The video-links only thread

Allegro · Post by **Allegro** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 5:37 am

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Two Fifty Three Kelvin
- by Bart van der Gaag
- At 253° Kelvin (-4°f, -20°C) the world is caught in a silent, frozen moment.
  
  music | Hovern' engan, Songs From a World Apart, 2006
  composers | Armand Amar, Lévon Minassian
The entrancing solo instrument you hear is called the duduk, a traditional woodwind instrument of Armenian origins that is popular in the Caucasus, the Middle East and Central Asia. More.

IanEye · Post by **IanEye** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 12:49 pm

anothershamus · Post by **anothershamus** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 1:14 pm

Allegro · Post by **Allegro** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 4:36 pm

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Lesley Hazleton | on reading the Koran
- a TED talk
TED NOTES. Lesley Hazleton sat down one day to read the Koran. And what she found — as a non-Muslim, a self-identified “tourist” in the Islamic holy book — wasn’t what she expected. With serious scholarship and warm humor, Hazleton shares the grace, flexibility and mystery she found in this myth-debunking talk from TEDxRainier.

Allegro · Post by **Allegro** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 4:37 pm

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Adam Sadowsky | engineers a viral music video
- a TED talk
TED NOTES. As the president of Syyn Labs, Adam Sadowsky merges art and technology to create interactive projects big and small. The band “OK Go” dreamed up the idea of a massive Rube Goldberg machine for their next music video — and Adam Sadowsky’s team was charged with building it. He tells the story of the effort and engineering behind their labyrinthine creation that quickly became a YouTube sensation.

Allegro · Post by **Allegro** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 4:37 pm

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David Byrne | How architecture helped music evolve
- a TED talk
TED NOTES. As his career grew, David Byrne went from playing CBGB to Carnegie Hall. He asks: Does the venue make the music? From outdoor drumming to Wagnerian operas to arena rock, he explores how context has pushed musical innovation. David Byrne builds an idiosyncratic world of music, art, writing and film.

justdrew · Post by **justdrew** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 8:09 pm

mandatory viewing

Starsuckers is a feature documentary about the celebrity obsessed media, that uncovers the real reasons behind our addiction to fame and blows the lid on the corporations and individuals who profit from it. Made by the same team behind BAFTA nominated Taking Liberties, it will be released in cinemas on the 30th October - unless Rupert Murdoch shuts us down first. Or Max Clifford. And perhaps Bob Geldof.

Made completely independently over 2 years in secret, the film journeys through the dark underbelly of the modern media. Using a combination of never before seen footage, undercover reporting, stunts and animation, the film reveals the toxic effect the media is having on us all and especially our children. It shows how truth has become a distant memory in the modern news and climaxes with a shocking and startling revelation of just how bad things can get when we let entertainment reach out into politics and charity.

The first rule of working in the media is - do not critisise the media. Well, we've decided to break this golden rule, and if we ever work in this town again we won't have done our jobs properly. A film so controversial it will never be shown uncut on TV, and will pull the rug underneath a string of untouchables.

the rest of the parts (full film) is on youtube

RocketMan · Post by **RocketMan** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 9:09 pm

American Dream · Post by **American Dream** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 6:23 pm

My Three Swamis

justdrew · Post by **justdrew** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 8:13 pm

well worth listening too...

Allegro · Post by **Allegro** » Thu Jan 20, 2011 1:29 am

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Capital | Lyapis Trubetskoy | Eng & Ger subtitles
- a visual motif composed by a torrent of vibrantly colored, animated symbols

Thanks to Jeff for his introduction (to me) of Lyapis Trubetskoy. Refer.

Allegro · Post by **Allegro** » Thu Jan 20, 2011 2:28 am

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Sir Ken Robinson | The Element

How finding your passion changes everything

The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, Vancouver, Canada | September 30, 2009

[TRANSCRIBED FROM THE VIDEO.] “Everything in human culture has flown from this ability [to conceive through the power of imagination]; the ability to conceive of alternatives; to conceive of new possibilities; to conceive of a past and of a future. Not just one past or one future, but multiple pasts and multiple futures. … This to me is a fundamental power. … And my great concern is that in education, which should be the process by which we cultivate in, we almost systematically stifle it.”
~ Sir Ken Robinson

23 · Post by 23 » Fri Jan 21, 2011 3:33 pm

Posting this video here because: my daughter is currently learning this song on her guitar (it only requires an easy 4 chords and she loves playing back-up to it), and; its message is pertinent to particularly trying times:

matrixdutch · Post by **matrixdutch** » Sat Jan 22, 2011 9:44 am

matrixdutch · Post by **matrixdutch** » Sat Jan 22, 2011 9:53 am

rigorousintuition.ca