THE ANTIKYTHERA MECHANISM:THE WORLD'S FIRST COMPUTER

In 1900, Greek sponge divers discovered a shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera. The artifacts they came back up with included money, statues, pottery, and various other works of art and craft, as well as a curious lump of bronze and wood that turned out to be by far the most important item onboard. When an archaeologist named Valerios Stais took a look at it two years later, he noticed that the lump had a gear in it. Almost a half-century later, the science historian Derek J. de Solla Price thought this apparently mechanical object might merit further examination, and almost a quarter-century after that, he and the nuclear physicist Charalambos Karakalos published their discovery–made by using X-ray and gamma-ray images of the interior–that those divers had found a kind of ancient computer....

The video depicts a virtual model of the Antikythera Mechanism by Mogi Vicentini based on the theoretical and mechanical model by Michael T. Wright produced for the Galileo Museum in Florence, Italy.

Learn more at:
http://naturedocumentaries.org/9444/v...

http://naturedocumentaries.org/6294/a...



The Antikythera Mechanism: http://bit.ly/fm4oFK is the oldest known scientific computer, built in Greece at around 100 BCE. Lost for 2000 years, it was recovered from a shipwreck in 1901. But not until a century later was its purpose understood: an astronomical clock that determines the positions of celestial bodies with extraordinary precision. 

In 2010, we built a fully-functional replica out of Lego. 

Sponsored by Digital Science: http://www.digital-science.com/ a new division of Macmillan Publishers that provides technology solutions for researchers. Available under a CC-BY-3.0-Unported license.

Antikythera Mechanism Research Project http://www.antikythera-mechanism.gr

VIA http://www.openculture.com/page/2
 

ANDREI TARKOVSKY: POETIC HARMONY

FURTHER READING AND RESEARCH:
Tarkovsky, A. (1986) 'Sculpting In Time'
Documentary - Sacrifices of Andrei Tarkovsky (2012)
Documentary - Tarkovsky In Italy (1984)
Cinephilia & Beyond - 'Sacrifices of Andrei Tarkovsky'
Essay - Criterion Collection (Andrei Rublev)
Essay Criterion Collection (Solaris)
Nostalghia.com - A collection of interviews and various research material focused on Tarkovsky.

YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE: In THe Mood Of...

"YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE" generic mood video from DIMITRI VORRIS on Vimeo.
Four women. A major challenge. A life-changing journey.
Four women challenged by breast cancer, meet in a New York hospital. Travelling for a wedding to the Aegean island of Kos, in Greece, the birthplace of Hippocrates, father of (holistic) medicine, they seize the opportunity. Their doomed careers and wrecked personal lives take a turn for the better...
A heartfelt screenplay about finding the courage to change and fall in love again after life (and others) had let you down...

YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE: Artemis Simpoulos-author of THE OMEGA DIET-on Greek Diet (part one)

Artemis P. Simopoulos, author of the Omega Diet describes the advantages of the Greek diet for your health. This is part one. Please also watch part two.
Artemis P. Simopoulos, M.D. is the Founder and President of the Center for Genetics, Nutrition and Health, a nonprofit educational organization in Washington, D.C. since 1990. A graduate of Barnard College, Columbia University, with a major in Chemistry, and a graduate of the Boston University School of Medicine, she is a pediatrician and endocrinologist whose research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was on the nutritional aspects of genetic and endocrine disorders; evolutionary aspects of diet and fatty acids; and the importance of a balanced ratio of omega-6/omega-3 fatty acids in health and disease and in growth and development.

YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE: Artemis Simpoulos-author of THE OMEGA DIET-on the greatness of Greece

Dr. Artemis Simopoulos is a Founding Member of the International Society for the Study of Fatty Acids and Lipids (ISSFAL) in 1991, Secretary/Treasurer of ISSFAL from 1991 to 1998, and a member of the Editorial Board of the ISSFAL Newsletter from 1994 to 2000. She is the Founder of the International Society of Nutrigenetics/Nutrigenomics (ISNN) and was Past President of ISNN from 2005-2009. She is the author of The Omega Diet (HarperCollins, 1999) and has edited over 50 books and journal supplements, in addition to publishing over 350 scientific papers. She was the editor of the Karger series World Review of Nutrition and Dietetics from 1989-2011.

YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE: Artemis Simopoulos-author of THE OMEGA DIET-on Hipporates and the concept of positive health

...Long time ago #Hippocrates, father of Medicine, in #Kos #Greece invented the concept of  #positive #health. How to use your food as medicine and stay healthy and active.
Artemis P. Simopoulos, MD- author of THE OMEGA DIET-on Hippocrates and positive health
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8UYmUKZC_I
Artemis P. Simopoulos, M.D., author of the Omega Diet, introduces us in less than two minutes in the basic principles of the Hippocratic philosophy.
Artemis P. Simopoulos, M.D. is the Founder and President of the Center for Genetics, Nutrition and Health, a nonprofit educational organization in Washington, D.C. since 1990. A graduate of Barnard College, Columbia University, with a major in Chemistry, and a graduate of the Boston University School of Medicine, she is a pediatrician and endocrinologist whose research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was on the nutritional aspects of genetic and endocrine disorders; evolutionary aspects of diet and fatty acids; and the importance of a balanced ratio of omega-6/omega-3 fatty acids in health and disease and in growth and development.

Dr. Simopoulos was chair of the Nutrition Coordinating Committee at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that coordinated all Nutrition Research of the Federal Government in the U.S. in the Office of Science and Technology Policy at the White House. She was consultant to the Office of Consumer Affairs at the White House. Prior to that she was the Executive Secretary of the Division of Medical Sciences at the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) during which time she directed the Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA technology. While at the NAS she directed the Committee that developed the report Genetic Screening: Programs, Principles, and Research.

Dr. Simopoulos is a Founding Member of the International Society for the Study of Fatty Acids and Lipids (ISSFAL) in 1991, Secretary/Treasurer of ISSFAL from 1991 to 1998, and a member of the Editorial Board of the ISSFAL Newsletter from 1994 to 2000. She is the Founder of the International Society of Nutrigenetics/Nutrigenomics (ISNN) and was Past President of ISNN from 2005-2009. She is the author of The Omega Diet (HarperCollins, 1999) and has edited over 50 books and journal supplements, in addition to publishing over 350 scientific papers. She was the editor of the Karger series World Review of Nutrition and Dietetics from 1989-2011. 

YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE: "Christina speaks out"

"YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE " CHRISTINA ENG 2 from DIMITRI VORRIS on Vimeo.

YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE:"Kiss Me Hard In The Falling Rain"

"YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE" KISS ME HARD RAIN MOOD from DIMITRI VORRIS on Vimeo.

SONDERKOMMANDO:REMEMBERING THE HEROES AND THE MARTYRS OF HOLOCAUST

Sonderkommando mood  video from DIMITRI VORRIS on Vimeo.

DREAMS OF DALI: VR VIDEO

Walk Inside a Surrealist Salvador Dalí Painting with This 360º Virtual Reality Video

in Art, Technology | February 5th, 2016

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Click on the arrows to get the full 360 degree experience.
I felt as impressed as everyone else did when I saw my first 360-degree video, the technology that allows viewers to “look” in any direction they wish. But most of the 360-degree videos that became popular early simply demonstrated the concept, and as much astonishment as the experience of the concept alone can generate, even more excitement came from thinking about the technology’s potential. It hasn’t taken long for 360-degree videos to look beyond virtual reality — indeed, to look all the way to virtual surreality, as envisioned by perhaps the best-known surrealist of them all, Salvador Dalí.

http://www.openculture.com/2016/02/walk-inside-a-salvador-dali-surrealist-painting-with-this-360o-virtual-reality-video.html

DGA AWARDS 2016

Alejandro G. Inarritu (WINNER)
The Revenant
(20th Century Fox)

Unit Production Managers: Drew Locke, James W. Skotchdopole, Doug Jones
First Assistant Director: Scott Robertson
Second Assistant Directors: Megan M. Shank, Matthew Haggerty, Jeremy Marks
Unit Production Manager: Gabriela Vazquez (Argentina, California, and Montana Unit)
First Assistant Director: Adam Somner (Argentina, California, and Montana Unit)
Second Assistant Directors: Trevor R. Tavares, Jasmine Marie Alhambra (Argentina, California, and Montana Unit)
Second Second Assistant Directors: Brett Robinson, Kasia Trojak (Argentina, California, and Montana Unit)

This is Iñárritu’s fourth DGA Award nomination. He won the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film in 2014 for Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance). He was also nominated in this category for Babel in 2006. He won the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Commercials for “Best Job” (Procter & Gamble) in 2012.

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Tom McCarthy
Spotlight
(Open Road Films)

Unit Production Managers: D.J. Carson, Michael Bederman
First Assistant Director: Walter Gasparovic
Second Assistant Director: Penny Charter
Assistant Unit Production Manager: Danielle Blumstein (Boston Unit)
First Assistant Director: Christo Morse (Boston Unit)
Second Assistant Directors: Conte Matal, Kristina Mariko Peterson, Annie Tan, Andrea O’Connor (Boston Unit)
Second Second Assistant Directors: Phil Robinson, Mark Romanelli (Boston Unit)
Additional Second Assistant Director: Scooter Perrotta (Boston Unit)
Location manager: Robert Striem


This is McCarthy’s first DGA Feature Film Award nomination.

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Adam McKay
The Big Short
(Paramount Pictures)

Unit Production Manager: Louise Rosner
First Assistant Director: Matt Rebenkoff
Second Assistant Director: Amy Lauritsen
Second Second Assistant Director: Cali Pomés
Second Second Assistant Director: Josh Muzaffer (New York Unit)
Location Manager: Michael Kriaris

This is McKay’s first DGA Feature Film Award nomination.

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George Miller
Mad Max: Fury Road
(Warner Bros.)

Unit Production Manager: Dean Hood
First Assistant Director: PJ Voeten
Second Assistant Directors: Samantha Smith, Wendy Croad, Chris O’Hara
Second Assistant Directors: Eddie Thorne (Syndey Unit), Emma Jamvold (Syndey Unit)
Second Second Assistant Directors: Danielle Blake (Syndey Unit), Joshua Watkins (Syndey Unit)

This is Miller’s first DGA Feature Film Award nomination.

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Ridley Scott
The Martian
(20th Century Fox)

Unit Production Managers: Francesca Cingolani, Miklós Tóth
First Assistant Director: Raymond Kirk
Second Assistant Directors: Sarah Hood, Bogi Móricz
Second Second Assistant Director: Nick Thomas

This is Scott's fourth DGA Award nomination. He was nominated in this category in 1991 for Thelma and Louise, in 2000 for Gladiator and in 2001 for Black Hawk Down.

YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE: Christina's story

"YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE" generic mood video from DIMITRI VORRIS on Vimeo.

https://vimeo.com/149875927

Four women. A major challenge. A life-changing journey.
Four women challenged by breast cancer, meet in a New York hospital. Travelling for a wedding to the Aegean island of Kos, in Greece, the birthplace of Hippocrates, father of (holistic) medicine, they seize the opportunity. Their doomed careers and wrecked personal lives take a turn for the better... 
A heartfelt screenplay about finding the courage to change and fall in love again after life (and others) had let you down..

DECEMBER RIOTS: "The Fear"

The film, featuring tracks by electronic music superstar Moby, focuses on the murder in cold blood of 15 year-old student Alexandros Gregoropoulos by two policemen on December 6, 2008. The incident sparked riots in over 70 cities worldwide.
In the clip MURDER 101 actresses Vivian Ioannou and Maria Floratou and are resolving some differences from the not the so distant past.
In the clip Marina/DJ Lightdust (Lucy Lemos) and Michael (Michael Angels) are pondering their next move together.
The film follows, in parallel action while the gruesome reality of December riots unfolding, seven different characters trapped in a subterranean arthouse cinema during the riots, a bunch of characters that despise and hate each other to death. And are afraid to go out and stay put.
More on decemberriots.com
Description
Filming of “December Riots" wrapped in Athens, while a second wave of riots swept Greece on December 6th 2010, marking the two-year anniversary of the cold-blooded execution of 15 year-old student Alexander Gregoropoulos by two policemen in a downtown Athens café. "December Riots," a film about the Gregoropoulos killing and the 2008 riots that followed, is produced, and directed by Dimitri Vorris. The filmmaker acquired exclusive access to many never-before-seen court documents and evidence from the trial that followed Gregoropoulos’s killing.
Plot Outline
The claustrophobic thriller focuses on a group of Europeans and Americans trapped in an art-house movie theater in downtown Athens during the 2008 riots. 23 year-old British actress Lucy Lemos, prolific actor Abraham Papadopoulos, popular comedian-director Nikos Yannikas anchor a youthful and talented supporting cast that includes Vivian Ioannou, Aris Athan, Nasos Pappas, Michael Angels, Louise Rheas, Aris Papargyropoulos, Maria Floratou, Kostas Antalopoulos.

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DECEMBER RIOTS: Film Stills.

TIME magazine readers voted protesters—from Occupy Wall Street to the violent streets of Athens—as Person Of The Year and “DECEMBER RIOTS,” written, produced and directed by Dimitri Vorris, depicts exactly that.

The film's epicenter is the cold-blooded execution of 15 year-old student Alexander Gregoropoulos by two policemen in a downtown Athens café on December 6, 2008. "December Riots," is a film about the Gregoropoulos killing, an incident that sparked riots in over seventy cities and twenty-two countries worldwide including the US. The filmmaker acquired exclusive access to never-before-seen court documents and evidence from the trial that followed Gregoropoulos’s killing. The independently financed, claustrophobic thriller, focuses on a group of Europeans and Americans trapped in an art-house movie theater in downtown Athens during the 2008 riots.

DECEMBER RIOTS: The cycle of violence never ends...

"December Riots is important, timely, and hits it's mark. Acclaimed Greek-born filmmaker Dimitri Vorris has beautifully interwoven fact and fiction, to create a dramatic tale, that is both horrifying and thought-provoking".

Christopher Martini, Director-Producer "The Stone Child", "Trooper"

“Dimitri Vorris's DECEMBER RIOTS arrives like a storm that signals the times are a-changing again and that as a world we're on the cusp between despair and hope."

Amos Poe, Filmmaker, Leading figure of the No Wave Cinema Movement, "UNMADE BEDS", "THE FOREIGNER", "SUBWAY RIDERS", "EMPIRE II", "THE GUITARS", "ROCKET GIBRALTAR"

“... Independent, handmade, and made possible with countless fights on the side of its creator, December Riots,
comes to remind us the life we never lived, the fight we never fought and the reasons we got here, with bowed heads and humiliated lives ... "Chrisostomakis Laktaridis, DOCTV.GR

DECEMBER RIOTS MOBY MUSIC DOLBY SURROUND 5.1 MIX AUTOPSY CLIP from DIMITRI VORRIS on Vimeo.

Explore The "Quantified Self" Revolution with Jason Silva

"We will measure everything... and feed that information back into the system."

The Quantified Self Revolution. You've heard the buzz term, but it's the idea that as we extend computation into everything, and as we extend sensors into everything, we're increasingly extending those sensors into ourselves - creating a data rich, always on stream of information about our biological functioning.

Join Jason Silva every week as he freestyles his way into the complex systems of society, technology and human existence and discusses the truth and beauty of science in a form of existential jazz. New episodes every Tuesday.

Genesis "L'Odyssée de la Vie"

From a fertilized egg to a baby in 3d

JASON SILVA: Biology is software that builds its own hardware. Software we can upgrade. Genetics and biotech have made "LIFE" our new canvas.

Biology is software that builds its own hardware. Software we can upgrade. Genetics and biotech have made "LIFE" our new canvas.
Posted by Jason Silva on Thursday, November 5, 2015

Visit his page for more:
https://www.facebook.com/jasonlsilva/?fref=ts 

Diotima’s Ladder: From Lust to Morality (narrated by Harry Shearer)

The Myth of the Missing Half (Narrated by Aidan Turner)

Plato's Philosopher Kings (Narrated by Aidan Turner)

The Antikythera Mechanism (Narrated by Gillian Anderson)

SONDERKOMMANDO: "Do you remember Salonica?"

YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE: ARTEMIS P. SIMOPOULOS, AUTHOR OF THE OMEGA DIET, ON HOW THE HIPPOCRATES PRINCIPLES CAN HELP YOU LIVE BETTER

YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE:AN ENDORSEMENT BY THE BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF THE OMEGA DIET

APRIL 15 IS INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY. REMEMBERING THE MARTYRS AND THE HEROES OF THE HOLOCAUST.

Part 1: The Sonderkommando revolt

By Dimitri Vorris

...One action will stand out alongside the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and that is the Revolt of the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz-Birkenau on October 7, 1944. This was an uprising in which Sephardi and Greeks Jews both helped plan and execute and left a memorable list of heroes and martyrs to posterity. Their victory was dual: it was a psychological victory over the Nazis who now feared the Jews in the camps and hastened their declining confidence in winning or even surviving the war and secondly, they died as free men in the tradition of Greek noble death, an outcome that has become part of western tradition, namely to fight against all odds until the very end and deny the enemy the opportunity to loot and gloat.

Feature film project "Sonderkommando", depicts one of the most heroic pages of humankind history.  The world forgets not only that Sephardic Jewry suffered during the Holocaust too, but that Jews were brave enough to revolt and fight under the most hopeless circumstances. These historical events have striking similarities with Leonidas and the 300 Spartans fighting the Battle at Thermopylae. The major difference is that, in this film, you don’t have an elite army fighting an Empire, but imprisoned, entrapped, everyday people in a death camp. They are hungry, tortured, abused, sick, ailing, armed only with an ingenious plot and self-made guns and explosives. Against the Empire of the Third Reich. They are performing the ultimate sacrifice for their fellow man and woman. 

 "Sonderkommando" is a film about the riots at the death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau. It is based on real historical  events.  “Sonderkommando” depicts a story that has never before been told cinematically—that of the Sonderkommando uprising at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, in which 300 Jewish prisoners (men and women) plotted to overthrow the SS and blow up the camp’s crematoria.  The Sonderkommando were camp prisoners who were forced to aid their Nazi tormentors in the process of killing fellow prisoners (cremating the bodies etc.) Every four months most of them were gassed down by the Nazis in order to eliminate eyewitness testimonies later.

 I feel very strongly that this film needs to be made and the story of the Sephardic Jewish plight needs to be told.  The Sonderkommando revolt was a shining moment in WWII and Jewish history and the time is ripe to alert the world as to who these people are, why their history is so unique and important and why their dead must be remembered and their living must thrive. Anti-semitism is on the rise. The world remains unaware.

"SONDERKOMMANDO" ARTIST'S RENDERING DRAFT POSTER

"YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE" PHOTOS

Four women. A major challenge. A life-changing journey.

"YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE" STARTS FILMING IN SPRING

YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE MOOD VIDEO 2 DIMITRI VORRIS from DIMITRI VORRIS on Vimeo.

 

A heartfelt screenplay about finding the courage to change and fall in love again after life 

(and others) had let you down...

YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE MOOD VIDEO 2 DIMITRI VORRIS from DIMITRI VORRIS on Vimeo.

LEGENDARY EDITOR JERRY GREENBERG HONORED WITH LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AT EDDIE AWARDS

Jerry Greenberg was honored last night with a Lifetime Career Achievement Award at the 65th annual American Cinema Editors (ACE) Eddie Awards. Deadline's Ross A. Lincoln and Erik Pedersen report that "Carol Littleton presented Greenberg with his career nod. The Oscar-winning editor of The French Connection has a résumé of required viewing spanning decades, but watching his tribute reel tonight, it stuck out that, if editing is the most important part of completing a film, he is one of the most quantifiably influential people in the past 40 years. Not only on film, but given his work on Scarface, the man is partly responsible for an enormous amount of hip-hop. Greenberg was double Oscar nominee in 1980 for Apocalypse Now and Kramer Vs. Kramer, and his dozens of editing credits also include The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three, The Untouchables, Christmas Vacation, American History X and Get Carter."

Aside from Scarface and The Untouchables, Greenberg worked with De Palma on Dressed To Kill, Body Double, Wise Guys, and the music video for Bruce Springsteen's Dancing In The Dark. In Susan Dworkin's 1984 book Double De Palma, De Palma said of Greenberg, "I can just talk to him on the phone, and he'll know exactly what I want. And can even do it better."
According to the bio on the ACE press release, Greenberg "began his career in his native New York in 1960 where he learned how to edit music and began familiarizing himself with the Moviola, splicers, synchronizers and recorders. He was ready for his big break and he got it when he was offered an apprenticing job for the legendary Dede Allen on Elia Kazan’s America America. By 1967, Greenberg and Allen were working closely together and on Bonnie and Clyde, Greenberg was given the task of editing a couple of the shootout scenes and worked closely with Allen and director Arthur Penn on them. Not soon after, his career was off and running. He cut his first solo feature Bye Bye Braverman for director Sidney Lumet in 1971 and won the Oscar® and BAFTA for editing William Friedkin’s The French Connection a year later. The infamous car chase from that film has been dissected and taught at film schools ever since."
http://www.angelfire.com/de/palma/blog/