Robert Smithson: Spiral Jetty

Spiral Jetty is an earthwork sculpture constructed in April, 1970 that is considered to be the central work of American sculptor Robert Smithson. He documented the construction of the sculpture in a 32-minute color film also titled Spiral Jetty.

 

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Video: Nick Gillen

Nick Gillen is currently a student at Huntington Fine Arts. 

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Ricky Gervais

Ricky Gervais Tells A Story About How He Learned To Write

 

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Vivian Maier: Photographer

Vivian Maier (1926 – 2009) was an American street photographer.  She worked for approximately forty years as a nanny in Chicago, Illinois. During those years, she took more than 100,000 photographs, primarily of people and cityscapes in Chicago, although she traveled and photographed worldwide.

She never saw the photos.

Maier’s massive body of work would come to light when in 2007 her work was discovered at a local thrift auction house on Chicago’s Northwest Side. From there, it would eventually impact the world over and change the life of the man who championed her work and brought it to the public eye, John Maloof.

http://www.vivianmaier.com/

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Watch Earth from Space

Watch Earth from space in REAL-TIME:
ISS to be fitted with HD webcams that beam live footage 

 

Article:  Earth Realtime

Website: http://www.urthecast.com/

Spock

The Audi Spock Challenge: Zachary Quinto vs. Leonard Nimoy

 

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QUOTE: "We choose to go to the moon."

JFK Speech to congress

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Rice University Speech, 1962 (excerpt)

"We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."

John F. Kennedy,
September 12, 1962

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Jason Alexander talks about William Shatner

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Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Neil DeGrasse Tyson talking asteroid physics with a 9 year old

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Kurt Vonnegut: Shapes of Stories

Recommended Documentary Video: Dogtown and Z-Boys

 

Documentary about the pioneering 1970s Zephyr skating team.

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Philips Cinema Parallel: Porcelain Unicorn

Restrictive criteria: Make a film using the following six lines of dialogue:

What is that?
It’s a unicorn.
Never seen one up close before.
Beautiful.
Get away, get away!
I’m sorry.

Commenting on his choice of winner, Sir Ridley Scott said:

“I chose Porcelain Unicorn to be the winning film as it had a very strong narrative; a very complete story that was well told and executed.”

Kurt Vonnegut Letter

In October of 1973, Bruce Severy — a 26-year-old English teacher at Drake High School, North Dakota — decided to use Kurt Vonnegut's novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, as a teaching aid in his classroom. The next month, on November 7th, the head of the school board, Charles McCarthy, demanded that all 32 copies be burned in the school's furnace as a result of its "obscene language." Other books soon met with the same fate.

On the 16th of November, Kurt Vonnegut sent McCarthy
the following letter. He didn't receive a reply.

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Björk talking about her TV

This is what the Renaissance was all about...

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Creative Honda Ad

Let's see what curiosity can do...

Original Link: http://www.honda.co.uk/hands/