With thanks to Amadeus Code co-founder Taishi Fukuyama, for his thoughts on AI, art, and value. This originally appeared on Music Tectonics. The digital revolution has been an explosion in the transmission and reproduction of ideas, words, images, videos, processes, and (coming soon) experiences. It is the latest moment in a longer arc, one that reaches back to the first…
Category: beautiful things
The most heavy metal description of Siberia’s Lake Baikal ever
Courtesy, but of course, of the incomparable Gavriil Batenkov: This is the initial sight Baikal presents the viewer in summer: grey battleships girded in dense fog float in the deep blue distance; the water’s mirror-smooth surface in still times and its frightening black waves in storms, which deafen with their roar and seem poised to…
Russian Ark: A beautiful view of Russian history
Alexander Sokurov is one of the most striking, most underrated Russian film directors (as well as a Siberian by birth). This film is shot in a single shot in the Hermitage, a whirlwind meditation on Russia’s past.
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