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  1. Wallpaper* Streaming

    Link
    https://www.wallpaper.com/video
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    Art, Design
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Blogs, Journals, Streaming/Download

    The design magazine’s video page features short items on art, architecture, fashion, design, lifestyle and travel. The films consist of interviews, reviews with artists, architects and designers as well as reports on the latest developments in the art and design world. To celebrate the reopening of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Wallpaper hosted a discussion on digital innovation, in which the panel, including the museum’s director of collections, Taco Dibbits, explore how interactivity, and allowing the public to creatively reuse the digitised collections, is vital to the future of cultural repositories like the Rijksmuseum.

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  2. Art Review Streaming

    Link
    http://artreview.com/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    Art
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Journals, Streaming/Download, Web Links

    The online version of Art Review magazine has news, reviews and opinion pieces about the contemporary art world as well as features on individual artists, interviews and video and audio content. The magazine is aimed at both a specialist and generalist audience. In order to access the site’s archives - which date back to 2006 - users need to register but subscription is free.

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  3. British Postal Museum and Archive Streaming

    Link
    https://postalmuseum.org
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
    Subject
    Art, Design, History, Politics and Government
    Medium
    Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Podcasting

    The British Postal Museum and Archive has a series of podcasts on aspects of the British postal service. Some focus on philately and design, looking at how the work of artists such as Eric Ravilious and Barnett Freedman has shaped public perception of the Post Office. Other podcasts consider social and political aspects of the Post Office’s history. In one example Tony Benn speaks about how he created the National Girobank during his time as Postmaster General. In another Dr Katherine Rake speaks about an incident in 1909 when two suffragettes posted themselves to 10 Downing Street, in an attempt to deliver a message personally to Prime Minister Herbert Asquith.

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  4. Bradshaw Foundation Streaming

    Link
    http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology
    Subject
    Archaeology, Art, Ethnology, Genetics
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Information Sources, Podcasting, Streaming/Download, Video Sources, Web Links

    The Bradshaw Foundation is a privately funded non-profit organisation which exists to discover, document and preserve ancient cave and rock art around the world, and promote the study of early humankind’s artistic achievements. The foundation’s online learning resource contains a wealth of material on prehistoric art along with essays, notes, timelines, links, newsletters, links to research papers as well as useful contextual information on paleoanthropology, archaeology and genetic science. The resource is extensively illustrated with myriad stills of paintings, carvings and artefacts from many of the most significant prehistoric sites around the world. There is now a new film archive section which includes a series of interviews with eminent prehistorians and other audiovisual material. The Bradshaw Foundation’s podcast can be found on iTunes and is free. Other notable resources include a section on the significance of abstract geometric signs in cave art and the journey of humankind from its origins in Africa, shown via an interactive map and timeline.

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  5. Khan Academy Streaming

    Link
    https://www.khanacademy.org/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology
    Subject
    Art, Biology, Chemistry, Computing, Economics, Engineering, General Science, History, Mathematics, Music, Physics
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Courses, Streaming/Download

    Offering over 3,000 free courses, consisting of video lectures and tutorials stored on YouTube, this website, the brainchild of MIT and Harvard Business School Graduate, Salman Khan, claims to be at the vanguard of education’s digital future, along with other websites like Coursera, and Udacity, proferring a model of learning based on Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs). The Khan Academy offers largely courses in Maths, Science, which includes Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Cosmology and Astronomy, Electrical Engineering, Health and Medicine, Computing, Economics & Finance, and Arts & Humanities, with individual section on Grammar, World History, Art History and Music.

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  6. Charlie Rose Streaming

    Link
    http://www.charlierose.com/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    American Studies, Art, Current Affairs, General Science, History, Literature, Politics and Government
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Streaming/Download

    Charlie Rose is an American journalist and talk show host. This website archives Rose’s one to one interviews and roundtable discussion with writers, novelists, scientists, politicians, business leaders, athletes and actors. The collection - which is huge - can be searched by subject as well as participant.

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  7. Slate Video Streaming

    Link
    http://www.slate.com/articles/video.html
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    Art, Business Studies, Current Affairs, General Science, Literature, Technology
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Podcasting, Streaming/Download

    The video channel of the US-based online culture and current affairs magazine Slate. The magazine has a left-leaning bias and its tone is witty, irreverent and informative. For example, the video on FX/digital compositing explains how hidden special effects work in films in a very entertaining way. The Podcasts cover similar ground.

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  8. Sound and Music Streaming

    Link
    http://www.soundandmusic.org/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    Art, Film Studies, Music
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Funding, Lists, Podcasting, Streaming/Download, Web Links

    Fascinating website promoting contemporary and experimental music which also focuses on the use of music and sound in art and film. Arranged in three broad categories - Projects, Features and Resources, the site’s content includes information about events and conferences, interviews, podcasts, artist profiles and much else besides. The Sound on Film section features a number of stimulating essays on how sound, music and film inform one another, including this look at the Sound of Soviet Science Fiction Film focussing on the work of Edward Artemiev.

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  9. The Creators Project (inactive) Streaming

    Link
    http://thecreatorsproject.com/en-uk/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    Art, Design, Film Studies, Music, Technology
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Blogs, Funding, Streaming/Download

    This website aims to promote artists who are using new technology to push the boundaries of creative expression: the results of this can be seen in the site’s Videos section which features artists’ studio work as well as documentaries and coverage of events, installations and exhibitions. The Blog features writing on the latest developments in moving image technology. The content can be searched according to category - Music, Film, Art, Design, Gaming and Fashion - as well as by Creator. The site has a global reach and showcases work by artists from Brazil, China, France, Germany, South Korea, the USA and the UK.

    Inactive as of 29.4.2013

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  10. Letter from America by Alistair Cooke Streaming

    Link
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00f6hbp/episodes/player
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
    Subject
    American Studies, Art, Current Affairs, Economics, Ethnology, Film Studies, Geography, History, Music, Politics and Government, Radio Studies, Religious Studies, Social Studies, Women’s Studies
    Medium
    Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Archives/Museums

    Alistair Cooke’s first Letter from America - initially called American Letter - was broadcast by the BBC in March, 1946. It was to be the first of 2,869 such broadcasts, spanning 58 years, making it by far the longest-running talk programme of any radio station in the world. The 920 surviving recordings, broadcast between 1946 and 2004, are now online. The can be searched by date and by theme, the latter including such categories as US presidents, race, music & movies, history and so on.

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