A revised version of David Bowie’s Space Oddity, recorded by Commander Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station.
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Jeff Harris: 4,748 Self-Portraits and Counting
Sourced from TIME Light Box
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In an effort to record the year of his life leading up to the millennium, Jeff Harris began a project in which he used his trusty Olympic Stylus 35mm film camera (he’s since gone through six) to take a self-portrait each day and then posted the results on his website.
Read more: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/01/03/jeff-harris-self-portraits/#ixzz1rWDsgqJA
Also posted in Inspiring Media, Multimedia, Photography, Video
Tagged Jeff Harris, Self Portrait, TIME Light Box
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The World’s Most Important 6-sec Drum Loop (The Amen Break)
This fascinating, brilliant 20-minute video narrates the history of the “Amen Break,” a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969. This sample was used extensively in early hiphop and sample-based music, and became the basis for drum-and-bass and jungle music — a six-second clip that spawned several entire subcultures. Nate Harrison’s 2004 video is a meditation on the ownership of culture, the nature of art and creativity, and the history of a remarkable music clip.
Sourced from mobius32 on Youtube
Animated GIFs: The Birth of a Medium
Sourced from PBSoffbook
GIFs are one of the oldest image formats used on the web. Throughout their history, they have served a huge variety of purposes, from functional to entertainment. Now, 25 years after the first GIF was created, they are experiencing an explosion of interest and in novation that is pushing them into the terrain of art. In this episode of Off Book, we chart their history, explore the hot bed of GIF creativity onTumblr, and talk to two teams of GIF artists who are evolving the form into powerful new visual experiences.
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Also posted in Citizen Journalism, Photography, Publishing, Web 2.0
Tagged art, Art on Screens, Digital Art, Media Arts, PBS, World Wide Web
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Terry Gilliam’s Animation Secrets
Terry Gilliam explains the secrets of the Monty Python animations.
Sourced from The Monty Python Museum
Content Versus Technique – Alfred Hitchcock
Sourced from the “Telescope” – A Talk with Hitchcock (1964)
This 1964, interview of Alfred Hitchcock was part of the CBC television series Telescope with host-director Fletcher Markle. It was conducted during or immediately after the filming of Marnie and also contains interesting stories and comments from Alfred Hitchcock and his associates Norman Lloyd, Joan Harrison and Bernard Herrmann. There are clips from and during the making of several Hitchcock movies. While some of the recollections are part of Hitch’s standard interview material others are unique. Written by Vic Evans
