“I would say aged 37 I went through a complete midlife crisis. There’s this thing with an artist, you have to be very careful your self worth is not bound with your work. You’re not a bad person if you get one star. I started to meditate and I’m very proud of that and I started to work with a different community of people, and I started to work in service and sat with people in a hospice who were dying of cancer, I worked with Zen Bhuddist monks, I started to teach more.”
Tag: 12.20.16
There’s Another Most-_________ Artistic Material That Only Anish Kapoor Is Forbidden To Buy
This one is (allegedly) the world’s most glittery glitter, it’s called Diamond Dust, and it’s created by the same artist who created the world’s pinkest pink – and barred Anish Kapoor from using it, too. (All because of that damned blacker-than-black.)
What Is The Speed Of Human Thought?
“Human thought takes time to form, and so the ‘right now’ that we’re experiencing inside our skulls is always a little later than what’s going on in the outside world. .l. So, in a sense, the future has already happened – we’re just not aware of it yet. To make things even more complicated, the different senses operate at different speeds.”
How An 18th-Century Presbyterian Minister Helped Create Modern Computer Science, Forensic Science, And Brain Science
In 1748 David Hume argued, inter alia, that the probability of witnesses inaccurately claiming to have witnessed the risen Jesus was greater than that of Jesus actually rising from the dead. For the Reverend Thomas Bayes, this was simply not acceptable.
For Eight Years, A Ballet Company Performed At Austin’s Funkiest Hippie Bar
From the fall of 1972 to December 1980, the Austin Ballet Theatre appeared monthly at the now-legendary Armadillo World Headquarters. The cover charge ran from $1 to $3; beer was ¢35.
‘Creative Hubs’ May Be The Thing Every City Wants, But They’re ‘Still Largely Misunderstood And Undervalued’, Says Report
“The British Council report, ‘Creative Hubs: Understanding the New Economy’, finds the tendency to conflate creative hubs with cultural quarters, clusters of economic activity and creative zones ‘unhelpful’.”
Is This The World’s Coolest New Library?
Inside, there’s the collection of books, a center for city government services,
a computer center, a cafe, lecture halls, playgrounds, and an interactive floor; outside, there’s an even bigger playground and a giant tubular bell that rings every time a baby is born in town. Down below is a parking lot run by robots.
How Women Changed The Television Industry In 2016
“It was a year when gender equity, racial visibility, and opportunity dominated the conversation in the entertainment industry and beyond. Provocative, representational, and entertaining content about women and for women was as crucial as ever. It was also a year when the best new programming and the strongest of the returning fare—Shonda, Lena, Tina, Rachel: We see you—was created by, starred, and concerned women, while demanding to be consumed by everyone.”
Experimental Music, Listenability And Progress (Much To Say)
“The history of the French salons in the 19th century, and of the early reactions to musical and literary modernism, has made people aware of how easy it is to miss the true creative product, and to exalt the dead and the derivative in its stead. The safest procedure for the anxious bureaucrat is to subsidize music that is difficult, unlikely to be popular, even repugnant to the ordinary musical ear. Then one is sure to be praised for one’s advanced taste and up-to-date understanding. Besides, if a work of music is easy to assimilate and clearly destined to be popular it does not need a subsidy in any case.”
The Campaign That Made Marshall McLuhan Famous (A Study In Fame)
“Understanding Media garnered a few mainstream print reviews upon publication, but McLuhan’s break came in early 1965, when a pair of San Francisco prospectors — one, Gerald Feigen, a physician, the other, Howard Gossage, an ad-agency executive — “discovered” McLuhan and promptly arranged to visit the Canadian in Toronto. Feigen and Gossage were self-fashioned avant-gardists, using profits from their business consulting firm for “genius scouting”; the doctor read Understanding Media and alerted his partner. Together they plotted a full-fledged publicity rollout, starting with cocktail parties in New York City with media and publishing figures.”