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via @nevver: There is a labyrinth which is a straight line…
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thegetty: toolegittoquilt: Apparently pulling my skirt up was too scandalous for The Getty, but I did it anyways. I’ll post a better pic of my AMAZING tattoo based on this Peter Paul Rubens painting by the awesome @unbreakajeff soon. Follow him. Now. #peterpaulruebens #returnfromwar #thegetty #marsandvenus #tattoo #jeffreymeyer (at The Getty Center) Bare thighs at…
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Star Wars Modern: Thoughts on Episode VII: Wish Upon A Death Star
Star Wars Modern: Thoughts on Episode VII: Wish Upon A Death Star “I’ve made my case in the past, that movies (not films) are the art of our times: that large blockbusters are our era’s what altarpieces, cathedrals, large scale history and landscape painting were to their eras. The main opposition that I got for this idea, was that because…
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Star Wars Modern: Thoughts on Episode VII: Wish Upon A Death Star
Star Wars Modern: Thoughts on Episode VII: Wish Upon A Death Star “I’ve made my case in the past, that movies (not films) are the art of our times: that large blockbusters are our era’s what altarpieces, cathedrals, large scale history and landscape painting were to their eras. The main opposition that I got for this idea, was that because…
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The Reisman kid refused to adopt sponge. “It made table tennis a game based on fraud, deception, deceit.” He was convinced that the universal appeal of the game—the world’s most popular—was in simplicity, in strokes and tactics, not in technology and trickery. He tested his faith by challenging the new champion Satoh to a return…
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A 20-year-old college student has rebuilt Portal, Valve’s 2007 space-bending game, from the ground up, on—wait for it—a graphing calculator. In a display that puts the old calculator versions of Mario and Tetris to shame, Alex Marcolina posted to a gaming forum and reddit on Sunday about his re-engineered version of Portal. It took three…
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But This Moose is still a delight. Why? If we think of a story as a sequence of events that conveys meaning, as Engel proposes, rather than something that has a point, we get closer to its appeal. Plot isn’t always where meaning is found. Sometimes the meaning is found in the feeling a book…
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The role of narrative in childhood has been the subject of intense academic interest over the last few decades. Most notably, the psychologist Katherine Nelson has argued that children process the world through “scripts”—they order their mess of experience into a series of mini-narratives: First you do this, then this, then that. They lose the…
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daveortega: An animated gif that I created for an art show a few years back. The character is El C.V., created by mi compa and Boston art phenomenon Raul Gonzalez!
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It’s tempting to see such Technicolor absurdity as targeted more toward the adults—the sort of adults who buy avant-garde picture books, at least—than the children. And it is tempting to see it as a weird aberration in a section of the bookstore that, when you’re combing the shelves, trying to find a single non-awful book…