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Your Storytelling Brain – Think Tank – Big Think
Your Storytelling Brain | Think Tank | Big Think.
Cognitive Neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga, a pioneer in the study of hemispheric (left vs. right brain) specialization describes ”the Interpreter” – a left hemisphere function that organizes our memories into plausible stories. Less romantic, perhaps, than Gone With the Wind, the Interpreter may help to explain our species’ profound relationship with storytelling.
Krapp’s Last Tape
http://ubu.com/film/beckett_krapp.html
Duration: 52 minutes
An extraordinary study of mortality, creativity and memory. A 69-year-old man sits alone on his birthday and listens to recordings of his past. A rare chance to see the sell out performance of Samuel Beckett’s critically acclaimed play, starring Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter.
The Best of Open Culture 2011 | Open Culture
The Digital Divide: Arguments for and Against social networking – Mark Bauerlein – Google Books
The Digital Divide: Arguments for … – Mark Bauerlein – Google Books.
Twitter, Facebook, e-publishing, blogs, distance-learning and other social media raise some of the most divisive cultural questions of our time. Some see the technological breakthroughs we live with as hopeful and democratic new steps in education, information gathering, and human progress. But others are deeply concerned by the eroding of civility online, declining reading habits, withering attention spans, and the treacherous effects of 24/7 peer pressure on our young.
J. D. Salinger: Seeing The Glass Family – Literary Kicks
J. D. Salinger: Seeing The Glass Family | Literary Kicks.
After the success of “Catcher in the Rye”, J. D. Salinger began writing almost exclusively about a fictional family, the Glass siblings of New York City, from various narrative points of view. The sublime short books “Franny and Zooey” and “Seymour/Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenters” were about the Glass children, and Salinger’s most famous short story “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” tells the chilling tale of Seymour Glass’s suicide in a Florida hotel room. Most of these stories are fractured narratives containing reflections of reflections of the Glass children, usually related in dialogue and allegedly recorded by the mild, stealthy older brother, Buddy Glass.
A few months ago, writer Michael Norris and artist David Richardson began working together on a project to imagine the faces of the Glass family members. This represents a creative first, as far as we know, because no well-known film, play or art project has ever emerged to represent these characters. Michael and David previously illuminated
Marcel Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time” for Literary Kicks, and David Richardson drew the cover for “Beats In Time“, the new Literary Kicks Beat Generation anthology..
via J. D. Salinger: Seeing The Glass Family | Literary Kicks.
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Digital arts and the imagination by Rachel Coldicutt – GetAmbITion
Digital arts and the imagination by Rachel Coldicutt – GetAmbITion.
This article by Rachel Coldicutt, @rachelcoldicutt – originally appeared as an inspiration essay for Arts Council England & BBC’s launch of The Space – an experimental digital arts media service and commissioning programme that could help to transform the way people connect with, and experience, arts and culture.
via Digital arts and the imagination by Rachel Coldicutt – GetAmbITion.
Old Jews Telling Jokes
Old Jews Telling Jokes: What’s This Thing All About?
This season’s jokes were shot in a historic soundstage in Hollywood. Yes, that Hollywood. Tinsletown. The Dream Factory. Shooting there felt like we had come a mighty long way from our humble beginnings in an empty storefront in Highland Park, New Jersey. (In actuality it was 2768 miles, if you take 1-40, the Southern route, which you might want to do with the weather we’ve been having up North.)
What’s in store for culture in Scotland after the budget cuts « 21st century culture
What’s in store for culture in Scotland after the budget cuts « 21st century culture.
Anne Bonnar is an advisor, consultant and developer in the arts, culture and creative industries based in Scotland. She specialises in working with artists and policy makers on strategic change and in designing and leading organisational change and development. She has a particular interest in developing innovative business models for the arts and creative industries in today’s environment and in advising on public policy.
This Space: The Lost Art of Walking by Geoff Nicholson
This Space: The Lost Art of Walking by Geoff Nicholson.
The prospect of a planned, solitary walk can often become off-putting. At first the distance seems daunting, the landscape predictable and the destination uninspiring, so, sitting down, one thinks: what’s the point? Better to stay indoors and do something productive, like, say, read a book. But then reading too seems like too much intellectual effort and one has to get out.
