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Michael Lipsey
Thursday, April 28, 2022
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
Gus Van Sant : 15 Positives
Even as Van Sant successfully works within Hollywood, he is an artist who subverts protocol and pushes standard definitions of character and storytelling, including casting amateur actors alongside Hollywood’s biggest names, as reflected here.
Tuesday, April 26, 2022
Trevor Noah on Musk and Twitter
Trevor Noah processed Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter on Monday night’s Daily Show, after the billionaire Tesla and SpaceX CEO bought the social media company for $44bn.
Twitter’s board had previously said they wouldn’t sell, “I guess they found that edit button after all,” Noah quipped.
“This is actually a historic moment: this is the first time anyone at Twitter has changed their mind about anything,” he added.
Noah wondered why Musk would want to own Twitter, as “it just doesn’t seem like a fun place to supervise right now. It’s like buying Jurassic Park after the power went down and the cages were opened.”
But “by buying Twitter, Elon Musk gets to own one of the most culturally influential publishing platforms in the world”, he explained.
“I mean remember this, think about it. Twitter is how the Arab spring took off, right? Black Lives Matter blew up on Twitter. The #MeToo movement started on Twitter. Trump used Twitter to turn himself from a reality show joke into the 45th president of the United States and a joke.
So owning Twitter gives you more power than the dru store employee with the key to the deodorant shelf.”
Whether you’re into Elon Musk or not, “you’ve gotta admit, it’s pretty crazy that one man is now in control in all of that,” Noah concluded. As a private company “everything that happens on Twitter from now on is up to him. And also whatever strain his weed guy gives him that day.
Monday, April 25, 2022
Impossibly Small Houseplants Crafted from Paper by Raya Sader Bujana
Remember those floral adult coloring books that were all the rage not so long ago?
Maybe you owned one, and relaxed by losing track of time filling in the patterns with color.
One company that picked up on the benefits of creative, meditative activities is LEGO, who began releasing sets specifically for adults. Among these is the Botanicals Collection, comprised of several plant-inspired sets designed with intricate details and a sophisticated darker color palette.
The newest addition to the collection of elegant flora are the Orchid and Succulents sets.
Venice Biennale 2022
Created by Borys Filonenko, Lizaveta German and Maria Lanko.
From Anish Kapoor’s blood-red mirror to Katharina Fritsch’s elephant on a plinth, Guardian photographer David Levene captured the best of the vast international art fair.
Underground Life
Kharhiv, Ukraine
Photograph: Alex Chan Tsz Yuk/Sopa/Rex/Shutterstock
Residents of Ukraine’s second-largest city have been forced to adapt to a new life underground amid the constant threat of Russian aerial attacks.
Sunday, April 24, 2022
Emmanuel Macron Wins Re-Election
One could almost hear the sighs of relief, from Paris to Brussels, and all the way to Washington, as French leader Emmanuel Macron clinched another five-year term in the Elysée Palace.
Though polls narrowed during some points leading up to Sunday’s runoff, Macron eventually beat out far-right nationalist Marine Le Pen in the presidential elections—a contest that risked shattering the Western alliance against Russia, and jeopardizing the very survival of the European Union.
Saturday, April 23, 2022
Red Balance, Maïmouna Guerresi
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