To honor Osamu, my scientist father, by an artist son @iamfujimura. Portrait by Bruce Herman.
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My advice to artists working to pay rent. @iamculturecare
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#FujiFarm contributed in a small way to this good news.
Monarch butterfly numbers climbed 64% this season, thanks in part to the growing number of people creating pollinator gardens. It’s a clear reminder of what shared purpose can accomplish. Look what we did
Their recovery is still fragile, though, so continuing, and expanding those plantings next year remains essential.
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This book by @iamfujimura starts with a reflection of his scientist father who valued beauty and cultivated such a value in his son. Worth a read for a scientist.
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Celebrating our co-founder’s birthday month!
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This fear will never be realized - how can I say this so definitely?
Pattern matching algorithms (misnamed as “A.I.”) can only repeat, rearrange and the scale what is most popular. In other words, if the LLM algorithm can produce a novel, it will do it millions of times once something gains a bit of attention. That will saturate the market and no one would want to read it at all (other than machine reading machines..which is another topic). There is no supply and demand - only supply and more supply.
See what already happened to over-saturation of NFT’s and early videos of simulated videos. While the latter can fool the eye, we are already beyond saturation. NFT was a fad, and only lasted while it was novel and cool. While there will be enduring digital media and pattern matching expressions (including certain NFT like tokens), it’s not because of machines taking over, but it is the ability of a few to create unique, particular and scarce expressions that uses the patterns to generate something new, that cannot be scaled, connect new ideas to another (which pattern matching does very well) and something that creates a more beautiful embedded story for the future.
Now the danger of all of this is not that art will be replaced, but that participation in evil deed will also be made possible at a larger scale. What is ugly can also be multiplied. This is a battle of a sanctified imagination verses destructive imagination. For that, we need Dante, Van Gogh and Tolkiens for sure.
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#CultureCare is to manifest our power of belief in our making.
“History teaches us that the power of belief should never be underestimated, neither in the present or in the past nor perhaps in the future as well. Its power is a constant, ever ready to be tapped, for good or for ill. Its power is a constant, always there in the profane as much as in the sacred, ever on the edge of surging, ever ready to be tapped, for good or for ill. ... Belief is the immortal soul of the imagination...Anything is Possible.”
Carlos Eire, They Flew: A History of the Impossible.
(Thanks RoMa @allsaintsptn)
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Chopin’s two sets of Études invested the didactic keyboard study with unparalleled artistry and musical substance. Jed Distler considers a selection of the finest recordings from the past 90 years... gramophone.co.uk/features/ar…
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One of my favorite Pollock. If you are saying “my kid can do that”. Try it. It’s harder than you think … to create an autumnal rhythm with drips.
"Autumn Rhythm" is on the move! 🚗
Opening October 4 at The Met, "Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous" is the first major New York presentation devoted to either artist in more than 20 years. Featuring over 120 works including "Autumn Rhythm: Number 30, 1950," it is the first exhibition to look at the full arc of their careers together.
💡 Learn more and plan your visit → met.org/3TritKL
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Sunflowers were planted after Chernobyl and Fukushima to help absorb radioactive pollution
After the nuclear disasters at Chernobyl and Fukushima, sunflowers were tested as a natural way to absorb radioactive material from contaminated environments
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Jobs: Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, General Linguistics, Language Documentation, Sociolinguistics: Associate/Full Professor (Tenured) in Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore: Description: The… dlvr.it/TVjzGM
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I cannot believe my eyeballs. Perhaps if one is skilled with chopsticks at age 3, this is possible by the time one is an adult?
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Johann Sebastian Bach’s Un da sie den Lobgesang gesprochen hatten from the Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (1736-46): a brief accompanied recitative for Evangelist, Christ, strings and continuo, following the Last Supper and leading toward Gethsemane. The disciples leave for the Mount of Olives after singing the Lobgesang, the hymn of praise. Jesus then foretells their coming abandonment: “This night you will all fall away because of me.” He quotes Zechariah: “I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.” Bach gives Christ’s words the characteristic halo of sustained strings, while the Evangelist’s narration is more lightly accompanied. The music moves from B minor toward E major: darkness and tension give way to light when Christ announces, “But after I have risen, I will go ahead of you into Galilee.” Only 13 bars long, this recitative is a crucial transition: the Last Supper is over, the disciples will scatter, and the road to Gethsemane begins. Yet within its darkness, Bach has already placed the promise of resurrection.
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