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Jessie Farnes's avatar

If you are up for documentaries I highly recommend The Art of Protest which you stream via Rolling Stone and Obey Giant on Netflix. Exit Through the Gift Shop is also great, but the guy that did it is a bit obnoxious. I wish it was just about Banksy.

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Antonia Malchik's avatar

I think we found Exit Through the Gift Shop after you told us about it but then didn't get around to watching it! These sound fun, especially for J (art and all). He's been critiquing graffiti by the train tracks.

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Jessie Farnes's avatar

Zach likes to look at the train Graffiti too, but he misses city art so much. When we take John to Comicon we'll have to tour street art :)

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Antonia Malchik's avatar

;)

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Paul Beiser's avatar

Great column, you hit a number of areas! I too struggle these days to read about our continuous destruction (overfishing, Amazon fires, climate change, etc). It all seems so depressing to me, unless I start putting it all into the context of geological or cosmological time. Then I feel better :-)

I completely agree about Mars, seems like a total waste of human capital and money.

An wonderful photographer and exceptional writer I follow is Guy Tal. He talks about art a lot, and I think you will enjoy this and his 'definition' of art:

https://guytal.blog/2017/07/16/drawing-the-line/

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Antonia Malchik's avatar

That is lovely, thank you for sharing. This is definitely a huge idea: "There is one aspect of art that no machine can ever replace: the inner experience of the artist." I agree with him but wonder speculatively how that might change in the far future as AI develops its own inner experience.

Geological time saves me from despair *every day.* Solidarity.

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Paul Beiser's avatar

I think you are right about the far future and AI.. mind boggling for sure!

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Antonia Malchik's avatar

It'll be fun!

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Sara Bir's avatar

Elon Musk is awful. Let's hope he never runs for president.

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Antonia Malchik's avatar

I don’t think he can, can he? Isn’t he from South Africa? Not a barrier for Zuckerberg or Bezos though :/

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Tamsin Grainger's avatar

Thanks. I really liked the part which began, Anyway, Vaillant reminded me that...

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Antonia Malchik's avatar

I don’t know why I forget so often. It’s good to reads something that reminds me there’s a reason we love books and paintings and music ...

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Richard Gay's avatar

So, you’re not an Avatar fan...

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Antonia Malchik's avatar

I have not actually watched it for exactly these reasons! Though I would probably like it :) Right now I’m watching Discovery and The Expanse, both of which have themes that intersect with these (I am also a sci fi geek; maybe it’s more palatable in that form).

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