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By | February 1, 2010
A short month in a long winter…
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This month…
Blog Roll: The Big Fat Undertaking; The Secret History of Typography in the OED.
Cooking: America: Too Stupid To Cook; Cook Almost Anything; Smoked Haddock Chowder; Quel Cassoulet; Pizza Turnaround…
Design: Fontana Modern Masters; Letterheady; Dennis Zilbert Art Blog; Demons And Devotions
History: The Bunny Revolution; What Objects Say About Our Times
Language Arts: Google Magazines; The World’s Hardest Language; Do’s And Don’ts of Online Publicity; Only Reflect; Visions and Revisions…
Music: Symphony of Science; On Gospel, Abba and The Death of The Record; Won’t Get Fooled Again; Opera en el Mercado; ‘81
Pics: Pingwire; Dublin At Work In NYC; Best Photos of 2009; Dogs of Moscow
Science: Images From The History of Science; Science of Success; 50 Best Science Blog Posts; Quantum Theory vs. 40-Tonne Truck; Foamy Invention
Spin Zone: How America Can Rise Again; How Is The Internet Changing The Way You Think; Prudence, You No Longer Rule My Day; How Corporate Branding Has Taken Over America…
Travel: Hotel Munch; Small Town Gems.
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This Month’s Web Bytes
Lennart Green + Close Up Card Magic (TEDTalks).
Sexual Politics of Dancing (Spiegel)
How to be a man part 4: Tape Measure Skills
CGI ++: The Third & The Seventh
100 Things We Didn’t Know Last Year (BBC)
Michael Moschen performs The Triangle
The trailer for the film Room And A Half (in Russian) has some amazing animation.
The life journey of the Russian poet Joseph Brodsky inspired this drama written and directed by Andrey Khrzhanovsky. Brodsky, a Nobel laureate who was born in 1940, fled the Soviet Union in 1972, and died in 1996, once told a reporter that if he were to return to the land of his birth, he’d do so without identifying himself, and in Poltory komnaty ili sentimentalnoe puteshestvie na rodinu (aka A Room and a Half, or a Sentimental Journey to the Homeland), Khrzhanovsky imagines what the voyage would be like, and what he thinks the poet’s reaction would be. Touring his old neighborhood, the older Brodsky (Grigoriy Dityatkovskiy) recalls his youth, when he (Artem Smola) lived with his loving father (Sergei Yursky) and mother (Alisa Freindlich) in a small but comfortable apartment in Leningrad following the end of World War II, and the idyll of life with his family colors his view of the world around him. As Brodsky becomes a young man and goes off to college, he learns about art and language, and a new world is opened to him; however, he also becomes aware of the oppressive nature of the Soviet regime, and he begins speaking out in favor of greater freedoms, marking the first steps on his road to exile.
2009 Third Coast Broadcast Awards
Vimeo’s 25 Favorite Videos (Too Much Candy)
I Will Remember To Take My Medication (Bart’s Blackboard)
Speaking of beards, Brian Blessed as Henry VIII
More beards, with James Lipton urging texters to Give It A Ponder
Finally, the Allen Ginsberg Figurine
Granny O Grimm (check out the film/click on TV)
Simon’s Cat “Snow Business”
David Rock’s Google Talk Your Brain At Work
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