Fully Flared

in Film, Random | February 1st, 2011

Take the intro to Ful­ly Flared, the 2007 skate­board­ing film direct­ed by Spike Jonze, Ty Evans and Cory Weincheque. And then remas­ter it in 720p HD and you have quite the sen­so­ry expe­ri­ence. Give the clip at least a minute to unfold…

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Don’t You Eva Interrupt Me While I’m Reading a Book!

in Books, Comedy, Random | January 26th, 2011

This is for every read­er out there who gets the basic sen­ti­ment. A bit of ran­dom silli­ness, cour­tesy of YouTu­ber Julian Smith.

via The New York­er

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Alcohol in its Microscopic Splendor

in Art, Random | January 21st, 2011

Who knew that alco­hol could take on such beau­ty? What looks like abstract art above is actu­al­ly your every­day Cos­mopoli­tan. And, with­in this larg­er col­lec­tion, you will dis­cov­er the micro­scop­ic beau­ty of The Bloody Mary, Dry Mar­ti­ni, Pina Cola­da, Sake, Tequi­la, Vod­ka Ton­ic, Whiskey, and White Russ­ian. For more micro pho­tog­ra­phy, check out the win­ner of the 2010 Nikon Inter­na­tion­al Small World Pho­tomi­crog­ra­phy Com­pe­ti­tion, and our post ear­li­er this week, The First Snowflake Pho­tos (1885).

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Stop Motion Fun in Venice

in Random | January 20th, 2011

Shel­ley Jones and Marko Anstice “space hop” through Venice with the help of some stop motion pho­tog­ra­phy. It’s a win­tery Venice, very dif­fer­ent from the city (watch video) mil­lions come to know dur­ing the sum­mer months.

Appre­ci­ate the tip Ellen. If you have a great piece of intel­li­gent media to share with your fel­low read­ers, please send it our way. They’re always wel­come…

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The Best of Open Culture 2010

in Most Popular, Random | December 29th, 2010

That’s it. We’re putting a wrap on 2010. We’ll hit the ground run­ning again on Mon­day. But, until then, we leave you with a handy list of our favorite and most pop­u­lar posts from 2010, all ordered in a rather ran­dom way. If you crave a lit­tle more Open Cul­ture good­ies, you can always browse through our com­plete archive here, and fol­low us on Twit­ter, Face­book, and RSS. Hope you have a safe, hap­py and pros­per­ous New Year!

More to come Mon­day…

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Neil Gaiman’s Dark Christmas Poem Animated

in Books, Literature, Random | December 22nd, 2010

39 Degrees North, a Bei­jing motion graph­ics stu­dio, start­ed devel­op­ing an uncon­ven­tion­al Christ­mas card this year. And once they got going, there was no turn­ing back. Above, we have the end result – an ani­mat­ed ver­sion of the uber dark Christ­mas poem (read text here) writ­ten by Neil Gaiman, the best­selling author of sci-fi and fan­ta­sy short sto­ries. The poem was pub­lished in Gaiman’s col­lec­tion Smoke and Mir­rors.

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Water Drop Filmed in 10,000 Frames Per Second

in Random, Science | December 15th, 2010

The folks at MIT show you a drop of water like you’ve nev­er seen it before. A great lit­tle out­take from the Dis­cov­ery Chan­nel pro­gram “Invis­i­ble Worlds In The Water.” This video appears in our col­lec­tion of 125 Great Sci­ence Videos.

via All­top

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Why Can’t We Walk Straight?

in Random, Science | November 28th, 2010

When we’re blind­fold­ed, we’re doomed to walk in cir­cles. The same thing hap­pens when we dri­ve and swim with­out the ben­e­fit of sight. Around and around we go. Robert Krul­wich, the cohost of the excel­lent Radi­o­lab show (iTunes — Feed — Site), breaks this all down with some intrigu­ing ani­ma­tion. But let me add this lit­tle spoil­er alert. What makes us spin in cir­cles still defies sci­en­tif­ic expla­na­tion. H/T to Mike in Cam­bridge.

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