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- VideoPink Floyd Plays in Venice on a Massive Floating Stage in 1989; Forces the Mayor & City Council to ResignWhen Roger Waters left Pink Floyd after 1983’s The Final Cut, the remaining members had good reason to assume the band was truly, as Waters proclaimed, “a spent force.” After releasing solo projects in the next few years, David Gilmour, Nick Mason, and Richard Wright soon discovered they would never... Read more »Source: Open Culture | Published: April 25, 2024 - 9:00 am
- VideoInside the Beautiful Home Frank Lloyd Wright Designed for His Son (1952)Being Frank Lloyd Wright’s son surely came with its downsides. But one of the upsides — assuming you could stay in the mercurial master’s good graces — was the possibility of his designing a house for you. Such was the fortune of his fourth child David Samuel Wright, a Phoenix... Read more »Source: Open Culture | Published: April 25, 2024 - 8:00 am
- VideoSteven Spielberg Calls Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange “the First Punk Rock Movie Ever Made”Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick are two of the first directors whose names young cinephiles get to know. They’re also names between which quite a few of those young cinephiles draw a battle line: you may have enjoyed films by both of these auteurs, but ultimately, you’re going to have to side... Read more »Source: Open Culture | Published: April 24, 2024 - 9:00 am
- Hear Flannery O’Connor Read “A Good Man is Hard to Find” (1959)Flannery O’Connor was a Southern writer who, as Joyce Carol Oates once said, had less in common with Faulkner than with Kafka and Kierkegaard. Isolated by poor health and consumed by her fervent Catholic faith, O’Connor created works of moral fiction that, according to Oates, “were not refined New Yorker... Read more »Source: Open Culture | Published: April 24, 2024 - 8:03 am
- VideoA Guided Tour of the Largest Handmade Model of Imperial Rome: Discover the 20x20 Meter Model Created During the 1930sAt the moment, you can’t see the largest, most detailed handmade model of Imperial Rome for yourself. That’s because the Museo della Civiltà Romana, the institution that houses it, has been closed for renovations since 2014. But you can get a guided tour of “Il Plastico,” as this grand Rome-in-miniature... Read more »Source: Open Culture | Published: April 23, 2024 - 9:00 am
- VideoWatch Iconic Artists at Work: Rare Videos of Picasso, Matisse, Kandinsky, Renoir, Monet, Pollock & MoreClaude Monet, 1915: We’ve all seen their works in fixed form, enshrined in museums and printed in books. But there’s something special about watching a great artist at work. Over the years, we’ve posted film clips of some of the greatest artists of the 20th century caught in the act... Read more »Source: Open Culture | Published: April 23, 2024 - 8:00 am
- VideoHumans First Started Enjoying Cannabis in China Circa 2800 BCJudging by how certain American cities smell these days, you’d think cannabis was invented last week. But that spike in enthusiasm, as well as in public indulgence, comes as only a recent chapter in that substance’s very long history. In fact, says the presenter of the PBS Eons video above,... Read more »Source: Open Culture | Published: April 22, 2024 - 9:00 am
- Daniel Dennett Presents the 4 Biggest Ideas in Philosophy in One of His Final Videos (RIP)A week ago, Big Think released this video featuring philosopher Daniel Dennett talking about the four biggest ideas in philosophy. Today, we learned that he passed away at age 82. The New York Times obituary for Dennett reads: “Espousing his ideas in best sellers, he insisted that religion was an... Read more »Source: Open Culture | Published: April 19, 2024 - 11:02 pm
- VideoDiscover the Singing Nuns Who Have Turned Medieval Latin Hymns into Modern HitsWe now live, as one often hears, in an age of few musical superstars, but towering ones. The popular culture of the twenty-twenties can, at times, seem to be contained entirely within the person of Taylor Swift — at least when the media magnet that is Beyoncé takes a breather.... Read more »Source: Open Culture | Published: April 19, 2024 - 9:00 am
- VideoWatch Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky’s Mind-Bending Masterpiece Free Online“I feel like every single frame of the film is burned into my retina,” said Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett about the movie Stalker (1979). “I hadn’t seen anything like it before and I haven’t really seen anything like it since. Andrei Tarkovsky’s final film in the USSR seems like an unlikely movie... Read more »Source: Open Culture | Published: April 19, 2024 - 8:00 am
- Beautifully-Preserved Frescoes with Figures from the Trojan War Discovered in a Lavish Pompeii HomeImage via Pompeii Archaeological Park Imagine visiting the home of a prominent, wealthy figure, and at the evening’s end finding yourself in a room dedicated to late-night entertaining, painted entirely black except for a few scenes from antiquity. Perhaps this wouldn’t sound entirely implausible in, say, twenty-first century Silicon Valley.... Read more »Source: Open Culture | Published: April 18, 2024 - 9:00 am
- Learn How to Create Your Own Custom AI Assistants Using OpenAI GPTs: A Free Course from Vanderbilt UniversityLast fall, OpenAI started letting users create custom versions of ChatGPT–ones that would let people create AI assistants to complete tasks in their personal or professional lives. In the months that followed, some users created AI apps that could generate recipes and meals. Others developed GPTs to create logos for... Read more »Source: Open Culture | Published: April 18, 2024 - 8:00 am
- An Archive of Vividly Illustrated Japanese Schoolbooks, from the 1800s to World War IIIf you want to appreciate Japanese books, it helps to be able to read Japanese books. It helps, but it’s not 100 percent necessary: even if you’ve never learned a single kanji character, you’ve probably marveled at one time or another at the aesthetics of Japan’s print culture. Maybe you’ve... Read more »Source: Open Culture | Published: April 17, 2024 - 9:00 am
- Free: Download the The Anarchist’s Tool Chest, The Anarchist’s Design Book, The Anarchist’s Workbench & Other Woodworking TextsFor Christopher Schwarz, American anarchism isn’t “about bombs and leather jackets; it’s about being an independent designer.” It’s about working outside “massive and dehumanizing institutions” (like corporations) and designing beautiful objects that last. He writes: “As a designer of books, tools and furniture, I have zero desire to make things... Read more »Source: Open Culture | Published: April 17, 2024 - 8:00 am
- VideoHow the Berlin Wall Worked: The Engineering & Structural Design of the Wall That Formidably Divided East & WestMore than thirty years after the formal dissolution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, few around the world have a clear understanding of how life actually worked there. That holds less for the larger political and economic questions than it does for the routine mechanics of day-to-day existence. These... Read more »Source: Open Culture | Published: April 16, 2024 - 9:00 am