The Madness of Art
Jim Kempner offers a glimpse of the day-to-day life at Jim Kempner Fine Art in his The Madness of Art web series.
In Season 1, Episode 10, Jim and Dru try to figure out why it’s so slow in the gallery. Could Glenn Dranoff of Dranoff Fine Art have something to do with it? Later that day, Jim tries to alleviate his new assistant’s anxiety. Complications arise when Jim asks her to type up a letter.
Trailer from the 1920 silent film, Within Our Gates, directed by Oscar Micheaux. The film portrays the hardships blacks faced in Jim Crow America. The subject matter was so controversial at the time, that the film was severely edited. Most prints were destroyed, and the film was considered lost for 70 years until a lone print was discovered in a Spanish archive. Within Our Gates is believed to be the earliest surviving film directed by an African-American filmmaker. The full version of the film is available online.
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David Wall Rice, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and Principal Investigator of the Identity Orchestration Research Lab at Morehouse on Renee Cox’s (Hot En Tot 1994).
‘Men Build Boats Because They Can’t Have Babies’
A moving documentary about one man’s devotion to craftsmanship in an age of advanced machinery.
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Lillian Schwartz - The Artist And The Computer (pt 2/2)
Lillian Schwartz - The Artist And The Computer (pt 1/2)
“A house that’s neglected is a house that may be doomed in the atomic age.”
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New AI uses the Internet to identify unfamiliar things
Researchers at Japan’s Tokyo Institute of Technology have updated their SOINN machine learning algorithm so that it can now use the Internet to identify items it’s never encountered before.
SOINN has been in development for some time now. A few years ago, lead researcher Osamu Hasegawa and his team built a robot that can learn, think, and act by itself. But the new iteration of SOINN has a resource that its predecessor did not: The World Wide Web.
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The frantic, harrowing audio from the 911 call made by Amanda Berry, one of the three women rescued Monday after a decade in captivity. (via Cleveland Plain Dealer)
