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On David Esterly’s “The Lost Carving”
“On go the hands.” – David Esterly In his book The Lost Carving, David Esterly describes in luminous detail his experiences in the art of decorative wood carving. In the mid-1980s, Esterly, a self-taught carver, worked on a year-long restoration project at Hampton Court Palace, a royal estate in England, to repair and re-carve some Continue reading
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On Sounds And Humor
It took all of three minutes, but the guy on the subway was making all kinds sounds with his voice and as I listened to him I couldn’t stop giggling. Verbal Ace is his name and he’s a vocal artist, a human beatboxer, a singer, a sound effects machine, and mimic extraordinaire. Armed with just Continue reading
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On Imitation, Oral Tradition And Pleasure: Nicki Minaj’s Super Bass Travels
“That self-organizing living force is what we’re having to ride. What we’re doing with the web is making a very large-scale global organism that in a few decades or so we will be able to identify as an organism in every sense of the word.” – Kevin Kelly on the Technium One of the most Continue reading
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