Every weekday I write a post at Open Culture, usually to do with literature, film, music, art, television, radio, or language. Here are ten of my favorites from the more than 250 I wrote in 2015:
- Brian Eno on Why Do We Make Art & What’s It Good For?: Download His 2015 John Peel Lecture
- David Lynch Directs a Mini-Season of Twin Peaks in the Form of Japanese Coffee Commercials
- Discover Haruki Murakami’s Advertorial Short Stories: Rare Short-Short Fiction from the 1980s
- Free: Read 9 Travel Books Online by Monty Python’s Michael Palin
- Glorious Early 20th-Century Japanese Ads for Beer, Smokes & Sake (1902-1954)
- Martin Scorsese Introduces Filmmaker Hong Sangsoo, “The Woody Allen of Korea”
- Philosophers Drinking Coffee: The Excessive Habits of Kant, Voltaire & Kierkegaard
- Portland, the City in Cinema: See the City of Roses as it Appears in 20 Different Films
- Sci-Fi Legend Ray Bradbury Creates a Visionary Plan to Redesign Los Angeles
- Two Short Films on Coffee and Cigarettes from Jim Jarmusch & Paul Thomas Anderson
See also my ten favorite Open Culture posts of 2012, 2013, and 2014.