Ed Ruscha's painting led me to read High-Rise, which led me to read the book and wow! What a great and interesting read that delves into a break of human civility and morality.
PS. Love Arctic Monkeys-my partner has been humming their tunes for the last couple of weeks!
Fascinating watching, reading, and listening! Thank you, Keith. I'm going to spend some quality time with this issue: Ruscha's street-level time traveling... the tender stories unfolding at the Rosevelt Hotel... AI's uncanny Dan Brown vignettes... We are all living in such a rapidly unfolding story, aren't we? Still, The Arctic Monkeys are one of those bands that persist in my memory around a difficult-- and yet very sweet period of time. Life is weird and Life is Good.
A rapidly unfolding story indeed! Especially with the migrant situation in New York. I do some work with an oral history project in NYC and I'm interested in the migrant situation in that respect, what people are experiencing on the ground and what the long-term will bring them.
I have to check out more of Ruscha's work - especially the 'time traveling'!
As for AI Dan Brown, I tried a few prompts to find something that felt 'authentic' and 'original' but couldn't quite get there. It's definitely weird how the bot can at least grab an author's 'style'. Not sure yet how I can really use it for my purposes but it's interesting to play around with.
Love the Arctic Monkeys but I haven't listened to much of their earlier stuff yet!
I try to imagine how my Swedish ancestors would have felt in that hotel. It's touching to see the children with their parents. It's such a modern stressful situation, uncannily situated in the fading grandeur of that anachronistic hotel. What a strange opening chapter to the story of the rest of their lives in the U.S.
Funny story: I once had a precocious 9 year-old patient who came in wearing black Chuck Taylors with pink laces. When I asked if pink was her favorite color she sighed, "Yes. I know it's cliché." Then she went on to say that Arctic Monkeys were her favorite band. "But you've probably never heard of them." 😁 Kids these days.
Ed Ruscha's painting led me to read High-Rise, which led me to read the book and wow! What a great and interesting read that delves into a break of human civility and morality.
PS. Love Arctic Monkeys-my partner has been humming their tunes for the last couple of weeks!
Cool!! I gotta read the book ! The movie was surprisingly good.
Fascinating watching, reading, and listening! Thank you, Keith. I'm going to spend some quality time with this issue: Ruscha's street-level time traveling... the tender stories unfolding at the Rosevelt Hotel... AI's uncanny Dan Brown vignettes... We are all living in such a rapidly unfolding story, aren't we? Still, The Arctic Monkeys are one of those bands that persist in my memory around a difficult-- and yet very sweet period of time. Life is weird and Life is Good.
A rapidly unfolding story indeed! Especially with the migrant situation in New York. I do some work with an oral history project in NYC and I'm interested in the migrant situation in that respect, what people are experiencing on the ground and what the long-term will bring them.
I have to check out more of Ruscha's work - especially the 'time traveling'!
As for AI Dan Brown, I tried a few prompts to find something that felt 'authentic' and 'original' but couldn't quite get there. It's definitely weird how the bot can at least grab an author's 'style'. Not sure yet how I can really use it for my purposes but it's interesting to play around with.
Love the Arctic Monkeys but I haven't listened to much of their earlier stuff yet!
I try to imagine how my Swedish ancestors would have felt in that hotel. It's touching to see the children with their parents. It's such a modern stressful situation, uncannily situated in the fading grandeur of that anachronistic hotel. What a strange opening chapter to the story of the rest of their lives in the U.S.
Funny story: I once had a precocious 9 year-old patient who came in wearing black Chuck Taylors with pink laces. When I asked if pink was her favorite color she sighed, "Yes. I know it's cliché." Then she went on to say that Arctic Monkeys were her favorite band. "But you've probably never heard of them." 😁 Kids these days.