{"id":382,"date":"2005-10-07T01:21:14","date_gmt":"2005-10-07T01:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=382"},"modified":"2005-10-07T01:21:14","modified_gmt":"2005-10-07T01:21:14","slug":"ubu_king_again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2005\/10\/07\/ubu_king_again\/","title":{"rendered":"ubu, king again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s nice to see that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubu.com\/\">UbuWeb<\/a>, the great public web library of the avant garde, is back online after &#8220;a long summer of rebuilding.&#8221; At times when the web feels depressingly shallow, Ubu can be the perfect medecine. Among the many masterworks you will find is Samuel Beckett&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/ubu.wfmu.org\/video\/Beckett-Samuel-And-Scheider-Alain_Film_1965.mpg\">&#8220;Film&#8221;<\/a> (1965), starring a very old Buster Keaton. It&#8217;s wonderful that anyone can watch this online (I&#8217;ve just spent half an hour in its thrall).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ubu.wfmu.org\/video\/Beckett-Samuel-And-Scheider-Alain_Film_1965.mpg\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"beckett film.jpg\" img border=\"1;\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/beckett film.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"255\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAlso worth checking out are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubu.com\/ubu\/\">\/ubu Editions<\/a> &#8211; handsomely designed electronic texts ranging across an interesting selection of poetry, prose and theatre, including Ron Silliman&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubu.com\/ubu\/silliman_chinese.html\">&#8220;The Chinese Notebook,&#8221;<\/a> which Dan <a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2005\/09\/ron_silliman_th.html\">blogged<\/a> about a couple weeks back. These, like everything else on Ubu, are free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s nice to see that UbuWeb, the great public web library of the avant garde, is back online after &#8220;a long summer of rebuilding.&#8221; At times when the web feels depressingly shallow, Ubu can be the perfect medecine. Among the many masterworks you will find is Samuel Beckett&#8217;s &#8220;Film&#8221; (1965), starring a very old Buster [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,119,142,240,425,548,630,662,663,719,893,998,1060,1062,1155,1241,1242,1354,1472,1643,1701,1852,1921,1923,1997],"tags":[2990],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avant_garde","category-avantgarde","category-beckett","category-buster_keaton","category-curated","category-ebook","category-experimental","category-fiction","category-film","category-gallery","category-internet","category-keaton","category-libraries-search-and-the-web","category-library","category-media","category-museum","category-music","category-online","category-poetry","category-samuel_beckett","category-silliman","category-theatre","category-ubu","category-ubuweb","category-web","tag-ubu-ubuweb-media-online-web-internet-library-curated-museum-gallery-film-music-poetry-fiction-theatre-ebook-silliman-beckett-keaton-buster_keaton-samuel_beckett-avantgarde-avant_garde-experimental"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}