Sorry this is late, although maybe you're having a late lunch. I was at the dentist's office. Speaking of which:
There's an old Gunsmoke radio show about a traveling nitrous-oxide show; the fellow would go from town to town, charging admission to watch townspeople get gassed up on stage and act oddly. Begs for a "Scarface"-style remake. Anyway.
ART The rediscovered archives of Manhattan murder: photos found documenting the island's bloody past. Luc Sante is on the job, and he's well-suited for the task. But the pictures have more than corpses under sheets - they're a look at forgotten Gotham. crim
Everyone always says that the old New York is being eliminated, and they're right. But there's a difference between tearing down some tenements for 10-story apartments, and tearing down the 10-story buildings for 80-story condos sold to Russian oligarchs. Related: the EU wants more rules on taking pictures of public art. To which the only possible response is to take more of it.
For commercial purposes. You can snap away without paying. But what if a computer invented the art all on its own? Does the computer own, for example, this?
Or does it belong to the people who own the computer? You might say: "that's a nightmarish thing, and who would want to own it?" Agreed, it's bothersome; there's something about the computer's tastes, shall we say, that lacks the innate human revulsion towards things that have the signifiers of biological organism but are not bound by the rules. More about the computer's art, here.
WHAT? What? Anyone ever say this?
Yes, we all remember our history lessons, when Adolf Hitler threw the Emperor down the mine shaft. The article ends: "So no, the Star Wars logo nor the Helvetica font that inspired it do not have actual origins despite the pervasive myth."
