Lost Beatles Track To Be Released
November 17th, 2008 by enigma
A lost Beatles track called Carnival of Light does exist and could be released. Sir Paul McCartney hasa master tape of the piece, adding: “The time has come for it to get its moment.”
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Staging for Google Street View
November 12th, 2008 by enigma
Street With a view On May 3rd 2008, artists Robin Hewlett and Ben Kinsley invited the Google Inc. Street View team and residents of Pittsburgh’s Northside to collaborate on a series of tableaux along Sampsonia Way. Neighbors, and other participants from around the city, staged scenes ranging from a parade and a marathon, to a garage band practice, a seventeenth century sword fight, a heroic rescue and much more… Street View technicians captured 360-degree photographs of the street with the scenes in action and integrated the images into the Street View mapping platform. This first-ever artistic intervention in Google Street View made its debut on the web in November of 2008.
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Oral history interviews with television legends
November 12th, 2008 by enigma
The Archive of American Television “produces extensive video oral history interviews with television legends of all professions and makes them available online. To date, the Archive has completed over 2000 hours of videotaped conversations with over 570 Actors, Producers, Writers, Newscasters, Executives, Directors, Craftspersons, and more. … The interviews are conducted by reviewing the subject’s life and career chronologically. They discuss their childhood, early influences, how their career began, and thoroughly cover their television careers, ending with their thoughts on the industry and legacy.”*
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Gandy Dancers
November 12th, 2008 by enigma
Gandy Dancers is a fascinating and inspiring look at the music made by the African-American workers in the south who maintained railroad tracks, “lining up” the tracks manually. This hard work required synchronized effort, and the rhythm came from improvised songs. The film features a group of retired Gandy dancers talking about and demonstrating the songs they sang and the work they did.
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Last Survivor Of Treblinka
November 1st, 2008 by enigma
The story of the last living survivor of Treblinka.
In December 1941, when I was 17, the Germans turned Losice, the Polish town where I lived with my parents and younger brother Israel, into a ghetto. The overcrowding was unbearable. We couldn’t go out to buy wood or coal, and there was no medicine. Any Jew caught outside was killed.
Three months later, I was taken to a labour camp 30 miles away. We had very little food and slept in unheated barracks. We got sick with colds, fevers, sores and lice. After 23 days, I escaped with a friend, Michael Rak. We hid in a barn during the day and at night we made our way home. The Jewish police came for me, but I was in hiding, so they arrested my mother. My father was afraid I would be killed, so he went in my place.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Studs Terkel dies at 96
November 1st, 2008 by enigma
Studs Terkel, the ageless master of listening and speaking, a broadcaster, activist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose best-selling oral histories celebrated the common people he liked to call the “non-celebrated,” died Friday. He was 96.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Terkel dies at 96
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