Where I often feel a lighter sense of all things poppy minutae, I was overcome with a feeling of foreboding dread. Not necessarily for me, but for everyone.
How a storm that's about to get sued by Apple got my goat about media... oh, the Apple thing... iRene... get it?
Who would've known 60 Minutes would get my ire up tonight... and it wasn't even Andy Rooney's meanderings.
A further ponderance on the |: repeat :| series of lovehate podcasts considering why we choose to return to the same old content, or, in some cases, why we might not.
Part Three of a consideration on re-consumption of content through the medium of playlists.
Part Two of Episode 245 wherein I contemplated our proclivity to return to things repeatedly: songs, movies, television, books, mistakes...
A late night rant on governmental impropriety and how the world seems so absurd.
couresy vimeo.com and www.nicouthe.de
This beautiful animation on the devolution of the world's economy through the life cycle of a newspaper press has become my re-watch of the weekend. A stark visual metaphor about the global financial crisis seemingly spawned by an Economist headline from a couple of years ago: WORLD ON THE EDGE.
Examining the role of media in perpetuating self-fulfilling prophecy, one wonders if news networks ever came on the air and said: "Meteor about to hit the earth in a week - Humanity Finished", would such a proclamation spawn the end of society as we know it WITHOUT a meteor actually existing.
Reflections on the power of media and the importance of keeping it in the hands of the people and never out of reach.