Christopher P. Jones's Blog, page 2
December 21, 2019
Why Learning a Musical Instrument Will Make You Happier
Learning to play is a most reliable source of pleasure. A few year ago I went to a party, a small gathering of friends at someone’s house. Late into the night, a fellow party-goer played acoustic guitar, sang songs, and practically ruined the whole evening. If I was being generous, I’d say his repertoire was... View Article
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December 19, 2019
How To Design Better Online Reading Environments
Online and offline reading experiences compared. Whenever I attempt to read anything online that is more than a few hundred words long, I find that a different mode of literacy kicks in. As if trained in the art of speed-reading — which I am not — I begin to skip over paragraphs, looking for the... View Article
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October 22, 2019
How Digital Changes the Nature of Original Art
The strange relationship between museum objects and the digital copies we make of them Today, it is possible to walk through a museum of art and at the same time carry a smartphone in your hand. The paintings on the walls, some of which are hundreds of years old, hang in gilded frames on hallowed... View Article
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August 14, 2019
Why Go To The Beach?
My past week has been spent stretched out on a beach, or otherwise walking up and down its supple sands, along the water’s meandering margin. The beach is so amassed with people that, from a distance, it is rather like a great worm stranded on dry ground, one great twitching pink-and-brown entity. As I paddle... View Article
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July 17, 2019
Paul Klee’s Tunisia Trip
One of my favourite artists is the Swiss-German painter Paul Klee. In 1914, Klee took a two-week trip to Tunisia, a trip that would profoundly alter the course of his art. The working-holiday would inspire Klee for many years afterwards, and as far ahead as the 1930s he continued to makes paintings that referenced his... View Article
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