That would be why the fire department in Cumberland County, Tennessee ordered it closed seven years ago. Horace Burgess, a landscape architect and ordained minister, began building the 97-foot-tall structure around a large white oak in 1992, after, he says, God showed him the design in a vision, and he spent the next 12 years constructing it across the oak and well over a dozen adjacent trees. – The New York Times
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Streaming Has Changed The Ways We Listen To Music
At the moment, at least, people seem to prefer podcasts and music that make them feel as if they’re alone in the room with the performers. And that in turn has an appreciable effect on the kind of music and talk that’s produced. – Irish Times
Is It Still Art If It’s Big-Data Driven?
“I’m generally skeptical of the “big is bad” school of hipster antitrust, particularly if there’s no documented consumer harm from growing bigness. But I also worry that the rise of data-driven creativity could crowd out the traditional kind — and make it harder to find voices and visions we don’t already know.” – Washington Post