April 13, 1999
Article in Reason magazine on "informal culture" (Cecil Balmond). It's important that someone decides to do something that mainstream culture will not endorse, and the Internet is the perfect medium for this type of art. It would be nice if the mainstream media could devote more of its energy and resources to this kind of work, because it means a lot more to culture as a whole--that someone is filling a void or exploring remote possibilities. (Like the scene in October Sky when the boy decides to explore space against the wishes of his father to work in the coal mine.) The world goes nowhere on mainstream ideas alone.
4/13/2009: 10 years later, the internet has had profound effects on who we are and what we do. We don't see the evolutionary changes taking place as it is moving inexorably slow.
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Story on Nightline about a Kosovar family that lived in the same house for 500 years. Photojournalist did an excellent job of capturing the essence of this culture: All they want is their own land, family and community, and the comfort of centuries of the status quo.
4/13/2009: 10 years later, the internet has had profound effects on who we are and what we do. We don't see the evolutionary changes taking place as it is moving inexorably slow.
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Story on Nightline about a Kosovar family that lived in the same house for 500 years. Photojournalist did an excellent job of capturing the essence of this culture: All they want is their own land, family and community, and the comfort of centuries of the status quo.
