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Five Lessons From The Digital Revolution 

How did the most imaginative innovators of our time turn ideas into realities? Why did some succeed and others fail?

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WALTER ISAACSON

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The Great Connectors: The Digital Revolution’s Most Pivotal Moments

Just as the Industrial Revolution was driven by combining the steam engine with ingenious machinery, the Digital Revolution has been driven by two great innovations: the personal computer and the Internet. 

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WALTER ISAACSON

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Digital Vellum: Google's Vint Cerf warns of 'digital Dark Age'

Vint Cerf, a "father of the internet", says he is worried that all the images and documents we have been saving on computers will eventually be lost.

By Pallab Ghosh

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-31450389

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The interspecies internet? An idea in progress

Apes, dolphins and elephants are animals with remarkable communication skills. Could the internet be expanded to include sentient species like them? A new and developing idea from a panel of four great thinkers — dolphin researcher Diana Reiss, musician Peter Gabriel, internet of things visionary Neil Gershenfeld and Vint Cerf, one of the fathers of the internet.

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Árstíðir - Heyr himna smiður (Icelandic hymn) in train station

Download MP3s http://goo.gl/M8xQPG Buy sheet music: http://goo.gl/mZRSti Facebook us: http://facebook.com/arstidir iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/svef... Singing the 13th century Icelandic hymn "Heyr himna smiður" at the train station in Wuppertal, Germany. Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Svefns-og-v%C3%... Amazon.de: http://www.amazon.de/Svefns-Og-V%C3%B... Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/music/a... "Heyr, himna smiður" was written by Kolbeinn Tumason in 1208. The music was composed in the 1970s by Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson (1938-2013), one of Iceland's foremost contemporary composers. Germany, September 15, 2013 http://arstidir.com Lyrics: Heyr, himna smiður, hvers skáldið biður. Komi mjúk til mín miskunnin þín. Því heit eg á þig, þú hefur skaptan mig. Eg er þrællinn þinn, þú ert drottinn minn. Guð, heit eg á þig, að þú græðir mig. Minnst þú, mildingur, mín, mest þurfum þín. Ryð þú, röðla gramur, ríklyndur og framur, hölds hverri sorg úr hjartaborg. Gæt þú, mildingur, mín, mest þurfum þín, helzt hverja stund á hölda grund. Send þú, meyjar mögur, málsefnin fögur, öll er hjálp af þér, í hjarta mér.

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There is a photo in the booklet of a young Stevens, at the table, eating a banana. It's one of a few photos in the booklet that seem to depict some of those Oregon summers: a beach spotted with rocks, a small half-painted wooden house near trees and hills. His look is not happy or sad; he's just a kid at a table, eating. But there's something melancholic there, something maybe you add onto it after listening to Carrie & Lowell, but something real nonetheless: His mother is standing beside him. She's not looking at him, but she's there. (She appears in three shots, and in none of them can you see her eyes.) You imagine Lowell took the picture (on the back of the booklet you see his reflection in the mirror of a photo taken of Carrie crocheting). It's a haunting feeling that that little kid, years later, would create a masterpiece so knowing about suffering, sadness, death, and loneliness. In that photo, though, he's still a kid, with all those kid hurts, trying to make sense of the world. And, at least for that moment, he's close to his mother. And it seems like maybe he's happy.

By Brandon Stosuy

Here, Pitchfork. 

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The Doleful Kinship of Mark Kozelek and Louis C.K. by Kirk Walker Graves

The song’s title is a nod to an American ritual of measuring our lives with a celebrity death — in this case, the death of “Night Stalker” serial killer Ramirez. Kozelek is on a flight home to Cleveland to attend a funeral (“Got a death in the family, gotta do some grieving”), mentally noting that public deaths help us “mark time” and go back in our minds to “when we were kids scared of taps on the window.” There is pathos at that remembrance, an innocent fear recalled through the prism of more pressing ones: The ambivalence at seeing a childhood friend “who still lives with his mom/ When he’s not in jail from innocent stalking”; the dread of realizing that your drummer — who’s only a couple of years older than you — is the same age as a recently deceased star (James Gandolfini). In his panicky strumming and staccato delivery of the lyrics, you feel the burden of having to cart around so much accumulated dread.

Both Kozelek and Louis C.K. are mining the same rich soil of loneliness and dignity. Louie is different not only because it’s a fragmentary comedy, but also because it’s told from the external gaze of contemporary culture. In the exhaustively dissected “fat girl rant” from Season 4′s third episode, Sarah Baker points at the camera and asks Louie to imagine: “If you were standing over there, looking at us, do you know what you’d see?” “What?” he replies. “That we totally match.” We laugh with and at Louis, but almost always from outside. In deference to that idea, Season 4 features Charles Grodin as Dr. Bigelow, a delightfully aloof resident of Louie’s building whose magisterial glibness in every interaction — “You know, I’m not entirely sure what your name is, but you are a classic idiot” — stands in for our collective social judgment.

By  Kirk Walker Graves

http://www.wonderingsound.com/feature/mark-kozelek-louis-c-k-louie-benji-connection/

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Peter Doig, BLotter 

Oil on Canvas 249 x 199 cm

Die Person im Bildzentrum sieht wie ein kleiner Junge aus, ist aber eigentlich der Bruder des Malers im Alter von etwa 28 Jahren. Peter Doig wollte jedoch bewusst kein Porträt schaffen, vielmehr ging es ihm um die Darstellung eines Gefühls von Einsamkeit. Die klein wiedergegebene Figur wirkt im grossen Bildgefüge wie verloren, und ihr nach unten gerichteter Blick verstärkt das Moment des Alleinstehens, des In-Sich-Versunkenseins. Auch die fein abgestuften und differenziert aufgetragenen Farben unterstreichen den melancholischen Charakter der Szene. Doig verweist in diesem Zusammenhang auf ein Gemälde Gustave Courbets, dessen Behandlung der Farbe Weiss ihn besonders beeindruckt hat und das eine direkte Inspirationsquelle für das Kolorit dieses Werks war (es handelt sich dabei um Wilderer im Schnee von 1867, das noch bis zum 18. Januar 2015 in der Fondation Beyeler zu sehen ist).

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David Hockney

A Bigger Splash

Artwork details

Artist

David Hockney born 1937

Title

A Bigger Splash

Date1967

MediumAcrylic paint on canvas 96x96 inc.

DimensionsSupport: 2425 x 2439 x 30 mm

Collection

Tate

AcquisitionPurchased 1981

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Townes Van Zandt - Snake Song

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Los Chiriguanos - Subo

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Big Hero 6 frame, by Kevin Dart 

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MUSIC OF THE IRREGULAR SPHERES

The rather tortured title of this post is intended as a humorous reference to the decidedly non-spherical shape of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the target of our Rosetta mission. It also refers to the philosophical concept of ‘musica universalis’ or ‘music of the spheres’, usually attributed to Pythagoras, Ptolemy, and other ancient philosophers and scientists.

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Santa's real workshop: the town in China that makes the world's Christmas decorations

Inside the ‘Christmas village’ of Yiwu, there’s no snow and no elves, just 600 factories that produce 60% of all the decorations in the world

Oliver Wainwright

Via: The Guardian.

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How architecture helped music evolve by David Byrne

As his career grew, David Byrne went from playing CBGB to Carnegie Hall. He asks: Does the venue make the music? From outdoor drumming to Wagnerian operas to arena rock, he explores how context has pushed musical innovation.

Via: TED 

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“War is Over (If You Want It)”

Over on the ImaginePeace website, Yoko Ono invites you to download and share a poster declaring “War is Over (If You Want It)” in over 100 languages — everything from Arabic andAfrikaans to German, Hindi, Tibetan and Yiddish. Those words were first made famous, of course, by Lennon and Ono’s 1971 Christmas/Vietnam War protest song. And though we’re not really closer to achieving world peace four decades later, it’s something we can certainly aspire to.

All posters can be downloaded in various different sizes, with the largest being 3000 x 4000. (Also find small versions that can be loaded as wallpaper onto your smart phone.) Better yet, the posters are made available under a Creative Commons license. To get more of the backstory on John and Yoko’s peace initiatives, watch the clip below.

Via: Open Culture. 

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20,000 Days on Earth

by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard

http://www.20000daysonearth.com/