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.
He may not think of himself this way, but Illinois-based insect photographer Alex Wild is the consummate beat reporter. And although Wild’s photos are everywhere — from The New York Times to National Geographic to the first Google Images that pop up when you type in “ant” — he’s far from a household name. It’s about time he rises in the ranks.
See spectacular views of the earth from a $69 weather balloon; and find out why it was launched. At the height of its ascent, the curvature of the earth could be faintly seen.
The Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association and several other plaintiff growers do not use Monsanto seeds, but had hoped that the federal judge would agree that Monsanto should not be allowed to sue them if pollen from the company’s patented crops happened to drift into their fields.
In the latest Brains and Beakers, students got a behind-the-scenes demo from UC Berkeley’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. If you’ve never heard of the museum, it’s probably because it’s closed to the public — only scientists and other researchers have access to the hundreds of thousands of bones and skins in its collection.
I met Wangari Maathai only briefly, but her vision for creating social change through environmental stewardship and community organization has stayed with me for nearly a decade.
There’s no place for lead in the human body, plain and simple. Even the smallest amount of exposure to the element is toxic. Scientists estimate that before the Industrial Revolution, most people had about .01 micrograms of lead for every half cup of blood in their bodies. But we’ve put a lot of lead into the environment since then.
The much anticipated Hurricane Irene blew through the East Coast over the weekend, killing at least 38 people, according to CNN. The storm caused 5 million power outages between North Carolina and Maine, according to the Washington Post.
Hurricane Irene (seen in the photo above swirling towards the East Coast) will touch down this weekend. Evacuation centers, barricades, and emergency provisions are being readied in New York, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia, and elsewhere as people prepare for what’s coming.
Sometimes you achieve something that’s significant only to the few people who know just how hard a thing it is to do. In our case, the thing that was hard to do was also hard to see. But in the end — on our second-to-last day of school in June, as our classmates signed yearbooks and talked about summer plans — we did see it. There it was, like a tiny, open mouth calling at us through the microscope. A stomate.
City folks are hard-working, but there’s something satisfying about being able to say, I’m a farmer – I get up at dawn to milk the cows and eat the fruits of my own labor. A new project called MyFarm allows people from around the world to get experience running a farm– without getting their hands dirty.
