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“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.” 

 "Art is a Lie That Makes Us Realize Truth"

~ Garry Winogrand

Global Traveller: The World Deserves Witnesses  

A witness: someone who sees what the others simply watch. When Leica invented the first 35mm camera in 1914, this allowed people to share their stories and the world around them. Today, as for more than a century, Leica keeps celebrating these witnesses. These are the ones who see everyday beauty, grace and poetry, and the never-ending irony and drama of our human condition, bringing their cameras to the eye in order to frame moments forever.

Garry Gordon: V Lux and M 262 - Leica Masters

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A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your orangutan garden

Australian culture

Culture in crisis: Arts minister Tony Burke slams ‘decade of neglect’

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OVER 20 YEARS AGO, THEY CIRCLED THE WAGONS AROUND MICHAEL BELLESILES, TOO:  When activist historians redefine ‘plagiarism’ to protect their own. Now it’s Kevin Kruse.

The discoveries about Kruse’s dissertation came as a shock to the political activist wing of the history profession, where Kruse is a well-known social media star famous for his “Historian here…” twitter threads that purport to correct both real and imagined errors of fact and interpretation by conservative-leaning political commentators. Most conceded that the evidence looked very bad for Kruse, but more than a few of his online fans redirected their ire at me personally for having discovered the similarities. Unfortunately, their decision to “shoot the messenger” was expected. In today’s hyper-politicized academy, evidence is almost wholly subordinate to a far-left ideological narrative.

The same pattern played out a few years ago when I drew attention to a long list of serious historical errors and misrepresentations in Nancy MacLean’s book Democracy in Chains. True to form, several of the exact same parties that lashed out against me over MacLean’s book are now on the warpath over the plagiarism revelations about Kruse.

Much more here.

I’m not a particular stickler on some things people call plagiarism — there’s no such thing as “self-plagiarism,” for example, any more than you can kidnap yourself — but the wagon-circling here is notable. As is the changing of standards to fit the needs of the moment.

What Will TV Watching Be Like In 15 Years?

Streaming could go a lot of different ways, but how will it go? "Streaming broke our TV-watching culture. ... It's totally fractured now, we don't have this communal TV-watching experience that we once had." But things could change. - Wired

When did perfume stop being about sex? (NYT) 

How Artists Are Profiting From Twitter

Beneath Twitter's reputation as a shitposter's heaven, art lovers often prefer it to platforms that promote other forms of content (like Instagram), and artists use it as a portfolio and work-in-progress platform to showcase everything from drawings and pixel art to vector-based illustration and video game development. - Wired

Can NFTs Stop Art Theft?

In theory, artists can indicate that a file containing their work, whether it is digital art or a reproduction of a physical piece, belongs exclusively to them by registering it with a time stamp on a blockchain, a tamper-resistant database. - The Globe & Mail (Canada)

How A Curator, A Librarian, And The FBI Tracked Down Paintings That Were Stolen 50 Years Ago

Do art auction houses have a responsibility not to sell stolen goods? This case would seem to say there's no such responsibility. And the statute of limitations has passed. But the researchers are still on the case. - The New York Times

The Federal Bureau of Tweets: Twitter Is Hiring an Alarming Number of FBI AgentsMintPressNews (Kevin W). We linked to another report on this practice, but this one has good detail.

D.C. Power Players Are Paying Thousands of Dollars to Find Dates Politico. The finding part is not what they are paying for. It’s the snooping part. Paul R flags this section

Being more co-operative than other animals, humans are attracted to people who are honest or open. Showing signs of stress or weakness is a good way to demonstrate such trustworthiness, which is useful.

If you want to be more likeable at work, try showing more stress Nail-biting and lip-chewing could actually be the key to winning friends and achieving professional success.

If you want to be more likeable at work, try showing more stress