{"id":4725,"date":"2014-12-31T03:39:10","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T11:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4725"},"modified":"2019-05-24T03:42:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T10:42:39","slug":"favorite-open-culture-posts-of-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4725","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Open Culture posts of 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"723\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/OC-Close-Personal-Friend-1024x723.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4726\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/OC-Close-Personal-Friend-1024x723.png 1024w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/OC-Close-Personal-Friend-300x212.png 300w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/OC-Close-Personal-Friend-768x542.png 768w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/OC-Close-Personal-Friend.png 1263w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/center><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every weekday I write a post at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/\">Open Culture<\/a>, 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 2014:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/12\/the-city-in-cinema-mini-documentaries-reveal-the-los-angeles-of-blade-runner-her-drive-repo-man-and-more.html\"><em>The City in Cinema<\/em>\u00a0Mini-Documentaries Reveal the Los Angeles of\u00a0<em>Blade Runner<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Her<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Drive<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Repo Man<\/em>, and More<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/04\/close-personal-friend-watch-a-1996-portrait-of-gen-x-definer-douglas-coupland.html\"><em>Close Personal Friend<\/em>: Watch a 1996 Portrait of Gen-X Definer Douglas Coupland<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/08\/cyberpunk-documentary-with-william-gibson-timothy-leary.html\"><em>Cyberpunk<\/em>: 1990 Documentary Featuring William Gibson &amp; Timothy Leary Introduces the Cyberpunk Culture<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/12\/f-for-fake-short-film.html\"><em>F for Fake<\/em>: Orson Welles\u2019 Short Film &amp; Trailer That Was Never Released in America<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/09\/glenn-goulds-toronto.html\">Glenn Gould Gives Us a Tour of Toronto, His Beloved Hometown (1979)<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/09\/lets-learn-japanese.html\"><em>Let\u2019s Learn Japanese<\/em>: Two Classic Video Series to Get You Started in the Language<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/08\/a-photographic-tour-of-haruki-murakamis-tokyo.html\">A Photographic Tour of Haruki Murakami\u2019s Tokyo, Where Dream, Memory, and Reality Meet<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/05\/protect-and-survive-1970s-british-instructional-films-on-how-to-live-through-a-nuclear-attack.html\"><em>Protect and Survive<\/em>: 1970s British Instructional Films on How to Live Through a Nuclear Attack<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/07\/william-gibson-in-no-maps-for-these-territories.html\">Take a Road Trip with Cyberspace Visionary William Gibson, Watch\u00a0<em>No Maps for These Territories<\/em>\u00a0(2000)<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/12\/watch-solaris-1972-andrei-tarkovskys-haunting-vision-of-the-future.html\">Watch\u00a0<em>Solaris<\/em>\u00a0(1972), Andrei Tarkovsky\u2019s Haunting Vision of the Future<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See also\u00a0my ten favorite Open Culture posts of <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4718\">2012<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4721\">2013<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every weekday I write a post at&nbsp;Open Culture, usually to do with literature, film, music, art, television, radio, or language. 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