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Ms. Huffington describes her ambivalence toward the appearance of new media in museums. She writes that museums are our place of departure and imagination, a respite from the rest of the world, and that social media as connection for connection’s sake is, in her words, pointless here. “At their best social media build community and…
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These moral and legal framings share a common philosophical root: the belief that creativity is an engine for human betterment (and possibly of divine origin). Creativity is considered the motive force behind ‘‘progress’’ – creative imagination is used to think up new technologies from cotton gins to Constitutions, from Internets to inoculations, with the potential…
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Good movies aimed at adults tend to make their money more slowly than kid stuff, and they’re helped by good reviews and word of mouth, which, from a marketing standpoint, are impossible to engineer. That’s one reason studios would rather spend $100 million on a franchise film than a fraction of that on an original…
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Top Gun landed directly in the cortexes of a generation of young moviegoers whose attention spans and narrative tastes were already being recalibrated by MTV and video games. That generation of 16-to-24-year-olds—the guys who felt the rush of Top Gun because it was custom-built to excite them—is now in its forties, exactly the age of…
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This is sort of where I lost a bit of enthusiasm. While I like the direction and motivation here, this did not feel like the sort of design fiction that I lust after. It seemed very designer-ywith a heavy emphasis on the perfect render. Good design fiction in my mind tends more towards believable, pushing…
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Amusement Device: Context and Aesthetic Judgements » Lone Gunman
Amusement Device: Context and Aesthetic Judgements » Lone Gunman people rate pictures as more aesthetically pleasing (and actually experience more pleasure while viewing them) if they believe they come from art galleries. via lonegunman.co.uk Because I have not paid to access the full study, some of this will be conjecture, but I’d like to use…
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Instead of dwelling on the negative, they actually institutionalize this absence as an opportunity for invention (and modeling of national character) by establishing a biannual competition; not for the best structures, but for the most ingenious invention and ‘improvisational use of other materials.’ This is unique. A vast majority of the toy manufacturers represented in…
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Instead of dwelling on the negative, they actually institutionalize this absence as an opportunity for invention (and modeling of national character) by establishing a biannual competition; not for the best structures, but for the most ingenious invention and ‘improvisational use of other materials.’ This is unique. A vast majority of the toy manufacturers represented in…
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