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Tarkovsky
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thegetty: Happy Birthday Los Angeles! On this day in 1781, Los Angeles was founded on the site of present-day El Pueblo Historical Monument. David Alfaro Siqueiros’s only U.S. public mural, América Tropical, is on-site at El Pueblo in its original location. The Getty Conservation Institute worked to conserve, protect, and make it viewable in partnership with the City…
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tidehead: Bryan Schutmaat recently noted the similarities between Ingmar Bergman and Andrei Tarkovsky. I just watched The Sacrifice, and as I am less familiar with Bergman, I drew my own parallels to Jeff Wall’s work. The opening scene in particular really reminded me of Wall’s A Sudden Gust of Wind, which was made a few years…
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usnatarchives: Cass Sunstein speaks about his new book at the National Archives on Monday, September 9, at noon. Simpler government means issuing fewer regulations, insisting on smarter regulations, and eliminating or improving old regulations. As Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Cass Sunstein helped President Obama undertake the most important reform of…
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Science Fiction, Technoculture Studies Take Off
Science Fiction, Technoculture Studies Take Off August 30, 2013: New program will examine literature, film and implications of a growing technological landscape. RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Going where few universities have gone before, the University of California, Riverside will launch a Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies (SFTS) program this fall. It is a logical extension of…
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Kazys Varnelis, The meaning of network culture
Kazys Varnelis, The meaning of network culture stoweboyd: Varnelis proposes that we have moved past postmodernism into the era of network culture: an excerpt Increasingly, the immaterial production of information and its distribution through the network is the dominant organizational principle for the global economy. To be clear, we are far from the world of…
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Why Draw?
pixelpressgame: We get asked this a lot with Pixel Press….why draw, why not do it all in the app, drag-and-drop design style? From our experience (and some other industry experts that have shared their own failures with us), giving users the power of a drag and drop experience means they don’t put the care and…
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Artists have a vested interest in our believing in the flash of revelation, the so-called inspiration… shining down from heavens as a ray of grace. In reality, the imagination of the good artist or thinker produces continuously good, mediocre or bad things, but his judgment, trained and sharpened to a fine point, rejects, selects, connects……
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shrinkrants: What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not to individuals, or to life. That art is something which is specialized or which is done by experts who are artists. But couldn’t everyone’s life become a work of art? Why should…
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Lummi Nation wields art in battle against coal
Lummi Nation wields art in battle against coal nitanahkohe: In support of “unconditional and unequivocal opposition to the proposed Gateway Pacific Terminal” expressed recently to federal, state and local officials, the Lummi Nation will conduct a 1,500 mile “We draw the line” journey from the coal source in Wyoming to the proposed coal terminal at…