title: Giacomo Glech
artist: Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894
source: National Portrait Gallery
notes: The Frederick Hill Meserve Collection comprises more than five thousand […]
#Art #Design #Museum #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #Culture #Random
https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.81.M807
DANSE - Festival des Premières Chorégraphiques, 5e édition
> La cinquième édition du #Festival des Premières #Chorégraphiques se déroulera du 30 janvier au 2 février 2025.
#Culture #Tunisie #Danse
This a very useful thought-exercise and discussion.
How do we create the society that we want and need, not the one we have?
Amanda Johnston is Texas’ first Black woman poet laureate. She spoke to @TexasObserver about how she’s using her platform to build something bigger — a project called Praisesongs for the People. This involves her recruiting poets from throughout the state to write poems for unsung Texas heroes. Sebastian Páramo wrote about his mother, a school lunch lady, who, he wrote, “taught me to season myself.” Mag Gabbert wrote about the oncologist treating her mother for cancer who, in Johnston’s words, “is carrying hope into each of these families' lives.”
https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-first-black-woman-poet-laureate-praise/
#Literature #Poetry #Books #Culture @bookstodon #AmandaJohnston @blackmastodon #USA #Texas #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
Haaaa c'est tellement trop bien la France ! Pays de la culture toussa !
On se tape toutes les bouses de blockbusters US, même les plus tartes (des tartes à la bouses)., on en fait des indigestions jusqu'à l'overdose !
Par contre on nous zappe totalement les bon films chinois qui font un carton partout sauf chez nous vu que...
Des fois qu'on attrape la communistose c'est ça ?
..même pas eu droit à un doublage FR... ni le un d'ailleurs.
#culture #cinéma #fantasy
Are labels like autism and ADHD more constraining than liberating? A clinician argues diagnosis has gone too far
On vous parlait dans le post précédent de @Thandiwe Muriu Photography ! Il se trouve que les oeuvres de l'artiste kenyane sont très présentes dans l'exposition "Wax" au Musée de l'Homme. L'occasion de faire la focale sur cet event !
A lire ICI :
https://www.theartchemists.com/exposition-wax/
Coup de cœur pour le travail de l'artiste kenyane Thandiwe Muriu Photography !
Pour en savoir plus, c'est dans l'article :
https://www.theartchemists.com/thandiwe-muriu-art-contemporain-africain/
Tunis | Foire internationale du livre : L'affiche de la 39e édition
> #Tunis s’apprête à accueillir la 39e édition tant attendue de sa Foire internationale du #livre, un événement phare pour les passionnés de #littérature et les acteurs du monde de l’édition. L’annonce officielle vient d’être faite, dévoilant l’affiche officielle de cette #manifestation #culturelle d’envergure qui se déroulera du 25 avril au 4 mai 2025, sous un...
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French band Tapeworms fell in love with Japan, got stranded by COVID, and returned years later with a dreamy new album that draws on Japanese cultural nostalgia. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/04/11/music/french-band-tapeworms-tokyo/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #music #tapeworms #band #picopop #shibuyakei
Development on a "Magic: The Gathering" movie is continuing, with Canadian filmmaker Matt Johnson in pole position to direct, according to @Deadline. Johnson has solid indie roots, having co-created the "Nirvana the Band the Show" web series and low-budget films "The Dirties" and "Operation Avalanche" before hitting the relative big time with the well-received "BlackBerry" in 2023. Trading card game Magic: The Gathering is Hasbro's first billion-dollar brand. Here's more.
Ce jeudi 10 avril, plusieurs centaines de travailleurs du secteur de la culture et d'étudiant, ont manifesté à Paris, contre les coupes budgétaires et la remilitarisation
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
"The Great Gatsby" was published 100 years ago today. @npr looks at the continued relevance of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, with its commentary on immigration, race, class, and the liberated "new woman."
#Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon #TheGreatGatsby #FScottFitzgerald #USHistory @histodon #Culture
In books: The Crossing: El Paso, the Southwest, and America’s Forgotten Origin Story is the title of the late Richard Parker’s new rich cultural and political history of El Paso. By virtue of being about El Paso, it’s an adventure into the Other Texas. https://www.texasobserver.org/forgotten-crossings-el-paso/
#books #bookstodon #ElPaso #border #WestTexas #culture #history #Texas @bookstodon
Is #CollegeFootball a microcosm of extractive colonial authoritarian mindsets set to music, accompanied by intermittent violence, with lingering brain trauma?
Talk amongst yourselves!
“Coach tactics of intimidation, coercion, and bullying in college sports are vast, and, we argue, core to the institution’s #culture of control and discipline over exploited players.”
#coaching #leadership #management #institutions
https://www.publicbooks.org/its-just-scary-abuse-and-power-in-college-football/
From our magazine: The El Paso Walmart shooting in 2019, the largest massacre of Mexican Americans in the history of the United States, prompted award-winning journalist Richard Parker to take a second look at what was his family’s hometown during his youth.
https://www.texasobserver.org/el-paso-untold-story/
The last few days I am heavily thinking about Memetics which is an extremely cool idea.
And now LLM Agents become really widespread with new standardization tools and will find their way in _a lot_ of tech we will soon perceive as totally normal.
So I think there will appear memetic viruses (kinda like promt injections) that will infect the current context “of” a model and replicate themselves via websites, data stores, social media posts and general output. There will be semi model agnostic memetic viruses.
It is just a matter of time until they appear in a widespread fashion.
This will kickstart a small industry that will collect vectors of these memetic viruses, kinda like anti virus software made their money in the past.
All this will not work to 100% and there will be eventually an memetic virus that will bypass all these measures. It is more likely it appears randomly then being engineered.
This will lead to widespread awareness of memetic viruses like general propaganda and memetic warfare what will lead to the public demanding to criminalize social media platforms to help to distribute memetic viruses.
This therefore will lead to a full circle back to a non globalized world of values, ideas and concepts, like it was 100 years ago.
Memetic viruses like “it’s ok to be white” or “the world is flat!” that spread over continents and the world, will be contained into their local subcultures or zones.
Political extremism will die down until only highly localized, small groups of individuals will be affected for strong non common perspectives.
The global culture will not have a chance to develop and the world will, yet again, develop strong local cultural values and rituals.
Ethnologists will have a bright future.
Eh oui, la danse contemporaine, ce n'est pas que des gens qui bougent sur une scène. Voici un petit article pour décrypter les arcanes de cet art du corps et du mouvement.
A lire ICI :
https://www.theartchemists.com/comprendre-danse-contemporaine/
Masaki Tsujino’s neo-noir comedy of errors unpacks family dysfunction and middle-class mediocrity. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/04/10/film/the-brothers-kitaura/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #film #masakitsujino #japanesefilm #masaakinakano #hirotaotsuka
Mia’s Simulacrum 