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Band attempts to fund tour by posting silent album on Spotify
Band attempts to fund tour by posting silent album on Spotify mentalmagpie: mentalmagpie: austinkleon: Last week, they uploaded a 10-track album of complete silence called Sleepify to Spotify. As frontman Jack Stratton explains, if someones put Sleepify on repeat before they go to bed, just 800 listens will generate $4. While that doesn’t sound like…
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Call For Presentations: Kickstarting the GO::DH Minimal Computing Working Group @ DH2014
Call For Presentations: Kickstarting the GO::DH Minimal Computing Working Group @ DH2014 ***-_-_-_-_-_-*** Please share this widely as we would like as global a representation as possible ***-_-_-_-_-_-*** The GlobalOutlook::DigitalHumanities (GO::DH) Minimal Computing Working Group is looking to kickstart itself with a workshop at this year’s DH conference in Lausanne, Switzerland. We are looking to…
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jordanzakarin: “The thing is, this community has been represented in very disrespectful ways, falling most of the time into the cliche, and without that complexity and diversity that it has.” – Diego Luna, on the representation of Latinos in Hollywood films. His Cesar Chavez biopic is the only studio release due out in 2014 about a…
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Mario Praz (1896-1982) was a historian of art and literature. Among literary scholars and art historians, he is best known for a book translated into English as “The Romantic Agony.” It is an erudite and sensible study of themes of death, sexual idiosyncrasy, Satanism, sadism and other horrors in romantic literature. In one passage Praz…
