Tag: art
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The Internet is not immortal
The way we talk internetology, you’d think we believe the internet’s going to be around forever. The ways we use the cloud, our emails, social networks all point to our basic assumption of internet permanency. But there are things we should consider that factor into the internet’s mortality: Physical property As of now, all internet…
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040: Why We Will Never Make Artificial Intelligence
Watch me work: I’m going to make a statue from created things. See there? Made it. I’m going to make three statues out of clay marble steel. See there? Made it. I’m going to make a statue of an older me making three statues of clay marble steel. See there? Made it. I’m going to…
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036: Making Noise or “The Self-Replicating Nanobot that Consumes Everything While Replicating itself, Leaving the Entire World in an Amorphous Blob of Grey-Goo”
I am going to write 1,000 words. Ready? This is one-thousand words in one paragraph, it’s awesome. This is one-thousand words in one paragraph, it’s awesome. This is one-thousand words in one paragraph, it’s awesome. This is one-thousand words in one paragraph, it’s awesome. This is one-thousand words in one paragraph, it’s awesome. This is…
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Two Approaches to Art
If art’s an island, then you can get to her by two approaches. The first is the most common direction, the direction that seems most obvious, the broad way. Everyone who survived this direction once erected a lighthouse to persuade people from all over to enter by that side of the island. That house, if…
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A Near-Death Experience for Poetry
Our nation’s in crisis and doesn’t even know it. “What are you talking about, Lance, of course they–” Not like that. The moment you ruin funding for the arts, the moment music becomes an elective, the moment you have more copywriters than poets, you start down into absurdity. The poets are always the first to…
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Sitting at the feet of : a Fashion Photographer (2 of 2)
photo courtesy 9art Photography Continued from last week’s Ask the Experts… “Two weeks later this kid came in and it looked like she’d tried to gouge her arm out with a broken pop bottle and I said, ‘My God, did you do that to yourself?’ And she said, ‘yes, I did.’ And I said, ‘Are…
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Sitting at the feet of : a Fashion Photographer (1 of 2)
photo courtesy 9art Photography Thirty years ago, Brian DeMint went to Missouri Southern for art—the worst art degree he could have earned at the time. Only one of his teachers, in his opinion, was a true artist–Darrel Dishman. In spite of Darrel’s watercoloring, Brian quit and went to work for Empire for thirty-three years. “What…