grasmere, which is dubbed “the finest literary museum in the world,” for its collection of books, manuscripts, paintings, drawings and prints from the Romantic Period. Wordsworth Trust Robert Woof Memorial Fund
The Wordsworth Trust says the famous poem was composed in 1804, two years after Wordsworth saw the flowers on the shores of Lake Ullswater. The area is also one of the last remaining strongholds of the Lake District red squirrel.
His inspiration for the poem came from an account written by sister Dorothy. In her journal entry for 15th April 1802, she describes how the daffodils: “Tossed and reeled and danced, and seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind, that blew upon them over the lake.
Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty
Joshua Beckman & Matthew Rohrer created these poems in live improvisational collaboration at The Bowery Poetry Club in New York City. What follows in the link is the their CD, Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty (Verse Press), and other collaborations by Beckman and Rohrer can be found on and in their book, Nice Hat. Thanks. (Verse Press).
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Satan sings 'Minnie the Moocher'
Via: VideoSift
If you are averse to gratuitously topless women or actors wearing blackface, consider yourself warned. Anyway, in this scene from Richard Elfman's bizarre indie film "Forbidden Zone," one of the characters is brought before Satan himself, portrayed here by Richard's brother Danny (yes, THAT Danny Elfman). Apparently the devil is a big fan of Cab Calloway. He is accompanied by his band, whose full name at the time was "The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo."
Kaye Effect: Jumping Liquids.
Here’s a weird behavior of complex liquids, called the Kaye Effect, named after British engineer Arthur Kaye, who first discovered it in 1963. When a thin stream of viscous fluid is poured onto a surface, a stream of jumping liquid can be seen!
An Interview With Michel Gondry
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Mark Kermode has a chat with the genius responsible for some of the most memorable music videos of recent times as well as the Oscar winning film Eternal Sunshine Of A Spotless Mind.
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Tonight Show -- Fruitcake Lady Remembered
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"Marie Rudisill, (March 13, 1911 - November 3, 2006), was a writer and television personality, best known as the nonagenarian woman who appeared in the "Ask the Fruitcake Lady" segments on The Tonight Show."
Monday, April 09, 2007
Friday, April 06, 2007
Thursday, April 05, 2007
David Lynch
David Lynch (legendary filmmaker and rare genuine auteur) provides an insight into his creative imagination and worldview. He reveals his views on politics, success, and visual composition via his idiosyncratic use of metaphor - including windows, doughnuts, and 'eye of the duck'.(Excerpt from BBC series Scene by Scene with Mark Cousins)
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Monday, April 02, 2007
Sunday, April 01, 2007
Sepak Takraw
From Neatorama:
Once upon a time, volleyball and soccer were in love, but their parents disapproved and kept them apart. Now, the only remnant of their brief union is a lovechild called sepak takraw. The sport inherited its mother’s net and, sadly, its father’s aversion to using arms. Consequently, the game challenges a player to pass the ball over the net using the feet, legs, body, and head.
Commonly played on a badminton court, takraw (as the pros call it) was first introduced in Southeast Asia. Today, it’s the national sport of Malaysia and an official event at the Asian Games.
Birds of Paradise.
Male Birds of Paradise in Papua, New Guinea have a bizarre courtship dance you must see to believe. This fellow’s “housecleaning” beforehand is pretty impressive, too!
Clive Wearing: Living Without Memory
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Clive Wearing (born 1938) is a British musicologist, conductor, and keyboardist suffering from an acute and long lasting case of anterograde amnesia. Specifically, this means he lacks the ability to form new memories, dubbed the 'memento' syndrome by laypeople and the media.
Forged Art
A fun contest at Worth1000: fine arts that somehow seems suspiciously like counterfeits! I continue to be amazed at how good these photoshoppers are!
This one above is "a suspicious copy" of "Socrates Death"
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