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.
Imagine being afraid to sign up for a particular college course, or ask a burning question to your professor because it might be recorded and documented in a police report with your name on it. That’s the dilemma that many Muslim college students are facing in New York and surrounding areas.
A new study published in the journal Psychological Science shows a correlation between college students that come from states with high income inequality and students that cheat. The researcher, Lukas Neville, is a Ph.D. candidate in organizational behavior at Queen’s School of Business in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He said he became interested in academic dishonesty and plagiarism because of his teaching experience.
Ben Nelson, the founder of the online photo finishing company Snapfish, just received $25 million from Benchmark Capital in Silicon Valley, to launch what he claims is the answer to the “lockjaw” problem at elite universities. In other words top tier schools are overcrowded and unable to expand their undergraduate capacity, resulting in droves of qualified applicants turning to less prestigious institutions. His idea is called the Minerva Project, an online elite university.
This school year has seen major tuition increases for college students in California. Santa Monica College, one of California’s community colleges, recently decided to start offering more sections of its most popular classes during the summer for five times the amount they normally cost, according to the Atlantic. The reason the tuition is so high is because these sections are not subsidized by the state.
We’ve heard recently that student loan debt in the United States tops credit card debt. In fact, two thirds of college graduates wind up with some kind of debt that averages about $25,000. Filmmakers Serge Bakalian and Aurora Meneghello created Default: the Student Loan Documentary, which is currently on a national tour, and played recently at the San Francisco Indie Fest.
Last month, the California State Senate approved a bill to develop a Creativity and Innovation Education Index, to use as a tool to measure how schools are fostering creativity among their students. California is just one of several states to implement a law like this, Massachusetts being the first, according to Education Week.
In last week’s State of the Union address, President Obama proposed something radical, that dropping out of high school no longer be allowed. But that might be complicated. Every school district has tried numerous solutions to the dropout dilemma without success. The problem prompted Russell Rumberger to write a book called Dropping Out: Why Students Drop Out of High School and What Can Be Done About It.
For a speech that didn’t mention the debt ceiling once, education got its fair share of space in the State of the Union address last night.
Russell Rumberger is an expert on high school dropouts. According to him, roughly 25 percent of U.S. high school students do not graduate. And he believes that our country is only making the problem worse by trying to prepare everyone for college.
Where does the U.S. stand in terms of education compared to the rest of the world? What should the U.S. be doing to measure up to countries that outperform us academically? Education Week just released their annual publication, Quality Counts 2012, that analyzes important issues facing American schools, and this year’s edition is focused on how the U.S. compares to international systems.
