- John Stoehr
Arts Editor
There's more to art than you think. It's not just theater, paintings, books and dance. It's the enterprise of human creativity and it takes vastly different shapes and forms. Here you'll find my thoughts about the arts in Charleston and beyond. Neither of us knows what to expect.
Category Archives: Your Daily Vid
Your Daily Vid: Watch this
February 12, 2008 – 11:19 am
Are you a student? Do you have children in school? Are you concerned about your future or the future of your children? What will be the jobs of the future? What are the businesses of the future? What kind of technology will there be that has affected us as much as current technologies? What is […]
Your Daily Vid: The Jackie Chan of the Piano
February 7, 2008 – 9:51 am
This is Lang Lang, one of the most charismatic pianists performing today. In fact, his charisma, and the over-the-top flamboyance of pianists like him, was the subject of a piece on the New York Times yesterday. Basically, Bernie Holland says the classical music equivalent of shut up and play yer guitar. I think it might […]
Your Daily Vid: Big Think
January 22, 2008 – 7:32 pm
The next time someone tells you that most people — in the journalism biz, they’re called the “general reader” or the “general public” — are not interested in intellectual history, heritage and culture — point them in the direction of Big Think.
In a nutshell, it’s YouTube for ideas. It allows users to pose questions, provide […]
Your Daily Vid: Hot Sauce
January 11, 2008 – 12:35 pm
Way before Borat, there was the Serbian basketball instructional video made famous by comedy team Hot Sauce. The trio has gone on to work with the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater and Saturday Night Live. They perform at the Charleston Comedy Festival next week. For everything you want to know about the comedy festival, click here.
Your Daily Vid: Gustavo Dudamel
January 8, 2008 – 12:59 pm
He’s 26 years old and he’s the next music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Here, he talks about his experience in Venezuela’s El Sistema, the hugely successful government-sponsored program that serves some 250,000 schoolchildren in that country.
This talk occurred before a concert at the BBC Proms broadcast last year by the Simon Bolivar […]
Your Daily Vid: Kafka and Orson Welles
January 7, 2008 – 12:55 pm
I’ve been reading a lot of Kafka lately, but haven’t gotten to his novel The Trial yet. As a warm-up, here’s a clip from Orson Welles’ 1963 film of the novel. Some weird shit, my friend, weird. Stars Anthony Perkins as Josef K. —J.S.
Your Daily Vid: Pinker on the Mind
January 5, 2008 – 11:27 am
This is a talk given by psychologists Steven Pinker, author of The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature. I feel it’s important to have this kind of material in an arts blog, because what psychologists are finding about the nature of the human mind may well have great implications for anyone […]
Your Daily Vid: Giant Puppet in the Park
December 30, 2007 – 12:18 pm
Royal de Luxe is a European marionette/street theater company that creates huge — I mean, huge — puppets. Here’s a clip featuring a “little” girl wandering off to stroll in a park in London after she gets a shower from the Sultan’s Elephant (pictured above). That’s a full-grown man, by the way, sitting atop the […]
Your Daily Vid: Polanski’s Macbeth
December 28, 2007 – 1:51 pm
One of the best movie adaptations of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, this one by Roman Polanski, the creator of The Pianist, Chinatown and Rosemary’s Baby. Here we have the opening scene featuring the three witches. Notice there’s no “double, double, toil and trouble.” Laconic, eerie instead. —J.S.
Your Daily Vid: Steve Coogan on contemporary art
December 21, 2007 – 8:39 am
Here’s the British comedian as Paul Calf, his drunken, working-class alter-ego. Check out his new art show called Visions. —J.S.
