Browsing: Culture

What Dutch highways have to do with Canadian documentaries and the psychology of protests.

What Galileo has to do with the economy, or how Wall Street is moulding your taste in art.

What your word choice reveals about your thoughts and emotions, or how to liespot your way through everyday email.

What the Founding Fathers have to do with remix culture and the centerpiece of consciousness.

What events from half a millennium ago can teach us about the globalization debate today.

A brief history of jazz piano techniques from one of the most influential jazz musicians of all time.

Remix culture is a frequent fixation around here and a central premise of my beliefs about combinatorial creativity. But while intellectual, academic, and legal debates about the role of remix in creative culture certainly have their place, the best way to appreciate the art of remix is through a brilliant manifestation. Case in point: Cookie Monster sings Tom Waits’ “God’s Away on Business” in the best mashup I’ve seen in ages.

Insights on identity and the aberrations of authority from the most notorious psychology experiment ever conducted.

Examining street art from a variety of angles, from the artistic to the sociocultural to the political, to glean holistic understanding of the important medium for public dialogue.

Wishing Louis Armstrong a happy 110th birthday with his remarkable rendition of “What a Wonderful World.”