How far away do creative people fall when they eschew anything but perfected surfaces? What happens when we no longer appreciate the smear of real paint?
Read MoreEQUIVALENCY
Is there one form of creative expression that genuinely rises above all others? Are there creative enterprises that have greater value than others, or is everything equivalent to everything else? Does my poem outweigh your selfie, and honestly, who cares in the first place?
Read MoreREAL TIME
When we shift time and space by perceiving ourselves elsewhere, we’ve transformed our physical lives into something that still doesn’t have an adequate description. Life mediated through screens is life lived some outside of the world.
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A new documentary about life under the corona virus captures voices from around the country with stories of resilience, creativity, and resolve. Called “Navigating the Curve”, the film showcases fresh perspectives on the emerging crisis with intimate first-person accounts of life suddenly and unexpectedly transformed. The 44-minute production appears online. (URL HERE)
Read MoreTHE SURVIVAL INVENTION
How did those who came before manage to endure? We retell and retell and retell, the stories preserving information as much has they preserve motivation.
Read MoreLove in the Time of Corona
I’ve also got a journalistic gene. It goes to the bone and runs in the family. That’s why the travails of our collective current circumstances compel me to action as much as they infiltrate my concentration.
Read MoreCULTURE CRITICS? DO WE STILL CARE?
THE CHALLENGE OF ART IN INTENSELY POLITICAL TIMES
It’s a terrific development in human history that so many people should have the means and mechanisms to create images and sounds and words, but the dilution of importance for the best of those creations threatens the value and continuity of the whole enterprise.
Read MoreBANDERSNATCH
Bandersnatch asks us to question our own autonomy, much like the main character himself questions how and why things are happening to him in the film based on inputs from viewers, the unseen puppet masters.
Read MoreKICKIN’ IT OLD SCHOOL
When there’s no direct reliance on trust, powers of creative perception change. Obligation provokes sensitivity, and sensitivity inspires creative insight.
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