When the mind's eye is blind - Austin Kleon

“If you open your eyes and you take out a pencil and pad, how many people can draw what they see? The answer is a very small number, so if you can’t draw what is in front of you then why would we expect that you would be able to draw what you visualise?”

When the mind's eye is blind - Austin Kleon

Strolling Cities

Strolling Cities unveils the naked, materially seductive form of 9 Italian cities – Milan, Como, Bergamo, Venice, Genoa, Rome, Catania, Palermo – by means of millions of photos taken during the recent lockdowns (’20/’21) that show the urban space as an unfiltered landscape of walls, streets, and buildings. Returned to the immanence of their materiality, cities abandon their stereotyped semantic contents, to embrace a new dimension of extreme elusiveness. A generative A.I. model trained with these images creates perpetually moving video-paintings, whose indefinite contours suggest a potential transformation of urban places, once ascribed to specific social functions, into open spaces available to countless (re)writings.

Strolling Cities

Why your consciousness depends on the low-entropy early Universe | Psyche Ideas

Merlin remembered the future and anticipated the past. Benjamin Button aged backwards. These things are hard to imagine, but imagine something even stranger: someone whose life is like yours, but played fully in reverse, frame for frame. Merlin and Button both walk and talk normally. In contrast, if you record yourself and play it in reverse, you’ll see someone who walks backwards (without slipping) and talks backwards (without slipping up). What would it be like to be such a creature, a genuine time-reverse twin? Would such a twin feel the same as you’d feel if the rest of the world were running in reverse? Would she have experiences at all? And why does it matter?

Why your consciousness depends on the low-entropy early Universe | Psyche Ideas

First issue of ‘Montclair Kids News’ is out | Montclair Local News

“Hello! If you’re reading this, congratulations! You’ve picked up the Montclair Kids News project,” reads the first sentence of the very first issue of Montclair Kids News, where, as the newspaper says, Montclair kids report the news. 

Over the last few months, a group of 47 aspiring writers from elementary and middle schools across town wrote about their life during the coronavirus pandemic. They wrote about their experiences with virtual learning and advice on coping with COVID-19 for kids. They penned poems and created recipes to make delicious cupcakes and a signature pesto pasta. One student even wrote about his leprechaun sighting in Montclair.

First issue of ‘Montclair Kids News’ is out | Montclair Local News