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Dancing with Tilda
Via vimeo.com
Apr 24
At Ebertfest 2013 over the weekend, Tilda Swinton celebrated festival namesake, the late Roger Ebert, by leading the crowd of 1,500 in a dance-along to Barry White’s “You’re the First, the Last, My Everything.” Two thumbs up.
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Brazil Meets Pee-Wee
Via fandor.com
Apr 24
Last here for a 2007 retrospective, Michel Gondry premiered his new film, Mood Indigo (starring Audrey Tatou), in Paris Wednesday. It’s been likened to an “episode of Pee-wee’s Playhouse that’s been co-directed by Terry Gilliam and Salvador Dali.”
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Rising Tides
Via blouinartinfo.com
Apr 24
Facing perilously rising sea levels, Tuvalu and the Maldives are using their pavilions at the 2013 Venice Biennale to highlight climate change. The island nations will feature projects that both poetically and concretely address the crisis.
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3D for the People
Via newcity.com
Apr 24
On Chicago’s 3D Printer Experience: Given the profit potential of 3D printing, “it may come as a surprise that the Midwest’s first public foray into the technology is based on promoting public access to, rather than privatizing, this revolutionizing technology.”
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Linger in the Archives
Via theatlantic.com
Apr 24
Rick and Megan Prelinger, who run the Prelinger Archives and Library, have a new app that gives smartphone users access to more than 1,800 Creative Commons–licensed films from the collection, writes Alexis Madrigal. Its name: Linger.
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Urban Foraging
Via npr.org
Apr 23
Our Foraging Circle—going in next week—has a kindred spirit: Falling Fruit is an online project to map foraging sites worldwide. The crowdsourced map show sites from the UK to New Zealand where fruits and veggies are free for the taking.
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Passings: Allan Arbus
Via nytimes.com
Apr 23
While best known for playing psychologist Maj. Sidney Freedman on M*A*S*H, Allan Arbus—who passed away Monday at 95—started out as a fashion photographer. A photo he took with then-wife Diane Arbus was featured in The Family of Man.
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Haring’s Message
Via creative.arte.tv
Apr 23
Arte Creative and Dailymotion launch a new six-part documentary on Keith Haring. Directed by Maripol, The Message looks at the artist, from his activism—from AIDS to apartheid—to his work with kids (part six features footage shot during a 1984 Walker residency).
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AI & Ai
Via newstatesman.com
Apr 23
The just-announced shortlist for Amnesty International’s Media Awards includes three articles from the Ai Weiwei–edited issue of the New Statesman. Recognizing “excellence in human rights reporting,” AI highlighted news about free speech restrictions in China.