"Events come and go like waves of a fever. We - and the journalists - live in a state of continual delirium, constantly waiting for the next news event to loom out of the fog - and then disappear again, unexplained. And the formats - in news and documentaries - have become so rigid and repetitive that the audiences never really look at them.” - Adam Curtis http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis
Illustrations by Edel Rodriguez.
"[The news] is like that friend you have — who always sees the worst in everything. You go out for coffee and feel empty afterward. Finally, you stop going. So what would be better? I make the case for routinely and systematically reporting out hope, agency and dignity in every story." — Amanda Ripley https://www.amandaripley.com/blog/i-have-a-secret-i-hid-it-for-years
“Our attention spans are now thought to be less than that of a goldfish - eight seconds.” - Sandi Mann
Illustration by Ture Ekroos
Comprehension declines as the number of hyperlinks in a document increases. - Rolf Dobelli https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-rolf-dobelli
Illustration by John Holcroft
"In the tradeoff between timeliness and timelessness, choose the latter." - Johnathan Harris
"If you don't become the ocean, you will be seasick every day." - Leonard Cohen
“Everything in the [media art industrial complex] is unusual. It’s like hot plasma. It changes so damn fast.” - Rene Pinnell
Artwork by Abu Bakarr Mansaray.
“The ratio of CEO pay to average worker pay was 25:1 in 1960. Today it’s 320:1.” - Lynn Forester de Rothschild, Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/15/business/lynn-forester-de-rothschild-corner-office.html
Illustration by John Holcroft
“My mother never allowed me to be the nice girl. I’ve always walked into a room absolutely thinking I belonged.” - Shonda Rhimes
Photo MGM, Charlotte Greenwood, 1928.
Words and images of others I find idiocyncratic, intriguing and inspirational.
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