Just because the journalism business is going to hell … doesn’t mean that journalism isn’t thriving.— Jack Shafer, Keeping the Fizz in the Journalism Biz
Jean-Luc Godard interviews Woody Allen in a 1986 short film (via Khoi Vinh)
Heading to East Atlanta tonight for The Tallest Man on Earth and John Vanderslice. Hoping to try vegan night at Graveyard Tavern beforehand.
This is it. The big one. This is the first revolution that has been catapulted onto a global stage and transformed by social media.— Clay Shirky on Twitter and Iran
Malcolm Gladwell examines cases where underdogs win by breaking the rules.
Luceo Images’ Still Hoping presents a collection of letters addressed to President Obama, from people wondering if he’ll follow through on his promises of change.
I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the narrative, change the outcome.— Joan Didion, “The Year of Magical Thinking”
Soul of Athens captures the essence of the community in and around Athens, Ohio. The innovative multimedia project is produced annually at Ohio University.
Instead of starting with a blank page, writer Austin Kleon picks up a newspaper and a permanent marker and eliminates the words he doesn’t need.
A moving story about a mother waiting for her son to come home. He disappeared while hiking in India in 1985. (via APAD)
