Connections Series 1 part 1.
Spanning three decades, James Burke made three fabulous series about the serendipitous connections between cultural events and scientific innovation. This is the first program, made in the mid 70′s. It...
View ArticleReyner Banham Loves Los Angeles
A classic documentary from one of the greatest architecture critics. This film was made in the same year as Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour wrote ‘Learning from Las Vegas’,...
View ArticleClaude Shannon
Link Even if information theory doesn’t become the cornerstone of Physics, an outcome that now seems plausible, Shannon’s contribution to science is immeasurable. The encoding in this video itself is a...
View ArticleJonathan Meades – On The Brandwagon
Jonathan Meades looks at the branding and regeneration of inner cities through spectacular, but ultimately vacuous, signature buildings such as Bilbao’s “museum with nothing in it” – Gehry’s...
View ArticleRobert Hughes on Skyscrapers
Why Hughes is better known in print, in the US, is a complete mystery. He has been astounding as a documentary presenter for 30 years. Eight minutes into this clip is an amazing snippet of the...
View ArticleJohn Berger, Ways of Seeing
It has been 20 years since I read the John Berger book: “Ways of Seeing”, which was based on the classic, BAFTA award winning, series of the same name, made in 1972. Until now I hadn’t seen the...
View ArticleIn the Studio: Martin Parr
Continuing in the vein of the profound in the banal, here is a short clip of the photographer, Martin Parr, talking about his work. Parr takes photographs of ordinary people and shows them in a...
View ArticleAlvin Toffler’s Future Shock, presented by Orson Welles
Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 This is an absolute gem and an almost forgotten one – a documentary version of Alvin Toffler’s classic 70s book, Future Shock presented by Orson Welles. The premise of...
View ArticleFull Richard Feynman Messenger Lecture Series
My hobby is Physics, specifically information theory. Not a popular pastime to have, perhaps, but my Dad is a physicist and the interest rubs off. One thing I’ve learned is that to get simple...
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