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(via Design Envy) This, soon!
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The second half of the Keynote was spent reviewing Doctorow’s three laws: 1: “Any time someone puts a lock on something that belongs to you and won’t give you the key, they didn’t put the lock there for your benefit.” 2: “Fame won’t guarantee fortune, but no one has ever gotten rich by being obscure.”…
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austinkleon: Lafayette Afro-Rock Band, “Darkest Light,” off Malick (1975) Horns sampled for Public Enemy’s “Show ‘Em Whatcha Got,” the song that made Questlove quit his job: I quit my job the day [It Takes A Nation Of Millions] came out. I was cutting onions and potatoes as a short-order cook for this 50s-style restaurant chain.…
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David Byrne’s Idea of Art? Screenshots of Fake Apps from the App Store By Nitasha Tiku 8/17 5:13pm via BoingBoing In a sign of technology’s growing pervasiveness in the cultural ether, Boing Boing pointed us to an upcoming show at the Pace Gallery on West 25th Street will feature art from David Bryne that’s inspired,…
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The leading answer seems to be that movie audiences are getting savvier with their money. They aren’t ponying up the extra bucks for a 3D movie just because it’s in 3D anymore. “Audiences have said time and time again that what they’re looking for, and what has been proven to have done well (in 3D)…
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I’m very fond of my Kindle. For the reasons I’ve outlined above, I think it’s an ingenious little gadget. But in my more hysterically Borgesian moments, I also think that there is something obscene about it, something that defiles and corrupts a reality I don’t want to see defiled and corrupted. It’s a tiny thing,…
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theatlantic: How the War Will Change Art Rising evil is concomitant with the destruction of art. Before anyone had heard of the Mullah Omar, NPR described to the world the obliteration of the Bamiyan buddhas. No vision of the Third Reich is complete without mountains of “degenerate” texts set ablaze, the deckled edges of Hemingway…
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austinkleon: “A Generation Ago” by Hugh MacLeod But yet, every week I think about moving there. And then I remember my 3-figure mortgage payment. cf. “Geography is no longer our master”
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on my bookshelf
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jenlindblad: ohhhh.