Nov
7
Brilliant Mort Meskin work up recently from The Fabuleous Fifties.
25 Times a Second
A feast in a time of plague.
“Wait, a simple game where the player is encouraged to refrain from acting on the world. As the player moves the world disappears, but when the player waits, the world becomes more interesting. The majesty is found in the slow, controlled effort. Players are awarded points when the little things in life reveal themselves.”
2010 IGF Main Competition entrant Wait by Critical Gameplay.
“This said, the basic idea presented here is that there are two “principles” that art may exist in, the autonomous (prestige is accorded to artists by other artists) and heteronomous (where quality is judged by sales or performance within the market). The comics Beaty is looking at are more-or-less governed by the autonomous principle. This seems like a really old, really trivial idea, and not particularly interesting. It’s the difference between art-for-arts-sake and selling out, between integrity and stardom, between being an artists’ artist and being a people’s artist. But when combined with the notion mentioned above—that editors and agents and publishers are the determiners of value—the difference becomes more complex. Because as soon as an editor (or gallery owner) decides to take a chance on you, success in the market starts coming into play.”
The Great God Pan Is Dead: Comics As Art in Europe
Merle Haggard, “Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down”, 1968. Seen first at Bear Family Records.
“Our data shows substantial support for a cognitive theory known as ‘motivated reasoning,’ which suggests that rather than search rationally for information that either confirms or disconfirms a particular belief, people actually seek out information that confirms what they already believe. “In fact,” he says, “for the most part people completely ignore contrary information. “The study demonstrates voters’ ability to develop elaborate rationalizations based on faulty information,” he explains.”
How We Support Our False Beliefs seen first at Naked Capitalism.
batlle and roig architects: cages for macaws at the barcelona zoo, 2009 Design Award winners at the World Architecture Festival. via designboom.
Bustler: Australian Institute of Architects 2009 National Architecture Awards. Pictured above: Freshwater House by Chenchow Little Architects.
Nov
6
Jaws, the Manga. Via An Eternal Thought in the Mind of Godzilla, seen first at Toronto J-Film Pow Wow.
Architecture of Blurred Borders: Poland’s Shanghai Pavilion via Blueprint UK.
Hugo Pratt, genius. Via Comic Historietas, Tebeos.
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