Video: Jean-Michel Jarre and Edward Snowden — Exit
. Jean-Michel Jarre, a pioneer in electronic music, collaborated on this recording with Edward Snowden, the CIA analyst-turned-whistleblower who now has asylum in Russia. For a commentary on the aesthetic … Continue reading
Video: Charlie Chaplin and the Eating Machine
In Charlie Chaplin’s 1936 masterpiece Modern Times, we see the Billows Feeding Machine in action, not quite fulfilling its promise to “eliminate the lunch hour, increase your production, and decrease … Continue reading
Video: How To Do Visual Comedy
Tony Zhou: “If you love visual comedy, you gotta love Edgar Wright, one of the few filmmakers who is consistently finding humor through framing, camera movement, editing, goofy sound effects … Continue reading
Video: A Mini-documentary about Wes Anderson
This video by Paul Waters provides a quick introduction to Wes Anderson’s work as a film director. Although it was produced before the 2014 release of The Royal Budapest Hotel … Continue reading
Video: “Reincarnation” by Ellen Bass and Jeff Scher
“Reincarnation” — a poem by Ellen Bass animated by Jeff Scher for The New Yorker television show. — Copyright 2016 Ellen Bass and Jeff Scher, posted in Vox Populi on … Continue reading
James Baldwin: The Artist’s Struggle for Integrity
I really don’t like words like “artist” or “integrity” or “courage” or “nobility.” I have a kind of distrust of all those words because I don’t really know what they … Continue reading
Video: “Aubade” read by Philip Larkin
Aubade I work all day, and get half-drunk at night. Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare. In time the curtain-edges will grow light. Till then I see what’s … Continue reading
Doug Anderson: Street Photography
Wonder how long it took people to get over the shock of the first photographs, the exact replication of the human image? Was it eerie? Did people feel that something … Continue reading
Video: Farrah Fawcett on Stiletto Power
In this animation of a 1994 interview, Farrah Fawcett tells a great story about how she dealt with an attempted robbery in New York City: “I’ve got stiletto heels … Continue reading
Video: Hipsters Love Coffee
A lot of people think that being a barista in a coffee shop is easy. Well, it’s not. A lot of people come in with really strange requests. .
Video: Building a Cremona Violin
. Edgar Russ, born in 1966 in Austria, is a master luthier who practices his craft in Cremona, Italy, a city with a rich musical history. Cremona was the home … Continue reading
Video: “Glass” — Winner of the 1959 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject
. Glass (Dutch: Glas) is a 1958 Dutch short documentary film by director and producer Bert Haanstra. The film won the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject in 1959. The film … Continue reading
Video: Guerrilla Girls — Not Ready To Make Nice
BILLIONAIRES HIJACK THE ART WORLD, GUERRILLA GIRLS HIJACK BILLIONAIRES Guerrilla Girls: “We’re feminist masked avengers in the tradition of anonymous do-gooders like Robin Hood, Wonder Woman and Batman. How do … Continue reading
Video: How to Age Gracefully
People from the ages of 7 to 93 answer the question, “What advice would you give your younger self?” This charming video by Andrew Norton was selected by the Vimeo … Continue reading
