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October 18, 2009 • 6:48 pm 0
What Some People Are Reading
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Sandwich Sunday VII
Some themes this week:
Friends making things; TV; moving images; commerce; periodicals.
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September 24, 2009 • 10:20 pm 0
Curation
I have been thinking recently about curation. I am trying to do these things: 1) be more streamlined in what I listen to/read/watch so that I am only taking on that which a) has proven to be interesting to me previously b) is likely to be interesting to me in future; 2) waste less time; 3) maximise/increase the likelihood of me coming across new and interesting things.
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September 13, 2009 • 12:08 pm 0
(500) Days of YouTube
Saw (500) Days of Summer this week. It was nice. Peter Bradshaw’s Guardian review said it was “weirdly incurious about the inner life of its female lead.” I think he doesn’t get it. I think it is more that the film is about Tom’s failure to see the inner life of Summer. But anyway. There is a good scene with a dance in it. (It is on YouTube but you shouldn’t watch it before seeing the film.) Some of the comments on this one scene on YouTube are interesting.
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