watched :: time for sushi :: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcXiwNjkhxU
#thisismyoldjam Northern Touch (1997) :: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qCJ6Jazpfc
I forgot how cyber punk TLC's "No Scrubs" video was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrLequ6dUdM
Watched "history of the entire world, i guess" with my son. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuCn8ux2gbs&t=333s
Watched "Seeing Myself Through a Cat's Eyes" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP3euh1In8s&t=0s and find it interesting that YouTube will not publish a documentary w/o a direct human connection to an audience. Whereas cultural institutions (museums, libraries) publish material all the time without *any* connection to a potential audience of interest
I know I keep flogging Crash Course Sociology but as someone with limited formal exposure to the discipline, it is continually a revelation to me: Max Weber & Modernity: Crash Course Sociology #9 :: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69VF7mT4nRU&t=0s
Watched Detroit Soul Skate 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1hpEh_IqCs
Listened to the Allusionist's Namaste. https://www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/namaste (I'm cool with this particular form of cultural appropriation and am not at all https://hatecopy.com/products/namaste about it)
Geeking out to the 99% Invisible episode called "Reversing the grid" as I do Open Access work: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/reversing-the-grid/
Watching: Harriet Martineau & Gender Conflict Theory: Crash Course Sociology :: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg9FWxpZeJ8
Listening to: Santigold - Girls :: https://youtu.be/O5ocODl0fUI
Listened to Theory of Everything's "Art Districts" https://toe.prx.org/2017/04/art-districts/ "Empty buildings, run down neighborhoods and cheap rents. This is the bait you need to attract artists, speculators and urban revitalizers. But in order to attract pioneers you also need illusion and myth. We tour the art districts of New Orleans, Los Angeles and Detroit with writer Peter Moscowitz, activist Maga Miranda, and artist Maya Stovall."
Watching: "Don't Build Things" by Darius Kazemi http://www.webstock.org.nz/talks/dont-build-things/ (Webstock 2017)
JayZ ft Swizz Beatz- On To The Next One :: https://vimeo.com/8503138
Listening to Richard Sennett on Cooperation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3VuFlhPZc4 :: his comments that traditional labor solidarity seeks common cause at the expense of differences are very interesting to me.
Finished S-Town last night. https://stownpodcast.org/ That podcast makes an art of the 'reveal.' Not "the big reveal" but the small.
Watching "Du Bois & Race Conflict: Crash Course Sociology #7" :: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wny0OAz3g8
Or is the stronger message in Jane's most recent talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Z20RVq5dA) is that we are brink of some unimaginable technological breakthroughs (in material science or brain science) as well as some ones we've been warned about (total surveillance society)
Are small visualizations the small steps to re-imagining our world in a different light: (“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings") :: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rebecca-solnit/the-climate-for-2015_b_6372150.html
Still thinking about the small visualization exercises in Jane McGonigal's "The future is dark (and that is a good thing)" :: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Z20RVq5dA
