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Truth Be Told: Irving Norman and the Human Predicament

This is a documentary about a "social surrealist" painter called Irving Norman. One of Norman's paintings (My World and Yours (And the Gods Created the World in Their Own Image), 1954) is in Crocker Museum in Sacramento. It is a very tall, and is very detailed. Irving Norman's use of painting as a language is semantically very rich.

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10 Bullets, #8: "ALWAYS BE KNOLLING". By Tom Sachs

Knoll /nōl/ vb. (1989 USA) to arrange like objects in parallel or 90 degree angles as a method of organization.

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Discipline of Do Easy by Gus Van Sant

Hybrid of Dynamicland and Billiards

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OpenPoolCC (2014)
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Pool table and a projector
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Pool table and a projector
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Projection Pro Billiards
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La Tabla

Synth sound demos and other instruments

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Pocket Miku: A unique vocal synthesizer from Japan
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Music Synthesizer for Android (demo by Raph Levien)
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Arp Odyssey 2800 playing a segment of Dr. Who's theme
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Arp Odyssey playing a segment of Dr. Who's theme
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Dr. Who's theme played on vintage synths
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Dr. Who's opening theme Spectrogram

I created this using Apple's spectrogram sample code while listening to this recreation of Dr. Who's theme by Luke Million

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Kalimba played by Tony Harris from Sacramento
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Ennio Morricone - The Ecstasy of Gold (Theremin & Voice by Carolina Eyck)

Orchestral

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - The Danish National Symphony Orchestra (Live)
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Twin Peaks // The Danish National Symphony Orchestra (Live)
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Fantasia Apocalyptica

Behind the scenes: Sound synthesis and music

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"Because it's hard... man!"

Creators of OP1 (Teenage Engineering) responding to a question from the interviewer: "I don't know why more people aren't making beautiful things?"

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Jan Overduin Invites You to Knuth's "Fantasia Apocalyptica"

I like the literal interpretations in this video

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Recipe for Musique Concrete

I love the sauce pan sounds towards the end of the video

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Angelo Badalamenti explains how he wrote Laura Palmer's Theme

Live performances

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"Law and Order" Theme Song

"It's so good!".. Here's a good piano tutorial of it.

Computers and Programming

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Hyperland (1990) by Douglas Adams
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Meet the inventor of electronic spreadsheets
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Eval/Apply

"You take the blue pill... the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill... you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes."

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The Tech Model Railroad Club of MIT

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