~openculture | Bookmarks (178)
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The Russian Animators Who Have Spent 40 Years Animating Gogol’s “The Overcoat”
“Steady Pushkin, matter-of-fact Tolstoy, restrained Chekhov have all had their moments of irrational insight which simultaneously...
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A Look Inside David Bowie & Iman’s Beautiful Mountain Home
It’s difficult to imagine Iman and David Bowie inviting Vogue readers to join them on the...
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The Disney Artist Who Developed Donald Duck & Remained Anonymous for Years, Despite Being “the Most Popular and Widely Read Artist-Writer in the World”
Donald Duck first appeared in Disney’s 1934 cartoon The Wise Little Hen (below). In his subsequent...
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How French Cinema Works
Evan Puschak, the video essayist better known as the Nerdwriter, has seen a lot of movies....
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Gillian Anderson Reads Anaïs Nin’s Passionate Letter about Sex and Poetry
From Letters Live comes a letter read by Gillian Anderson. They preface it with this: “In...
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Meet Johnny Costa, the Pianist Who Introduced Millions of Mister Rogers Fans to Jazz
Jazz pianist and composer Charles Cornell is not alone in his contempt for the sort of...
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Free: Watch Our Planet, a Groundbreaking Nature Documentary Series Narrated by David Attenborough
The nature documentary series Our Planet opens with a startlingly stark observation courtesy of broadcaster, biologist,...
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A 500-Page Book Explores the Ghosts & Monsters from Japanese Folklore
Westerners tend to think of Japan as a land of high-speed trains, expertly prepared sushi and...
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Explore the Surface of Mars in Spectacular 4K Resolution
?si=RFbzFSzSNWzua3‑7 Could you use a mental escape? Maybe a trip to Mars will do the trick....
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Plato’s Dialogue Gorgias Gets Adapted into a Short Avant-Garde Film
The word sophisticated may sound like praise today, but it originated as more of an accusation....
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Deal Ends Today: Get $200 Off of Coursera Plus & Gain Unlimited Access to Courses & Certificates
A quick final heads up: Coursera’s deal, which offers $200 off of Coursera Plus, ends in...
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Meet Alma Deutscher, the Classical Music Prodigy: Watch Her Performances from Age 6 to 14
One needn’t think too hard to come up with a list of celebrated children who seem...
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How Being Bilingual Helps Your Brain (Even If You Learn a New Language in Adulthood)
There was a time in America, not so very long ago, when conventional wisdom discouraged immigrants...
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Pangea to the Present to the Future: Watch Animations Showing 500 Million Years of Continental Drift
Things change… Especially when you’re tracking the continental movement from Pangea to the present day in...
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The Codex Seraphinianus: How Italian Artist Luigi Serafini Came to Write & Illustrate “the Strangest Book Ever Published” (1981)
The Codex Seraphinianus is not a medieval book; nor does it date from the Renaissance along...
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How to Use Writing to Sharpen Your Thinking: Advice from Tim Ferriss
With the rise of AI tools like ChatGPT, which can generate essay after essay near-instantaneously from...
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Amazon Offers Free AI Courses, Aiming to Help 2 Million People Build AI Skills by 2025
Late last year, Amazon announced AI Ready, a new initiative “designed to provide free AI skills...
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Bruce Hornsby Discusses His Adventurous Compositions and Collaborations on Nakedly Examined Music
Bruce Hornsby is best known for his first album The Way It Is (1986), but has come...
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The Golden Age of Japanese Cinema: Kurosawa, Ozu, Mizoguchi & Beyond
Oliver Hermanus’ latest film Living transplants the story of Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru to postwar London. Apart...
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A Fan-Made Film Reconstructs an Entire Tom Waits Concert from His “Glitter and Doom Tour” (2008)
Everybody who’s been to a Tom Waits concert has stories to tell about it — no...
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Read Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World: The First Sci-Fi Novel Written By a Woman (1666)
For a variety of reasons, science fiction has long been regarded as a mostly male-oriented realm...
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The Cardboard Bernini: An Artist Spends 4 Years Building a Giant Cardboard Fountain Inspired by the Baroque Sculptor Bernini, Only to Let It Dissolve in the Rain
From the Triton Fountain in the Piazza Barberini to the Fountain of the Four Rivers in...
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Free Download: A Knitting Pattern for a Sweater Depicting an Iconic Cover of George Orwell’s 1984
It’s winter, and we still have a ways to go. So maybe we could interest you...
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Music Producer Steve Albini, Director Godfrey Reggio & Actor Fred Armisen Explain Why Creating Is Crucial to Human Existence
Imagine, if you will, an evening’s entertainment consisting of an episode of Portlandia, a spin of...