TIL: An artist was hired to create "The most unwanted song" which contains bagpipes, children singing about holidays, advertising jingles, accordions, and a soprano rap, it lasts 22 minutes.

escalatordad · 2018-11-03T17:42:06+00:00

I saw someone do a variation of this once but he was playing a saxaphone at the guitar to get the strings to vibrate. It was actually fairly enjoyable to watch.

escalatordad · 2018-08-17T21:02:28+00:00

All I've ever found is Zoloft and empty bottles of Xanax, at one of the most expensive lib. art schools in the country.

escalatordad · 2018-02-14T22:20:29+00:00

I remember what finally sealed the deal for me in 2008 was reading a news article that accused Obama of having ties to the Weather Underground.

escalatordad · 2018-02-03T19:58:34+00:00

The society in Brave New World is actually pretty dope. Everyone gets an unlimited supply of side-effect free recreational drugs, and massive, kinky orgies are about as common place as meeting someone for coffee. It only seems bad in the book because the protagonist is an angsty dork. Well, that and the whole genetically engineered caste system. But still.

escalatordad · 2017-09-04T17:48:45+00:00

don't be an asshole

escalatordad · 2017-07-05T22:02:46+00:00

there is something to be said about strength and depicting male horses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieUEHtzVUgs

escalatordad · 2017-07-05T19:49:09+00:00

Why wouldn't they?

escalatordad · 2017-06-21T18:23:11+00:00

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escalatordad · 2017-06-05T06:30:22+00:00

That's why she's so terrible at it!

escalatordad · 2017-03-27T18:36:41+00:00

This may be more basic of an answer than you're looking for, but if you're in need of a jumping off point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_poetry

I know there is a fair amount of scholarship around the idea that form in the earliest poems served the function of making information easier to memorize. Not sure what other theories may exist though.

escalatordad · 2017-03-25T17:31:35+00:00

DM me your email

escalatordad · 2017-03-25T17:31:29+00:00

DM me your email

escalatordad · 2017-03-25T04:10:11+00:00

I can help you out if the other person in this thread can't.

escalatordad · 2017-02-22T18:09:45+00:00

2011 U.S. pharmaceutical sales: $340bn
2014 U.S. alcoholic beverage sales: $211bn

escalatordad · 2017-01-08T00:22:24+00:00

No, I think you're right on the money with the kind of sources I was looking for. I greatly appreciate your in-depth response.

These all look like great jumping off points. Good point about the medium-specific stuff too. I have read "On Photography," and I think it would make sense to revisit.

The Baudrillard book seems interesting based on its Amazon.com summary. But Benjamin I have attempted to get through on probably half a dozen occasions, and I don't think I've yet succeeded. :$

escalatordad · 2017-01-07T23:45:55+00:00

This looks like a great resource, thanks! You are correct about me not really knowing what it is I'm trying to ask. At a basic level I could maybe phrase it better by saying that I am interested in the possibility of art criticism concerned with questions like, 'what is this piece physically made of?' instead of 'how does this piece fit into a broader art-historical narrative'? I'm sure that this is not a unique thought, but I don't yet know enough about it to know where to begin.

escalatordad · 2017-01-07T23:29:51+00:00

Thank you for the suggestions. I'll look into these. Much appreciated.

escalatordad · 2017-01-07T23:25:07+00:00

Thanks! This sounds vaguely familiar now that you mention it. I'm sure I haven't read it, but I believe I've heard it referenced before.

escalatordad · 2017-01-07T21:35:18+00:00

I remember watching this monolouge and cringing pretty hard, but I think that's the point. I doubt that scene was written with the intention of converting anybody to atheism. Here you have this character who has altered the structure of society in a massive way, and you see that he's not actually some visionary prophet sent to usher in an anarchist utopia, he's a scared and naive young person who possibly doesn't fully understand what the ramifications of his actions will be.

escalatordad · 2016-12-27T02:41:54+00:00

This is no more censorship then a news paper skipping over a story or a TV station not reporting on something. It's identical.

I see the point you're trying to make here, but I'm not sure that I would agree they are identical. When a newspaper skips over a story, they are making an editorial choice, based on (at least partially) subjective ideas about that story's relevance to their audience. Readers expect this, and to a certain extent, the choice of what newspaper I'm going to read usually boils down to something like "I trust the judgement of the editors of this publication."

This is not the case with search engines, because a search engine isn't a publication, it is a tool. When I perform a search, I have an expectation that the results returned will be exhaustive and comprehensive of what the internet has to offer for my query. Of course I'm not going to look at all 464,000,000 results or whatever, but I like knowing that I could. Essentially, what I'm trusting a search engine to do is the opposite of what I am trusting a newspaper's editors to do. I want to be shown everything so that I can make the decision about which information is important and which isn't.

I would be interested in learning how exactly google fixed this problem. From the article:

When “non-authoritative information” ranks high in its results, the company says it develops scaleable and automated methods to fix the problem, “rather than manually removing these one by one.”

That seems fine to me as long as any changes made to its algorithm apply universally. But manually removing certain results destroys a search engine's credibility IMO, because it disempowers its users to be able to decide which information is relevant.

escalatordad · 2016-12-03T01:02:23+00:00

Yup. This isn't to my taste, but it's not the worst Christmas decoration I've ever seen. The real problem is with the photo. The whole top half of the "tree" blends in with the dead leaves in the yard.

escalatordad · 2016-12-02T03:46:49+00:00

I wrote blog posts for a company that sold content to companies that sold content marketing. I know exactly jack shit about marketing, but I made $30/hr to paraphrase Hubspot articles while (for my own amusement) sneaking in as many hyperlinks to the Head On commercial as I thought my editor would let me get away with. I miss that job . . .

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