27 marzo 2012 - 22:32
The geometrical beauty in J.S. Bach's opus, visualized. The Moebius strip is, simply put, a surface with just one side. A canon is a musical composition based on a melody, played along with one or more variations (or, in the... Continua a leggere
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Categorie: Audio Video, Musica, Video
24 gennaio 2012 - 18:04
A man came to Terry Gilliam's house in Naples with a big box of pasta and offered him to make a movie. The man worked for a pasta company, and the only conditions were that it was set in the... Continua a leggere
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Categorie: Audio Video, Film
TAGS: Terry Gilliam, The Wholly Family
23 febbraio 2011 - 22:43
Interesting connection between information overload and multitasking in an article by Derek Dean and Caroline Webb on the McKinsey Quarterly (membership required), with excellent bibliographical coverage from a neurological point of view (see below). I have actually always considered information... Continua a leggere
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Categorie: Audio Video, Dal mondo
16 settembre 2009 - 19:25
It's not a typo... When seeing birds on a wire, I always wonder what sort of tune they'd compose. Jarbas Agnelli, musician and movie director, did the thing for good. [via Open Culture] Continua a leggere
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Categorie: Audio Video, Creatività, Musica
22 maggio 2008 - 23:59
I have just finished watching a few minutes of the 2008 Eurovision song contest, hosted by Serbia (having won the last edition with Marija Šerifović's Molitva). As the Museum of Broadcast Communication puts it, while its cultural merits are dubious,... Continua a leggere
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Categorie: Audio Video, Dal mondo, Media, Musica, Televisione
TAGS: belgrade, beograd, eurovision, serbia, srbija
6 maggio 2008 - 23:06
32 years ago I was sleeping in my parents' car, parked in my grandfather's backyard and well away from any tall buildings. A couple of hours before that, we had left our 4th floor flat because of an earthquake -... Continua a leggere
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Categorie: Audio Video
TAGS: 1976, earthquake, friuli
16 gennaio 2008 - 23:13
I recently wrote about the German initiative for releasing TV contents on the web with a Creative Commons licence. I also discovered a similar initiative from the BBC, which created a specific licence to allow users from the UK to... Continua a leggere
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Categorie: Audio Video
TAGS: Paolo Poli, Pinocchio, podcast, RAI
28 dicembre 2007 - 23:58
Jason Rohrer's Passage is a small example of what can be achieved with videogames, if the goal is communicating emotions instead of providing addictive gameplay. The best thing to do is to download (it's tiny) and play it (it's easy,... Continua a leggere
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Categorie: Audio Video, Creatività, Giochi, Media, Musica
TAGS: Imagine, Passage, videogame, Zbigniew Rybczynsky
10 dicembre 2007 - 0:33
German NDR public television is beginning an experiment to release its shows with a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) license. This basically means that you are free to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work under the following conditions: Attribution. You must... Continua a leggere
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Categorie: Audio Video, Creatività, Media, Televisione
TAGS: Creative Commons, NDR
