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Unpacking the samples
This ingenious site unpacks the samples of “Feed the Animals” as you listen. If only we could do this with other forms of art:
http://www.gingerninja.org/feedtheanimals/
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Ian
Today’s lesson: Teach your kids to be makers
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Ian
A Kindred Spirit
Lawrence Lessig: I have been doing this for about two years–more than 100 of these gigs. This is about the last one. One more and it’s over for me. So I figured I wanted to write a song to end it. But then I realized I don’t sing and I can’t write music. But I came up with the refrain, at least, right? This captures the point. If you understand this refrain, you’re gonna’ understand everything I want to say to you today. It has four parts:
- Creativity and innovation always builds on the past.
- The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it.
- Free societies enable the future by limiting this power of the past.
- Ours is less and less a free society.
More here…
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Ian
One more tease: “Here’s my favorite example, here: 1928, my hero, Walt Disney, created this extraordinary work, the birth of Mickey Mouse in the form of Steamboat Willie. But what you probably don’t recognize about Steamboat Willie and his emergence into Mickey Mouse is that in 1928, Walt Disney, to use the language of the Disney Corporation today, “stole” Willie from Buster Keaton’s “Steamboat Bill.”
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Ian
Head of a White Horse
More than an ordinary study, this painting is in effect the portrait of a horse. It bears a remarkable resemblance, in conception as well as style, to Gericault’s heroic military portraits of ca. 1814-1815. The firm modeling of the head by means of patches of light and dark and the looming nearness and bigness of the animal’s face
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Ian
The Wreck of the Medusa Begins
Portrait of a Young Man in an Artists Studio
Jamar was a young painter who assisted Gericault durring the work on Medusa in 1818-1819 and lived in his studio at the time. The picture seems to have been known to Gericult’s friend Ary Scheffer who adapted for one of the figures in his painting of The Death of Gericault (1824, Louvre). The signature “T. Gericault” appears on one of the rungs of the chair.
Ian
8:15 am on May 11, 2010
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This is the dude’s book:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0984296107/downandoutint-20