From StooTV comes this great comparison cum compilation: the first dozen minutes of Raiders of the Lost Ark in a “shot-by-shot comparison [with] scenes from 30 different adventure films made between 1919-1973.” As a number of bloggers have pointed out: this is how culture works. (Thanks to BoingBoing).
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I am generally not a fan of neologisms — especially in the wake of having recently suffered through a talk which was nothing more than a string of neologisms — but I found myself interested in Susan Blackmore’s notion of teme (short for technological meme) in her TED talk:
It pairs nicely with Kevin Kelly’s technium. There certainly seems to be an emergence in the zeitgeist that wants to think about the directions technology is taking us. (This may, in fact, be part of an ongoing dialogue in the West, which bears a bit of research on my part at some point in the near future.)
I was not all that interested in the grunge scene when it first hit in the early 1990s: I remember making some of my first drives around my new home of Bloomington, Indiana and hearing the sounds coming out of the radio and thinking to myself, “Sounds like heroin is popular again.” (I’ve never done heroin, but I had listened to enough music from the seventies to know what it sounded like when it became rock music.)
All that noted, I also remember reading some of the great writing on music and musicians and the times that appeared on a regular basis when Rolling Stone was still going strong. Steve Hyden of AV Club has apparently found his inner Dave Marsh and is writing some nice pieces that chronicle the alternative rock scene of the nineties. He already has three essays up: check them out.
I came across a link to Daniel Walker Howe’s What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
