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New Tempo featuring John Cage and Raashan Roland Kirk

Some of you may have watched Art of Arts TV: The Single Arts Film recently. ITV’s weekly arts show from 1966, New Tempo stood out for me. Amazingly the entire episode they mention featuring Raashan Roland Kirk and John Cage is on UbuWeb.
New Tempo on Ubu

LHC and Big Bang Primers for Dummies

Two very good shows on BBC iPlayer for anyone (like myself) whose knowledge on the Big Bang theory and Large Hadron Collider needs a little work.
(…tries to find the right keys for the embarrassed emoticon.. )
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The Big Bang Machine

Lost Horizons: The Big Bang

Excerpt From a Fourthcoming Documentary about Chicago’s Ron Cooper


now that’s what I call a remix

Big Ideas (Don’t get any) from 1030 on Vimeo.

1983 Islington Squatter Punk Documentary

Note the narration tone resembling a wildlife documentary.

Pink Floyd BBC Documentary

Probably the most concise story of what actually happened. Very insightful, but only available for a few days!

Fearless Freaks

I knew very little about the Flaming Lips and now I feel like they’re my friends.
Watch this documentary before it disappears in true Quicksilver Screen fashion - it’s very, very good.

…and the award for the most horrifically intense disaster scene goes to…

P.S. If you’re wondering how this awe-inspiring scene ended up on the web, you should check out blinkBox where you can watch the entire film - it’s called Cosmos: War of the Planets.
I spend my days working at blinkBox and I’ve watched hours and hours of films just as exciting as this one. Go […]