“Ken Burns: On Story” by Redglass Pictures. (via)
Book trailer for The Ball: Discovering the Object of the Game by John Fox (on sale May 14). The footage shows the Kirkwell Ba’, an ancient “folk football” game played twice a year, on Christmas and New Years Day, in the streets of Kirkwall, a tiny coastal town in Orkney, northern Scotland.
Simon Callow on Dickens’ London.
The oldest surviving video of an American football game, Yale vs. Princeton in 1903 (via Kottke).
The Hindenburg disaster, Thursday, May 6, 1937. (Via Kottke.)
Nathan Englander: “Write what you know” is the best and most misunderstood advice on writing. (via Big Think)
Sir Ken Robinson - Do schools kill creativity? Still the best TED talk ever.
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, a lovely homage to books from Moonbot Studios, dubbed “Pixar for the iPad age.” Best thing since Spike Jonze and Olympia LeTan’s cut-paper animated love story for book-lovers. (Source, via.)
The Blue Ocean in RED by Howard Hall (watch it full screen)
A fun promotional video for Defending Jacob produced by Random House.
David McCullough interviewed by the Boston Globe.
Roman Polanski: Don’t Explain Everything
