The technique known as kintsugi (“golden seams”) or kintsukuroi (“golden repair”) developed in Japan around 500 years ago, and it’s still in use, and even spreading, today. As Casey Lesser reports, “not only has kintsugi been adopted and adapted by leading contemporary artists, these days, one can take kintsugi lessons and find self-help and wellness books that use it as a metaphor for embracing flaws and imperfections.”
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Video Gaming Heads To The Cloud. And That Opens New Possibilities
The cloud is the future of videogaming, and it could arrive sooner than many players expect, with important implications for investors. Once pricey hardware is no longer necessary and top-tier games can run on two year-old smartphones, even casual gamers will become candidates for the latest releases from Electronic Arts (ticker: EA) and its peers.
Scottish Ballet’s Growing Program For Parkinson’s Patients
“Classes are already running at Dance Base in Edinburgh and Scottish Ballet in Glasgow and a £295,000 grant from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation will help the programme expand to Greenock, Kilmarnock, Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness. Research has shown that dance can help people with the degenerative disease physically, mentally and socially.”
Why Brutalist Architecture Doesn’t Work On Social Media
When Tumblr users reblog photographs of brutalist architecture, they turn them into pieces of furniture for their own pages. On Instagram, the effect of reblogging, or posting found images on a user’s feed, is to create of visual map to the user’s identity. There’s nothing wrong with this practice per se; it’s a very democratic way to access visual culture. But the social aspect to social media has turned the cultivation of aesthetics into an exercise in personal branding.
What Made Sigmund Freud Co-Write A Hatchet-Job Biography Of Woodrow Wilson?
For that we can credit (if that’s the word) one William C. Bullitt, friend and former patient of the Herr Doktor and a journalist, author, off-and-on diplomat, lecturer and inveterate schemer whom Ben Yagoda, in this article, likens to a real-life Zelig.
Rise Of The Instagram Museums
We might call this “new genre” the Instagram museum. Operating under the guise of installation art, its exhibits are seemingly designed to attract the kind of visitor whose main purpose for visiting is to share the photographic evidence of their visit on social media. The insta-museum arrives amidst an existential crisis for museums of old, which have, in recent years, tried everything from mini-golf to Snapchat in a bid to attract wider audiences.
Hyperpolyglots: The Mysterious Brains Of The People Who Can Speak A Dozen Or More Languages
Judith Thurman (who speaks only three languages and came to grief with Vietnamese) meets with several of these savants to find out what (including any special neurological features) makes them tick.
The Untranslatable Japanese Phrase That Keeps The Entire Country Running
Yoroshiku onegaishimasu. “It’s a crucial term in Japan heard every single day in thousands of contexts. But it’s really hard to come up with a simple, easily translatable definition. And some foreigners might find it completely baffling.”
Why Do Czechs Love Puppets So? Because Puppets Saved The Czech Language
It all goes back to the ugliness of the Thirty Years War and the rule of Emperor Ferdinand II, who, in addition to killing or throwing out all the Protestants, imposed the German language on the Czech Estates.
New Artistic Director Gets Started At Ballet Idaho
Says Garrett Anderson, “I want to create a company in which the dancers won’t just be relegated to the studio. They will understand the organization in a more holistic way, and feel a sense of agency that is not limited to choreography. That ownership will then allow them to take the choreography to a new level.”