Iconic New York Illuminated, A Sparkling Metallic Klimt-Inspired Poster Showcasing the City at Night
Designer Rafael Esquer of Alfalfa New York has created a gorgeous, limited poster entitled Iconic New York Illuminated, which recreates a very specific feeling of…
Elementary School Night Custodian Surprises Students With Rug Art Designed Using a Vacuum
Ron Munsey, a Bedford, New Hampshire night custodian at Peter Woodbury Elementary School, delightfully surprises the students by creating playful rug art designs each day…
The Plot of Star Wars Deconstructed With Dan Harmon’s Simple Story Structure Circle
In “Every Story is the Same“, filmmaker Will Schoder explains the history of story structure, starting with Joseph Campbell whose theory of the Monomyth, also…
An Artificially Intelligent Database That Learns, Organizes and Visualizes Bird Sounds ‘By Ear’
Coders at the Google Creative Lab are working with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology to teach an experimental artificially intelligent (AI) database to learn, organize…
Netflix Now Offers Downloads for Tablets and Smartphones to Watch Their Content Offline
Netflix has announced a new feature that will allow subscribers to download content to their tablet and smartphones for offline play. The feature lets users…
How the Growing Chinese Film Market Is Influencing Hollywood Film Production
Vox explains how the growing Chinese film market is influencing Hollywood film production. China is expected to soon overtake the United States in box office…
Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola Talks About His Understanding of Death in Lost 1996 Interview
In 1996, legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola sat down with author R.H. Greene to talk about his films, working with Robin Williams and his understanding…
French Chefs Use Television Series as Their Main Ingredients in Zany Ad for the Cable Channel Canal+
BETC Paris has created “Canal Kitchen”, a truly ingeniously zany ad promoting the variety of choices available on the French premium cable television channel Canal+.…
An Upgrade to the Atlas Humanoid Robot Allows It to Walk Over Partial Footholds
Researchers at the Institute for Human & Machine Cognition have programmed the Atlas humanoid robot to walk over partial footholds using a new balancing algorithm.…
The Proper Use of the Comparative Words ‘Like’ and ‘As’ Within a Descriptive Sentence
In a Thanksgiving episode of her humorously informative grammar series, the very knowledgeable and witty Mary Norris aka “The Comma Queen” explained the proper use…