Will this be a boon to artists? “The experiment seeks to challenge the notion that people who receive public money need to be patrolled and punished, said Horst. The traditional criticism of basic income is that it does not incentivize people to work, and thereby damages the economy.”
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A Struggle For The Soul Of British Dance
“The students don’t believe you when you say it’s not good enough. Don’t take on board how hard you have to concentrate in class. Don’t warm up. Don’t get that you shouldn’t have to tell them more than twice. They just don’t really listen.”
All Of Our Digital Photos Are Going To (Bit) Rot, And We Should Print Them All
“Millions of people could lose their entire photo collections. This may sound trite until you consider that many people even have critical image like the birth of a child stored in the cloud. Not wise. Our entire photographic history from the past decade is literally at risk.”
Millennials Don’t Watch Baseball Live, So Baseball Has Adjusted Completely To Digital Media
Is there a lesson for the performing arts in the story of baseball’s adaptation to social media and mobile-first strategies? (Imagine a StatCast for decibel levels at different areas of the stage during a Mahler, for instance … )
Top Posts From AJBlogs For 07.12.15
Taking Down the Hedges
AJBlog: Field NotesPublished 2015-07-12
Artist Bronzes Writer’s Life and Work in a Store Window
AJBlog: Straight|UpPublished 2015-07-12
The Wolfpack Brothers’ Obsessive Remakes Of Films Show Us How To Do It Right
And for the siblings, who were locked in their apartment all of their lives by their father, things are working out: “The Tribeca Film Institute has commissioned them to reenact a clutch of Robert DeNiro films, while the San Francisco Film Institute hired them to recreate scenes from three iconic films that take place in the City by the Bay: Mrs. Doubtfire, Dirty Harry, and Sister Act.”
How Haiti’s Disasters (And History) Created A New Musical Legacy
“The roots of electronic rabòday can be found in rara, a music older than Haiti itself. It began with the indigenous Taíno people, mixed with rhythms brought from Africa by slaves, and eventually morphed and modernized into a style that today is played by roving musicians throughout the country.”
When DIY Education Came From Someplace Other Than YouTube
“Self-education went beyond solitary reading. For many, literary societies — called ‘the literary’ — marked the highlight of intellectual and social life, as young men and women gathered at night to debate, mingle and flirt. One young woman surveyed her entertainment options in rural Kansas and concluded: ‘We just have the jolliest, best times at the Literary.'”
White Europeans Are Obsessed With Dressing Up As Native Americans. Why?
“Today, Indian clubs from Prague to Potsdam put on elaborate reenactments complete with acres of buckskin outfits while (mostly) waving off concerns about how redface paint and the appropriation of sacred symbols like eagle feathers might play with actual Native Americans.”
Reinventing A Tradition Of African Portraiture
Omar Victor Diop: “I wanted to bring these rich historical characters into the current conversation about the African diaspora and contemporary issues around immigration, integration and acceptance.”