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Published December 13, 2011

Product Design Off Book

The latest short film from PBS Arts Off Book is all about product design:

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Published October 13, 2011

Etsy Art & Craft | Off Book

As a follow-up to yesterday’s post about paper-cut artist Rob Ryan, here’s a short film about Etsy itself from PBS Arts Off Book:

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Published August 31, 2011

Steampunk | Off Book

The latest episode of the PBS Arts series Off Book explores the Steampunk aesthetic and art movement:

It’s a little a bit disappointing that the video doesn’t feature any books. Didn’t it all start with Jules Verne and H.G. Wells?

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Published January 14, 2011

True Grit

Filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen recently discussed their movie adaptation of Charles Portis’ novel True Grit with Terry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air:

Most of the dialogue is taken from the book, direct from the book. And in places where it wasn’t, where we were kind of, where we were aping the language of the book because the scenes didn’t derive from the original book, it wasn’t a question of learning to – you know, it wasn’t a foreign language. It is a strikingly different use of the English language, but it was more a question of kind of aping the tone, as opposed to anything more of an exercise than that… [We] didn’t go back to the Bible, although clearly in the book, the character is steeped in the Bible. Actually, all the characters, you kind of assume that part of their speech derives from either having learned to read from the Bible or, in that probably a lot of them are illiterate, just having heard a lot of Scripture.

Meanwhile, Jeff Bridges, the dude who plays US Marshall Reuben “Rooster” Cogburn in the Coen brothers’ film, is the subject of a new PBS American Masters documentary:

[UPDATE: The full PBS documentary can be seen here]

And, if you haven’t seen the movie yet, here’s the trailer:

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Published January 3, 2011

Patti Smith on PBS NewsHour

I began, of course, as a poet, but the power of rock ‘n’ roll — rock ‘n’ roll was really the canopy of our cultural voice, and especially in the ’60s, late ’60s and early ’70s, that — and our rock stars, the people who were building that voice, whether it was John Lennon or Neil Young or Bob Dylan, or whoever it was, they were infusing politics and — and political ideology, social justice, sexual energy, poetics, all within the canopy of rock ‘n’ roll, and striving to make this a universal language. It was a real mission. And I — I wanted to add to that. Writing poetry is beautiful, but, when I was young, I wanted to be part of this important cultural voice.

Patti Smith talks about her memoir Just Kids on PBS NewsHour:

(via The BDR)

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Published October 6, 2010

Bruce Mau and the Problems of Success

“Most of the problems we are facing are the problems of success, not failure.”

Canadian designer Bruce Mau, author of Massive Change, talks about sustainability and framing the issue positively with Jeanne Park of the PBS show Need to Know.

When asked which approach — carrot or stick — is more the effective way to change people’s habits,  Mau replies, “I think you have to paint the stick orange”:

(via Bookslut)

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