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Bill Murray reads poetry to construction workers. (slyt)
posted on Nov-21-23 at 9:14 PM
Rosalynn Carter, mental health activist, humanitarian and former first lady, dies at 96. Before her passing, "At the (Carter) Center, she leads a program to diminish stigma against mental illness and to promote greater access to mental health care. She also is a partner with the ex-president in projects to resolve conflict, promote human rights, improve global health, and build democracy in some 65 countries.
posted on Nov-19-23 at 3:41 PM
"When the elevator dings open on the ninth floor of a high-rise in drab West Shinjuku, Tokyo, I don’t know quite what to expect. As the doors to the lift shut behind me, I find myself standing on a rickety outdoor staircase—solo—in the pitch black, fumbling for the handle to a heavy, lacquered wooden door. If this were a fairy tale, I think, I’d be in trouble." Modern Alchemy at Tokyo’s Most Radical Bar. Meet Hiroyasu Kayama bartender extraordinaire of Ben Fiddich in Tokyo. His 'Award-winning alchemical delights' are simply amazing. Take a look. (slyt)
posted on Nov-18-23 at 4:57 PM
Artist David Bull creates wonderful things. A Canadian wood block carver and printer based in Japan writes in an introduction page: "The prints you see around me in this photograph are from my 'Hyakunin Isshu' series - a set of 100 prints depicting poets of old Japan. The delightful. 'Easter eggs in Japanese woodblock prints' (yt) Previous post on Bull details his journal. Bulls YouTube channel is worth a gander.
posted on Nov-12-23 at 9:56 PM
Trick-Or-Treat The CIA Way: Tips For A Halloween Spent Undercover. Come explore 'Spooky Stories for Halloween.' Or, or, 'Explore the aftermath of the CIA’s infamous “Halloween Massacre”. In recent news, 'CIA publicly acknowledges 1953 coup it backed in Iran was undemocratic as it revisits ‘Argo' rescue' CW: links to CIA site.
posted on Oct-31-23 at 11:18 AM
"Protecting cats has been a Roman tradition since the days of the ancient Roman Republic. They were considered sacred to the goddess Diana and were kept not only as companions, but as a way to control the pest population as the city grew. Cats were granted legal protections under Roman law as early as the first century CE . The Roman Cat. pt.1, pt. 2, pt. 3. previously.
posted on Oct-30-23 at 3:05 PM
'Halloween' Theme. Medieval version (sylt)
posted on Oct-25-23 at 5:43 PM
"At one time this Pullman railroad car was the apex of luxury -- at least according to Stagecoach Stop USA, which in 1978 parked the car on the attraction's front lawn and opened it as the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Railroad Car Museum. Supposedly used by President Eisenhower in the 1950s-..." or was it?
posted on Oct-23-23 at 7:34 PM
The Cambodian myth of Lightning, Thunder and Rain. (slyt)
posted on Oct-21-23 at 3:06 PM
Kansas' 'Dust in the Wind' with Hildegard Von Blingin. Medieval version by Medievallica.
posted on Oct-16-23 at 4:25 PM
'The War Horse', by Eavan Boland. "When studying Boland’s poetry, the students rightfully began to discuss their own struggles—and, remembering Yeats’s “I, being poor, have only my dreams”—were better able to resist the oppressive forces in their lives, to understand the strength needed to overcome provincial societal norms, to rally against antiquated ideas and histories that demand women conduct themselves in ways antithetical to a free-thinking person." from, “Shadows in the Story”: An Interview with Eavan Boland.
posted on Oct-10-23 at 2:27 PM
Prometheus Lost in Space mashup trailer.
posted on Sep-24-23 at 7:20 PM
Sylvia Plath and the Bees....in February 1963, Sylvia Plath wrote a cluster of extraordinary poems about Bees. She had taken up beekeeping that June and wrote excitedly to her mother in America to describe the events of attending a local beekeepers’ meeting in the Devon village of North Tawton", Sylvia Plath and the Bee Poems
posted on Sep-12-23 at 12:07 PM
"Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, who was associated with the Vorticist movement in London, certainly died youngest. He was killed at 23, and, except for a few surviving sketches, and several small pieces of sculpture made while he was in the trenches (now lost), the period of his full artistic production actually ended when he left for the Front, in September of 1914, when he was still 22." Henri Gaudier-Brzeska: The Process of Discovery.
posted on Sep-2-23 at 4:08 PM
William Friedkin, director of 'The Exorcist' and 'The French Connection,' dies at 87. A Discussion with William Friedkin: ‘I See a Diminishing of All Art Forms These Days’
posted on Aug-7-23 at 3:49 PM
John D. Clare of 'Facts and the teaching of History' posits: "EH Carr's What is History?...Carr - very correctly - argues that 'the belief in a hard core of historical facts existing objectively independent of the interpretation of the historian is a preposterous fallacy." Then it unravels into historiographical relevance of fact. Nearly 20 years later, the methodology of History/ historiography is changing. 'How AI is helping historians better understand our past' and 'Digital doping for Historians: Can history, memory, and historical theory be rendered artificially intelligent'
posted on Aug-5-23 at 9:59 PM
'Groucho Marx and the United Snakes of America' gives a brief history of the case. Interestingly, his brother Harpo was praised by Hoover for smuggling papers out of the former Soviet Union.
posted on Jul-28-23 at 4:36 PM
Ultimate compilation Cat Jedi-2016. [cw: cat play fighting with lasers]
posted on Jul-22-23 at 5:47 PM
The Legendary singer Tony Bennett has died.
posted on Jul-21-23 at 1:10 PM
Poet, essayist, activist Minnie Bruce Pratt has died. "Her books and poems have received awards from the Academy of American Poets, the American Library Association, the Poetry Society of America, Lambda Literary and the Publishing Triangle." "All the Women Caught in Flaring Light".
posted on Jul-10-23 at 10:13 AM
'We are the Baye Fall: 5 million pilgrimage to Senegal. (slyt)
posted on Jul-8-23 at 4:32 PM
In 1936, Edwin Denby co- wrote: "Horse Eats Hat" with one Orson Welles, age 21. Denby was a dance critic and poet. 'Denby and Balanchine: A Dance Critic’s Work'. 'On an Edwin Denby NYC Traffic Sonnet' is a wonderful look at one of his poems. The Folks at Pennsound has a collection of spoken material. In 2016, the NYPL staff contributed, 'Edwin Denby: Memory, History and Documentation'.
posted on Jul-5-23 at 8:25 PM
"Born and Died on the 4th of July"
posted on Jul-3-23 at 11:28 PM
Joseph Pedott, the man who brought us The Chia Pet and The Clapper, has died. Joseph Enterprises, a gadget company was founded in 1981.
posted on Jul-1-23 at 4:26 PM
H.D.(Hilda Doolittle) epic poem, 'The Walls Do No Fall'. H.D. Reads "Helen in Egypt" (slyt). "HERmione is a lyrical act of sense-making, the reverse of a time capsule—gazing backwards, at a younger self now rendered a stranger in the wistful eye of hindsight." from: 'Dream of a Past. 'Going Through Hell With H.D.’s ‘Eurydice’
posted on Jun-17-23 at 6:12 PM
Former F.B.I agent turned spy Robert Hanssen has died.
posted on Jun-5-23 at 4:17 PM
'Fortress of the Sky' (slyt) A short documentary on the B-17 Bomber. 'The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner'. 'The life of a ball turret gunner.'
posted on May-29-23 at 11:43 AM
Test film of USAF MOL mock up and ZERO- G shower. (slyt)
posted on Apr-24-23 at 4:31 PM
A 1962 Soviet school documentary. PT.1 and PT.2.
posted on Apr-19-23 at 12:04 AM
Thoeun Chantha. "From ammos to trinkets: Story of a Jeweller"
posted on Apr-2-23 at 6:40 PM
伝統工芸品青山スクエア (Iga-yaki (pottery))
posted on Mar-23-23 at 10:16 PM
'The Mask by Maya Angelou. [cw: Slavery, racism] sytl
posted on Mar-7-23 at 9:27 PM
Do the Lurch. How to do the Lurch. Wedsday teaches Lurch to dance. The Lurch. Previous Lurch.
posted on Feb-26-23 at 7:43 PM
So you wanna be a writer' by Charles Bukowski.
posted on Feb-14-23 at 8:47 PM
"Meet King Joe" 1949. (yt) [CW: racist ethnic depictions]
posted on Feb-8-23 at 1:12 AM
'Films of Love and War.'
posted on Jan-17-23 at 4:52 PM
"I’m not threatened in my career by A.I." psychologist Jim Picano explains. Though, 'Online mental health company uses ChatGPT to help respond to users in experiment — raising ethical concerns around healthcare and AI technology." (via Mastodon)
posted on Jan-7-23 at 9:44 PM
'Alientologists' (2018) is a short film on 'Dust'. Previous Dust.
posted on Jan-6-23 at 5:49 PM
Barbara Walters has died.
posted on Dec-31-22 at 6:03 AM
'Latrinograms' WWII Anti-rumor film for inductees.
posted on Dec-24-22 at 1:10 AM
toldinstone is a podcast by Historian Garrett Ryan who discusses the ancient world. His latest episode is 'Trivia, Ancient and Modern' with Ken Jennings of Jeopardy fame.
posted on Dec-18-22 at 4:31 PM
"Through the Tube". How to teach remotely on television. 1960s teacher instructional." (YouTube)
posted on Dec-4-22 at 9:45 PM
1957 Voyage of The Mayflower II.
posted on Nov-24-22 at 11:56 AM
'Mystery of BBC radio's first broadcasts revealed 100 years on'
posted on Nov-14-22 at 3:05 PM
'Ties'. A short animation by Dina Velikovskaya.
posted on Nov-6-22 at 6:09 PM
Four Poems by Dennis Brutus. 'Cold' (YT), 'Train Journey', 'I must conjure from my past', ' Still the Sirens'
posted on Oct-30-22 at 7:30 PM
'Handmade in Japan' Episode 1: Samurai Sword. Episode 2: The Kimono. Episode 3: Mingei Pottery.
posted on Oct-28-22 at 10:12 PM
'Halloween' Main theme by banjo guy ollie
posted on Oct-26-22 at 8:02 PM
In Michigan: A Primer, Travelogue. by David Erik Nelson
posted on Oct-21-22 at 5:59 PM
Three Films By King Norodom Sihanouk. 'The Little Prince'/ព្រះប្រជាកុមារ (1967) 'Apsara'/ អប្សរា (1966) 'The Lake of Happiness' 'The Nine Lives of Norodom Sihanouk'
posted on Oct-14-22 at 7:03 PM
posted on Nov-21-23 at 9:14 PM
Rosalynn Carter, mental health activist, humanitarian and former first lady, dies at 96. Before her passing, "At the (Carter) Center, she leads a program to diminish stigma against mental illness and to promote greater access to mental health care. She also is a partner with the ex-president in projects to resolve conflict, promote human rights, improve global health, and build democracy in some 65 countries.
posted on Nov-19-23 at 3:41 PM
"When the elevator dings open on the ninth floor of a high-rise in drab West Shinjuku, Tokyo, I don’t know quite what to expect. As the doors to the lift shut behind me, I find myself standing on a rickety outdoor staircase—solo—in the pitch black, fumbling for the handle to a heavy, lacquered wooden door. If this were a fairy tale, I think, I’d be in trouble." Modern Alchemy at Tokyo’s Most Radical Bar. Meet Hiroyasu Kayama bartender extraordinaire of Ben Fiddich in Tokyo. His 'Award-winning alchemical delights' are simply amazing. Take a look. (slyt)
posted on Nov-18-23 at 4:57 PM
Artist David Bull creates wonderful things. A Canadian wood block carver and printer based in Japan writes in an introduction page: "The prints you see around me in this photograph are from my 'Hyakunin Isshu' series - a set of 100 prints depicting poets of old Japan. The delightful. 'Easter eggs in Japanese woodblock prints' (yt) Previous post on Bull details his journal. Bulls YouTube channel is worth a gander.
posted on Nov-12-23 at 9:56 PM
Trick-Or-Treat The CIA Way: Tips For A Halloween Spent Undercover. Come explore 'Spooky Stories for Halloween.' Or, or, 'Explore the aftermath of the CIA’s infamous “Halloween Massacre”. In recent news, 'CIA publicly acknowledges 1953 coup it backed in Iran was undemocratic as it revisits ‘Argo' rescue' CW: links to CIA site.
posted on Oct-31-23 at 11:18 AM
"Protecting cats has been a Roman tradition since the days of the ancient Roman Republic. They were considered sacred to the goddess Diana and were kept not only as companions, but as a way to control the pest population as the city grew. Cats were granted legal protections under Roman law as early as the first century CE . The Roman Cat. pt.1, pt. 2, pt. 3. previously.
posted on Oct-30-23 at 3:05 PM
'Halloween' Theme. Medieval version (sylt)
posted on Oct-25-23 at 5:43 PM
"At one time this Pullman railroad car was the apex of luxury -- at least according to Stagecoach Stop USA, which in 1978 parked the car on the attraction's front lawn and opened it as the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Railroad Car Museum. Supposedly used by President Eisenhower in the 1950s-..." or was it?
posted on Oct-23-23 at 7:34 PM
The Cambodian myth of Lightning, Thunder and Rain. (slyt)
posted on Oct-21-23 at 3:06 PM
Kansas' 'Dust in the Wind' with Hildegard Von Blingin. Medieval version by Medievallica.
posted on Oct-16-23 at 4:25 PM
'The War Horse', by Eavan Boland. "When studying Boland’s poetry, the students rightfully began to discuss their own struggles—and, remembering Yeats’s “I, being poor, have only my dreams”—were better able to resist the oppressive forces in their lives, to understand the strength needed to overcome provincial societal norms, to rally against antiquated ideas and histories that demand women conduct themselves in ways antithetical to a free-thinking person." from, “Shadows in the Story”: An Interview with Eavan Boland.
posted on Oct-10-23 at 2:27 PM
Prometheus Lost in Space mashup trailer.
posted on Sep-24-23 at 7:20 PM
Sylvia Plath and the Bees....in February 1963, Sylvia Plath wrote a cluster of extraordinary poems about Bees. She had taken up beekeeping that June and wrote excitedly to her mother in America to describe the events of attending a local beekeepers’ meeting in the Devon village of North Tawton", Sylvia Plath and the Bee Poems
posted on Sep-12-23 at 12:07 PM
"Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, who was associated with the Vorticist movement in London, certainly died youngest. He was killed at 23, and, except for a few surviving sketches, and several small pieces of sculpture made while he was in the trenches (now lost), the period of his full artistic production actually ended when he left for the Front, in September of 1914, when he was still 22." Henri Gaudier-Brzeska: The Process of Discovery.
posted on Sep-2-23 at 4:08 PM
William Friedkin, director of 'The Exorcist' and 'The French Connection,' dies at 87. A Discussion with William Friedkin: ‘I See a Diminishing of All Art Forms These Days’
posted on Aug-7-23 at 3:49 PM
John D. Clare of 'Facts and the teaching of History' posits: "EH Carr's What is History?...Carr - very correctly - argues that 'the belief in a hard core of historical facts existing objectively independent of the interpretation of the historian is a preposterous fallacy." Then it unravels into historiographical relevance of fact. Nearly 20 years later, the methodology of History/ historiography is changing. 'How AI is helping historians better understand our past' and 'Digital doping for Historians: Can history, memory, and historical theory be rendered artificially intelligent'
posted on Aug-5-23 at 9:59 PM
'Groucho Marx and the United Snakes of America' gives a brief history of the case. Interestingly, his brother Harpo was praised by Hoover for smuggling papers out of the former Soviet Union.
posted on Jul-28-23 at 4:36 PM
Ultimate compilation Cat Jedi-2016. [cw: cat play fighting with lasers]
posted on Jul-22-23 at 5:47 PM
The Legendary singer Tony Bennett has died.
posted on Jul-21-23 at 1:10 PM
Poet, essayist, activist Minnie Bruce Pratt has died. "Her books and poems have received awards from the Academy of American Poets, the American Library Association, the Poetry Society of America, Lambda Literary and the Publishing Triangle." "All the Women Caught in Flaring Light".
posted on Jul-10-23 at 10:13 AM
'We are the Baye Fall: 5 million pilgrimage to Senegal. (slyt)
posted on Jul-8-23 at 4:32 PM
In 1936, Edwin Denby co- wrote: "Horse Eats Hat" with one Orson Welles, age 21. Denby was a dance critic and poet. 'Denby and Balanchine: A Dance Critic’s Work'. 'On an Edwin Denby NYC Traffic Sonnet' is a wonderful look at one of his poems. The Folks at Pennsound has a collection of spoken material. In 2016, the NYPL staff contributed, 'Edwin Denby: Memory, History and Documentation'.
posted on Jul-5-23 at 8:25 PM
"Born and Died on the 4th of July"
posted on Jul-3-23 at 11:28 PM
Joseph Pedott, the man who brought us The Chia Pet and The Clapper, has died. Joseph Enterprises, a gadget company was founded in 1981.
posted on Jul-1-23 at 4:26 PM
H.D.(Hilda Doolittle) epic poem, 'The Walls Do No Fall'. H.D. Reads "Helen in Egypt" (slyt). "HERmione is a lyrical act of sense-making, the reverse of a time capsule—gazing backwards, at a younger self now rendered a stranger in the wistful eye of hindsight." from: 'Dream of a Past. 'Going Through Hell With H.D.’s ‘Eurydice’
posted on Jun-17-23 at 6:12 PM
Former F.B.I agent turned spy Robert Hanssen has died.
posted on Jun-5-23 at 4:17 PM
'Fortress of the Sky' (slyt) A short documentary on the B-17 Bomber. 'The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner'. 'The life of a ball turret gunner.'
posted on May-29-23 at 11:43 AM
Test film of USAF MOL mock up and ZERO- G shower. (slyt)
posted on Apr-24-23 at 4:31 PM
A 1962 Soviet school documentary. PT.1 and PT.2.
posted on Apr-19-23 at 12:04 AM
Thoeun Chantha. "From ammos to trinkets: Story of a Jeweller"
posted on Apr-2-23 at 6:40 PM
伝統工芸品青山スクエア (Iga-yaki (pottery))
posted on Mar-23-23 at 10:16 PM
'The Mask by Maya Angelou. [cw: Slavery, racism] sytl
posted on Mar-7-23 at 9:27 PM
Do the Lurch. How to do the Lurch. Wedsday teaches Lurch to dance. The Lurch. Previous Lurch.
posted on Feb-26-23 at 7:43 PM
So you wanna be a writer' by Charles Bukowski.
posted on Feb-14-23 at 8:47 PM
"Meet King Joe" 1949. (yt) [CW: racist ethnic depictions]
posted on Feb-8-23 at 1:12 AM
'Films of Love and War.'
posted on Jan-17-23 at 4:52 PM
"I’m not threatened in my career by A.I." psychologist Jim Picano explains. Though, 'Online mental health company uses ChatGPT to help respond to users in experiment — raising ethical concerns around healthcare and AI technology." (via Mastodon)
posted on Jan-7-23 at 9:44 PM
'Alientologists' (2018) is a short film on 'Dust'. Previous Dust.
posted on Jan-6-23 at 5:49 PM
Barbara Walters has died.
posted on Dec-31-22 at 6:03 AM
'Latrinograms' WWII Anti-rumor film for inductees.
posted on Dec-24-22 at 1:10 AM
toldinstone is a podcast by Historian Garrett Ryan who discusses the ancient world. His latest episode is 'Trivia, Ancient and Modern' with Ken Jennings of Jeopardy fame.
posted on Dec-18-22 at 4:31 PM
"Through the Tube". How to teach remotely on television. 1960s teacher instructional." (YouTube)
posted on Dec-4-22 at 9:45 PM
1957 Voyage of The Mayflower II.
posted on Nov-24-22 at 11:56 AM
'Mystery of BBC radio's first broadcasts revealed 100 years on'
posted on Nov-14-22 at 3:05 PM
'Ties'. A short animation by Dina Velikovskaya.
posted on Nov-6-22 at 6:09 PM
Four Poems by Dennis Brutus. 'Cold' (YT), 'Train Journey', 'I must conjure from my past', ' Still the Sirens'
posted on Oct-30-22 at 7:30 PM
'Handmade in Japan' Episode 1: Samurai Sword. Episode 2: The Kimono. Episode 3: Mingei Pottery.
posted on Oct-28-22 at 10:12 PM
'Halloween' Main theme by banjo guy ollie
posted on Oct-26-22 at 8:02 PM
In Michigan: A Primer, Travelogue. by David Erik Nelson
posted on Oct-21-22 at 5:59 PM
Three Films By King Norodom Sihanouk. 'The Little Prince'/ព្រះប្រជាកុមារ (1967) 'Apsara'/ អប្សរា (1966) 'The Lake of Happiness' 'The Nine Lives of Norodom Sihanouk'
posted on Oct-14-22 at 7:03 PM
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