I miss all my beautiful friends I used to make stuff with. Randomly. To escape boredom. To entertain each other. Because we liked surprises.
An introduction to GOOD's new series from the Institute for the FutureNever Google the word "futurist." Besides the conflation with Futurism, the early 20th century fascist-leaning art movement, the world’s gateways to knowledge are far from instructive on the subject. Clichés and caricatures abound, with media coverage dominated by allusions to crystal balls and prophesy and the messianic predictions of techno-utopians. The general public's sense of what futurists are is not entirely flattering, and rarely accurate.
This is a shame, because during the second half of the 20th century and continuing through the past decade, professional thinking about the future has grown from a niche field dominated by military strategists and predictioneers into a diverse global practice.
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The future is hard to predict, especially since we don't know what's gonna happen! However, I end up working with lots of folks and on lots of projects that try to see around corners. This article gives GOOD insight into the skills and thrills of the futurist game.
A LIVING PORTRAIT OF THE MAN IN BLACK
The Johnny Cash Project is an online global collective public art project and visual testament to the life and career of Johnny Cash. Working in collaboration with director Chris Milk, Aaron Koblin, Rick Rubin, and the Cash Estate, we created a highly interactive website celebrating American VI: Ain’t No Grave, Johnny Cash’s final studio recording.Visitors to the site artistically reinterpret archival footage with the use of a custom drawing tool, to create and share their vision of the Man in Black. These original, personal portraits are then strung together and played in sequence over the song, “Ain’t No Grave.” Creating a moving, ever-evolving homage to the musical icon, the result is a crowd-sourced animated online music video that pushes the boundaries of the medium. The site has already received over 175,000 visitors from 165 countries, and features almost 10,000 drawing submissions.
The album “Ain’t No Grave” is deeply rooted in themes of mortality, resurrection, and everlasting life. The Johnny Cash Project pays tribute to these themes.
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The is only famous person I have wept for on the day of their death. (Albeit, drunkenly and embarrassingly in a bar.)
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This has liberated me to wear my gas station glasses, sweet goatee, and sandals with socks to the water park.
Even my six-year-old daughter has memorized the lyrics.
'Electric Universe' ia02 from Steve John on Vimeo.
Created using Brushes app on iPad
Imagine if we could watch the paintings of Miro and Picasso create themselves!
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PHOTO: James L. Roberts, age 23 (c.1942)
This 4th of July, he was on stage at the Knoxville World's Fair grounds.
From WBIR:
The festival also honored more than 100 veterans in the amphitheater. All are members of Knoxville's HonorAir group who are veterans from East Tennessee, all of whom fought in World War II. HonorAir's goal is to fly as many World War II veterans from the area to Washington D.C. to see the World War II memorial in person. Members honored on Sunday have all been to see it and they say being recognized for their service on the Fourth of July means a lot. Mayor Haslam was on hand to personally greet each veteran as he came into the amphitheater. John Becker of 10News also took part in the ceremony honoring the World War II vets. Friends and family of the vets, as well as people who came out for the festivities watched the salute to the troops.