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auntada: Trailer from the 1920 silent film, Within Our...

Fri, 17 May 2013 02:08:12 -0400

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.

spelmanmuseum: David Wall Rice, Assistant Professor in the...

Fri, 17 May 2013 01:57:01 -0400

spelmanmuseum:

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).

theatlanticvideo: ‘Men Build Boats Because They Can’t Have...

Wed, 15 May 2013 15:38:56 -0400

theatlanticvideo:

‘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.

christopherschreck: Lillian Schwartz - The Artist And The...

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:47:40 -0400

christopherschreck:

Lillian Schwartz - The Artist And The Computer (pt 2/2)

christopherschreck: Lillian Schwartz - The Artist And The...

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:47:13 -0400

christopherschreck:

Lillian Schwartz - The Artist And The Computer (pt 1/2)

theatlanticcities: “A house that’s neglected is a house that...

Mon, 13 May 2013 10:12:16 -0400

theatlanticcities:

“A house that’s neglected is a house that may be doomed in the atomic age.”

Read: In 1954, Americans Were Told to Paint Their Houses to Increase Their Chances of Surviving an Atomic Bomb

futurescope: New AI uses the Internet to identify unfamiliar...

Sat, 11 May 2013 16:36:19 -0400

futurescope:

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.

[via io9] [read more]

mohandasgandhi: The FBI arrested a man planning to carry out a...

Thu, 09 May 2013 18:54:56 -0400

mohandasgandhi:

The FBI arrested a man planning to carry out a terror attack last week. Why haven’t you heard of him? Probably because his name is Buford Rogers and he’s white.

bostonreview: Rare footage of London from 1927. Via The Curious...

Thu, 09 May 2013 18:25:57 -0400

bostonreview:

Rare footage of London from 1927. Via The Curious Brain.

globalartnews: CHERYL DONEGAN USA

Thu, 09 May 2013 17:35:01 -0400

globalartnews:

CHERYL DONEGAN USA

shortformblog: The frantic, harrowing audio from the 911 call...

Tue, 07 May 2013 02:12:10 -0400

shortformblog:

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)

Contemporary Art Talk Show Promo Video - YouTube

Sun, 05 May 2013 11:36:08 -0400

Contemporary Art Talk Show Promo Video - YouTube:

neocountry:

Coming Monday, May 6th - A Contemporary Art Talk Show With Jay and Chris. Watch the promo where we critique a painting by Mike Swaney. Monday’s full episode include critiques of paintings by Mike Swaney, Able Brown, Lane Hagood and Casey William Farnum.

thesoftwarephilosopher: The Orchestra by Zbigniew Rybczynski...

Sun, 05 May 2013 11:33:46 -0400

thesoftwarephilosopher:

The Orchestra by Zbigniew Rybczynski (1990)

jocelynhasgoodideas: Rhythm.21 by Hans Richter Experimental...

Sat, 04 May 2013 23:31:27 -0400

jocelynhasgoodideas:

Rhythm.21 by Hans Richter

Experimental Film

(1921)

continuallymoving: Sometimes I wish dances were filmsI want to...

Sat, 04 May 2013 23:30:49 -0400

continuallymoving:

Sometimes I wish dances were films
I want to keep watching this
(Or & Oran Dance Theatre Company- Remission)

musicmagazine: HEADLINE: At Ubu, Watch Michael Snow’s fantastic...

Fri, 03 May 2013 10:36:07 -0400

musicmagazine:

HEADLINE: At Ubu, Watch Michael Snow’s fantastic 2005 experimental film, Sshtoorrty.

dinosaurparty: (via Video: Why Jurassic Park 3D Is Still a...

Thu, 02 May 2013 15:30:28 -0400

dinosaurparty:

(via Video: Why Jurassic Park 3D Is Still a Must-Watch 20 Years Later | Motherboard)

I am so excited about this.

solarflares: H/T to cameronr: 24 Hour Party People (Full...

Wed, 01 May 2013 15:30:36 -0400

solarflares:

H/T to cameronr:

24 Hour Party People (Full Movie)

Just had the urge to watch this. Join me, won’t you.

malaised: Cat’s Cradle (1959) (dir. Stan Brakhage)

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:30:44 -0400

malaised:

Cat’s Cradle (1959) (dir. Stan Brakhage)

cinephilearchive: “Cinema is under assault,” Steven...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:06:10 -0400

cinephilearchive:

“Cinema is under assault,” Steven Soderbergh told an audience in San Francisco over the weekend. He said that the Hollywood studios are to blame and that moviegoers are their accomplices. “Fewer and fewer executives in the industry love movies,” Soderbergh continued, “There’s a total lack of leadership in my opinion, that’s what’s killing cinema.” The director’s remarks came at the San Francisco International Film Festival’s annual State of Cinema Address. It was a sort of Jerry Maguire memo, “Cinema is a specificity of vision. It’s as unique as a fingerprint. If it’s done well, you know exactly who made it,” Steven Soderbergh defined on Saturday, “Is there a difference between cinema and movies? If I ran team America, I’d say fuck ya. Cinema is something that is made, movies are seen.”

Soderbergh said that he needed $5 million to make his upcoming Liberace movie, Behind the Candelabra, which stars Michael Douglas as the famous piano player and Matt Damon as the musician’s lover. Yet he said that the studios needed the movie to gross $70 million to make it work financially. “No one has figured out how to lower the costs of marketing movies…no one,” Soderbergh said. “The thing that mystifies me is in terms of spending, is there anyone in the galaxy that doesn’t know Iron Man 2 is opening that weekend!?” He continued, ”Studios only gamble on openings instead of supporting filmmakers over the long haul. In my opinion, it’s about horses - not races.”

“Executives don’t get punished for making bombs the way filmmakers do,” Soderbergh charged, “So there’s no turnover with people who don’t know their own business.” “I’m spending so much time talking business and sexy math because this is what’s driving everything right now,” Soderbergh said. Yet he also sounded a few optimistic notes. So what would he do differently? “If I were running a studio, I’d get a Shane Carruth, a Barry Jenkins and an Amy Seimetz and ask ‘What do you wanna make?’” Soderbergh said, “I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect someone running a multi-billion dollar business to be able to identify talent.” —The World According to Steven: Insights from Soderbergh

With thanks to Jacob Rosenberg