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Sunday, February 06, 2022

How Do You Know You’re Not Living In A Simulation? (No, Really…)


“... be desperate to live and to

love a little bit recklessly,

caution is a luxury 

for those who have 

endless days to be patient

- we don’t

- everything is temporary ...”

 

 

“... it’s all about time 

- that’s what makes 

it such an adventure ...”

Poems of Dancers



Gaze changers: the story of female streetcar  photography – in pictures








Writing for a living is, for some reason or other, the only occupation to which people still ascribe a species of demonism. This state of affairs is probably the last legacy of 100 years of bad romanticism, the writer possessed, the writer post-epileptic. So that to the odd but recurring question, how do you go about writing, all sensible answers are necessarily unsatisfactory and are generally met with the same impatience and brushing aside. Says Horgan: one must serve a long apprenticeship with patience and humility and a willingness to learn. “I have never ceased being amazed at the almost unanimous expectation of students (graduate and undergraduate alike) who look to the publication and the success of the very first works they commit to paper.”



Cartoon images of apes, robots, and aliens are selling for millions of dollars. Is this really the future of art? 

INSPIRED IN PART BY ALL THE JEWISH Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Songs, the Forward decided it was time to rank the best Jewish pop songs of all time. You can find the whole list and accompanying essays here.





“Theatres are unique,” says Benos, who was appointed by the centre-right government last year to oversee the resuscitation of the fire-ravaged island of Evia on account of his holistic approach to regeneration. “From antiquity, they are the only monuments to have had the same use. Because of their harmony, their architectural beauty and their relationship to the natural environment, people have a particular fondness for them. It’s why they’re so symbolic.”


Why Art Ought To Be A Daily Habit


What was the TED Talk? And what happened to the tech-enabled, utopian future it envisioned? 


How Do You Know You’re Not Living In A Simulation? (No, Really…)

Why Are Demands For Book Bans Increasing?

Parents, activists, school board officials and lawmakers around the country are challenging books at a pace not seen in decades. The American Library Association said in a preliminary report that it received an “unprecedented” 330 reports of book challenges, each of which can include multiple books, last fall. - The New York Times

 

What Does A City Benefit When Hollywood Comes To Town?

"It's fine to boast about having Amazon and Netflix in our back yard but if they got a better tax credit in France or Mexico, they'd go there. We have amazing landscape, brilliant, technicians, writers, actors but we're not really nurturing the next generation." - BBC


Dissent: Against Joan Didion

Nothing ever seemed to excite her or faze her or disappoint her, largely because she set her sights so low to begin with. - The New York Times

Online Dating Apps: Your Taste In Music Is A Disqualifier

On dating apps, music taste has become one of the primary ways of signalling one’s suitability as a mate – and how, by reducing people to profiles of their likes and dislikes, this taste has been weaponised. - The Guardian

Does Anyone Understand Method Acting?

Strasberg began to think about what made some performances succeed and some fail, and concluded that it must have to do with whether or not the actor was feeling inspired. This presented its own dilemma. - The New Yorker