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This list of unthinkable futures — probabilities we tend to dismiss without thinking — was published 15 years ago in the Summer, 1993 issue of Whole Earth Review. Our intent was less to correctly predict the future (thus the silliness) and more to predict how unpredictable the actual future would be.
Hence we find such unlikely predictions as “a new profession, meme-inspector, comes into being” and “manufacturers of underwear finally realize that men have different-sized balls”, along with their more scifi-inspired cousin predictions. And we find Brian Eno (and not Jason Kottke, who merely quoted it) predicting a change in art:
A new type of artist arises: someone whose task is to gather together existing but overlooked pieces of amateur art, and, by directing attention onto them, to make them important. (This is part of a much larger theory of mine about the new role of curatorship, the big job of the next century.)
Tumblr, thy kingdom come.
Mmmm, I would like this job, please — I want to be a meme-inspector. I already iz a teme machine.
Del Castillo, live on the Dudley & Bob Show, KLBJ FM, 7.2.08
I wish I knew the name of this song — I should have asked them this morning — the singer was so close, I could have reached out & touched him w/ him my tapping toe.
Del Castillo is director Robert Rodriguez’s favorite Austin band — they’re featured in several of his films & a few members play in Robert’s own band, Chingon.
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Longing Eyes
“Open a window,” he said. “Let’s get some air in here.”
“You’re a window,” she said & reached for him.
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HISTORY OF BLOG FEUDS
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File under things which took three hours to boldface.
A short & sweet piece at Radar linking to a coupla dozen online fights; just the sort of internet drama I adore. (Written by Choire, posted by Balk, gentlemen whom I’ve quoted before. Internet crushes, both.)
Alley By the Lake
I ran across this artist earlier — & I’m crazy about the colors & the light in his paintings.
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