Josh Conviser's Blog, page 2
April 13, 2015
http://www.brainchildmag.com/2015/04/...
Fantastic essay from a great friend!
July 23, 2014
"Every morning brings us news of the globe, and yet we are poor in noteworthy stories. This is..."
Every morning brings us news of the globe, and yet we are poor in noteworthy stories. This is because no event comes to us without being already shot through with explanation. In other words, by now almost nothing that happens benefits storytelling; almost everything benefits information. Actually, it is half the art of storytelling to keep a story free from explanation as one reproduces it… .
The most extraordinary things, marvelous things, are related with the greatest accuracy, but the psychological connection of the event is not forced on the reader. It is left up to him to interpret things the way he understands them, and thus the narrative achieves an amplitude that information lacks.
~Walter Benjamin, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
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Great vid of the CIA’s museum, which I got to visit a...
Great vid of the CIA’s museum, which I got to visit a while back…
Osama bin Laden’s assault rifle. A singed al-Qaeda training manual. A desiccated rat corpse designed to pass secret messages. A letter from an American operative on a sheet of Adolf Hitler’s personal stationery. A painting of the real story behind “Argo.” And a remote-controlled robotic dragonfly that may be the ancestor of today’s drones.
April 18, 2014
futurejournalismproject:
Thirteen-Year-Old Girl Showing Who’s...
Thirteen-Year-Old Girl Showing Who’s Boss While Hunting With Eagle on Mongolian Mountain Top
Via BBC.
"“Schools as a whole may be going forwards, but nevertheless they are being outrun. In the race..."
“Schools as a whole may be going forwards, but nevertheless they are being outrun. In the race between education and catastrophe, catastrophe is winning.”
H.G. Wells
”""Schools as a whole may be going forwards, but nevertheless they are being outrun. In the race..."
"Schools as a whole may be going forwards, but nevertheless they are being outrun. In the race between education and catastrophe, catastrophe is winning."
H.G. Wells
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