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YouTubeConfuse-a-Cat
“Confuse-a-Cat” features Michael Palin and Terry Jones as an anxious couple concerned for their cat’s well-being. Troubled that their cat just “sits out all day on the lawn,” they call the vet (Graham Chapman) for an urgent house visit. The vet, praises the couple for calling him just in the “nick of time” as their cat’s “physical inertia” and “absence of interest in its ambience,” shows it is clearly “in a rut” and explains that the only cure is to confuse it. Not being qualified to confuse cats himself the vet recommends calling “Confuse-a-Cat Limited” an organization run with military precision by the General (John Cleese) who, with his crack team of “Confusers,” attempts to shake the desperate couples’ cat out of it’s complacency with a show like no other.
YouTubeBuddy Guy with Jack Bruce and Buddy Miles
Buddy plays “Mary Had A Little Lamb” and “My Time After Awhile”, straight from his album “A Man And The Blues”, with some British friends.
YouTubeDalai Lama On Using Psychedelic Drugs
A q&a on using drugs at the University of California Santa Barbara, April 2009.
YoutubeColor film was built for white people Here's what it did to dark skin
The unfortunate history of racial bias in photography…
YouTubeHow to Make the Perfect Tempura with Tadashi Ono
Celebrated Japanese chef Tadashi Ono demonstrates how to make the perfect, light and crispy tempura. The secret is in the cake-flour batter, which should be ...
YouTubeAtomic Veterans Were Silenced for 50 Years. Now, They're Talking.
"The Atomic Soldiers" was directed by Morgan Knibbe. It is a part of The Atlantic Selects, an online showcase of short documentaries from independent creators, curated by The Atlantic.
YouTubeNet Neutrality
The current debate about Net Neutrality may not be as clear cut as you'd imagine. Professor Derek McAuley lays out the details.
YouTubeIn 1979, Steve Martin delivered the greatest punch line in comedy history
Part of Martin’s brilliance is that there isn’t always a punch line to what he does. But when there is, it’s perfect.
YouTubePostcards from Pripyat
Drone over the Chernobyl exclusion area. // Earlier this year I had the opportunity to visit Chernobyl whilst working for CBS News on a '60 Minutes' episode which aired on Nov. 23, 2014. Bob Simon is the correspondent. Michael Gavshon and David Levine, producers.
YouTubeWhite Tara's Mandala and Visualization
Practiced by all four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism, White Tara has been the main deity practice of many well-known…
YouTubeBarry Lyndon: Use of the Mitchell BNC Camera and Zeiss Lenses
Interviewees reminisce on how Stanley Kubrick acquired the Mitchell BNC cameras and used them, in conjunction with NASA Zeiss lenses, to film Barry Lyndon ...
YouTubeWittgenstein - Sea of Faith
Part one of a two-part excerpt on Ludwig Wittgenstein, focusing on his sense of religious belief. Taken from the 1984 BBC documentary, Sea of Faith.
YouTubeBack To The Future predicts 9/11
Synchromysticism. // Apophenia, synchromysticism... the biggest element in a argumentative sale like this is repetition. You don't buy the first time they make the argument, but when they build over it, they repeat everything again -- when you re-watch the same images and “logic” again and again it is not the fact that you doubted it the first time that you mind fixes upon, but the fact that you remember it. You transform the working memory of an argument into rhetoric for it, the second time you know you already doubted it, then everything is “fair game” from then on... only that it isn't. That's how conspiracy theory works: infomercial repetition rhetoric + apophenia. // (Of course, this is an self-conscious ironic example. I recognize the artists behind this production are way smarter than simple charlatans or naive x-file style believers.)
YouTubeLiquid Sand Hot Tub Fluidized air bed
Fluidized beds are used in industry for various reasons. They also happen to be really cool to play with and swim in. I made a liquid sand hot tub by adding air in just the right way.
YouTubeNoam Chomsky Neoliberalism Is Destroying Our Democracy
How elites on both sides of the political spectrum have undermined our social, political and environmental commons.
YouTubeThe Teacher Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
In relating with the teacher, your critical input and your surrendering work together at the same time. They're not working against each other.
YouTube300 Kate Bush Impersonators Pay Tribute to Kate Bush’s Iconic “Wuthering Heights” Video
I will never forget my first hearing of singer-songwriter Kate Bush’s “ Wuthering Heights.” My college boyfriend was a fan, but nothing he told me in advance prepared me for the shocking lunatic squeak of that voice. Was that how Emily Brontë conceived of her otherworldly Gothic heroine, Catherine Earnshaw? Surely no.
YouTubeOne day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974)
Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke makes the bold claim that one day computers will allow people to work from home and access their banking records.
YouTubeThe Finest Bird Song of 1890
A mechanical singing bird mechanism. Made around 120 years ago in Paris, probably by Bontems. In the film I hope you can identify all the major parts and see them working together to make the sound. The mechanism was in a rusted and seized state and has been restored. Surpisingly the bellows are in good original condition. See our channel for more, much more.
YouTubeSteven Spielberg on the Genius of Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick--in history,' says Steven Spielberg in this revealing 1999 interview with British filmmaker Paul Joyce.
YouTubeJeff Beck demonstrating Little Wing by Jimi Hendrix
Sky Arts' Talks Music with Malcolm Gerrie Aired: November 25, 2013
YouTubeDilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Profound Advice
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche at the London Rigpa center in 1982.
YouTubeOscilloscope Music Pictures from Sound
An oscilloscope can be made to display shapes by playing sounds into it. Making music from these sounds while simultaneously drawing images with those sounds takes things to another level.
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