March 31, 2018
A Dream Come True (1963)
"A Dream Come True (Mechte Navstrechu) is a Soviet science fiction film directed by Otar Koberidze and Michael Karyuk. It's based on the novel 'Heart of the Universe' by Olesya Berdnik."
March 30, 2018
Inside Tibet (1943)
"On the journey of a U.S. military and diplomatic mission from Gangtok, India, to Lhasa, Tibet during World War II. The party journeys through Natu La and Kechu La passes, stops at the British trail station, Gyantse, reviews troops of Tropji Regiment and is ferried across the Brahmaputra River. Scenes of Tibetan natives, terrain, travel facilities, housing,a New Year religious festival, the Dalai Lama's palaces in Lhasa, monasteries and other religious buildings."
Good Friday in The Lord of the Rings
"One might note that in the Calendar of dates which Tolkien so carefully wrote out in Appendix B, December 25th is the day on which the Fellowship sets out from Rivendell. The main action of The Lord of the Rings takes place, then, in the mythic space between Christmas, Christ’s birth, and the crucifixion, Christ’s death”
March 29, 2018
Skunk Bear NPR - Secrets Of The Snowy Owl
"We followed a young owl named Baltimore's PRECISE route from a beach in Maryland to an island in Canada."
March 28, 2018
A Very British Hotel - Episode 1
"After uploading the video with myself in it, I had received a comment asking for the other 2 episodes. So here is the very first episode of 3 showing the goings on at the Mandarin Oriental, Hyde Park, London. In this episode, we get to meet a variety of staff from the front line and behind the scenes, seeing into training, the laundry and the infamous Concierge Desk. We meet some celebrity guests and see what it is that keeps the guests coming back, and also see a tough job for the luggage porters when some middle eastern royalty arrives. This documentary was produced by Oxford Scientific Films and Broadcast Originally on Thursday 2nd March 2017 on Channel 4."
March 26, 2018
Iggy Pop Lecture (Montréal 2016) | Red Bull Music Academy
"Iggy Pop was punk before punk even existed. Channeling rock & roll and Chicago blues influences with his band The Stooges in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Michigan native created some of the most potent rock music the world had ever heard, influencing virtually every generation of punk, garage rock and grunge artists that was to come. Pop’s high-wire collaborations with David Bowie in the latter half of the ’70s are the stuff of legend and spawned some of both artists’ most enduring hits. In 2016, he affirmed his position in the pantheon of rock music with his celebrated Post Pop Depression LP. Red Bull Music Academy was honored in September 2016 to welcome Pop at Montréal’s Monument-National: Ludger-Duvernay Theatre, Canada’s oldest theater, for a lengthy conversation about his colossal career with noted Canadian music journalist Carl Wilson."
March 25, 2018
Zydereen of Neptune (1955)
'Zydereen of Neptune' is a compilation of the classic 1950s sci-fi tv program Flash Gordon. The episodes used for the film are:
1. The Witch of Neptune
2. The Brain Machine
3. Struggle to the End
March 24, 2018
F. Cooke - London's oldest Pie and Mash shop
"Meet Joseph Cooke, owner of "F.Cooke" a special London pie shop in Hoxton. He comes from one of the oldest pie and mash families. In 1862, his great grandfather opened the first London shop. Today, Joe Cooke carries on the business - the fourth generation."
March 23, 2018
RPG fantasy maps: New Orleans
"If this came in from a freelancer, there are half a dozen things that would raise my eyebrows."
March 22, 2018
Fritz Leiber - Game for Motel Room
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1963.
March 20, 2018
John A. Nagl - Modern War in Theory and Practice
"Dr. John A. Nagl lectures at the 31st Annual Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Lecture Series.
"Dr. Nagl served as an Armor Officer in the US Army for 20 years and is one of the most influential US military officers of his generation. He was heavily involved in the adoption of a counterinsurgency strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan in the mid-2000s. He also appeared on The Daily Show.
"Dr. Nagl graduated with distinction from West Point with the class of 1988 and received his masters degree from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He served as a tank platoon commander during the First Gulf War. Recognizing the changing nature of warfare, he returned to Oxford to pursue a PhD. His dissertation, entitled Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam, became one of the fundamental academic texts used to argue for a change in US policy in Iraq and Afghanistan. In the mid-2000s, he was on the team that helped write the Army and Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual that outlines US counterinsurgency strategy. Knife Fights, Dr. Nagl's recently released memoir, details his experiences in the modern American military."
March 18, 2018
Napoleon's Greatest Foe, Sidney Smith
"Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith, GCB, GCTE, KmstkSO, FRS (21 June 1764 – 26 May 1840) was a British naval officer. Serving in the American and French revolutionary wars, he later rose to the rank of admiral. Napoleon Bonaparte, reminiscing later in his life, said of him: 'That man made me miss my destiny'."
The Orphan’s Story
"Four hundred years after it was written, a lost and supposedly cursed Golden Age novel chronicling the splendour, adventure and violence of Spain’s imperial zenith has been published for the first time."
March 17, 2018
Gareth Pugh Spring/Summer 2018
"‘This is not a show.’ Nick Knight and Gareth Pugh offer an exclusive visual insight into Pugh’s S/S 18 collection presented here as fashion film. In collaboration with philosophical artist Olivier de Sagazan, Pugh explores the extremities offered by the elements and the raw physicality of humanity."
March 16, 2018
Frontline - United States of Secrets (2014)
"Award-winning PBS documentary about NSA, data collection, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft, Verizon, ATT, Snowden and much more. What we now know about the leaks from the Whistleblowers about privacy intrusion on all internet and phone users worldwide including the US citizens."
March 15, 2018
Elon Musk Answers Your Questions! | SXSW 2018
"From space travel to deep earth boring, Elon Musk shares his opinions on AI, Mars, and business. He explores his early years as an entrepreneur that led to creating some of the most cutting-edge companies on the planet, in the planet and beyond. Oh, and there is a great little ditty at the end.
"About SXSW: Started in 1987, South by Southwest (SXSW) is a set of film, interactive, and music festivals and conferences that take place early each year in mid-March in Austin, Texas. SXSW’s original goal was to create an event that would act as a tool for creative people and the companies they work with to develop their careers, to bring together people from a wide area to meet and share ideas. That continues to be the goal today whether it is music, film or interactive technologies."
March 14, 2018
De Niro's Barbudan Land Grab (2018)
"The Caribbean paradise Barbuda has been owned by descendants of the island's former slaves for nearly 200 years. In the wake of hurricane Irma, is their ownership at threat from a government land grab?"
March 13, 2018
What Waits Below (1984)
What Waits Below is worth a look if only for the quite stirring introduction and Synclavier driven soundtrack.
Exploring deep underground, they stumble upon a tribe of albino cave-dwellers who have apparently been isolated from the rest of the world for thousands of years. The cave-dwellers are hurt by radio frequencies and are able to see in infra-red frequencies, tracking the explorers by their body heat.
March 12, 2018
Fred - Ep. 1 The World at your Feet (1982)
"Frederick Dibnah, MBE (28 April 1938 – 6 November 2004) was an English steeplejack and television personality, with a keen interest in mechanical engineering.
"When Dibnah was born, Britain relied heavily upon coal to fuel its industry. As a child he was fascinated by the steam engines which powered the many textile mills in Bolton, but he paid particular attention to chimneys and the men who worked on them. He began his working life as a joiner, before becoming a steeplejack. From age 22, he served for two years in the armed forces, as part of his National Service. Once demobilised, he returned to steeplejacking but met with limited success until he was asked to repair Bolton's parish church. The resulting publicity provided a welcome boost to his business, ensuring he was almost never out of work."
Time Zone - World Destruction (1984)
"A side project of Afrika Bambaataa, featuring John Lydon and Bill Laswell. Support the artist, buy their work."
March 11, 2018
Jamie Magnus Stone - Orbit Ever After (2017)
"Orbit Ever After" by Jamie Magnus Stone
Love transcends all boundaries. Even in space.
Nigel has fallen in love. But when you live in orbit, aboard a ramshackle space hovel with the most risk-averse family imaginable, it isn't easy to follow your heart - especially when the girl of your dreams is spinning around earth the wrong way!
Writer / Director: Jamie Magnus Stone
Producers: Chee-lan Chan & Len Rowles
Cast:
Nigel: Thomas Brodie-Sangster
Dad: Mackenzie Cook
Mother: Bronagh Gallagher
Grandpa: Bob Goody
The Girl: Naomi Battrick
Ólafur Arnalds - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)
"Icelandic artist Ólafur Arnalds performs live on KEXP from KEX Hostel in Reykjavik during Iceland Airwaves '12. Recorded on November 1, 2012."
March 10, 2018
The metroolis of tomorrow
"Hugh Ferriss (1889 – 1962) was an American delineator (one who creates drawings and sketches of buildings) and architect. According to Daniel Okrent, Ferriss never designed a single noteworthy building, but after his death a colleague said he ‘influenced my generation of architects’ more than any other man. Ferriss also influenced popular culture, for example Gotham City (the setting for Batman) and Kerry Conran’s Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow."
Illenium feat. Joni Fatora - Fortress
No light in the distance
We were shadows holding on (holding on)
All the things I resisted
Now far from gone (far from gone)
Armor on, you use your heart as a fortress
Ticking bombs, all the weapons are useless
So can you just let down your guard
Before everything is marred
I move on, you use your heart as a fortress
How'd you get so far away from me? [repeat]
Armor on, you use your heart as a fortress
Ticking bombs, all the weapons are useless
You use your heart as a fortress
So can you just let down your guard
Before everything is marred
Armor, you use your heart as a fortress
March 09, 2018
Chad Oliver - Final Exam
Published in Amazing Science Fiction Stories, December 1965.
March 07, 2018
The Threepenny Opera (1931)
"The Threepenny Opera (German: Die 3 Groschen-Oper) is a 1931 German musical film directed by G. W. Pabst. It was produced by Seymour Nebenzal's Nero-Film for Tonbild-Syndikat AG (Tobis), Berlin and Warner Bros. Pictures GmbH, Berlin. The film is loosely based on the 1928 musical theatre success The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. As was usual in the early sound film era, Pabst also directed a French language version of the film, L'Opéra de quat'sous, with some variation of plot details (the French title literally translates as "the four penny opera"). A planned English version was not made. The two existing versions were released by The Criterion Collection on home video.
"The Threepenny Opera differs in significant respects from the play and the internal timeline is somewhat vague. The whole of society is presented as corrupt in one form or another. Only some of the songs from the play are used, in a different order."
March 06, 2018
Soap (1977)
"Soap is an American sitcom that originally ran on ABC from September 13, 1977 until April 20, 1981. The show was created as a night-time parody of daytime soap operas, presented as a weekly half-hour prime time comedy. Similar to a soap opera, the show's story was presented in a serial format and included melodramatic plot elements such as alien abduction, demonic possession, murder, and kidnapping. In 2007 it was listed as one of Time magazine's '100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME', and in 2010, the Tates and the Campbells ranked at number 17 in TV Guide's list of 'TV's Top Families'."
GusGus - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)
"http://KEXP.ORG presents GusGus performing live at Kex Hostel in Reykjavik during Iceland Airwaves. Recorded November 1, 2017."
March 05, 2018
It was a dark and stormy nightmare…
"Gaiman has returned intermittently to the world of The Sandman over the years (including for the 2003 graphic novel The Sandman: Endless Nights and the 2013 miniseries The Sandman: Overture), and the character of Dream has popped up in other DC comics here and there. But in honor of the series’ 30th anniversary this year, Gaiman is coming back to the Dreaming in a big way. EW can exclusively announce that DC Comics is launching a Sandman Universe line of four new comic series. The books will be overseen by Gaiman but written and drawn by brand new creative teams. They will pick up story threads and themes from The Sandman while also adding new characters and concepts."
Led Zeppelin - In the light
And if you feel that you can't go on
And your will's sinkin' low
Just believe and you can't go wrong
In the light you will find the road (You will find the road)
Hey, oh, did you ever believe that I could leave you
Standing out in the cold
Hey, babe, I know how it feels 'cause I have slipped through
To the very depths of my soul, yeah
Oh, baby, I just want to show you what I'd give you
It is from every bend in the road
Now listen to me
Oh, whoa-whoa, as I was and really would be for you, too, honey
As you would for me, oh, I would share your load
Let me share your load, ooh, let me share, share your load
And if you feel that you can't go on
In the light you will find the road
Hey, oh, though the winds of change may blow around you
But that will always be so
Wow-wow, wow-wow, when love is pain it can devour you
If you are never alone
I would share your load, I would share your load
Baby, let me, oh, let me
In the light
Everybody needs the light
In the light, in the light, in the light
Light, light, light, in the light
Light, light, light, in the light, oh, yeah
Light, light, light, in the light
March 04, 2018
March 03, 2018
The Fifth Estate - Brainwashed: The Secret CIA Experiments in Canada
"Brainwashed: The Secret CIA Experiments in Canada: Patients at a psychiatric hospital in Montreal were subjected to intensive shock treatments, LSD and drug-induced comas in the 1950s and 1960s. The brutal experiments were funded by the Canadian government and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
"The Fifth Estate began investigating the story in 1980 and followed the victims who successfully sued the CIA. Now, as result of our reporting, more and more victims and their families are coming forward.
"Newly unearthed documents reveal how Ottawa kept files secret, misplaced vital documents – and forced victims to keep compensation agreements confidential."
March 02, 2018
Choir! Choir! Choir! and David Byrne - Heroes
"Choir! Choir! Choir! teamed up with David Byrne and a TON of singers in the Ford Foundation lobby of the Public Theater during the Under the Radar Festival to sing 'Heroes' written by David Bowie and Brian Eno."
March 01, 2018
How the Mona Lisa became so overrated
"It's not just the smile. There are a few real reasons Mona is so famous. Vox's Phil Edwards looked into it..."