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At first, Ebert seemed willing to discuss his opinion. When a reader from Denver asked, “Are you implying that books and film are better mediums, or just better uses of your time?” Ebert responded, “I believe books and films are better mediums, and better uses of my time. But how can I say that when…
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Nintendo is concerned about how people value video games, a concern that sounds like code for being quite anxious that more and more people are enjoying really cheap games, some of which might be as fun as a Mario. “I feel our business is dividing in a way that will threaten the continued employment of…
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But the artist Jeff Koons, who constructed a 10-foot tall “Balloon Dog” that has been exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and elsewhere, sent a cease-and-desist letter to a Canadian manufacturer and San Francisco gallery for producing and selling “Balloon Dog” bookends. Now the gallery, Park Life, has asked a federal court for a…
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mahalamorata: pixel nighthawks
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This growing, dispersed body of research reminds us of a few key insights. First, the unconscious parts of the mind are most of the mind, where many of the most impressive feats of thinking take place. Second, emotion is not opposed to reason; our emotions assign value to things and are the basis of reason.…
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And here’s the thing: Most of the manual labor still being done in our economy seems to be of the kind that’s hard to automate. Notably, with production workers in manufacturing down to about 6 percent of U.S. employment, there aren’t many assembly-line jobs left to lose. Meanwhile, quite a lot of white-collar work currently…
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Art is fundamentally a survival device of the species. Otherwise it wouldn’t be so persistent. It wouldn’t be in every culture. We wouldn’t know about it… Milton Glaser: first graphic designer to win the National Medal of Arts. Glaser continues: How does art help you survive? It helps us survive by making us attentive. In…
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nevver: I swear I use no art at all
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viafrank: I saw this a few weeks ago at Powells. I’m thankful for seeing it: it phrases better what I’ve been trying to clarify in my head for so long. Design must be free, because it is a liberal art for all, while at the same time it is the craft and trade of a…
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http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf rewindlove: TED / Talks Denis Dutton: A Darwinian theory of beauty TED collaborates with animator Andrew Park to illustrate Denis Dutton’s provocative theory on beauty — that art, music and other beautiful things, far from being simply “in the eye of the beholder,” are a core part of human nature with deep evolutionary origins.…