Category: Found in the Field
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Buddha said, What we think, we become. I learned that from CN, in Phnom Penh, at a time when there was so much that was up in the air. He was a former monk who got into personal leadership, and related, and our overlapping interests in this field got us connected. These types of questions:…
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Update: Here is a recent story in the Associated Press about the closure of a community newspaper in a rural part of the United States. ‘Even though philanthropists and politicians have been paying more attention to the issue, the factors that drove the collapse of the industry’s advertising model haven’t changed. Encouraging growth in the digital-only…
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‘The spectacle is the epitome of ideology because in its plenitude it exposes and manifests the essence of all ideological systems. The impoverishment, enslavement, and negation of real life. ‘The spectacle is the material expression of the separation and estrangement between man and man.’ -Guy de Bord, Society of the Spectacle
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I like this video. Phil Cha goes on the road. For ten years. To figure out, ‘Who am I?’ Boy, I can relate to that. Nine years in mostly Phnom Penh, now, with a year on the road before that, to scope out the scene and ‘practice the uncertain, the new, and the different.’ Esoteric…
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‘I had to question my identity at this point.’ ‘All day images are flashed to us in 3-second posts. It generates feelings of need, lack, and competition… Pushing everyone to display their real life and to watch their ideal peers… Constant instant free gratification… I was staging my life and I was…
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‘Make personal reflection a business priority’ ‘By creating a space for honest discussions about purpose—including your own—your team will hopefully be more willing to explore the topic for themselves… A “purpose audit” can help. Create the time that people need to consider how their work is fitting into the bigger picture, using the nine types…
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Found this. A site called MyModernArt.com on ‘what makes great art?’ https://mymodernmet.com/what-is-great-art/ Lauren Brevner: Every time I see work from another artist that I love, I tend to have a visceral reaction to the piece(s). It could be a quickening of my pulse, or butterflies in my stomach, that strange twisty feeling you get in…
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It’s not just information overload. It’s everything… I read this article about ‘millennial burnout’ and that helped this Gen X’er understand better why too much of too much is a real issue. I had included a snippet from that in a past edition of S P A C E. Finding it today makes me feel…
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Here is a new podcast. This time it is an interview with Nils Sihvola. He is a contributing photographer to the weekly magazine, S P A C E. Dipika Kohli · True Colors Cover art by Nils Sihvola. S P A C E is a weekly mini-magazine, crowdfunded at #spacethezine.