A stonking cover of The Beastie Boys’ ‘Sabotage’ on night one (last Thursday) of Dave Grohl and producer Greg Kurstin’s Hanukkah Sessions – celebrating eight songs by eight famous Jewish artists each night of Hannukah.
Chag urim sameach!
Category Archives: Video
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An impressive 2002 (hence the low res) short by Croatian animator Simon Bogojevic-Narath. To wit:
The night. Metropolis. [A cat]. Pockets full of money. A beggar in a crowded avenue. How a leisurely stroll down the street can change a life for the worse… or the better.
For Whovians and fans of early electronica alike, The Definitive Guide To The Doctor Who Theme Music is a fascinating guide to the construction of that iconic piece of music. To wit:
Created in 1963, the Doctor Who theme was one of the first electronic signature tunes for television and after nearly five decades remains one of the most easily recognised. The original recording of the Doctor Who theme music is widely regarded as a significant and innovative piece of electronic music, recorded well before the availability of commercial synthesisers.
Explore it here.
Above (top pic): Delia Derbyshire who, along with Dick Mills, arranged the theme music based on Ron Grainer’s composition.
Up close footage of the collapse of the Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico earlier this month, already in the process of being decommissioned having degraded and lost structural integrity in recent years. Mmf. To wit:
Starting in 1963, the 305-metres across Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico USA reigned as the largest single-dish radio telescope in the world for over 50 years. Among numerous firsts and milestones, data from Arecibo has been used to measure the spin of Mercury, map the surface of Venus, discover the first planets outside of our Solar System, verify the existence of gravitational radiation, search for extraterrestrial intelligence, and, reportedly, locate hidden military radar by tracking their reflections from the Moon.
(Video: Arecibo Observatory, NSF)
An award-winning, side-stepping short by Breton animator Arthur De Pins. To wit:
The crabs of the Gironde estuary in France face a serious handicap: they can’t change direction and are obliged to follow the same straight line their whole lives. How do they cope with this tragic fate?
A short by Oscar-nominated Chinese animator Siqi Song centres around her family’s New Year’s Eve tradition and the comforting thought of home, when you’re far from it. To wit:
On Chinese New Year, finding the coin hidden in a dumpling (Jiaozi) brings good luck. A girl loses a jar on her journey to a new country, which contains the lucky coins she has been collecting growing up. Her new life begins with a search for the coin.
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There’s nothing more peaceful and reassuring as the night sky. Until, as German educational design studio Kurzgesagt reminds us, you realise it’s full of huge objects whizzing about at terrifying speeds. To wit:
..space is big, and so the stars of the Milky Way are very unlikely to hit us. Unfortunately, they don’t have to hit anything to make us have a really bad time on earth. And there are already stars starting to get very close.
Previously: In And Out
A short by Andrea Vinciguerra warning against the consequences of blindly following the ‘movements’ of others. To wit: dance responsibly.
Append your own metaphor.