Reads tagged with “film”

Pump Up The Volume: A History of House Music

From John Travolta to Eurotrash, or what Chicago’s basements have to do with Moscow’s nightlife.

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Ray: A Life Underwater

What antique cannon balls have to do with walking on the moon and life on the bottom of the world.

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Arnold Schoenberg’s Music Notation Based on Tennis: A Tribute to George Gershwin

What the U.S. Open has to do with atonality and one of the great losses of twentieth-century music.

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The Myth of Popular Culture: Why ‘Highbrow’ & ‘Lowbrow’ Don’t Work

From Dante to Dylan, or what nineteenth-century phrenology has to do with the codification of bigotry.

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Samuel Beckett’s Only Cinematic Project: A Silent Film from 1965

What a cinema history anachronism has to do with Chaplin’s replacement and the psychology of voyeurism.

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This Must Be The Place: Poetic Short Films Explore ‘Home’

What 19th-century farming has to do with solar panels and the creative losses of digital photography.

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Doyald Young: The Self-Made Typography Icon in His Own Words

From high school dropout to design legend, or what the Oxford English Dictionary has to do with iconic logos.

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Video Portraits of Resilience from Sri Lanka

Three beautiful short films about ingenuity in the face of scarcity and hardship.

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Mod Odyssey: How The Beatles Revolutionized Animation in 1968

From Homer to John Lennon, or what the “psychedelic 60s” can teach us about creativity in animation.

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Illegal Drugs, Explained in LEGO: A 1970s PSA

The architecture of addiction, or why mixed metaphors might be more harmful than marijuana.

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Reads tagged with “film”

From John Travolta to Eurotrash, or what Chicago’s basements have to do with Moscow’s nightlife.

What antique cannon balls have to do with walking on the moon and life on the bottom of the world.

What the U.S. Open has to do with atonality and one of the great losses of twentieth-century music.

From Dante to Dylan, or what nineteenth-century phrenology has to do with the codification of bigotry.

What a cinema history anachronism has to do with Chaplin’s replacement and the psychology of voyeurism.

What 19th-century farming has to do with solar panels and the creative losses of digital photography.

From high school dropout to design legend, or what the Oxford English Dictionary has to do with iconic logos.

Three beautiful short films about ingenuity in the face of scarcity and hardship.

From Homer to John Lennon, or what the “psychedelic 60s” can teach us about creativity in animation.

The architecture of addiction, or why mixed metaphors might be more harmful than marijuana.

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