Category: Light
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Oxford American | Don’t Bleed on the Artwork: Notes from the Afterlife
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Don’t Bleed on the Artwork: Notes from the Afterlife I’ve been dreaming, I’ve been paying dues I’m not one for the glory And … via Oxford American: Reading this, I picture our customers, generation upon generation of people floating through the ages with their infinite torrent of saved stuff, their evidence of life, the photos…
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Inside the Music Industry’s High-Stakes A.I. Experiments | The New Yorker
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Inside the Music Industry’s High-Stakes A.I. Experiments Lucian Grainge, the chairman of UMG, has helped record labels rake in billions of dollars from streaming. Can he do the same with generative artificial intelligence? via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/02/05/inside-the-music-industrys-high-stakes-ai-experiments In October, Don Was told me about his session with Lyria. He prompted the model with the…
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Sofia Coppola’s Path to Filming Gilded Adolescence | The New Yorker
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Sofia Coppola’s Path to Filming Gilded Adolescence There are few Hollywood families in which one famous director has spawned another. Coppola says, “It’s not easy for anyone in this business, even though it looks easy for me.” via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/01/29/sofia-coppola-profile When Coppola showed her father an early cut of the film, he advised…
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100 Notable Books of 2023 – The New York Times
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100 Notable Books of 2023 Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/11/21/books/notable-books.html Each year, we pore over thousands of new books, seeking out the best novels, memoirs, biographies, poetry collections, stories and more. Here are the standouts, selected by the…
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How a Script Doctor Found His Own Voice | The New Yorker
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How a Script Doctor Found His Own Voice For decades, Scott Frank earned up to three hundred thousand dollars a week rewriting other people’s screenplays—from “Saving Private Ryan” to “The Ring.” Finally, he decided to stop playing ventriloquist. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/01/01/how-a-script-doctor-found-his-own-voice “Part of the exercise was getting all these other voices out of…
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The Global Ambitions of Invader’s Street Art | The New Yorker
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The Global Ambitions of Invader’s Street Art At any given moment, millions of people are attending his expositions, knowingly or not. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/12/18/invader-artist-profile For twenty-seven years, Invader has been decorating the walls, bridges, monuments, tunnels, sidewalks, staircases, railings, gates, curbs, benches, bollards, posts, poles, pipes, columns, fountains, pools, docks, seawalls, roofs, chimneys,…
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Michael Stipe Is Writing His Next Act. Slowly. – The New York Times
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Michael Stipe Is Writing His Next Act. Slowly. How do you reinvent yourself after being a global superstar? The former R.E.M. frontman is still figuring that out. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/03/magazine/michael-stipe-solo-album.html When he wasn’t racing in circles, he was daydreaming. All his life, thoughts, feelings and sensory information have coursed through him at gale force. His attention…
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The Golden Fleece, by Joe Kloc
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The Golden Fleece, by Joe Kloc A historical adventure via Harper’s Magazine: https://harpers.org/archive/2023/10/the-golden-fleece-kloc/ Chris rang him up as Virginia brought out the store’s most expensive paperback, Orgy of the Dead, from 1966, which she estimated was worth about a thousand dollars. The cover featured a painting of a naked woman standing in the fog. Behind…
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Jobless, Divorced, on Probation; a Pandemic Hobby Turned His Life Around – The New York Times
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Jobless, Divorced, on Probation; a Pandemic Hobby Turned His Life Around Danny Cortes was at rock bottom when Covid hit. Then a craft hobby to stay sane during lockdown blew up on social media — and in auction houses. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/nyregion/ice-box-model-nyc.html Danny Cortes was at rock bottom when Covid hit. Then a craft hobby to…
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To Air Is Human
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Can a 55-Year-Old Roadie Learn How to Jump His Mountain Bike? Despite overwhelming concern for his physical well-being, writer and longtime road cyclist Tom Vanderbilt wanted to see what it felt like to take to the air via Outside Online: https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/biking/to-air-is-human/ For my efforts I was rewarded with a more technical blue trail, known as…
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Ari Marcopoulos on the Essential Art of Zines
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Ari Marcopoulos on the Essential Art of Zines The inveterate zine-maker speaks about his artistic practice, learning under Andy Warhol and Irving Penn, and why “everything is worth photographing.” via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/ari-marcopoulos-on-the-essential-art-of-zines/ All through the weekend, as I passed by, there were different people, different characters. I photographed them whenever I saw someone different. When…
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Pilvi Takala and the Art of Awkwardness | The New Yorker
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Pilvi Takala and the Art of Awkwardness The Finnish artist is quietly taking notes as the people around her lose their shit. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/06/19/pilvi-takala-profile Last year, Takala, who lives in Helsinki and Berlin, represented her home country at the Venice Biennale, where a curatorial statement noted that her work explores “how the…