Smoke and Bubble (Video)
Alluring and evanescent, smoke and bubbles are unusual subjects that, with some practice, produce utterly unique expressions. While smoke is inherently aleatoric (meaning random), bubble is of spherical shape –
Music for Pleasure, Such As… (Video)
Without music life would be a mistake —NietzscheNo man is a hypocrite in his pleasures —Dr Johnson BERING STRAIT SERIES: Music started for me with whatever was blaring out of
Robots Write Pretty Good Poetry
Will T. at The Believer: Let’s consider where AI poetry is in 2022. Long after Racter’s 1984 debut, there are now scores of websites that use Natural Language Processing to
The Black Hole (Short 2008)
Black Hole is a British film: A sleep-deprived office worker accidentally discovers a black hole late one night, photocopies it -and then greed gets the better of him. The 3-minute
Franz Kafka: The Drawings
George Prochnik at Literary Review: Wispy, thick, swirled and streaking, the dark lines burst outward, racing or splintering. The strongest impression one is left with while paging through this exquisitely
THE CRUSH: Oscar Nominated Short Film (Video)
An 8 year old schoolboy is so besotted with his teacher that he challenges her boyfriend to a duel…to the death. Check out this latest award-winning short film, about love
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‘Hai Apna Dil’ Then and Now (Video)
The super hit song “Hai Apna Dil To Awara” from 1958 movie ‘Solva Saal, and its select use in a 2014 (56 years later) video song by duo Himesh Reshammiya
REKHA: Blast From the Past …and Fast Forward (Video)
Rekha at her best then and now…whether acting, lip syncing, singing, or rendering, she remains a cool role model in the subcontinent’s tinsel ecosystem: Curated from WhatsApp shares by DesPardes.com
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Sa Re Ga Ma, Harmonium, Harmonica and Flute (Video)
Some of the popular traditional musical instruments played in the South Asian subcontinent: Curated from WhatsApp shares
‘Don’t’ Stop the Rock’ in ‘Chariots of Fire’ (Video)
The composition is arguably one of the most beautiful music creations for a film. Vangelis was a Greek musician and composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, and orchestral music. He
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The Lost Art of Staying Put
Lucy Ellmann in The Baffler: NOT ALL THAT LONG AGO, air travel was a clear badge of elite cultural distinction, from the “jet set” to the Sinatra-mangling ad slogan, “Come Fly With
عمران خان کے آزادی مارچ میں میرا حصہ
Naushad Usman, Jeddah-based Pakistani professional & entrepreneur, WhatsApp shares his ‘contribution’ to Imran Khan’s ‘Azadi march’: یہ قافلہ پھر سے گامزن ہےاگر چہ رستے میں راہزن ہےجواں ہے جذبہ جواں