Meanwhile, on another continent
Filed under: Music
November 20, 2009Brief note on the unexpected popularity of “Dark Eyes”.
Archive for November, 2009
John Abercrombie Quartet: Wait till you see her (ECM)
Filed under: Music
November 20, 2009To be sophisticated and thoughtful isn’t exactly to be modern in these times of banality. The John Abercrombie Quartet, however, is precisely that.
Diary of Old
Filed under: Play
November 19, 2009Something old, nothing new, add some blue, to the hue.
The failing collaborate
Filed under: Crowdfunding / Culture / Featured / Theory
November 18, 2009Crowdsourcing, or crowding, is the popular term for creating things together, usually with the net as hub. The process is mediated by the vast amount of collaborate, sociodynamically instituted tools available to the general public. Of late, we’re being led to believe that this process is the panaceum for all of those pesky creative ills we’ve all been waiting for.
Brief note on intellectuals
It strikes me that the more talent someone has, the more likely they are to doubt and question it.
Crimes of the Modern Art Critic
Filed under: Art / Culture / Featured / Pop-culture / Theory
November 13, 2009Given the modern trends in media, and for intents and purposes, academia (much the same thing, really) – the modern art critic has turned into the obedient soldier of whatever politically correct trend currently prevails. These advance patrols of unreason will typically establish all art as a function of gender, race and class.
An unlimited supply of time
Scanning recently published books, and in particular those written by debutant authors is usually a discomforting task. Thin storylines, vague characterisation or downright abuse of language (and not in any creative sense) is par. Will time iconise these works just like they did with the works of the Beat generation? Ginsberg, Burroughs.
Just listen
Video of Esbjörn Svensson Trio, “From Gagarins point of view”.