Glen Or Glenda (1953)

Writer/director Ed Wood pseudonymously starred in this transvestite/sex-change docudrama that was his most autobiographical film. Will Glen's fiancee let him wear her angora sweater? Hear scientist-narrator Bela Lugosi warn viewers to "bevare of the big green dragon that sits on your doorstep," see daffy dream sequences, and learn the inner turmoil of men who wear "pink satin undies." With Dolores Fuller, Lyle Talbot. AKA: "I Led Two Lives." 67 min. Standard;
Here the movie.
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L'ART ET LA MANIERE DE PLIER UN TEE

L'ART ET LA MANIERE DE PLIER UN TEE, how to press a tee-shirt, see the video inside ;).
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... and if do you want to do all by hand, here a japanese method of pressing (video)(thanks stefi).
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Stardust Capsule Reentry Movie

This movie was taken from a NASA DC-8 aircraft as the Stardust sample return capsule entered the atmosphere in the early morning hours of Jan. 15, 2006. At the time this video was shot, the DC-8 was flying at the eastern edge of the Nevada state line. The Stardust sample return capsule had a soft landing in the US Air Force's Utah Test and Training Range at 3:10 am MST.
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Roland Barthes: "How to live together" (1977)

Roland Barthes : "Comment vivre ensemble" ("How to live together"), Lectures at the Collège de France, 1977.
The Collège de France, in Paris, is a prestigious institution created in 1530 and whose vocation is both being a research center and a teaching space. The prestige of the Collège can be judged by its old professors : Champollion, Paul Valery, Henri Bergson, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, André Leroi-Gourhan, Pierre Boulez, etc.

Roland Barthes was elected to the Collège de France on Michel Foucault's proposal in March 1976 and created the chair of literary semiology there. A few days after his inaugural lecture on the 7th of January 1977, Barthes starts his lectures entitled « Comment vivre ensemble » ("How to live together") for the year 1977.
Here the mp3s.
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Joseph Beuys singing (1982)

Here the video of Joseph Beuys singing "Sonne Statt Reagan" with a rock band (1982).
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David Bowie "Space Oddity" (1969 Original)

Here the original video (1969)
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Mohammed Rafi "Jan Pehechan-Ho" (Bollywood 1966)

"Jan Pehechan-Ho" performed by Bollywood music legend Mohammed Rafi, Terry Zwigoff used this song in his film "Ghost World". Originally appreared in the 1966 in the indian film "Gumnaam".
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The World's 12 Best New Buildings

A dozen great building that emerged over the course of 2005. Are you curious about our built future? Then have a look. In the picture as above: Agbar Tower, Barcelona ;).
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Death Cab For Cutie's video

Death Cab For Cutie's latest CD "Plans" gets complex with the release of a series of videos under the name "Directions". This anthology will collect 12 short films/music videos by 12 different filmmakers inspired by the 11 songs from Plans, most of the directors involved in the project will be familiar to music video fans, but there are a few newcomers. Autumn de Wilde is a photographer who has often worked with DCFC (and has directed videos for Spoon and the late Elliott Smith), Rob Schrab is the creator of the legendarily never aired Jack Black TV show pilot Heat Vision and Jack and Jeffrey Brown is a graphic novelist.
Here the first video for Death Cab's "Directions" project is "Marching Bands of Manhattan" directed by Paul Brown, it was designer of 350 album covers.
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Travel to China

Beautiful pictures of China.
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COLOSSAL IMAGES

Ian Albert have an obsession:" ...I have an obsession with high-resolution, high-fidelity digital images. Whenever I manage to obtain one I'm like a little kid, poring over every detail of it at full resolution, zooming in on interesting parts, and pretty much irritating everyone around me because I won't shut up about it..."
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SONGS OF BRAZILIAN BIRDS

The luxuriant diversity of Brazilian nature also expresses itself in the huge variety of bird songs. Unfortunately, many species of Brazilian birds are threatened. Without urgent action for preservation, the voices of the Hyacinthine Macaw (4), Great Xenops (10), and Brasília Tapaculo (31), among others, will never be heard again.
Here the songs of brasilian birds.
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Pink Floyd Live (1973)

Pink floyd playing "Careful With That Axe Eugine" on 1973-05-18 at Earl's Court, London. The original Earls Court programme - cover in the picture as above.
Here the video.
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Exploding UFO

18th of January of 2006, 40 Miles SouthEast Of Sonora, California, Exploding Object (UFO) Amazing Video Footage.
Here the video.
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Here the story
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Style Wars

Style Wars is the legendary hip-hop documentary and a timeless film classic, the indispensable record of a golden age of youthful creativity and exploding hip hop subculture. Directed by Tony Silver, and produced by Tony Silver and photographer Henry Chalfant, Style Wars was awarded the Grand Prize for Documentaries at the Sundance Film Festival in 1984. In 2003 it has been newly acclaimed at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival, at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, and numerous other festivals, where it screened with Style Wars :ReVisited, its new companion
film, produced from the new 2-disc package recently named Best DVD of the Year by The Onion.
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Uncensored

108 uncensored videos!
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Wilson Pickett dies

Wilson Pickett (March 18, 1941 – January 19, 2006) was an American R&B and soul singer. Known for his raw, passionate delivery, he was a major figure in the development of Southern soul music. The singer, famous for his soul hits In The Midnight Hour and Mustang Sally, dies of a heart attack aged 64.
Here his profile on Wikipedia.
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Robocop to Debut in 5 Years

By the 2010s, Korea is expecting to see robots assisting police and the military, patrolling the neighborhoods and going on recon missions on the battlefield.
The story here.
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Sundance Film Festival, January 19-29, Park City Utah

Founded by Robert Redford in 1981 in the mountains of Sundance, Utah, Sundance Institute is a nonprofit organization dedicated year-round to the development of artists of independent vision and to the exhibition of their new work. Since its inception, the Institute has grown into an internationally recognized resource for thousands of independent artists through its Film Festival and artistic development programs for filmmakers, screenwriters, composers, writers, playwrights and theatre artists. The original values of independence, creative risk-taking, and discovery continue to define and guide the work of Sundance Institute, both with US artists and, increasingly, with artists from other regions of the world.
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LA to NYC

This is one of those trance inducing mellow out videos. It is a time lapse video of a drive across the country from Los Angeles to New York.
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The humane sound of Honda

Antoine Bardou-Jacquet has created a two minute commercial for Honda UK and used a choir of humans to generate all the sounds in an ad for the new Honda Civic. A two-minute ad, "Cog" required 600 takes over the course of two days.
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Brigitte Bardot & Serge Gainsbourg "Comic Strip"

C'est superbe! Brigitte Bardot & Serge Gainsbourg in "Comic Strip" is a classic of classics, Brigitte Bardot sings the most amazing lyrics in the history of pop music.
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Jimi Hendrix: Hey Joe

Jimi Hendrix performs "Hey Joe" at the Monterey Pop Festival, 1967.
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"Make You Happy Tonight"

Aussie comedy group Tripod performing their song "Make You Happy Tonight" at a Comedy Festival.
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Beautiful People: Sari, pin-up model from Germany

This is Sari, amazing model timeless. Is an original pin-up model from Germany.
I read from her website:"...I was born in a very, very small town where the lambs and wolves say goodnight to each other, but at the age of 21 I decided to move away and started to live my very own life. It was not until the summer 2003 that I got to see my first pin ups. It was a book named "1000 pin up girls" and I loved to look at it so much that the boyfriend I had bought it for me. The more I looked at it I wanted to be a pin up too. And as I discovered that there are also nowadays people out there doing pin up I decided that the time has come for pin up to return to Germany..."
The rest of the story here
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MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY

From King's last speech:"... Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land. And I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord."
Note that you will find two sections on the website, from the link as below, one for white and other for colored visitors, obviusly are absolutely identical.
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Double Murder (Двойное убийство)

Russian good taste erotica.
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TianAnMenKiss1

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Dance Crazes of The Sixties

Now... a few quick lessons in some of the basics to get you going...
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SKETCHES BY LEONARDO and MOZART'S MUSICAL DIARY

With "Turning the Pages", project of The British Library, you can simulate the action of turning the pages of a real book. The volumes may not open if you block popups on your computer. You can see SKETCHES BY LEONARDO, see the genius's personal notebook, or MOZART'S MUSICAL DIARY with 75 audio excerpt.
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A 24-hour period of absolute solitude

"...My dangerous idea is that what's needed to attain optimal brain performance — with or without prior brain exercise — is a 24-hour period of absolute solitude. By absolute solitude I mean no verbal interactions of any kind (written or spoken, live or recorded) with another human being...".
LEO M. CHALUPA is Professor of Ophthalmology and Neurobiology at the University of California, Davis, and is one of World's greatest thinkers tell to "The Edge" their most "dangerous ideas".
The "dangerous idea" of Chalupa.
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Here all the "dangerous ideas".
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The Prejudice Map

The Prejudice Map According to Google, people in the world are known for...
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Jimi Hendrix: Wind Cries Mary

Jimi's performance of Wind Cries Mary at Stockholm, Sweden, 1967.
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“Dans Le Noir” (In The Dark)

LONDON - For Londoners it will be the ultimate blind date.
A French entrepreneur is opening a new restaurant where diners are served by blind waiters and eat their meal in pitch darkness.
Chefs used to creating flamboyant dishes that are a feast for the eye may mock — and indeed some already have.
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Kodak, new logo!

In another break with the past, Eastman Kodak Co. is introducing a new corporate logo designed to help the company forge a new image as a cutting-edge, 21st century innovator.
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Old science magazine covers

Rob says:"I found these old magazines last week at the flea market and thought that the graphics on the covers were great. Some of the articles are interesting but I really enjoy looking through the advertisements and classifieds."
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Nine Inch Nails (2 videos)

Nine Inch Nails Double Feature: "A Warm Place"
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& "Help Me I'm In Hell" (Dir. Eric Goode & Serge Becker)
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Ricksha, Art of Bangladesh

This website, which the author is Joanna Kirkpatrick, cultural and social anthropologist, is dedicated to celebrating one of Bangladesh's unique popular arts, the paintings and decorations on the three-wheeled cycle "ricksha". They are popular as opposed to "fine" arts. They appropriate multiple forms which include folklore, classical art elements, and commercial forms. They also reflect the economic globalization process, which is occurring all over the world today, in their fascination with movie stars and narratives, with US disco during the seventies, with foreign travel scenes and fancy red sports cars.
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The National Center for Jewish Film

The National Center for Jewish Film (NCJF) is a unique nonprofit motion picture archive, distributor and resource center housing the largest, most comprehensive collection of Jewish-theme film and video in the world. The ongoing mission of NCJF is to gather, preserve, catalogue, and exhibit films with artistic and educational value relevant to the Jewish experience, disseminating these materials to the widest possible audience.
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The Best UFO Pictures Ever Taken

1927-Oregon. Taken in Cave Junction, Oregon. There is some question as to whether the photo was taken in '26 or '27, but nonetheless, if this is an authentic photograph it is incredible. Reportedly snapped by a volunteer fireman.
Amazing pics here from 1870 to 2005!
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Enjoy The Silence...

ARTIST: It Dies Today
SONG: Enjoy The Silence
CREDITS: Directed by Pax
Taken from "Masters Of Horror" Soundtrack.

Sincerely i prefer this version, this is a cover of a Depeche Mode's hit.
The band is very young, born and bred among the Buffalo, NY hardcore scene IDT formed in August of 2001.
Here the video.
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And here 3 free mp3s.
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Aiden, punk posers

Se vi sono piaciuti i "My chemical romance" li amerete immediatamente, si chiamano Aiden e sono degli istrionici punk posers.
Qui il video sanguinario "Knife".
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Qui tre mp3 gratuiti da scaricare.
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If you like "My chemical romance" you will love them, are punk posers are "Aiden",
here a video "Knife".
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And tre free mp3s.
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The Web Gallery of Art

The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture from 12th to mid-19th centuries. It was started in 1996 as a topical site of the Renaissance art, originated in the Italian city-states of the 14th century and spread to other countries in the 15th and 16th centuries. Intending to present Renaissance art as comprehensively as possible, the scope of the collection was later extended to show its Medieval roots as well as its evolution to Baroque and Rococo via Mannerism. More recently the periods of Neoclassicism and Romanticism were also included. The image as above is "Burial of St Lucy" of Caravaggio (detail) 1608, the picture was made before the recent restoration, but is always nice and amazing! The painting is in Bellomo Museum, Syracuse, Sicily, Italy (my hometown ;))
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Two new episodes online of TIKI BAR TV !

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JFK assassination was Cuba plot

A new documentary exploring the death of John F Kennedy claims his assassin was directed and paid by Cuba. "Rendezvous with Death", based on new evidence from Cuban, Russian and US sources, took three years to research. The Cubans wanted Kennedy dead because he opposed the revolution and allegedly sought to have its leader Fidel Castro killed.

Here the article on BBC news.
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Here the webpage of the documentary (translated in english).
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Here very clear version of the Zapruder film of the Kennedy Assassination.
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Memento: Reunification Suit

Vi ricordate di "Memento", il protagonista scriveva sulla sua pelle ciò che avrebbe dimenticato dopo pochi minuti. Per i vostri istanti d'immediata amnesia, unica soluzione un vestito/filofax con i numeri di telefono impressi.

Do you remember "Memento" movie? For your istants of suddenly amnesia here the solution!
Reunification Suit with printed phone numbers... a wearable filofax for when technology breaks down.
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The Future of Music

Da iTunes a last fm e Pandora, il giradischi lascia il posto a iPod, ecco il "Futuro della Musica", sintesi di un seminario tenutosi alla Sibelius Academy, Helsinki.
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A seminar called "The Future of Music" at the Sibelius Academy, Helsinki. In the article the synthesis of the seminar, where you can read about services like Last FM, Pandora and iTunes, all rely on systems which function to optimum when given highly accurate data. "The Future of Music" here.
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Devendra Banhart - Heard Somebody Say

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Booked for Safekeeping (Part I) (1960)

Un affascinante documentario, di George C. Stoney, realizzato per la formazione dei poliziotti a supporto dei centri d'assistenza ai malati di mente. Un documento dal taglio antropologico, realizzato da veri poliziotti e attori a New Orleans nel 1960.
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Fascinating documentary made to train police officers in the assistance and management of mentally ill and confused persons, produced in New Orleans by eminent filmmaker George C. Stoney using real New Orleans police officers as actors. A little-known ethnographic classic that is strongly rooted in the place where it was made.
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Clips from some of Eastern Europe's greatest masters

I grandi maestri del cinema d'animazione dell'est, si sa poco di loro, qui trovate finalmente delle vere chicche, da Golem agli autori più importanti come: Jiri Trnka, Ladislas Starewitch, Jan Svankmajer, Karel Zeman.
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The masters of Eastern Europe of animation, their names are all but unknown, in fact difficult to pronounce; Jiri Trnka, Ladislas Starewitch, Jan Svankmajer, Karel Zeman------- Its even difficult in many cases to learn about them. See the clips here.
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