by Brian on 10-05-2010
in art,belief,business,civics,creativity,culture,education,london,media
I just had a crazy thought about The Social Network. It turns on this controversial and often-repeated remark (found here) by screenwriter Aaron Sorkin: I don’t want my fidelity to be to the truth; I want it to be to storytelling. I’m #TeamInternet all the way but I appreciate where Sorkin is coming from. I’m sort [...]
Tagged as: cultural evolution, facebook, fiction, film, generativity, internet, movies, narrative, stories, storytelling, truth, web, writing
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by Brian on 01-06-2010
Picking up the Thinking in the 21st Century thread again… I’m nearing the end of the most philosophical stuff. It all turns on this one… Just a reminder to read this as a proposal — a basis for refinement and elaboration (not to mention citations and evidence), not presuming finality. A few weeks ago I [...]
Tagged as: epistemology, ideas, metaphysics, mind, philosophy, process, psychology, relevance, stories, theory, think21st, will to relevance
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Being that it’s a rainy day where I am right now and I’ve been meaning to do a few “Best of the 00′s” lists, when I found myself making a playlist of climate-appropriate musical selections it seemed like a good chance to collect some impressions. Starting with Badly Drawn Boy‘s Hour of the Bewilderbeast in [...]
Tagged as: 00's, badly drawn boy, bon iver, culture, doves, favourites, history, ldnfavs09, moods, music, personal, ryan adams, south, sparklehorse, stories, the o.c., tv
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And I’m loading my laundry into two machines, using my customary system of “lights & darks” to decide which-goes-with-what — because I’ll be damned if I’m burning through, like, 1000 quarters to split everything into tiny loads of whites, colours, delicates, etc. I tend to only buy neutrally-inclined colours anyways: your beiges, your greys, and [...]
Tagged as: bachelorhood, characters, laundry, life, people, people watching, public places, stories, stuff
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I did a great thing today: I saved a little squirrel’s life. The stupid bugger somehow got in between my floor and the ceiling of the apartment below. He was going wrangy in there, on and off for the past two days. Last night he got under the little bit of roof that skirts below my windows [...]
Tagged as: stories
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A simple illustration of how our judgement is influenced by past expectations and conventions is to look at how people interpret the supposed ‘meaning’ of stories. It’s probably impossible not to conceive some kind of meaning in events, whether they occur in the real world or on the big screen, so these meanings can become [...]
Tagged as: meaning, stories, war
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