What is Electronic Music?: Pioneering Electronic Musician Daphne Oram Explains (1969)
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Thelonious Monk’s List of 25 Tips for Musicians. 16# Always leave them wanting more.
https://www.openculture.com/2021/01/thelonious-monks-list-of-25-tips-for-musicians.html
Watch Jazzy Spies: 1969 Psychedelic Sesame Street Animation, Featuring Grace Slick, Teaches Kids to Count
https://www.openculture.com/2026/03/watch-jazzy-spies-1969-psychedelic-sesame-street-animation.html
Watch Jazzy Spies: 1969 Psychedelic Sesame Street Animation, Featuring Grace Slick, Teaches Kids to Count
When asked for their favorite Sesame Street segment, many children of the 70s and 80s point to Pinball Number Count. Psychedelic animation, the Pointer Sisters, odd time signatures—what’s not to love?
Lynda Barry on How the Smartphone Is Endangering Three Ingredients of Creativity: Loneliness, Uncertainty & Boredom
A Page of Madness: The Lost, Avant Garde Masterpiece from Early Japanese Cinema (1926)
A Page of Madness: The Lost, Avant Garde Masterpiece from Early Japanese Cinema (1926)
It’s a sad fact that the vast majority of silent movies in Japan have been lost thanks to human carelessness, earthquakes and the grim efficiency of the United States Air Force. The first films of hugely important figures like Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujiro Ozu, and Hiroshi Shimizu have simply vanished.
How Walt Disney Cartoons Are Made: 1939 Documentary Gives an Inside Look
https://www.openculture.com/2011/04/how_walt_disney_cartoons_are_made_.html
Are We Living Inside a Computer Simulation?: An Introduction to the Mind-Boggling “Simulation Argument”
Are We Living Inside a Computer Simulation?: An Introduction to the Mind-Boggling “Simulation Argument”
The idea that we are living in a vast computer simulation as hyper-sophisticated simulated characters with limited self-awareness sounds like the kind of thing that issues forth from stoned philosophy majors in late night dorm room sessions.
Why Smart People Feel Like Frauds: The Psychology of Impostor Syndrome and Its Hidden Benefits
Why Smart People Feel Like Frauds: The Psychology of Impostor Syndrome and Its Hidden Benefits
Incompetent people tend to see themselves as not just competent, but highly competent. So, at any rate, holds the theory of the 'Dunning-Kruger effect,' previously featured here on Open Culture. But does the converse also hold: do highly competent people tend to see themselves as incompetent?
Every Known Work by Georgia O’Keeffe Has Been Digitized and Made Available Online
Every Known Work by Georgia O’Keeffe Has Been Digitized and Made Available Online
Upon hearing the names of Arthur Dove or Marsden Hartley, the saturated colors and organically askew lines of those painters' landscapes may appear before your mind's eye. But unless you have a special interest in American modernists of the early twentieth century, they probably don't.
