Mario Moreno Reyes, mejor conocido por su personaje, "Cantinflas," es un genio de posmodernismo. Así, sus obras contienen y demuestran una energía subversiva y interrogación de las estructuras del modernismo que existían en la primera mitad del Siglo XX con sus los vestigios del colonialismo que todavía impusieron jerarquías y límites en la sociedad mexicana. A través de su personaje, Cantinflas,

The problem with most degree and certificate programs is that they tend to be expensive, cumbersome, slow-to-acquire, and uniform. And, it may be difficult to show you have knowledge in a unique area, say, "Geochemistry and Corrosion Control in Carbonate Reservoirs," or "Fire-Themed Festivals for Economic Development." While uniformity can be good for a general education and for obtaining

Achieving success during downturns is a function of vision and leadership, and it requires a person to think creatively and independently. These are just a few of the insights provided by Dr. Steven Tedesco, Running Foxes Petroleum, in the two interviews presented here -- written, and also via YouTube. Welcome to an informative interview with a successful entrepreneur who has used science,

Welcome to an interview with Patti Shank, a learning programs innovator whose ability to bring clarity to the design and implementation process is extremely useful in a time of rapid technological change, and a context of constantly shifting knowledge needs. 1. What is your name and your relation to e-learning?    Patti Shank, PhD, CPT.  I got into e-learning before there was an "e." ;-) We

Welcome to an interview with Dr. Janette Habashi, who is working to build a sustainable business that employs women and benefits families in the West Bank. Child's Cup Full: Women Hand-Embroidering Educational Toys What is your name and the project you're involved in? My name is Dr. Janette Habashi and I am the founder and executive director of Child's Cup Full (CCF). Child’s Cup Full is a

Visiting, studying, living, and establishing partnerships and great working relationships in Mexico is both a dream and a reality for many people. But, how do you get started? What are some of the recent changes that have taken place? Welcome to an interview with Pat Wagner, who moved to Sayulita, Mexico (a brand new "Pueblo Mágico) more than 20 years ago, and who has been working as a realtor

Many guys have man caves - a room, a basement, a shed where a dude can get away from the demands of domesticity and do dude things. Guillermo del Toro, the Oscar-nominated director of such movies as Pan’s Labyrinth, Pacific Rim and the upcoming Crimson Peak, doesn’t just have a cave. He has an entire house. It’s called Bleak House and it’s pretty amazing. In a featurette for Criterion’s release of Cronos (1993), Del Toro gives a guided tour. You can watch it above. As you can see, the place feels less like a frat house than an eccentric museum. One of his inspirations was curiosity cabinets of old. Indeed, the walls are crammed with paintings, prints and curios and just about every corner is teeming with skeletons, skulls, tentacles and creepy things floating in bottles of formaldehyde. Another inspiration was the original research library for Disney Studios, which fed the imagination of the studio’s artists with lots of art. So Del Toro has original frames from Gertie the Dinosaur by Winsor McCay, the first animated movie ever, along with drawings by Moebius and photographs of Alfred Hitchcock. He also has piles of books, magazines and DVDs. "Whatever it is," says Del Toro, "it’s here to provide a shock to the system and get circulating the lifeblood of creativity, which I think is curiosity. When we lose curiosity, we lose entirely inventiveness, and we start becoming old. So the man cave of Bleak house was designed to be sort of a compression chamber where we can create a stimulating environment…" for artists. Right above you even more about Bleak House in which Del Toro gives a tour to horror director Tim Sullivan. Not only is the place filled with strange and macabre curiosities but also mementoes from Del Toro’s movies. Want to see Del Toro brandish the original Big Baby from Hellboy II: The Golden Army? Check this video out. Via @LaFamiliaFilm Related Content: Sketches by Guillermo del Toro Take You Inside the Director’s Wildly Creative Imagination Geometria: Watch Guillermo del Toro’s Very Early, Ghoulish Short Film (1987) Jonathan Crow is a Los Angeles-based writer and filmmaker whose work has appeared in Yahoo!, The Hollywood Reporter, and other publications. You can follow him at @jonccrow. And check out his blog Veeptopus, featuring lots of pictures of badgers and even more pictures of vice presidents with octopuses on their heads.  The Veeptopus store is here. A Guided Tour of Guillermo del Toro’s Creativity-Inducing Man Cave, "Bleak House" is a post from: Open Culture. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus, or get our Daily Email. And don't miss our big collections of Free Online Courses, Free Online Movies, Free eBooks, Free Audio Books, Free Foreign Language Lessons, and MOOCs.

The Beatles played their last stadium gig in August, 1966 at Candlestick Park, then stopped touring altogether. At least publicly, they claimed that their new songs, coming off of intricately-produced albums like Revolver and Sgt. Pepper, were just too hard to perform live. Enter The Fab Faux, the greatest of all Beatles cover bands. Featuring Will Lee (bassist for the Late Show with David Letterman), Jimmy Vivino (bandleader for Conan), Rich Pagano, Frank Agnello, and Jack Petruzzelli, The Fab Faux is all about one thing- performing live the most accurate reproduction of The Beatles’ repertoire. That includes songs that The Beatles never played live, and particularly songs off of the intricate later albums. Above, you can watch them in action, playing the extended medley (16 minutes) that graces the second side of Abbey Road. Before you watch it, here are a couple things you need to know: This Fab Faux recording of most of side two of ‘Abbey Road’ is a live, in-the-studio performance for a two-camera video shoot…. In the end, there were only three minor guitar fixes and each section was recorded in no more than three takes (most were two). There are NO added overdubs within this performance. The audio is pure - and mixed by Joe Chinnici. The video was originally recorded for The Howard Stern Show. If you want to get a feel for how well The Fab Faux nailed it, watch their version played alongside the original below: Related Content Audio: The Beatles Play Their Final Concert at Candlestick Park, 1966 Take a Virtual Tour of Abbey Road Studios, Courtesy of the New Google Site "Inside Abbey Road" A Short Film on the Famous Crosswalk From the Beatles’ Abbey Road Album Cover Hear the Isolated Vocal Tracks for The Beatles’ Climactic 16-Minute Medley on Abbey Road Beatles Tribute Band "The Fab Faux" Performs Live an Amazingly Exact Replica of the Original Abbey Road Medley is a post from: Open Culture. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus, or get our Daily Email. And don't miss our big collections of Free Online Courses, Free Online Movies, Free eBooks, Free Audio Books, Free Foreign Language Lessons, and MOOCs.

Our veteran readers will perhaps remember Kirby Ferguson’s four-part video series Everything is a Remix. Created between 2010 and 2014, the series explored the idea that (to quote from one of my earlier posts) "great art doesn’t come out of nowhere. Artists inevitably borrow from one another, drawing on past ideas and conventions, and then turn these materials into something beautiful and new." That applies to musicians, filmmakers, technologists, and really anyone in a creative space. This week, to mark the 5th anniversary of the series’ launch, Ferguson has remastered and re-released Everything is a Remix as a single video in HD. "For the first time now, the whole series is available as a single video with proper transitions all the way through, unified styling, and remixed and remastered audio." Find it featured above, and added to our collection of Free Online Documentaries, a subset of our collection, 700 Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns, etc.. Dan Colman is the founder/editor of Open Culture. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and LinkedIn and  share intelligent media with your friends. Or better yet, sign up for our daily email and get a daily dose of Open Culture in your inbox. Related Content: Why Man Creates: Saul Bass’ Oscar-Winning Animated Look at Creativity (1968) Why You Do Your Best Thinking In The Shower: Creativity & the "Incubation Period" Albert Einstein Tells His Son The Key to Learning & Happiness is Losing Yourself in Creativity (or "Finding Flow") Everything is a Remix: The Full Series, Exploring the Sources of Creativity, Released in One Polished HD Video on Its 5th Anniversary is a post from: Open Culture. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus, or get our Daily Email. And don't miss our big collections of Free Online Courses, Free Online Movies, Free eBooks, Free Audio Books, Free Foreign Language Lessons, and MOOCs.