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Poetry
brooklyn artist

And then I started to think about what a revolution would look like. What if Brooklyn and Manhattan went to war with each other? Somewhere in between a real war and a really big game of Capture the Flag. Except there would be more torture. The streets would run red with tatoo ink and pinstripes.

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What It Feels Like To Be a Creator

Arts and Culture
August Strindberg The Creditors

I had a nagging feeling tugging at me last night as I attended a performance of August Strindberg’s 1888 play, “The Creditors.” I almost feel bad admitting that I wasn’t entirely present for the performance. Instead, I was led astray by a single thought that popped into my head shortly after the play started. That thought was simply that I cannot simply enjoy art for art’s sake any longer.

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A Million New Novelists

Arts and Culture
Blogging Novelists

We are on the verge of seeing a creative explosion in our culture. There is one reason for this: the advent and adoption of self-publishing. In particular, I am speaking of the future outlook for the novel. Although self-publishing effects all artistic forms, photography, video, audio, visual art; the art form that is most immediately affected by self-publishing is creative writing. By a wide margin, most blogs are dedicated to the written word in one form or another.

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Is Social Media a Social Movement?

Arts and Culture
Social Media Meritocracy

We will once again build walls. But they’ll be made of glass this time, not concrete. And we’ll be able to see the inner workings of things. If a book gets published and hits bestseller status. We’ll know why. And it won’t be because of slick packaging. Because everyone can have slick packaging. More so than ever, its what inside that counts.

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Banksy in the Catskills: Exit Through The Gift Shop

Arts and Culture
Exit Through the Gift Shop Banksy Film

Of course, just as I get interested in street art, it’s gotta go and get all shitty on me (and the world). Even if you have been living under a rock, you’ve by now heard about the documentary “Exit Through the Gift Shop,” a look inside the world of international street art, produced by Banksy, the world’s premier street artist. The marketing hype for this movie has involved every kind of overt and covert marketing imaginable including street art showing up in Park City a few days before the movie’s premiere at Sundance. It’s all been very predictable.

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War Is Funny! Armando Ianucci’s “In The Loop”

Favorites
Armando Ianucci's In The Loop

What do you do when your your empire, once the world’s most grand experiment in imperialism, has degenerated into ruin? What do you do when you’ve begun playing second fiddle in foreign affairs to a nation that used to be a remote colonial outpost of yours? What do you when you are so ashamed of your role as prime agitator in the biggest foreign policy blunder of the last generation that you can barely stand to look at yourself in the mirror?

You make perhaps the greatest political comedy movie of all time.

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Bi-Polar Surveillance Society: A Review of We Live In Public

The Movie Reel

What makes Josh’s story so compelling is how such a soft, sensitive and yet clearly damaged young man could also maintain such a keen sense of cultural change. In particular, Josh’s fortune-telling about how the internet could usher in a new kind of consciousness, a shared consciousness whereby everyone’s information and personality were fused together to create something vibrant and human.

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