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‘Back in Ottawa after a quick trip West, and I feel oddly compelled to to keep postings here going, so here’s a ‘content quickie’:

ArtsJournal.com maintains a page of arts and culture videos culled from YouTube. Clips rotate through the page over the course of a couple of weeks and you can find some really great stuff. And those videos will lead you to other videos in the same vein, and, can you say, “where did the afternoon go?”

Currently featured are a wide range of clips; from Donald Byrd and Stan Getz in 1957 to David Sedaris on Letterman. Check out the hilarious Rachmaninov Had Big Hands clip.

Link: artsJournalvideo

Don’t forget about TubeSock if you want to move some of this video to iTunes, your iPod, or simply save them to your computer.

As you may have read here before, the record for downloads of a single National Arts Centre podcast is held by Paul Gross interviewed by Laurie Brown in our Celebrity Speaker’s series. We’ve just posted the second in that series; Laurie Brown interviews Canadian playwright, novelist, actor and broadcast journalist Anne-Marie MacDonald.

The race is on for the title of NAC Podcast Supremo. Any bets?

 
 Celebrity Speakers: Ann-Marie MacDonald [60:00m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Star power

A recent podcast of the first in a series of four NAC Celebrity Speakers sessions has, as anticipated, blown away the download record for single episode of any NAC podcast. The show features arts journalist Laurie Brown in conversation with actor/writer/producer/director Paul Gross (Due South, Men with Brooms, Slings and Arrows).

I suppose there will always be a bigger audience for a good looking Mountie, than there will be for a show on tuning in fifths.

 
 Celebrity Speakers: Paul Gross [60:00m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download