My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth. | | | | | Michelle Williams and Casey Affleck in "Manchester by the Sea" (2016) (Amazon Studios) | | | | |  | “My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.”
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| | rantnrave:// Grief and tragedy are a part of life. You can shut down, become harder, and more distant. Or you can take the pain and grow to be more open and empathetic. Many of us go down both roads. Last year as I was coming out of a heart surgery, my first trip was to THE SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL. My favorite film? MANCHESTER BY THE SEA. A story about facing tragedy. Who makes it through and who doesn't? I was very, very moved. Maybe due to the last few years. Or maybe because it's an emotional human story that we could see ourselves in. Real life. I found out about it through friend, CHIRS MOORE, one of the film's producers. Written and directed by KENNETH LONERGAN. Starring CASEY AFFLECK, MICHELLE WILLIAMS and KYLE CHANDLER. We hear there's "no middle" in movies anymore. Independent film is dead. Only big budget movies will survive. I think that's a crock of s***. The methods are changing. We have NETFLIX, AMAZON, HULU and so many more outlets. The ability to super-serve. I had opened the festival panels with a discussion about the independent film biz and Amazon's TED HOPE was one of my guests. He's one its champions. He had not seen it yet but thought the script was one of the best. And sure enough, AMAZON STUDIOS bought the film. Thanks to places like this we'll see more great movies that big studios wouldn't touch. The acting is beyond superb. Affleck deserves a nomination. Michelle Williams is fantastic. There are two scenes in the film that are so heartbreaking and simple and yet with very few words. Masterful acting and directing. It's getting a theater release today and I urge you to see it. It's heavy material but reminds us - in a time of so much venom, vitriol, and rancor - of our humanity. It's an amazing film... And there's TV show that also has a wonderful sense of humanity. It's not bombastic, it's a slow build over 4 seasons, but I just loved SUNDANCETV's RECTIFY. The story of a death row inmate that gets released and his journey back into society. It's a must see... "Trump appeared to be relying on information gleaned from an article posted on a website of a shop that sells business cards and door hangers"... What wouldn't you do out of family loyalty?... Thinking about tech companies that don't ship product well. Often comes down to one simple thing: No mandate and developers deciding what they want to work on... I believe the internet opened up the world to everyone. I fear humanity drove it further apart. The internet reflects humanity... New TWITTER game: Find the minorities in the GOP photo... Happy Birthday to ERIC RICHMAN, KATIA BEAUCHAMP, JEREMY WENOKUR, ANTONIO CAMPO DALL'ORTO, RACHEL ZALIS, GERRIT MEIER and PETER BARON. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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| Over the past century, technological advancements have massively reduced the cost and time needed to create and circulate content. Though this has liberated artists, consumers are now drowning in a virtually infinite supply of things to watch, listen to and read. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| When I was 26, I started suffering from dizziness, brain fog, fatigue and chronic pain. I’d had migraines since childhood, but these felt different. | | |
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 | Wired |
| America's top spy and the future of surveillance. | | |
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 | The Verge |
| For years the sea has been eating away at the shore, and the city of Miami has spent millions of dollars pumping up sand from the seafloor to replace it, only to have it wash away again. | | |
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 | Vulture |
| In 1994, British rock writer Clinton Heylin published "Bootleg: The Secret History of the Other Recording Industry," an entertaining history of the illicit form. | | |
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 | Nautilus |
| Alien life could be so advanced it becomes indistinguishable from physics. | | |
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 | Fast Company |
| Airlines could demand 1,300 of the $200 million 45-seat planes, which are expected to fly from New York to London in less than 3 1/2 hours. | | |
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 | Epic Magazine |
| Sunken treasure, death-defying adventure, sibling rivalry: How Charles and John Deane invented modern deep-sea diving and saved the British Empire. | | |
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 | i-D Magazine |
| Why see-now, buy-now is ushering in a new, brilliant era for fashion. | | |
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 | The Awl |
| I wish I could get away with charging my clients a fee for every time they say “Minority Report” to me. I’m a commercial artist in L.A., and 90% of commercial art is shutting up and giving the client what they want. That means I spend a lot of time trying to repackage Steven Spielberg’s vision of the future. | | |
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 | New Republic |
| The bestselling author of "Hillbilly Elegy" has emerged as the liberal media's favorite white trash-splainer. But he is offering all the wrong lessons. | | |
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 | BuzzFeed |
| A BuzzFeed News analysis found that top fake election news stories generated more total engagement on Facebook than top election stories from 19 major news outlets combined. | | |
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 | Columbia Journalism Review |
| Leaders of the most important tech companies in the world are grappling with fake news, as embarrassing screenshots of bogus Trending Topics and Google News headlines go viral. The presidential campaign turned a spotlight on this viral disinformation, but it has been growing for a while in a crack in the media sidewalk. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| Inside a stunned White House, the President considers his legacy and America’s future. | | |
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 | ELLE |
| A look back at the ultimate 90s teen series. | | |
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 | POLITICO Magazine |
| Shy voters, what the media ignored and other lessons from the few who got it right-and were laughed at. | | |
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 | Racked |
| The careful, self-conscious masculinity of men's grooming products. | | |
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 | Cuepoint |
| The soul legend’s son reveals the method behind his father’s message. | | |
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 | Foreign Policy |
| Everyone in the defense world is into innovation these days. But how is it done? | | |
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 | Poynter |
| Tony Haile thinks now might be the moment readers decide digital journalism is worth paying for. With the election concluded and dollars flowing to organizations like "The New York Times," ProPublica and "The Wall Street Journal," people who care about quality information are coming to grips with the idea that they have to support it, said Haile, a digital media entrepreneur. | | |
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| The Verge |
| Aaron Levie spends more time thinking about the future of work than most. When the 30-year-old entrepreneur co-founded Box, it was as a place for average people to store their files online -- Dropbox before there was Dropbox. But years ahead of Dropbox CEO Drew Houston, Levie saw that the real money in online storage was in the workplace. | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| Humans invented it--and not that long ago. | | |
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 | "You be the DJ, I'll be the driver. You put your feet up in the getaway car." |
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