Marvin Gaye’s album, What’s Going On, has been called one of the great soul music records of all time. The album was showcased at a 1972 concert at the Kennedy Center in Marvin’s hometown of Washington DC. 40 years later, the Kennedy Center commemorated that live performance, and asked select musicians to re-imagine “What’s Going On” [...]
The New York University student was accused of disorderly conduct, but the video showed him breaking no laws. In a twist, the student had actually been working on a project aimed at portraying police in a better light.
A look at the Brooklyn Brainery.
Apple’s AirPlay could become a threat to cable giants, since it gives lets users port a broad range of content to their televisions. But apparently that’s news to Time Warner’s chief exec. The NY Times’ Bits blog reports that Glenn A. Britt said in a group interview that there’s no simple way to get web [...]
Urban Dictionary defines “supercut” thusly:
A fast-paced montage of short video clips that obsessively isolates a single element from its source, usually a word, phrase, or cliché from film and TV.
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This takes “ladies free before 10″ social engineering to a whole new, and creepy, level. And by this, we mean a new app that dozens of San Francisco bars will cooperate with by placing facial recognition cameras inside their establishments. Here’s the lowdown from SF Weekly, which points out that this follows a similarly alarming [...]
It’s hard to imagine two parts of American culture– mixed martial arts and Christianity– that on the surface are more incompatible. Jesus is known for telling his followers to turn the other cheek. MMA fighters are known for turning their opponents’ cheeks for them, with their fists, elbows, and knees. If there’s one existential truth it’s this: humans, especially American humans, are hideously complex. Yet the existence of ministries that embrace MMA still surprises.
The New York based comedy group Olde English, facing a parting of ways, decided to go out with a bang on one last big project together. Taking a cue from the surrealist technique known as “the exquisite corpse”, the challenge for the troupe was for each member to write 15 pages of a feature, knowing only what the previous five pages of the script were.
The latest podcast from our friends at State of the Re:Union begins their “audio obituary” series.
With just a ten millimeter wrench and a screwdriver, Brian Simmons has built and sold more than 100 motorized bicycles in Oakland, CA, under the label Rebelbikes. The company has been around for three years. The two-man shop based out of the comfort of his living room.
Simmons’ two wheeled creations are motorized pedal assisted bicycles that can go up to 35 mph. His ultimate goal is to see bicycles replace cars, and while he knows it’s a stretch, he is taking his dream on one bike at a time.
Yesterday there was a bit of a hubbub about a Forbes article that made HBO co-president Eric Kessler seem woefully out of touch with the Internet age. Turns out that the Forbes article was a distortion– shame on you, Forbes– and that the reality on the ground (in the cloud?) is more complicated than Forbes’ Erik Kain would link-bait us to believe.
A recent study in Britain shows that women are twice as likely to consult Google for a health diagnosis than a real doctor. In addition, one in four women misdiagnoses themselves based on what they find on the internet, according to Week Magazine.
Is Isaiah Seret [VIMEO] the best music video director working today? Our own Noah Nelson [Hey, that's me!] thinks so… and his argument got backed up last weekend when his video for Raphael Saadiq’s ‘Good Man’ won Best Narrative Video at the 2nd Annual Los Angeles Music Video Festival.
Earlier this morning, with just seven hours left on the clock, the campaign for Republique reached its half-million dollar goal.
The stunning “Peace or Violence” for the artist Stromae took home the Best Non-Narrative Award at the Second Annual LAMVF. Directed by Raf Reyntjens & Joris Rabijns, this video strings together a series of vignettes on the song’s theme.
“Be data driven, not data drowning,” is the slogan for Kickboard for Teachers — an educational software, designed to help teachers and administrators collect data regarding their students’ academic and behavioral performance in one place.
2012 feels like it is the year that indie games are finally having their moment. Indie Game: The Movie was a Sundance smash, game funding has exploded on Kickstarter, and indie game developer Jonathan Blow was the subject of an in-depth profile in the most recent issue of The Atlantic. Stephanie Barish, the CEO of IndieCade, the international festival of independent games, sees things a little differently.
Can we turn a Kickstarter campaign into an event?
We’ve been following the crowdfunding campaign for Camoflaj’s Repubique from the beginning, and now Ryan Payton and company are in the last stretch.
This podcast features writer Bill Cotter, talking about his creative space. Cotter constructs crossword puzzles and is the author of the novel Fever Chart (McSweeney’s 2009).
This podcast features writer Katherine Catmull, talking about her creative space. Catmull’s novel Summer and Bird will be published by Dutton Juvenile (Penguin) in October 2012. She is also an actor and playwright
We talk to last year’s winner Anthony Honn about his experience with the festival, the work he has in this year’s fest, and what he’s looking to put together in the future. In true Turnstyle spirit, Honn works as a UI Designer for BMW by day and makes films by night.
This podcast features writer Robert Faires, talking about his creative space. It’s part of a series spun out of Fusebox festival’s The Writer’s Room, A Home Studio Tour curated by Elizabeth Doss and Annie La Ganga.
Fusebox is an annual contemporary art and performance festival that takes place in Austin, TX every year, right about now. The festival consists of 50+ events over 12 days in 15 different venues. It’s a dynamic mix of artists from across the globe including The Netherelands, the UK, Argentina, and Columbia. Fusebox champions adventurous forms of art across a variety of media. This year, Fusebox’s Elizabeth Doss and Annie La Ganga are curating The Writer’s Room: A Home Studio Tour . Part investigation into the writer’s singular relationship with space, part strangely invigorating playdate, is a chance to visit the writing life and the physical places where it thrives.
At first glance, you might simply recognize David Wicks’ artwork as maps, but on further inspection, a data set embedded in the art becomes visible. Wicks writes software to generate art.
According to the BBC, a team of Oxford scholars believe they have identified Shakespeare’s co-author on All’s Well That Ends Well as Thomas Middleton.
Hollywood Fringe Festival co-founders Ben Hill and Stacy Jones-Hill talk about improving on the foundations of the already successful festival.
By now you’ve heard about the dust up over the This American Life episode that aired on NPR this weekend— “Retraction”— in which the show did the unprecedented. It took back a story it had aired on the grounds that some of the material turned out not to be factual. You may have also seen the story arc for the past few days of Mike Daisey, the monologist whose work is at the center of it all…
Why have I headed to Austin for the past three years to go to the SXSW Film Festival and Conference? This question has been on my mind for the months leading up to this year’s fest and still rattles around my brain now that I’m back in the comfort of my home. What is the point of the expense, the time, and the physical strain? I’ll tell you.
