Resources for November 9, 2013

David Pescovitz at Boing Boing shares a musical mix "Experimental filmmaker Jayne Amara Ross and composer/sound artist Frédéric D. Oberland created an absolutely exquisite compilation of cinematic music and spoken word that inspires their art, from Bernard Hermann, Tom Waits and Crystal Gale, and John Zorn, to Maya Deren, John Cale, and Danny Elfman and Elliot Smith": Stunning music compilation tribute to cinema

Katy Yudin for Forget the Film, Watch the Titles breaks down the opening titles of the HBO movie Clear History



Kevin B. Lee for Sight and Sound in words and video: The essay film – some thoughts of discontent

Radiolab presents another great multi-part episode Emergence that "gaze[s] down at the bottom-up logic of cities, Google, and even our very own brains with fire-flyologists, ant experts, neurologists, a mathematician, and an economist." Most important, for me, is the question: "What happens when there is no leader?"

Episodes from To the Best of Our Knowledge:

Networked - Steven Johnson on "Future Perfect"; William Gibson on Cyberspace; Rob Coley & Dean Lockwood on "Cloud Time"; Beth Coleman on "Hello Avatar"

Marshall Mcluhan at 100 - Paul Levinson on "Digital McLuhan"; Robert Logan on "Understanding New Media: Extending Marshall McLuhan"; Douglas Coupland on Marshall McLuhan; Carrie Rickey on David Cronenberg's "Videodrome"

Imagination - Jonah Lehrer on "Imagine: How Creativity Works"; Suzzy Roche on "Wayward Saints"; Austin Kleon on "Steal Like an Artist"; Kenneth Goldsmith on "Uncreative Writing"

Atheists, Believers & the Secular - Alain de Botton on "Religion for Atheists"; Adam Frank on spiritual atheism; Anne Rice on leaving Catholicism; Diana Butler Bass on "Christianity after Religion"; Charles Taylor on the Secular