The boxy TV sets emerge from a thick bed of live ferns like gigantic mushrooms on a primeval forest floor. A video program plays simultaneously on all 49 TVs: disco dancers rocking out to “Devil With a Blue Dress On,” Buddhist meditative music, Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, a Japanese Pepsi commercial, Bill Haley’s “Rock Around the …
We know there’s a lot of false information to be found on the internet, but sometimes, it’s legitimately difficult to tell if something really is false. Enter the deepfake — computer-synthesized video or audio recordings that look and sound indistinguishable from the real thing. Media experts have already sounded the alarm, afraid that these deepfakes …
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Generally, when you talk about live streaming, the picture you get is of brands going live on social media platforms like YouTube. The problem with these social platforms is that it won’t fulfill your unique streaming needs. Each brand or video content creator has different streaming requirements, whereas sites like YouTube comes with their own …
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Technology has a big stake in making the world a fun place today. Through innovations, fleet companies can now keep passengers entertained and engaged throughout their journey. Bus entertainment systems are now common and becoming better by the day. The main reason for having this system is because passengers ride for several hours on the …
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Threatened Women Debby Marsh in The Big Heat, remember her? How about Francine Hughes? No? O.K., so the first, she was just a character in a movie and Gloria Grahame played her. The wayward Gloria Grahame. But Francine Hughes was real. Very. They have something in common, those two, that’s why both show up in this …
Mood Sultry The scholars like to say film noir’s imbued with a sense of menace and dread. Yeah, yeah, we know—sure. But not always. Sometimes it’s imbued with something else. People forget that the most famous line in those movies came out of the mouth of “Slim” to “Steve” in Howard Hawk’s To Have and …
A Man, a Woman, a Gun . . . and a Bridge You are a fan of film noir, those cheaply made but strikingly photographed black and white crime movies of the 40s and 50s, movies like Double Indemnity, or Out of the Past, or Gun Crazy that featured characters that seemed born criminals but also regular folks who, in …
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[alert type=alert-white ]Please consider making a tax-deductible donation now so we can keep publishing strong creative voices.[/alert] Around the turn of the year, newspapers and TV channels publish ample retrospectives and forecast possible events for the coming year. I don’t have a crystal ball to predict the future (nobody has it,) however, we can learn …
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Tangoing with Paul & Amigos from Rick Meghiddo on Vimeo. “Impacting” is what first comes to mind when visiting Paul McCarthy’s wood sculpture exhibition at the Hauser & Wirth Gallery in LA’s downtown Arts District. The combination of crafted wood at a large scale and the integration of a baroque language speaking a surrealistic critique …
Normality “Lo-Normali:” (ambiguous Hebrew slang for ‘abnormal, crazy, exceptional, wonderful, insane, magnificent’) synthesizes two previously documentaries, “The City that Never Sleeps” and “Jerusalem Journal.” It presents contrasts between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and within each of the two cities as a showcase intended to defeat misconceptions about Israel’s reality. “Normality” does not produce headlines. Stories …
[embedvideo id=”180628554″ website=”vimeo”] Jerusalem Journal from Rick Meghiddo on Vimeo. My love affair with Jerusalem has been a long one. It is actually linked to love. On September 4, 1966, I married Ruth under the sky of Jerusalem, by the University of Jerusalem’s synagogue. Designed by architects Rau and Resnick, it was, at that time, …
It’s here… ScreenDance Diaries and Cultural Weekly’s first international Dare to Dance in Public Film Festival launches today! Please read below: Have you ever walked down a city street and happened upon random and seemingly unplanned movement that is, or looks like dance? It could be accidental, it might be intentional, but whatever it is, it …
Dare to Dance in Public Film Festival Has Launched! Read More »
Taryn Southern cracks us up. She sings, she acts and after her American Idol fame she’s become a YouTube star. Check out her newest video, promoting CreativeFuture’s Contribute to Creativity contest. We’re hoping a Cultural Weekly reader wins the contest, by the way!
Women who are working to change the way we view body image in dance.
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