Check out this absolutely delightful cover of Scarborough Fair by cellist Tina Guo and pianist Leo Z. This is one of my facorite traditional English ballads, and the musicians give it a unique twist that transforms it into something unique and magical. [Tina Guo]
A wonderful journey through thirteen centuries of spoken English by Youtuber A.Z. Foreman. [A.Z. Foreman | Via BoingBoing]
Video artist Joaquim Campa took Louis Lumière’s iconic footage from 1896 featuring a snowball fight in the streets of Lyon, France, remastered and colorized it, and re-released it for all to enjoy. For those who don’t know, Lumière is an engineer who played a key role in the development of photography and cinema back in […]
Have you ever stopped to wonder about the origin about the origin of typography terms? Twitter user Benjamin Molineaux started a tread that ended up being rather informative to all involved. This is going to BLOW YOUR MIND AWAY! [Via GG]
I was telling myself, no more work today, but when I stumbled Patrick Stewart’s newest “Sonnet a Day” video, I knew I just had to share it with you guys. What makes this video so special is not Stewart’s toxedo or his martini, nor is it shakespeare’s Sonnet 154, which concludes his “Sonnet a Day” […]
Can you make sense of the nonsense? Be sure to activate the subtitles on this one after hitting the play button! As Alice wanders through the dreamscape of Looking-Glass Land in Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There,” she happens across a book written in an unintelligible language. Inside, she discovers an […]
BOOM! Studios clearly has revealed something fresh and innovative with WE ONLY FIND THEM WHEN THEY’RE DEAD #1, a new sci-fi epic tale from celebrated writer Al Ewing (Immortal Hulk), Simone Di Meo (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers) with color assistance by Mariasara Miotti and letters by AndWorld Design. It’s all about one man’s unrelenting quest […]
For nearly three decades, voiceover actor Kevin Conroy has been the voice of (animated) Batman. He has voiced almost every iteration of Batman in cartoons, animated movies or video games. Conroy began his career as a theater actor, attending Julliard, a prestigious acting school in New York City. He studied alongside heavyweights Robin Williams, Kelsey […]