Already a successful band leader, with the John Barry Seven, the movie world was introduced to the composer when he provided the music to Beat Girl, a movie starring his friend Adam Faith. The result was the first soundtrack album to warrant a UK release, the launch of a five times Oscar-winning film career for Barry, one of the first examples of rock music being incorporated into film scores and, best of all, a killer, world-class opening title sequence.
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| The famous "hand shake" welcome. After his flight on a Mercury-Redstone rocket, chimpanzee Ham is greeted by the commander of the recovery ship,USS Donner |
'The Thomas Beale Cipher' tells the 'true legend' of a fictional World War II codebreaker who gets roped into intrigues surrounding the eponymous cipher -- 'a century-old riddle hiding the location of a fortune in gold that has tormented its pursuers since inception.' The Beale ciphers are real, but may have been an elaborate hoax. No matter: the film's ingenious rotoscoped animation -- created by a cadre of graphic designers-turned-animators -- creates an immersive 'tweed noir' world out of what looks like old newspaper clippings, scratched filmstrips, and scraps of vintage clothing.
The Ice Book from Davy McGuire on Vimeo.
Technology allows performance art to do things today that were only dreams a few years ago. The Ice Book tells the story of a princess who entices a boy into the woods so that she can warm her heart of ice.
The performance merges the moving picture, puppetry, and film to take a pop up book and bring it to life.
King George VI — the subject of future Best Picture winner The King’s Speech — stammering his way through a speech at an Empire Exhibition in Ibrox Park, Glasgow, Scotland, c. 1938.
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| Canine remains: A two thousand year old guard dog has been unearthed that was sacrificed and buried to protect the Hallaton Treasure in Leicestershire |
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Alcohol — enemy of production |
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Alcohol — pain of Nature |
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Until he met Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe was called Bob--she tells Paul Holdengraber, director of LIVE from the NYPL, how Mapplethorpe became Robert... Backstage at LIVE from the NYPL, April 29, 2010. Watch the full-length program at www.nypl.org
Shannon Keith, a Los Angeles attorney and founder of the nonprofit animal advocacy group, Animal Rescue, Media & Education (ARME), received a call in December tipping her off to news that some beagles were being retired from a research lab. These dogs, bred exclusively for animal testing, had lived in the lab nearly their entire lives had never felt the rays of the sun or grass under their feet.
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FROM Riesling to Merlot, wine grapes from around the world are more closely related than expected, says the largest study so far to produce a family tree of grapes. The tree, above, also reveals that in 6000 years of domestication, breeders have left a vast swathe of possible varieties unexplored.
Lazy Teenage Superheroes follows Ty as he tries to get his new "super" friends, Mitch, Cal, and Rick, to put down the video games, get off the couch, and use their powers to help save the world, instead of themselves.
Not content with merely recording the diverse cacophony of competing styles I sought to meet with the artists themselves. They often work from the roadside and I joined some there to talk shop and devise exhibition pieces. One of my talented collaborators told me why he got into rickshaw decoration. "If you do a good job your work travels all over town. Best advertisement. No need to go out and find new customers. They come find me here," he said proudly from his popular studio of twenty five years, under a tree on a bustling street corner. "And I painted that sign there" he tells me, nodding to the nearby tea stall, "so free chai."
What he does, with astonishing virtuosity, is paint a pie, a river or a girl in a pink hat in a way that such a thing has never been painted before.
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| Brown River, 2002 |
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| Cakes, 1963 |
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| Girl with Ice Cream Cone, 1963 |
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| Paul & Janet Brownhill of Country Treasures create rustic kitchenware, including copperware pans and dishes, and handpainted traditional enamelware. They also produce jars filled with jams and preserves. |
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| Platts Mini Packages specialise in packaging from 1900 to the present day. Almost every item you can possibly imagine is available, from Daz washing powder, Ovaltine and Heinz tomato ketchup to Kelloggs Corn Flakes, Tate & Lyle sugar and Schweppes tonic water |
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| Getting replacement light bulbs cannot be an easy task |
Philadelphia’s Eastern State Penitentiary got an unusual inmate in 1924: “Pep the cat-murdering dog,” a black Labrador retriever who was allegedly incarcerated for killing the first lady’s favorite pet. In truth Pep was donated to the prison by governor Gifford Pinchot to improve morale; he was transferred to nearby Graterford Penitentiary in 1929.
Pep’s example was followed by Lady, a beagle who belonged to the captain of the prison’s guards. She posed for the second picture in 1957.
Rolls-Royce painted it black. John Lennon had other ideas.
His car is parked in the lobby of the Royal B.C. Museum, a surprise attraction for those exploring the history of the province. The Rolls travelled a long and winding road from London’s Carnaby Street to Spain to Manhattan to South Carolina before ending up in a city Mr. Lennon never visited....
RUBBER is the story of Robert, an inanimate tire that has been abandoned in the desert, and suddenly and inexplicably comes to life. As Robert roams the bleak landscape, he discovers that he possesses terrifying telepathic powers that give him the ability to destroy anything he wishes without having to move.
For the year of 2011, I’m living Canadian. For 12 months, I will only buy Canadian products, eat Canadian food and consume Canadian media. I’m going to document this process through this website, and plan to publish a book about my project in 2012.
"It wasn't staggering around and we didn't breathalyze it but there were two little bottles of Schapps in the immediate vicinity," said Otruba. "We took it to a local bird expert who has treated alcoholized birds before and she has been giving it lots of water."
The bird will be released once it has sobered up, police said.
Link Via Edible CraftsThe Egg & Muffin Toaster by Back to Basics is an ingenious product designed to toast two bread, bagel, croissant, or English muffin slices and cook an egg, while warming a slice of Canadian bacon or sausage. It does all three functions simultaneously so you're ready to assemble and eat a delicious breakfast sandwich within minutes.
