Facing Ali could be a really cool documentary. (It’s taken me a while to realize I kind of like boxing, for better or worse.)
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Electric Purgatory is a cool documentary about black musicians in rock. [via joshua blankenship]
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Monday, February 23, 2009
John Gruber on the Best Picture:
Putting WALL-E up against Bolt and Kung Fu Panda rather than letting it compete against Slumdog Millionaire and Benjamin Button is like requiring a 13-year-old chess prodigy to compete only against other children, regardless whether he could stand his own against adult grandmasters.
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Sunday, December 28, 2008
One day backstage in the ’30s, Larry, Shemp, and Moe were playing cards. Shemp accused Larry of cheating. After a heated argument, Shemp reached over and stuck his fingers in Larry’s eyes. Moe, watching, thought it was hilarious … and that’s how the famous poke-in-the-eyes routine was born.
The origin of the Three Stooges. [via marginal [...]
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Peter Sellers gives a rendition of “Hard Day’s Night” in high Shakespearean style.
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Tuesday, December 9, 2008
The twelve composers of Christmas. I love the Stravinsky and Beethoven bits. [via mmmusing]
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Thursday, September 25, 2008
“After hearing Matt Damon‚Äôs brilliant comparison of a Sarah Palin presidency to a bad Disney movie, I called up Sam and said ‘Let‚Äôs make a trailer for what that movie would look like.’” [via daring fireball]
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Monday, September 22, 2008
In this video Mike Clelland and another NOLS instructor demonstrate proper backcountry poopin’. Classic squat, telemark pose, one-bunning. Hiker humor. May not be universal? Mike Clelland is a great illustrator, too—I’ve liked his work in books like Lighten Up!: A Complete Handbook for Light and Ultralight Backpacking and in Allen and Mike’s Really Cool Backpackin’ [...]
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Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Trouble the Water is the second Katrina documentary I’ve seen this year. The Axe in the Attic was not nearly as good as this one. I was a bit reluctant to go because I’ve had hurricane burnout lately, but this was worth seeing. Trouble the Water starts out with some homemade videos of a stranded [...]
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Common phrases in Icelandic, a collection of videos and another cool resource I’ve found getting ready for vacation. Not too long ago, you wouldn’t be able to hear a native speaker until you got there. In the same way, when look on Flickr I can see recent photos in Reykjavik, see what folks are wearing, [...]
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Monday, August 25, 2008
Hands on a Hard Body documents a contest where competitors try to win a truck by keeping their hand on it for the longest period of time. The contest in the film lasted 77 hours. I’ve heard about this movie for a while, and now I’ve finally got a chance to see it. [via waxy]
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Sunday, July 20, 2008
I stumbled on a video of Glen Velez playing a frame drum. I saw him in a workshop a while back when I was in college. Insane skills. We also did some overtone singing, but one of the coolest things I remember was him improvising a little solo with shakers, with all kinds of mind-bending [...]
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Some are saying Halo Kid is the new Star Wars Kid (already some remixes out there). What I find so fun and lovable about these videos isn’t the mocking, but just seeing someone so completely, enthusiastically lost in their own creativity and imagination. Give Halo Kid’s cardboard weapons a look (they’ve even got working reload [...]
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Saturday, July 5, 2008
Tsar Bomba was the biggest man-made explosion we’ve ever had, back in 1961. The mushroom cloud in the video of the Tsar Bomba explosion went almost 40 miles up.
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Tuesday, July 1, 2008
A 10-minute film based on Flannery O’Connor’s story “Good Country People”, shot in the 1960s. [via maud newton]
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008
King Corn is a documentary about 2 guys that move to Iowa to grow an acre of corn. With today’s agro-tech, the actual farming takes just a few minutes. The bulk of it is their interviews and exploration of the food chain from seed to cobs to cattle to what we get in stores and [...]
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Monday, June 2, 2008
Bed?ôich Smetana in an commercial for a Czech beer which inspires The Moldau.
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Sunday, June 1, 2008
I like this brief survey of conducting styles, comparing their approaches to a work that everyone has heard.
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
I watched Old Joy last week (trailer, Ebert) and recommend that you do the same. It’s based on a short story by Jonathan Raymond and uses its 70-something minutes very well.
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Haven’t seen the movie and don’t plan to, but I like Roger Ebert’s assessment here: “Some superheroes speak in a kind of heightened, semi-formal prose, as if dictating to Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations… ‘Iron Man’ doesn’t seem to know how seriously most superhero movies take themselves.“
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Sunday, May 11, 2008
Michael Pollan talked with Google last month about his latest book, In Defense of Food. He’s funnier than I expected. My doodles:
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
A video of Bob Becker playing some novelty xylophone tunes with a college group. I saw Becker playing with Nexus a few years back. He’s insanely skilled.
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