“It’s almost impossible to imagine a world without words. But in this hour of Radiolab, we try to do just that. We speak to a woman who taught a 27-year-old man the first words of his life, and we hear a firsthand account of what it feels like to have the language center of your brain wiped out by a stroke. Plus: a group of children invent an entirely new language in Nicaragua in the 1970s.”
Listen to the podcast here. And check out another Radiolab-inspired video by Will Hoffman and Daniel Mercadante below. What would this video be without the knowledge of words and language?
I don’t know this song, I don’t know this band, and I haven’t listened to this kind of music since high school. But, if you can put up with the music, this is a really cool video to watch. Really cool type graphics, effects, and editing!
Directed by Adam Patch (www.etypical.tv), edited by Ashley Rodholm
Artist: Set Your Goals
Song: Gaia Bleeds (Make Way For Man)
Ohmygoodnessgraciouswonshmasdfiojdifjdf! Hulu will be available for the iPhone!
You can request a preview invite. The HuluPlus is available for HD TV’s, iPads, and more for $9.99 a month. I’m not sure sure about the price being per month, considering that it is free to watch Hulu on my computer and my iPhone has a much… much smaller screen. But the fact that Hulu is accessible on 3G and 3Gs so you can pretty much watch it anywhere is cool. Gives you something to watch on long trips or when you’re sitting in a room for hours shooting interviews….
HuluPlus, my Roku, Google TV, I am overwhelmed with digital TV goodness. Learn more about HuluPlus on Hulu’s website.
Update: Boo. Only available for iPhone 4 right now. But Hulu is coming to more devices soon.
Lenny Kravitz was having a drink on a terrace in New Orleans when he heard his song, Fly Away, being performed. He headed out and saw the Voice of Praise gospel choir and band performing the song in the public! Lenny joined in with some drumming and sings the finale in the end. I love it! So glad that Mathieu Bitton was able to record this video.
This is the trailer I’ve been waiting to come on YouTube (something a bit more heartfelt). Brings back all the fun memories on set that remind me of the parts I really liked about the show.
Oliver Sacks is someone I’ve always enjoyed listening to (thanks to Radiolab, I got to learn about Sacks, hear his stories, and become fascinated about what he is fascinated about). He is one of those people you hear speak with a smile, someone who is genuinely passionate about his studies. Here’s one video below about him talking about people with music synesthesia.
People sometimes criticize Sacks about exploiting his patients. But I couldn’t be more grateful and appreciative to Sacks for his stories and enlightening his listeners and readers about the human mind. Hearing stories of other people, strange and unique experiences as well as the common, help me understand myself and others better. How else would we learn? With some doctors or readings, the information I learn about myself sometimes makes me feel worse, more frustrated, and hopeless. But Oliver Sacks has taught me to find the fascinating side to everything. Everything has become a story, symptoms that have a cause and effect. It’s science within me. When things occur that I can’t explain, it turns me into this Sacks-like investigative scientist that needs to find answers. But it’s all rather enjoyable and strangely, it makes me smile.
Below are Sacks-related videos. This first one is Robin Williams on Christopher Reeves and Oliver Sacks. In the early 90s, Williams starred in Awakenings, a movie based on a book by Oliver Sacks. It’s sweet to hear Williams speak about his friendship with Oliver and meeting the many different kinds of people that also know or are drawn to Sacks, like people with physical tourette’s.
This next video is pretty interesting. There are a lot of videos of Oliver Sacks up on YouTube regarding music, one of his favorite things. One of his recent published books is Musicophilia, which I once had and started reading and left it on a plane . In this PBS video, Sacks offers himself as a test subject to see how much our emotions match what our brain truly senses. On a sidenote, I enjoyed the fact that, like me, Oliver’s emotions to Bach are quite dramatic, and becomes indifferent and flat when it comes to Beethoven.
This last video of this post is of Sacks speaking to an audience about hallucinations. It feels more like storytelling from real life. I love it!
Teaser for Mitchell, Mitchell, Mitchell, & Mitchell is finally up! MX4 is a pilot that I’ve been shooting outside of work for the past month. It’s finally finished, off to the festivals, and now the teaser is up online. Enjoy!
. In this PBS video, Sacks offers himself as a test subject to see how much our emotions match what our brain truly senses. On a sidenote, I enjoyed the fact that, like me, Oliver’s emotions to Bach are quite dramatic, and becomes indifferent and flat when it comes to Beethoven.