Quote of the week
“Ignorance is the mother of arrogance – Hans Hoffman”
1.René Magritte: enigmatic master of the impossible dream
“Like every good artist, he makes us see the everyday differently but he does it without the pretension of so many other artists.”
Art, Commentary, Everyday
Source :The Guardian
2.Get them while they’re young
“Everything I’ve ever learned about marketing, I learned in church,” says Andrea, one of the people featured in this film.”
Marketing, Ritual, Culture
Source : The Guardian
3. What’s pushing up food prices?
““After intense lobbying, banks won deregulation of commodities markets in the US in 2000, allowing them to develop these new products. Goldman Sachs pioneered commodity index funds”
Food, Poverty, Policy
Source : The Guardian
4. The Social Network’s Aaron Sorkin quits Facebook
“I acknowledge that video games could be an amazing art form – but not until the people making them go back a bit, to the Aaron Sorkin way of thinking about character and motivation.”
Writing, Culture, Stories
Source : The Guardian
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– Kaushik
Ok just read the piece about Aaron Sorkin leaving FB. Can’t help but agree with Zadie Smith that The Social Network is a film “about 2.0 people made by 1.0 people”. Jesse Eisenberg sounds paranoid.
I think the phrase “2.0 people” made me lose respect for Zadie Smith.