Film .tiff's Reel Heritage event investigated the process of preserving the physical aspects of film and its two primary lectures with media archivist Christina Stewart are online. Firstly, here she is with a primer of all the different types of film available and their various aspects which will answer many, many of the questions which have been prompted by technical commentaries on dvd across time:
Next, here's Stewart leading a workshop on handling the actual film which is almost a piece of slow cinema in and of itself:
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UK Parliament.
Politics Something a bit different this week, in this election week, which will shortly be over, thank goodness. In the midst of all the backbiting and shouting about who will form the next government, not much has been said about the institution of the parliament itself, which as anyone who saw Michael Cockerell's superb Inside the Commons series will know is just as much about a building as the people who work there.
The UK Parliament.
Launched about six years ago, this YouTube channel collectively features short documentaries from the BBC and elsewhere about the chamber and how it works (many of which has seen service recently as filler between campaign events on the BBC Parliament channel) as well as snatches of the official tour, lectures from events inside and outside the building and key parliamentary sessions.
House of Lords.
The upper chamber has its own channel for some reason with plenty of much shorter interview snatches covering anecdotes about the place as well as explanations of their business.
TEDx Houses of Parliament
For the past three years, the House has hosted its own event with speakers including MPs, journalists and academics. My initial plan for this post was to recreate the 2014 event here, but all of the events have been recreated on various pages linked here. Last year began with an address from Aung San Suu Kyi.
Hansard Society.
"The Hansard Society believes that the health of representative democracy rests on the foundation of a strong Parliament and an informed and engaged citizenry. A charity, founded in 1944 and working in the UK and around the world, we are an independent, non-partisan political research and education Society devoted to promoting democracy and strengthening parliaments."
Historic Royal Palaces
For ceremonial purposes, Westminster retains a status as a "royal palace" and features on the fringes of their channel, though I also think that if we're talking about the history of UK government, you can't really overlook the importance of its predecessors, especially Hampton Court.
Talks Collection: Film Distribution at Tiff Industry.
Film The Toronto International Film Festival has what seems like an annual talk about the distribution and especially digital distribution of films. To watch your way through this series is to hear people in the industry describe the landscape changing across time.
If you're only going to watch one of them, I'd choose 2012 if only because its the one in which the distributors have an actual, passive aggressive literal tiff with the US contingent looking at the British contingent in the form of Curzon as though he's landed from Mars.
Oh and notice throughout how Netflix is pretty much treated with the same courtesy as the Germans in Fawlty Towers.
This is what I've been able to find but you could have a glance through this search in case there's anything I've missed.
If you're only going to watch one of them, I'd choose 2012 if only because its the one in which the distributors have an actual, passive aggressive literal tiff with the US contingent looking at the British contingent in the form of Curzon as though he's landed from Mars.
Oh and notice throughout how Netflix is pretty much treated with the same courtesy as the Germans in Fawlty Towers.
This is what I've been able to find but you could have a glance through this search in case there's anything I've missed.
Talks Collection:
James Shapiro.
Literature James S. Shapiro is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University who specialises in Shakespeare and the Early Modern period and is on the front line of scholars defending Shakespeare's authorship. Here is a partial bibliography.
Shakespeare and the Jews (1996)
For Columbia University's Theatre Talk:
1599 : A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare (2005)
For Columbia University's Theatre Talk:
Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? (2010)
For Simon & Schuster:
For Blackwells Podcast:
For The Aspen Institute:
For WNYC:
For Columbia University's Theatre Talk:
For The Old Globe in San Diego:
For Shakespeare Brasil:
For Ohio State:
For Daves Gone By:
Shakespeare in America: An Anthology from the Revolution until Now, ed. James Shapiro, with a foreword by Bill Clinton. (2014)
For the Baker-Nord Center for English at Case Western Reserve University:
For 92Ynd Street Y:
For Columbia University:
For The Library of America:
Misc:
On the Sam Wannamaker Playhouse:
On Macbeth:
On Richard III:
On Andrea Chapin's novel The Tutor:
Shakespeare and the Jews (1996)
For Columbia University's Theatre Talk:
1599 : A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare (2005)
For Columbia University's Theatre Talk:
Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? (2010)
For Simon & Schuster:
For Blackwells Podcast:
For The Aspen Institute:
For WNYC:
For Columbia University's Theatre Talk:
For The Old Globe in San Diego:
For Shakespeare Brasil:
For Ohio State:
For Daves Gone By:
Shakespeare in America: An Anthology from the Revolution until Now, ed. James Shapiro, with a foreword by Bill Clinton. (2014)
For the Baker-Nord Center for English at Case Western Reserve University:
For 92Ynd Street Y:
For Columbia University:
For The Library of America:
Misc:
On the Sam Wannamaker Playhouse:
On Macbeth:
On Richard III:
On Andrea Chapin's novel The Tutor:
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Professor Alice Roberts.
Science Professor Alice Roberts doesn't need much of an introduction. She's a clinical anatomist and Professor of Public Engagement in Science at the University of Birmingham and also a busy television presenter, debuting on "Extreme Archaelogy" back in 2004 through Time Team, Coast and Horizon as well as her masterpiece, Origins of Us.
Let's begin with a couple of videos in which Professor Roberts talks about why she's a scientist. Firstly, for the Science: [So What? So Everything] campaign:
Introducing a monthly column for The Observer:
For Longform, an impressionistic portrait piece:
'Where i went right': ALICE ROBERTS from Longform on Vimeo.
A BBC Knowledge showreel:
Showreel - Alice Roberts BBC Knowledge Interview from Phil Bowman on Vimeo.
When Professor Roberts became a professor at the University of Birmingham she gave the opening lecture of that year's Darwin Day celebrations, elaborating on ideas from her tv series Origins of Us:
Later that year she offered a talk at Bournemouth University about public engagement:
As part of her professorship at Birmingham she's also presented these short pieces about studying at the university, other things:
"An exhibition at the British Museum features sculptures made up to 40,000 years ago. Professor Alice Roberts meets curator Jill Cook to discuss three artefacts in the collection; the Lion Man, a group of female figurines from Siberia, and the oldest known flute":
At the Times Cheltenham Science Festival, Alice demonstrating "a novel and beautiful way of demonstrating anatomy":
Here she is being mighty on Newsnight in relation to creationism being taught as part of science teaching:
And on The Daily Politics:
The Young People's Forum at the Think Tank Museum in Birmingham produced this short documentary for which Alice is a contributor:
In 2009, Alice presents a "mini documentary about the discovery and current use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) for the Medical Research Council":
Also from 2009, here's a sample entry created for Famelab, a competition to find new communicators of science in the media. It's about the similarities between three skulls:
The Royal Institution asked a group of celebrities to talk about their favourite chemical element. Here's Alice on Calcium:
Here's an excerpt from Dinosaurs: The Facts and Fiction in which she visits Crystal Palace and discovers how bones are married together:
Finally, here's her episode of Robert Llewellyn's series Carpool:
Let's begin with a couple of videos in which Professor Roberts talks about why she's a scientist. Firstly, for the Science: [So What? So Everything] campaign:
Introducing a monthly column for The Observer:
For Longform, an impressionistic portrait piece:
'Where i went right': ALICE ROBERTS from Longform on Vimeo.
A BBC Knowledge showreel:
Showreel - Alice Roberts BBC Knowledge Interview from Phil Bowman on Vimeo.
When Professor Roberts became a professor at the University of Birmingham she gave the opening lecture of that year's Darwin Day celebrations, elaborating on ideas from her tv series Origins of Us:
Later that year she offered a talk at Bournemouth University about public engagement:
As part of her professorship at Birmingham she's also presented these short pieces about studying at the university, other things:
"An exhibition at the British Museum features sculptures made up to 40,000 years ago. Professor Alice Roberts meets curator Jill Cook to discuss three artefacts in the collection; the Lion Man, a group of female figurines from Siberia, and the oldest known flute":
At the Times Cheltenham Science Festival, Alice demonstrating "a novel and beautiful way of demonstrating anatomy":
Here she is being mighty on Newsnight in relation to creationism being taught as part of science teaching:
And on The Daily Politics:
The Young People's Forum at the Think Tank Museum in Birmingham produced this short documentary for which Alice is a contributor:
In 2009, Alice presents a "mini documentary about the discovery and current use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) for the Medical Research Council":
Also from 2009, here's a sample entry created for Famelab, a competition to find new communicators of science in the media. It's about the similarities between three skulls:
The Royal Institution asked a group of celebrities to talk about their favourite chemical element. Here's Alice on Calcium:
Here's an excerpt from Dinosaurs: The Facts and Fiction in which she visits Crystal Palace and discovers how bones are married together:
Finally, here's her episode of Robert Llewellyn's series Carpool:
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Andrew Graham-Dixon.
Science Intevitably then. In recent years, plenty of the enthusiasm I have for paintings and sculpture is as a result of watching Andrew Graham Dixon's various television documentaries, his Art of [Insert Country] series and escapades on The Culture Show and in Italy.
Short PR interview with Penguin Books on the occasion of the publication of his book about Carravagio:
A short piece from Big Think about Carravagio:
To the Jaipur Literature Festival where Andrew gave a talk about Carravagio:
And joined a panel about the art of the biography:
As part of the Arts & Literature Festival in King's College last November,Graham-Dixon and historian Antony Beever are joined by literary historian Lara Feigel in teasing out the history of sheltering in the Second World War in London:
Finally, in January he was interviewed at the Towner Gallery in Eastbourne:
For completion sake, there are also two channels here and here which collect together much of his television work from across the years.
Short PR interview with Penguin Books on the occasion of the publication of his book about Carravagio:
A short piece from Big Think about Carravagio:
To the Jaipur Literature Festival where Andrew gave a talk about Carravagio:
And joined a panel about the art of the biography:
As part of the Arts & Literature Festival in King's College last November,Graham-Dixon and historian Antony Beever are joined by literary historian Lara Feigel in teasing out the history of sheltering in the Second World War in London:
Finally, in January he was interviewed at the Towner Gallery in Eastbourne:
For completion sake, there are also two channels here and here which collect together much of his television work from across the years.
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Hadley Freeman.
Journalism Hadley Freeman's one of my favourite Guardian writers, offering the "Ask Hadley" style advice column on a Monday (after having been a fashion editor there), Lost in Showbiz sometimes on a Friday and newsier pieces in between.
Firstly, here she is at The Cambridge Union Society proposing the motion, "This House Believes that Fashion is Elitist".
Even though she read English Literature at Oxford, her connection with their boat rivals is through taking her A-Levels at The Cambridge Centre for Sixth-form Studies which she returned to recently for a Q&A. Spot the moment when she calmly explains to a questioner that "freelance" doesn't actually mean who work for free.
One of her books is Be Awesome: Modern Life For Modern Ladies and here she is reading from it at Book Slam.
Freeman's other book is The Meaning of Sunglasses: A Guide to (Almost) All Things Fashionable and here she is being interviewed about it:
To Jewish Book Week, were Hadley interviewed Deborah Treisman, the fiction editor of The New Yorker:
JBW 2015 - Deborah Triesman and Hadley Freeman from Jewish Book Week on Vimeo.
She's also appeared in a number of videos at The Guardian website interviewing various film luminaries.
Firstly, here she is at The Cambridge Union Society proposing the motion, "This House Believes that Fashion is Elitist".
Even though she read English Literature at Oxford, her connection with their boat rivals is through taking her A-Levels at The Cambridge Centre for Sixth-form Studies which she returned to recently for a Q&A. Spot the moment when she calmly explains to a questioner that "freelance" doesn't actually mean who work for free.
One of her books is Be Awesome: Modern Life For Modern Ladies and here she is reading from it at Book Slam.
Freeman's other book is The Meaning of Sunglasses: A Guide to (Almost) All Things Fashionable and here she is being interviewed about it:
To Jewish Book Week, were Hadley interviewed Deborah Treisman, the fiction editor of The New Yorker:
JBW 2015 - Deborah Triesman and Hadley Freeman from Jewish Book Week on Vimeo.
She's also appeared in a number of videos at The Guardian website interviewing various film luminaries.
Tree Tables.
Design A company in Derbyshire is growing furniture, bending and crafting trees so that they become tables and chairs:
“When you look at it from a manufacturing point of view and from a design point of view, it actually makes total sense. Why would you grow trees, chop them down with all the faff? Why don’t you just grow the shape you want and it is eminently scalable? You can make thousands of these in the same way as you can make 10, but each one is unique,” said Munro.Tremendous amount of faff for something which most of us won't be able to afford. But the resulting pieces should be ravishing. Find above the inevitable TEDx talk from the Gavin Munro, the founder.
The idea for the method came when he was working as a gardener in California and making furniture from washed-up driftwood on the side. He recalled how a bonsai tree his mother had when he was a child outgrew itself to resemble a throne. “Why do we need to bring all of these things together – chop the trees down, make them small, stick them back together again. We can just start from growing the tree from the beginning.”
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David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson.
Film David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson are two of the most important film theorists of the past few decades and there are few people who've studied movies in an academic context who either haven't read their work and also can't say that work wasn't the reason why they managed to pass their course. If it hadn't been for either of them I certainly wouldn't have been able to write my MA dissertation due to their lucid, clear and thoughtful explanations of narrative and genre and of all the books which I read during that year, it's their Film Art: An Introduction which I've kept referring back to. They continue to write about film at their blog, which just yesterday posted about the origins of the very thing my dissertation was about.
TED minus x equals ...
People Steven Levy writes for Medium about attending this year's TED. For fans like me, it's almost like a film festival review, previewing upcoming attractions on their YouTube channel:
"Sitting through them makes your brain feel like a mushy piñata, whacked by one mind-blowing idea after another. Did you know that babies use sophisticated data analysis to guide the way they use squeeze toys? Meet the Frank Gehry of the rain forest, who creates the bamboo edifices in Bali. Believe it or not, when adulterers say to their betrayed spouses It’s not about you, they’re telling the truth. Oh, and here’s a guy who landed a spaceship on an asteroid."The Monica Lewinsky talk has just been posted:
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Dr Hannah Fry.
People This week BBC Four broadcast Climate Change by Numbers in which three mathematicians - Dr Hannah Fry, Prof Norman Fenton and Prof David Spiegelhalter utilised a set of numbers each to explain why climate change should be the most pressing issue on the planet Earth we should all be dealing with and why we should believe the 97% of climate scientists who believe it to be due to human activity. The whole thing is available to watch here for the next two weeks, assuming it isn't repeated in which case it'll be a bit longer.
As her biography page at UCL explains, Dr. Fry, "is a lecturer in the mathematics of cities at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA). She was trained as a mathematician with a first degree in mathematics and theoretical physics, followed by a PhD in fluid dynamics. After a brief period working in aerodynamics, she returned to UCL to take up a post-doctoral position researching a relatively new area of science - social and economic complex systems. This led to her appointment as a lecturer in the field in October 2012."
Here she is herself with a richer explanation of her interests from a German science conference's channel:
Which is fascinating and for the past few years she's appeared at a range of conferences and courses demonstrating this approach to data and I've gathered as many of these talks as I can find. There's some repetition in places, but she's excellent at finding new ways of presenting similar data for different ends.
As her biography page at UCL explains, Dr. Fry, "is a lecturer in the mathematics of cities at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA). She was trained as a mathematician with a first degree in mathematics and theoretical physics, followed by a PhD in fluid dynamics. After a brief period working in aerodynamics, she returned to UCL to take up a post-doctoral position researching a relatively new area of science - social and economic complex systems. This led to her appointment as a lecturer in the field in October 2012."
Here she is herself with a richer explanation of her interests from a German science conference's channel:
Which is fascinating and for the past few years she's appeared at a range of conferences and courses demonstrating this approach to data and I've gathered as many of these talks as I can find. There's some repetition in places, but she's excellent at finding new ways of presenting similar data for different ends.
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