Alice in Wonderland (1966)
Directed by Jonathan Miller
one of TV Series made by BBC tele
Alice in Wonderland (1966)
Directed by Jonathan Miller
one of TV Series made by BBC television: "The Wednesday Play"
Weirdest & Greatest Alice Film
"Mad Tea Party"
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Sir Paul McCartney performs A Day In The Life/Give Peace A Chance At the Liverpool Sound C
Sir Paul McCartney performs A Day In The Life/Give Peace A Chance At the Liverpool Sound Concert.
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A mashup of the old animated Star Trek series and William Shatner's cover of Pulp's "Commo
A mashup of the old animated Star Trek series and William Shatner's cover of Pulp's "Common People." Done in the style of K/S stories, kinda. Therefore, a "slashup."
On Kirk/Spock stories, from Wikipedia:
Almost from the beginning, fans noticed the loving nature of the relationship. A few fan writers started speculating about the possibility of a sexual relationship between Kirk and Spock. The Kirk/Spock phenomenon eventually took on a life of its own, and became one of the driving forces in Star Trek fanzines during their heyday.
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The man with no past. Documentary about a man who experienced a psychogenic fugue.
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Visions Of Space - 2003 - Albert Speer Size Matters part 1/7
Albert Speer was the archi
Visions Of Space - 2003 - Albert Speer Size Matters part 1/7
Albert Speer was the architect of Hitler's grim vision.
First aired BBC4, 2003; ABC, 2004 In 'Visions of Space', Robert Hughes tackles the work and lives of three remarkable 20th-century architects: Albert Speer, Mies van der Rohe, and Antonio Gaudi - whose work did so much to shape the modern world.
Hughes looks at how each one used space in different ways to express our response, respectively, to the power of religion (Gaudi), the power of the State (Speer), and the power of the corporation (Mies van der Rohe).
Albert Speer: Size Matters
In 1979 Robert Hughes met and interviewed Hitler's architect, Albert Speer, for his landmark series, Shock of the New. Speer died shortly afterwards. Twenty-three years later Hughes discovered the long lost tape of that unique conversation and was inspired to travel back to Germany to examine the legacy of a man who was, for a brief period, the most powerful architect in the world.
more about this documentary is here:
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/
story/0,12084,885724,00.html
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Visions Of Space - 2003 - Albert Speer Size Matters part 2/7
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Welcome to Dave's oasis, this website is all the information you need to know about travel
Welcome to Dave's oasis, this website is all the information you need to know about travelling to Chengdu and China. Here at Dave's oasis we organise trips for travelling people to enrich their knowledge on Chengdu and the surrounding areas. With trips to the Sichaun opera, local outlying towns and villages and even trips to Tibet. We have all the information you need. The bar is the first place to start with a friendly, relaxed atmosphere, good food and cheap drinks. Here Dave will answer any questions you have from where to visit and how to get there to extending visas.
Chengdu is a up and growing city in the middle of the Sichuan province. With a population of about 11 million it is a busy city that never sleeps. The city is build on the Sichuan plains and is built around a moat that protected it from attack. 11 rivers run across the plains and around the city. There are plenty of hotels to stay at, ranging from the expensive 5 and 4 star to the travellers hotels with cheap rooms for the people who wish to save money. The city centre is full of Chinese shops, coffee houses and restaurants. The shops range from Chinese chain stores to little family run shops. The city boasts 20 universities positioned around the city with a foreign student population of about 400. Many of the bars and the restaurants speak a little English so understanding the Chinese language is not completely necessary. The city has many parks and areas to relax in, it has huge complicated designed skyscrapers that contrast with the beauty of the city. The tomb of Liu Bei who was the emperor of the three kingdoms about 1600 years ago.
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Author John by Sinosplice
http://www.sinosplice.com/life/archives/2008/04/22/deaf-not- dum
Author John by Sinosplice
http://www.sinosplice.com/life/archives/2008/04/22/deaf-not- dumb-chinese-sign-language
It's been a while since I last wrote about sign language, but some interesting YouTube videos by Alice (胡晓姝) recently pulled me back into it.
Below is the video that I found most fascinating. It's subtitled in Chinese, but worth a watch even if you don't read Chinese. I'll sum up the main points in English below the video.
Before I list Alice's main points, I need to first explain some background. In the video, Alice discusses the Chinese sign language counterparts of the Chinese words 聋哑人 (literally, "deaf mute person") and 聋人 ("Deaf person"). The former is the most common way to refer to a Deaf person in Chinese, whereas the latter is the word many in the Chinese Deaf community wishes everyone would use. 哑巴 is the word for "mute," and it's definitely not polite.
Alice's main points are: * The Deaf Chinese are used to using signs for "deaf-mute" (聋哑人) and "mute" (哑巴) but these signs are not respectful to Deaf people. * Overseas, Deaf communities stopped using the expression "deaf-mute" 20 years ago, and only China persists. * It was foreigners that appreciated that within the character for deaf, "聋," is the character 龙, meaning "dragon," a traditional mythological protector being. That's pretty cool! * The traditional Chinese sign for "deaf-mute" (聋哑人) is loaded with negative connotations, but there is an international symbol for for "Deaf person" (聋人) that we should be using. * The word "deaf-mute" (聋哑人) should also be rejected because "deaf" and "mute" are two separate concepts; deaf does not have to mean unable to speak, and being unable to speak does not mean one must be deaf. * Some Deaf people believe basic, improvised signs are lowly and spoil the aesthetics of the language. This is wrong, because sign language is the language of the Deaf, developed by the Deaf, with its own grammar and special characteristics. * There are two kinds of sign language: literary sign language (文法手语), used to reflect mainstream written language, and natural sign language (自然手语), the everyday language of the Deaf. * Deaf people are not handicapped people (残疾人). We have our own culture and language. Let's unite and improve ourselves. * The Chinese Deaf community needs to be bolder, to candidly discuss issues and to struggle together. * Remember, it's 聋人, not 聋哑人. Spread the word: 聋人.
I have to say, this video fascinated me. There's so much there, linguistically (not to mention that it was filmed next to a sushi conveyor belt, which is just damn cool). I think you can tell when a gifted orator makes a stirring speech in a foreign language, and this is the same feeling I get watching Alice deliver her message. It's inspiring.
My favorite part of the video is the stretch from 1:12 to 1:22. You can easily tell from Alice's facial expression that the sign for "deaf-mute" (聋哑人), which uses the pinky finger, is distasteful, and that one should use the index finger instead to say "Deaf person" (聋人). It's not just a matter of arbitrary signs, though. In Chinese sign language, the sign for "good" (好) is the "thumbs up" sign. The opposite of that is thumb in, pinky out. That's the sign for "bad" (不好). So the meaning of the sign for "deaf-mute" is clear: "ears bad, mouth bad." Quite negative. The newer sign uses the index finger, drawing attention to the ear and mouth without disparaging it. You can watch Alice put down the negativity of the pinky finger and choose the index finger instead.
Check out Alice's other videos. Not all of them have Chinese subtitles, but one interesting one that does is an interview with Deaf rapper Signmark. Alice interviews him in international sign language.
I haven't watched them all, but it looks like none of Alice's videos to date have English subtitles. I'm working on convincing her that it would be worthwhile.
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A 1971 television recording with Alan Watts walking in the mountains and talking about the
A 1971 television recording with Alan Watts walking in the mountains and talking about the limitations of technology and the problem of trying to keep track of an infinite universe with a single tracked mind. Video courtesy of alanwatts.com home of the Alan Watts archives.
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