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The Changing Music Business: The Chart
We’ve all heard that the music business is changing, and here, from The Times Online, is a chart to prove it. The red line at the top is the revenue from sales of recorded music. The light green line below that is the revenue from live music. The dark green line below that, “PRS revenue,” is the revenue from royalties. Basically there’s more and more money being spent on live shows and, consequently, more money going… -
Plane Wrecks in the Primeval Landscape
Yesterday, we featured the work of the photographer Richard Mosse, whose series “Breach” documents U.S. soldiers living in Saddam Hussein’s former palaces. Today, Mosse’s striking new series “The Fall” opens at the Jack Shainman Gallery in New York City. It’s a collection of plane wrecks from around the world, and it’s utterly breathtaking. You can see a few photos after the jump. Here’s the description from the Jack Shainman site: The Fall is a photographic survey of our historic… -
Oren Moverman Shot The Messenger
A conversation with the director of a powerful new film about notifying families of our war dead. The Messenger tells the tale of a young soldier, played by Ben Foster (Six Feet Under, 3:10 to Yuma), who has just returned from a brutal tour of duty in Iraq. After he is charged with the task of notifying families when their sons and daughters die overseas, Foster’s character finds himself strangely connected to one of the widows he… -
Gentlemen of Bacongo: Dandies of Sub-Saharan Africa (Updated)
These African dandies have reclaimed the sartorial stylings of the Frenchmen and Belgians who long ago colonized the Congo. You can read about them in Gentlemen of Bacongo, a new book by Daniele Tamagni, which offers a visual tour of a fascinating Sub-Saharan trend. There’s something undeniably awesome about an eye-catching cultural power grab, no? You can see more photos at Jezebel. UPDATE: GOOD contributor (and friend) Jaime Wolf just brought my attention to this excellent Colors piece on Congolese sapeurs. If you’re… -
Picture Show: Breach
In the Spring of 2009, the photographer Richard Mosse traveled to Iraq, where he captured arresting images of U.S. soldiers working and living in what used to be palaces of Saddam Hussein. These visions of western soldiers at rest in imperial palaces are both intensely jarring and oddly playful, and they underscore the seemingly ineffable experience of downtime during a military occupation. The transformation of an imperial palace into a site of temporary housing also speaks to… -
Furry Friends
The Wooster Collective talks to Neozoon about their furry installations, and what they mean for how we view animals. Neozoon’s work is both amusing and arresting. Seeing the playful animals in city centers and on monuments makes us smile. But the subsequent realization that these are actual animal pelts (made from discarded fur coats) creates a feeling of uneasiness. For sure, their message does not go unnoticed. WOOSTER: How do you choose the specific placements? NEOZOON: Finding a place… -
Action, In Words and Pictures
A new book looks at the surprising and inspiring ways people of all stripes can affect social change. With his new book Actions Speak Loudest, Bob McKinnon has brought together some disparate names to explain how change is fueled by action—not just talk. From Newt Gingrich to Donovan McNabb, Jeffrey Sachs to Jimmy Carter, the book illustrates the many ways in which changemakers leave their mark. McKinnon also heads up Yellowbrickroad, a communications and marketing company… -
What Words Reveal
A new tool for computer language analysis can evaluate your mind based on your Tweets (and might help psychologists, too) Unless you’ve been living under a rock or among the molemen, you’ve probably enjoyed the humor of @s–tmydadsays, the popular Twitter account of Justin, who describes himself like so: “I’m 29. I live with my 73-year-old dad. He is awesome. I just write down s–t that he says.” That s–t consists of cranky honesty like “I… -
The Kids Are All Right
Ten9Eight, a new documentary by Mary Mazzio, looks at how turning kids into budding businesspeople may be the antidote to the dropout crisis. When President Obama delivered his stay-in-school speech, reminding students for the umpteenth time that they can’t all grow up to be rappers and basketball players, he caused a stir. It sparked overblown controversy, but it also brought into the national conversation the fact that every year, 1.2 million kids drop out of school—or, one… -
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EyeWriter: Paralyzed Artist Draws with His Eyes
The true beauty of scientific and technological advancements are most evident when they reveal our humanity. Take Tony Quan, also known as street artist Tempt One. Quan is paralyzed, yet with the assistance of the EyeWriter, a custom eye-tracking software, he is still able to continue painting, simply by moving his eyes. http://www.vimeo.com/6376466 Video by Evan Roth. Via Swiss Miss (via Amrit).
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