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June 2013

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Jun 14, 201325 notes

May 2013

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May 27, 20132,275 notes
“(…) perhaps the tribe of statisticians will be consoled by the literary scholar Jiro Tanaka, who points out that although Hamlet wasn’t technically written by a monkey, it was written by a primate, a great ape to be specific. Sometime in the depths of prehistory, Tanaka writes, “a less than infinite assortment of bipedal hominids split off from a not-quite infinite group of chimp-like australopithecines, and then another quite finite band of less hairy primates split off from the first motley crew of biped. And in a very finite amount of time, [one of] these primates did write Hamlet.” —Gottschall, Jonathan. The Storytelling Animal, How Stories Make Us Human. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. (via carvalhais)
May 27, 20133 notes

March 2013

3 posts

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Mar 14, 20134 notes
“

Andy Warhol thought in the future everyone would have their 15 minutes of fame. Francois Truffaut believed everyone would be running around with tiny little cameras filming everything. They were both only able to look so far into the future. And of course, both were right in their forecast. However, the micro-fame of video-enabled phones and YouTube is merely the precursor to a ubiquitous cinema in real time. What happens when everything becomes fodder to be recorded and recalled? Do we blur the distinction between real life and cinema? And how does that affect movie making? It’s cinema verite run amok.

If everything is being recorded all of the time, what does that say about performance in the public space? What does that say about the construction of cinema in general? If there is no longer a dividing line between real life and what could be a “movie” proper does real life become more like a film? Do the performances of Mr. Oscar infiltrate our world making us less aware of what is real or a performance? Everything becomes a movie in the making. Or even a movie happening right in front of our eyes. Actualizing itself in real time.

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—My article for the Creators Project - Google Glass And The Birth Of Surveillance Cinema
Mar 6, 20132 notes
#Holy Motors #lev manovich #Google glass #new media cinema #new cinema #soft cinema #surveillance cinema #the glass project

January 2013

4 posts

“The next decade or so will be defined more by fluidity than by any new, settled paradigm; if there is a pattern to all this, it is that there is no pattern. The most valuable insight is that we all are, in a critical sense, in a time of chaos.” —Fast Company on ‘Generation Flux’ (via inthenoosphere)

AMEN

Jan 16, 201352 notes
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Jan 6, 201392 notes
“It would be an hour-long series of drama during the Second World War, and it’s about a team of various kinds of charlatans — stage magicians, a spirit medium, a con artist and so on — who are recruited by British intelligence to perpetrate deceptions against the Nazis.” —

Michael Chabon on an HBO show he and Ayelet Waldman are developing. (via mattfractionblog)

I would watch this. I don’t have HBO and I would buy HBO so I could watch this.

(via costak)

I presume (while doing nothing to look into this) that they are referring to the largely apocryphal Magic Gang, and Jasper Maskelyn. I’d love to see the show.

(via worsethandetroit)

Have been thinking about how to turn the Magic Gang into a screenplay for five years now. Which is a reminder to think less and do more.

And also a reminder that great ideas are in the air, not in our minds.

(via slavin)

Awesome and I agree totally with the last thought

Jan 3, 2013377 notes

December 2012

15 posts

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What some politicians fear most is that this young, educated population reminds them of the Arab Spring and they are demanding change. They fear what they call “the pink revolution”. When people say, as they so often do, that feminism is the preoccupation of a few white middle-class women in the west agonising over whether to wear lipstick or not, I wish they could see these angry men and women out at night demanding that women be safe, who say rape is always a weapon used to keep women in fear.

For something is happening here, anger is overtaking fear. The dam has burst. The debate the politicians want is one of law and order, but the radical one is about how to change the culture itself. And because this is India we are taking about a myriad of cultures. Somehow, though, through the shock and the trauma, this country is examining itself

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—Delhi gang-rape: in India, anger is overtaking fear
Suzanne Moore, Guardian, 31 Dec 2012 (via hautepop)

“Anger is overtaking fear”

This is what needs to happen and what will happen. This is going to start happening more and more. Just wait.

Dec 31, 20128 notes
“I love those who dream of the impossible.” —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Faust (via seabois)
Dec 23, 2012838 notes
you are here.: GIVE THE GIFT OF A GIF! → manbartlett.tumblr.com

manbartlett:

depressedgem-fromhell:

manbartlett:


rainbow resonance study (three variables), courtesy @MuseumNerd

Commission your very own GIF! For a belated Hanukkah present, or just in time for Christmas. Or…just cuz!

For $75 you tell me what color(s) you want, and I’ll make a GIF similar to the one pictured above (and like …

Wait is that a typo? Did you mean 75 cents? Because you should. Whoever pays that much for a gif is stupid.

FWIW, $75 is actually quite reasonable for the commission of an original work of art. These are not some random files I found on Reddit but rather the result of a considerable amount of creative energy and time.

Would $75 for a commissioned painting be too much? Think of these as moving paintings/portraits and you’re on your way to a better understanding of the context for the value of these works.

Also, I recognize it’s an uphill battle positioning digital work among more “traditional” art, but history will vindicate us on this, even if reblogs won’t. But speaking of which, thanks for the reblog regardless! :)

a-fucking-men

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Dec 7, 201285 notes
People will be people, online and offline → anxiaostudio.com

anxiaostudio:

Some thoughts on two short essays I read recently in the NYT and The Atlantic.

And this, to me, is where I can’t agree with either writer: social media aren’t simply tools, like a hammer or a wrench. They’re spaces, like a house or a car. We don’t just communicate through Facebook and Twitter, we extend our lives through them.

I would argue the issue is with seeing social media as a means to an end rather than a way to enhance physical interaction after the fact.

Yes, they are spaces, but they should not be destinations nor should the be the only spaces we inhabit. They should be spaces insofar that they are conduits or bridges across gulfs that make our interactions in person more robust and various.

Dec 6, 20123 notes
“The ability to make many small mistakes in a hurry is a vital accomplishment for any society that intends to be sustainable. It’s not necessary that every experience be sensible, logical or even sane—but it’s vitally important to register, catalog and data-mine the errors.” —Bruce Sterling, Shaping Things (via ubuwaits)
Dec 6, 201211 notes
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