What do you get when you combine film director David Lynch with a bunch of mathematicians and artists to stage a Parisian art exhibit? “A typically unsettling design” – an exhibit that’s “terrifically engaging and utterly disorienting.”
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To Open Your Mind, Just Draw – Or Watch An ‘Animate’ Video
“Watching an artist draw is like watching magic,” says the man behind the idea for those fantastic animated British lectures. Take a 750-page book, distill it to a speech – and then expand it to a video of artist Andrew Park illustrating the speech? That’s worth millions of hits, and a lot of knowledge.
Cartoonist! Lynda! Barry! Sings, And She’ll Work You Like A Mule
“Narrative, Barry believes, is so hard-wired into human beings that creativity can come as naturally to adults as it does to children. They need only to access the deep part of the brain that controls that storytelling instinct. Barry calls that state of mind ‘the image world’ and feels it’s as central to a person’s well-being as the immune system.”
Fighting Facism With Music (And Words): JanáÄek and Murakami
Haruki Murakami’s new novel, 1Q84, begins with a blast of music “so strange and powerful that it literally propels the heroine, Aomame, out of the taxi and into the subtly changed reality.” That music? LeoÅ¡ JanáÄek’s “Sinfonietta.”
We Can’t Predict The Future. Why Do We Believe We Can?
Daniel Kahneman: “The illusion of skill is not only an individual aberration; it is deeply ingrained in … culture. Facts that challenge such basic assumptions – and thereby threaten people’s livelihood and self-esteem – are simply not absorbed.”