Tag Archives: Life

Hyper-realistic paintings by Robin Eley

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Coup d’état Math

In times of duress, nothing adds up. “Coup d’état Math” is an animated short film that depicts four stories that speak to the complex equation of each immigrant’s journey. Winner of Special Jury Recognition SXSW 2020. CREDITS The Voices: Sara … Continue reading

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This Is What Minneapolis Looks Like After the George Floyd Uprising

If you’ve only seen the burned police precinct, this is what you’re missing. More: This Is What Minneapolis Looks Like After the George Floyd Uprising

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WHEN YOU GET HOME (Road Safety Commercial)

WHEN YOU GET HOME is a project produced by production company 25FPS, written & directed by Ben Brand. It is a project that wants to stretch the boundaries between commercial & film. The film version recently became a vimeo staffpick … Continue reading

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Derek Jarman’s garden

Barnes Film In the most inhospitable of places, the flat, bleak, expanse of shingle that faces the Dungeness nuclear power station Filmmaker Derek Jarman, created a breathtakingly beautiful garden. More than 25 years after Jarman’s death in 1994, the garden … Continue reading

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Nonnie, the 107-Year-Old Viral-Star Grandma, Has Some Advice for You | New York Magazine

You may know Louise “Nonnie” Bonito as the grandma from a 2015 viral video, where she rockets her dentures out of her mouth while blowing out the candles on her 102nd birthday cake. Now 107 years old, Nonnie is living … Continue reading

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0-100 years in Holland (Amsterdam)

From baby to 100 year old, this is the video that first went viral in 2012. Ever since I posted this film, people have requested that I subtitle it but I have always resisted because I thought that everyone could … Continue reading

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Tragic Things About Louis Armstrong

Behind Louis Armstrong’s career, success, and fame, there was tragedy. The man nicknamed Pops and Satchmo didn’t have an easy life by any stretch of the imagination, and even as he was taking to the stage and wowing fans, he … Continue reading

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How to Be Alone

I was struggling with quarantine — until I found the polar explorers. By Sindha Agha. Read the story here: nyti.ms/2LSeiRK

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The Mushroom Hunters: Neil Gaiman’s Subversive Feminist Celebration of Science and the Human Hunger for Truth, in a Gorgeous Animated Short Film

A lyrical journey into the history of our species as the sensemaking animal who hungers for knowledge and advances by love. BY MARIA POPOVA   Every year at The Universe in Verse — the charitable celebration of science through poetry … Continue reading

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