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...collaboration with musician Martin Grubingers in Bonn that combined live digital animation with the pieces of 35 classical and contemporary composers. Grubinger’s musicians played together on stage against a backdrop of flashing animation created by VJ software, the same kind used in today??s nightclubs and bars. Enormous multi-colored shapes and lines streamed across the screen, all created in real-time by Hagebölling’s students as a visual response to Grubingers’ musical selections. The mood created by these animations was explosive—the popping lights...
...Things Right,” Atul A. Gawande writes about the double-edged nature of knowledge: it “has both saved and burdened us,” he states. Gawande goes on to write that in tasks as complex as piloting aircraft, constructing skyscrapers, and investing, even today??s most qualified professionals have made grave mistakes...
Schumacher-Matos was himself an undocumented immigrant at one point, but he never faced the roadblocks that characterize the experience of today??s undocumented youth...
...good way to establish a working definition of the contemporary Hipster is through comparison to past social movements that we now identify as counter-cultural, because that is how Hipsterdom understands itself and how it is marketed. The genealogical basis of today??s Hipster is in the Beat Generation. The Beat-Hipster’s legitimizing counter-cultural features were the unconventionality of their semi-nomadic lifestyle, the sexual openness, and commitment to expression freed from formal technique. The music, appropriated from Black Americans, was bebop. Most importantly the Beat-Hipsters were sincere...
...mental energy is overly devoted to fretting over anticipated acceptance of an ironic costume bobble. Life and public existence as a creative endeavor rather than the eventual outplay of internal development involves active consideration of one’s perception (we all do this), and the contribution of today??s Hipster is this to a new degree, an advanced, unrelenting stage...