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The Awe of Authenticity
Pictures Talk, Photography Connects
Liz Linder is a Boston-based photographer who uses images to tell stories that matter.
From corporate marketing to campus culture — to diverse work for artists, writers and thinkers, Linder creates photographs that illuminate, communicate and connect — telling candid stories with lasting emotional impact.
Aaron Siskind – Literally Abstract
“If he wasn’t the first, Aaron Siskind was certainly the preeminent abstract expressionist photographer. The abstract details he presents as new hyper-flat surfaces stand independent of their original subjects.”
Other links with the relevant images were all just selling prints.
“I don't think it's a bell of significance”
Looks pretty significant.
This 4 ton bell was hung in the old Brookline town hall. It was saved from demolition in 1965, and returned to the grounds of the new town hall in 1985.
Surveillance capitalism
David Smith’s Voltri-Bolton X, and Voltri Bolton IX. Photograph: NYT
Shoshana Zuboff: ‘Surveillance capitalism is an assault on human autonomy’
by Joanna Kavenna
What began as advertising is now a threat to freedom and democracy argues the author and scholar. Time to wake up - and fight for a different digital future
... not you, Siri, sheesh.
Aboriginal Rock Art Hand Stencils
The earliest form of Kimberley Rock Art (35,000 BCE) is Hand stencils. Hand stencils exist throughout Australia and much of Indonesia.
Random Actor
Edward Wadsworth “Dazzle ship” woodcuts
Camouflaged Ship in Dry Dock (1918).
“Wadsworth’s prints, which include a few dazzle ships, are the kind of bold black-and-white art I always enjoy seeing, pictures that push their representations to the edge of abstraction. ”
Modern art = I could have done that + Yeah, but you didn't
Hard to find on the artist's website, but it's there.
The 4-day workweek works
The four-day workweek is proving to be the gift that keeps on giving.
Companies that have tried it are reporting happier workers, lower turnover and greater efficiency. Now, there's evidence that those effects are long lasting.
