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10 Years Later, “The Dark Knight” and Its Vision of Guilt Still Resonate

Ten years after its release, there is somehow too much and not enough left to say about Christopher Nolan’s <i>The Dark Knight</i>. Its politics have been …

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6 mix-sweetening tricks for custom ear candy

<b>‘Ear candy’ is one of those vague, subjective terms that can mean anything - but you know it when you hear it! Typically, it will in some way</b> …

Sound Matters: A History Of Legendary Recording Studios

When <b>The Beatles</b> were photographed in August 1969, striding over a <b>zebra crossing</b> in St John’s Wood, London, for the cover shot of <b>their album Abbey …

What It Would Look Like If Wes Anderson, Quentin Tarantino & Other Directors Filmed Cooking Videos

I usually chafe when director Wes Anderson is labelled “twee,” but as an enthusiastic, sticky-fingered gobbler of bark and ash encrusted campfire …

40 must-watch movies to consider yourself a film buff

With so many movies to choose from, it’s easy to stick to the years you know. Here are 40 classic movies from each decade to broaden your film …

Filmstro releases over 1,000 tracks of free music to use in your YouTube videos

Filmstro is something of a unique service when it comes to music. With plugins for both Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro, you can pick your music and …

These Are The Best Audiobooks As Read By The Authors

Some books are just meant to be listened to.<p>Some books are meant to be read, others are best listened to. The audiobooks below are all narrated by their authors, adding another form of intimacy to the experience. In their expert voices, they might deliver a great joke, or emphasize a great sentence …

This Video Explores the Shinto Spirituality of Hayao Miyazaki's Films

Like any prolific director, anime legend Hayao Miyazaki has a few preoccupations in his writing. Particularly, he’s fascinated by the natural world, …

How to build a robot with Raspberry Pi

Boot your Raspberry Pi to the desktop and open a terminal, you can find the icon in the menu bar at the top left corner of the screen.<p>In the …

Let’s add a dirt cheap screen to the Raspberry Pi B+

Recently the internet noticed the Raspberry Pi could drive LCD panels using DPI. This allows very inexpensive displays to be used with basically no …

Why Figuring Out Your Best Career Is A Spiritual Endeavor

<b>Part of a new series on</b> <b>Spirituality and Success</b><p>As a career success coach and leadership developer, I spend some portion of every single day helping people “dig deep, discover their right work, and illuminate the world with it.” That’s my mantra and my passion. Why? Because for a good part of my 18 …

The Wisdom Deficit in Schools

New education standards emphasize technical reading skills over an appreciation for literature and the deeper values it can instill.<p>When I was in high school, I chose to major in English in college because I wanted to be wiser. That’s the word I used. If I ended up making lots of money or writing a …

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Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal

Knowing how to program a computer is good for you, and it’s a shame more people don’t learn to do it.<p>For years now, that’s been a hugely popular …

How to Build a Stop Motion Animation Studio With a Raspberry Pi

In this tutorial I'll show you how to configure the Raspberry Pi and camera to create your movie using simple and free stopmotion software. By …

What Exactly Does an Experienced Editor Do? This Short Animation Reveals Everything

We live in an age where a 6-year-old with a laptop and a copy of iMovie can edit some footage together. Editing software is abundant and as easy to …

Storytelling in an 'A.D.D. Culture': How to Capture Your Audience's Divided Attention

What is at the core of filmmaking? It's the same thing that made us want to pick up a camera in the first place. Storytelling. But, as things tend to …

15 Useful Commands Every Raspberry Pi User Should Know

Advertisement<p>If you’re using a Raspberry Pi computer for your weekend project 20 Awesome Uses for a Raspberry Pi 20 Awesome Uses for a Raspberry Pi …

Automatically watering your plants. Sensors, a Pi & Webhooks.

Automatically watering your plants with sensors, a Pi and webhooks<p><b>By Chris Hannam, Product Engineer at Server Density.</b> <br>Published on the 19th …

Using a Raspberry Pi as a TV server with DVBLink

I have been using my Media Center PC as a TV server for a few years, it sits there running 24×7 churning away using lots of power and it probably …

47 Raspberry Pi Projects to Inspire Your Next Build

If you’re looking for inspiration for your first Raspberry Pi project, look no further than the several dozen projects entered in the first ever Raspberry Pi Design Contest, sponsored by MCM Electronics. All the projects were entered into one of four categories – Artistic, Educational, Enclosure, …

How to Clone Your Raspberry Pi SD Card for Super Easy Reinstallations

If you've ever turned a Raspberry Pi into a media center or retro gaming station, you know how frustrating it can be when it crashes and corrupts …

Infographic: Almost Every Sci-Fi Starship Ever In One Comparison Chart – /Film

DeviantArt user Dirk Loechel created this amazing and massive infographic showing a size comparison of probably every single sci-fi starship ever, …

15 DIY Gadgets You Can Make with Raspberry Pi

Nope, that’s not a misspelling in the title. Raspberry Pi has as little to do with raspberry pie as it does with giving someone a raspberry (you know, the kind you used to give people on the playground back in the day).<p>Raspberry Pi is a credit-card-sized computer – it can literally fit in your …

RaspyFi 1.0 audiophile linux is out!

Dear folks,it has been a long long time since the new version of RaspyFi has been promised… But here we are finally ! You’re favourite audiophile …

Hollywood apocalypse not now despite summer flops and directors' strops

When Hollywood does Armageddon it tends to be in the form of asteroids, aliens or zombies, with the action on screen. This summer has seen a plethora of such fodder – After Earth, Pacific Rim, Elysium and World War Z – but an arguably more compelling disaster storyline has been unfolding in …

Home Automation with Raspberry Pi and Arduino

Advertisement<p>We’ve talked about the relative merits of Arduino and Raspberry Pi before – they each have their strengths. They needn’t be an either or …