1980 articles on Culture

  • Got a Moment? Listen to a 744-Hour-Long Radio Show
    Slow movies. Slow music. Slow art. The title of England's intriguing month-long AV Festival, now in its fifth edition, is ¿As Slow as Possible¿ -- a counter-argument to the frenzy of the upcoming London 2012 Olympics, with its feverish tagline "Faster, Higher, Stronger." One festival highlight that welcomes participants from anywhere in the world is a 744-hour-long radio show curated by artist Vicki Bennett, also known as People Like Us. Listeners can tune in live to the broadcast, called ¿Radio Boredcast,¿ at any time, day or night, during the entire month of March.
  • Portlandia Ends Second Season With Surreal, Hilarious Finale
    Portlandia's sketch-comedy celebration of America's weird and wonderful wraps its second season Friday night with an all-star episode featuring Tim Robbins, Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols, and more. Maybe now it's safe to reassure Portlandia co-star and guitar goddess Carrie Brownstein that she doesn't have to feel like a fraud anymore.
  • Twitter Catches the 'SPDY' Train
    Twitter is now serving up pages over Google's improved web protocol, making the site a bit speedier in Chrome and (soon) Firefox. Google is hoping that its SPDY protocol, pronounced "speedy," will one day speed up not just Google and Twitter, but the entire web.
  • Sheer Ambition Weighs Down John Carter's Martian Melee
    Let's get one thing out of the way: John Carter isn't as bad as some were worried it might be. In fact, the movie's pretty good. But that doesn't mean it's great, and the two-hour-plus Martian epic's main shortcoming may be its ambition.
  • Tap Joint Delivers Otherworldly Telegraphic Messages
    An otherworldly narrative is playing out at TapJoint.com through coded messages transmitted using a virtual telegraph machine. The unknown sender tells of a city's resistance movement gearing up for a revolution on Illumination Day, an annual holiday celebrated March 9th.
  • Navy's Newest Robot Is a Mechanized Firefighter
    Add another eerily life-like robot to the military's rapidly expanding android army. This one is, of all things, a mechanical firefighter. And not only can it climb ladders like its flesh-and-blood counterparts, it's designed to interact with human handlers in a kind of human/robot bucket brigade.


 

 

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