December 2011
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"Good artists copy, great artists steal" -Picasso →
Richard Prince gets sued for appropriating photographs from another artist.
Remember when Rihanna ripped of Ryan McGinley? And then settled out of court with David LaChappele? And then came out with TrainspottingWe Found Love?
Or Beyonce carbon-copied some moves from Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker for “Countdown”?
And fashion designers have been fighting...
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11 Things I learned in 2011
Human beings are not rational creatures. Do not appeal to them as such.
People are not machines. They do not operate as so.
In an age of instant gratification, you can buy everything you want (sex, drugs, alcohol, entertainment), and not necessarily anything you need (love, friendship, intimacy, fulfillment).
Criticism rarely bodes well, praise is always welcome.
Choose your friends wisely....
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What is love? →
….baby don’t hurt me, don’t hurt me, no more. (sung to the tune of Night at the Roxbury theme song). (and that’s the first thing that popped into my head when I saw that question).
Top google query for “what is… ?”
Having too much fun going through Google Zeitgeist’s Top 10 lists. So this is what the whole world is searcing for, eh??
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Angry Gen Y Rant
After months of meek attempts to circumvent the NYtimes paywall (aka, subscribe to @freenytimes on Twitter) and putting up with the inane Spotify ads (nothing worse than getting in a groove and then a Spotify ad plays), I FINALLY purchased subscriptions to both digital services (there was a 50% off Cyber Monday deal on the NYTimes and I figured $5/month was not too bad for unlimited Spotify use).
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What does it mean to (not) work? →
A writer’s journey to capture the tales of the unemployed, and what “work” means to people. Modeled after Studs Terkel Working.
Certainly, as unemployment mounts and job security & pensions are slowly becoming a thing of the past, one has to wonder what “work” means anymore, especially to Gen Y Millenials who want a job that not only pays the rent, but fulfills...
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Juliet + Juliet
David Hallberg and Hee Seo of ABT recently performed on the Colbert Report, with a valiant dance effort by Colbert himself.
I saw Hee Seo debut ‘Juliet’ in Romeo & Juliet at the Detroit Opera House (when she was still in the corps!), and I found this frank interview with her in TimeOutNY.
And discovered in this interview (also in TONY), that Alessandra Ferri’s last...
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“…I look for people who are obsessive about what their obsessed about,...”
– NYMag asks Sally Singer, how do you decide who to hire?
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The New Digital Divide →
Telecommunications, which in theory should bind us together, has often divided us in practice. Until the late 20th century, the divide split those with phone access and those without it. Then it was the Web: in 1995 the Commerce Department published its first look at the “digital divide,” finding stark racial, economic and geographic gaps between those who could get online and those who could...
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“There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
– (via taekim)
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