Every month, I put together a list of everything that caught my attention. Here’s April.
• How to read poetry like a professor an interview with Thomas Foster by Jake Nevins
• How Social Media Perpetuates Cliché Photography by Graham Hiemstra: Three key influencers discuss originality, the rise of copycat photographers, and the future of Instagram (via Goodbye Instagram, hello Ello by Samuel Zeller, which is also a very interesting read.)
• Can Instagram keep its nose clean? by Gian Volpicelli: “… it’s hard not to feel that Instagram lucked out, effectively airbrushing its public image amid Facebook’s whirlwind of scandals.”
• Nikon versus Canon: A Story Of Technology Change by Steven Sinofsky
• What’s the difference between a camera and a human eye? by Haje Jan Kamps: Or: What’s the ISO of a human eye?
• What about the Breakfast Club? by Molly Ringwald: “How are we meant to feel about art that we both love and oppose? What if we are in the unusual position of having helped create it?”
• Queens of Infamy: Eleanor of Aquitaine by Anne Thériault
Richard joined Eleanor after a few years, since she was ostensibly ruling in his name and he would one day have to take over as Duke of Aquitaine, and during this time the two became very close. You know that scene in Disney’s Robin Hood where a disconsolate Prince John mutters “mother always did like Richard best”? If that is not the truest line in any Disney movie ever, I don’t know what is.
• Style Is an Algorithm by Kyle Chayka
We find ourselves in a cultural uncanny valley, unable to differentiate between things created by humans and those generated by a human-trained equation run amok. In other words, what is the product of genuine taste and what is not.
Reghan Skerry 